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Cary Grant

Birth name: Archibald Alexander Leach

Birth date: 18.01.1904

Once told by an interviewer, "Everybody would like to be Cary Grant," Grant is said to have replied, "So would I." His early years in Bristol, England, would have been an ordinary lower-middle-class childhood except for one extraordinary event. At age nine, he came home from school one day and was told his mother had gone off to a seaside resort. The real truth, however, was that she had been placed in a mental institution, where she would remain for years, and he was never told about it (he never saw his mother again until he was in his late 20s). He left school at 14, lying about his age and forging his father's signature on a letter to join Bob Pender's troupe of knockabout comedians. He learned pantomime as well as acrobatics as he toured with the Pender troupe in the English provinces, picked up a Cockney accent in the music halls in London, and then in July 1920, was one of the eight Pender boys selected to go to the US. Their show on Broadway, "Good Times," ran for 456 performances, giving Grant time to acclimatize. He would stay in America. Mae West wanted Grant for She Done Him Wrong (1933) because she saw his combination of virility, sexuality and the aura and bearing of a gentleman. Grant was young enough to begin the new career of fatherhood when he stopped making movies at age 62. One biographer said Grant was alienated by the new realism in the film industry. In the 1950s and early 1960s, he had invented a man-of-the-world persona and a style--"high comedy with polished words." In To Catch a Thief (1955), he and Grace Kelly were allowed to improvise some of the dialogue. They knew what the director, Alfred Hitchcock, wanted to do with a scene, they rehearsed it, put in some clever double entendres that got past the censors, and then the scene was filmed. His biggest box-office success was another Hitchcock 1950s film, North by Northwest (1959) made with Eva Marie Saint since Kelly was by that time Princess of Monaco.

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Filmography

# Walk Don't Run (1966) .... Sir William Rutland ... aka Walk, Don't Run (USA: promotional title) # Father Goose (1964) .... Walter Christopher Eckland # Charade (1963) .... Peter Joshua # That Touch of Mink (1962) .... Philip Shayne # The Grass Is Greener (1960) .... Victor Rhyall, Earl # Operation Petticoat (1959) .... Lt. Cmdr. Matt T. Sherman # North by Northwest (1959) .... Roger O. Thornhill ... aka Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest (USA: complete title) # Houseboat (1958) .... Tom Winters # Indiscreet (1958) .... Philip Adams # Kiss Them for Me (1957) .... Cmdr. Andy Crewson # The Pride and the Passion (1957) .... Anthony # An Affair to Remember (1957) .... Nickie Ferrante # To Catch a Thief (1955) .... John Robie ... aka Alfred Hitchcock's To Catch a Thief (USA: complete title) # Dream Wife (1953) .... Clemson Reade # Monkey Business (1952) .... Dr. Barnaby Fulton ... aka Be Your Age ... aka Howard Hawks' Monkey Business (USA: complete title) # Room for One More (1952) .... George 'Poppy' Rose ... aka The Easy Way # People Will Talk (1951) .... Dr. Noah Praetorius # Crisis (1950) .... Dr. Eugene Norland Ferguson # I Was a Male War Bride (1949) .... Capt. Henri Rochard ... aka Howard Hawks' I Was a Male War Bride (USA: complete title) ... aka You Can't Sleep Here (UK) # Every Girl Should Be Married (1948) .... Dr. Madison W. Brown # Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948) .... Jim Blandings # The Bishop's Wife (1947) .... Dudley # The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947) .... Richard Nugent ... aka Bachelor Knight (UK) # Notorious (1946) .... T.R. Devlin ... aka Alfred Hitchcock's Notorious # Night and Day (1946) .... Cole Porter # None But the Lonely Heart (1944) .... Ernie Mott # Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) .... Mortimer Brewster ... aka Frank Capra's 'Arsenic and Old Lace' (USA: complete title) # Once Upon a Time (1944) .... Jerry Flynn # Destination Tokyo (1943) .... Capt. Cassidy # Mr. Lucky (1943) .... Joe Adams aka Joe Bascopolous # Once Upon a Honeymoon (1942) .... Patrick 'Pat' O'Toole # The Talk of the Town (1942) .... Leopold Dilg - Joseph ... aka George Stevens' The Talk of the Town (USA: complete title) # Suspicion (1941) .... Johnnie Aysgarth # Penny Serenade (1941) .... Roger Adams # The Philadelphia Story (1940) .... C. K. Dexter Haven # The Howards of Virginia (1940) .... Matt Howard ... aka The Tree of Liberty (UK) # My Favorite Wife (1940) .... Nick Arden # His Girl Friday (1940) .... Walter Burns ... aka Howard Hawks' His Girl Friday (USA: complete title) # In Name Only (1939) .... Alec Walker # Only Angels Have Wings (1939) .... Geoff Carter # Gunga Din (1939) .... Sgt. Archibald Cutter # Holiday (1938) .... John 'Johnny' Case ... aka Free to Live (UK) ... aka Unconventional Linda (UK: reissue title) # Bringing Up Baby (1938) .... Dr. David Huxley # The Awful Truth (1937) .... Jerry Warriner # The Toast of New York (1937) .... Nicholas 'Nick' Boyd # Topper (1937) .... George Kerby # When You're in Love (1937) .... Jimmy Hudson ... aka For You Alone (UK) # Wedding Present (1936) .... Charlie # The Amazing Quest of Ernest Bliss (1936) .... Ernest Bliss ... aka Riches and Romance ... aka Romance and Riches (USA) ... aka The Amazing Adventure (USA: reissue title) ... aka The Amazing Quest # Suzy (1936) .... Capt. Andre Charville # Big Brown Eyes (1936) .... Danny Barr # Sylvia Scarlett (1935) .... Jimmy Monkley # The Last Outpost (1935) .... Michael Andrews # Wings in the Dark (1935) .... Ken Gordon # Enter Madame (1935) .... Gerald Fitzgerald # Ladies Should Listen (1934) .... Julian De Lussac # Kiss and Make-Up (1934) .... Dr. Maurice Lamar # Born to Be Bad (1934) .... Malcolm Trevor # Thirty Day Princess (1934) .... Porter Madison III # Alice in Wonderland (1933) .... The Mock Turtle # I'm No Angel (1933) .... Jack Clayton # Gambling Ship (1933) .... Ace Corbin # The Eagle and the Hawk (1933) .... Henry Crocker # The Woman Accused (1933) .... Jeffrey Baxter # She Done Him Wrong (1933) .... Capt. Cummings # Madame Butterfly (1932) .... Lieutenant B.F. Pinkerton # Hot Saturday (1932) .... Romer Sheffield # Blonde Venus (1932) .... Nick Townsend # Devil and the Deep (1932) .... Lieutenant Jaeckel # Merrily We Go to Hell (1932) .... Charlie Baxter 'DeBrion' ... aka Merrily We Go to ____ (UK) # Singapore Sue (1932) (uncredited) .... First sailor # Sinners in the Sun (1932) .... Ridgeway # This Is the Night (1932) .... Stephen