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Cary Grant is a Actor, Executive Producer and Thanks American born on 18 january 1904 at Bristol (United-kingdom)

Cary Grant

Cary Grant
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Birth name Archibald Alexander Leach
Nationality USA
Birth 18 january 1904 at Bristol (United-kingdom)
Death 29 november 1986 (at 82 years) at Davenport (USA)

Cary Grant (born Archibald Alexander Leach; 18 January 1904 – 29 November 1986) was an English-born American stage and Hollywood film actor who became an American citizen in 1942. Known for his transatlantic accent, debonair demeanor, and "dashing good looks", Grant is considered one of classic Hollywood's definitive leading men.

In 1999, the American Film Institute named Grant the second greatest male star of Golden Age Hollywood cinema (after Humphrey Bogart). Grant was known for comedic and dramatic roles; his best-known films include Bringing Up Baby (1938), The Philadelphia Story (1940), His Girl Friday (1940), Arsenic and Old Lace (1944), Notorious (1946), An Affair to Remember (1957), North by Northwest (1959), and Charade (1963).

He was nominated twice for the Academy Award for Best Actor (Penny Serenade (1941) and None but the Lonely Heart (1944)) and five times for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor. After his retirement from film in 1966, Grant was presented with an Honorary Oscar by Frank Sinatra at the 42nd Academy Awards in 1970.

Biography

Grant was married five times. He wed Virginia Cherrill on 10 February 1934. She divorced him on 26 March 1935, following charges that Grant had hit her. In 1942, he married Barbara Hutton, one of the wealthiest women in the world following a $50 million inheritance from her grandfather, Frank Winfield Woolworth. The couple was derisively nicknamed "Cash and Cary", although in an extensive prenuptial agreement Grant refused any financial settlement in the event of a divorce. After divorcing in 1945, they remained the "fondest of friends". Grant always bristled at the accusation that he married for money: "I may not have married for very sound reasons, but money was never one of them."

On 25 December 1949, Grant married Betsy Drake. He appeared with her in two films. This would prove to be his longest marriage, ending on 14 August 1962.

He eloped with Dyan Cannon on 22 July 1965, in Las Vegas. Their daughter, Jennifer Grant, was born on 26 February 1966. He frequently called Jennifer his "best production". Grant and Cannon divorced in March 1968.

On 11 April 1981, Grant married Barbara Harris, a British hotel public relations agent who was 47 years his junior. They renewed their vows on their fifth wedding anniversary.

Some, including Hedda Hopper, and screenwriter Arthur Laurents, claimed Grant was bisexual. Grant was allegedly involved with costume designer Orry-Kelly when he first moved to Manhattan, and lived with actor Randolph Scott off and on for 12 years. Richard Blackwell wrote that Grant and Scott were "deeply, madly in love." Scotty Bowers alleged in his memoir, Full Service (2012) that he had been intimately involved with both Grant and Scott. William McBrien, in his biography Cole Porter, says that Porter and Grant frequented the same upscale house of male prostitution in Harlem, run by Clint Moore and popular with celebrities. All of these claims were published many years after Grant had died. Barbara Harris, Grant's widow, has disputed claims that Grant had had a relationship with Scott. When Chevy Chase joked in a television interview about Grant's being gay, Grant sued him for slander, and he was forced to retract his words. However, Grant's one-time girlfriend Maureen Donaldson wrote in her memoir, An Affair to Remember: My Life with Cary Grant (1989), that Grant told her his first two wives had accused him of being homosexual.

In Chaplin's Girl, a biography of Grant's first wife Virginia Cherrill, Miranda Seymour wrote that Grant and Scott were only platonic friends. Former showgirl Lisa Medford claimed Grant had wanted her to have his child, but she did not want children.

Grant's daughter Jennifer Grant wrote that her father was not gay in her memoir, Good Stuff (2011), but admitted that he "liked being called gay". In 2012, Dyan Cannon, said that Grant was not gay. Tallulah Bankhead jokingly referred to Grant as being a lesbian.

Best films

Notorious (1946)
(Actor)
North by Northwest (1959)
(Actor)
Father Goose (1964)
(Actor)
To Catch a Thief (1955)
(Actor)
The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947)
(Actor)
Suspicion (1941)
(Actor)

Usually with

Bess Flowers
Bess Flowers
(15 films)
Darrell Silvera
Darrell Silvera
(13 films)
Leo McCarey
Leo McCarey
(4 films)
Howard Hawks
Howard Hawks
(5 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Cary Grant (92 films)

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YearNameJobRoles
2015TrumboActorSelf (archive footage) (uncredited)
2015Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own WordsActorSelf (archive footage)
2010Smash His CameraActorSelf (archive footage)
2000Destination Hitchcock: The Making of 'North by Northwest'ActorSelf (archive footage)
1988Cinema ParadisoActorWalter Burns (archive footage) (uncredited)
1984Terror in the AislesActorJohn Robie (Archive Footage)
1982Dead Men Don't Wear PlaidActor(in "Suspicion") (archive footage)
1976That's Entertainment, Part IIActor(archive footage)
1975Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?ActorSelf (archive footage)
1974That's Entertainment!Actor(archive footage)
1970Elvis: That's the Way It IsActorHimself
1966Walk Don't RunActorSir William Rutland
1964Father GooseActorWalter Christopher Eckland
1963CharadeActorPeter Joshua
1963Hollywood Without Make-UpActorSelf (archive footage)
1962That Touch of MinkActorPhilip Shayne
1960The Grass Is GreenerActor, Executive ProducerVictor Rhyall
1959North by NorthwestActorRoger Thornhill
1959Operation PetticoatActorLieutenant Commander Matt Sherman
1958IndiscreetActorPhilip Adams
1958HouseboatActorTom Winters
1957The Pride and the PassionActorAnthony
1957An Affair to RememberActorNickie Ferrante
1957Kiss Them for MeActorCmdr. Andrew " Andy" Crewson
1955To Catch a ThiefActorJohn Robie
1953Dream WifeActorClemson Reade
1952Monkey BusinessActorBarnaby Fulton
1952Room for One MoreActorGeorge "Poppy" Rose
1951People Will TalkActorDr. Noah Praetorius
1950CrisisActorDr. Eugene Norland Ferguson
1949I Was a Male War BrideActorCapt. Henri Rochard
1948Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream HouseActorJim Blandings
1948The Bishop's WifeActorDudley
1948Every Girl Should Be MarriedActorDr. Madison W. Brown
1947The Bachelor and the Bobby-SoxerActorRichard Nugent
1946NotoriousActorT.R. Devlin
1946Night and DayActorCole Porter
1946Without ReservationsActorCary Grant (uncredited)
1945George White's ScandalsActorCary Grant (archive footage) (uncredited)
1944Arsenic and Old LaceActorMortimer Brewster
1944None But the Lonely HeartActorErnie Mott
1944Once Upon a TimeActorJerry Flynn
1944The Road to VictoryActorCary Grant (uncredited)
1943Destination TokyoActorCaptain Cassidy
1943Mr. LuckyActorJoe Adams
1942The Talk of the TownActorLeopold Dilg - Joseph
1942Once Upon a HoneymoonActorPatrick O'Toole
1941The Philadelphia StoryActorC.K. Dexter Haven
1941Penny SerenadeActorRoger Adams
1941SuspicionActorJohn D. 'Johnnie' Aysgarth
1940His Girl FridayActorWalter Burns
1940My Favorite WifeActorNick Arden
1940The Howards of VirginiaActorMatt Howard
1940A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of SoundActorSelf
1939Gunga DinActorArchibald Cutter
1939Only Angels Have WingsActorGeoff Carter
1939In Name OnlyActorAlec Walker
1938Bringing Up BabyActorDavid Huxley
1938HolidayActorJohnny Case
1938Topper Takes a TripActor, ThanksGeorge Kerby (archive footage)
1937The Awful TruthActorJerry Warriner
1937The Toast of New YorkActorNick Boyd
1937TopperActorGeorge Kerby
1937When You're in LoveActorJimmy Hudson
1936Sylvia ScarlettActorJimmy Monkley
1936Big Brown EyesActorDetective Sergeant Danny Barr
1936The Amazing Quest of Ernest BlissActorErnest Bliss
1936SuzyActorAndre
1936Wedding PresentActorCharlie Mason
1935Wings in the DarkActorKen Gordon
1935Enter MadameActorGerald Fitzgerald
1935Pirate Party on Catalina IsleActorGuest on Isle
1935The Last OutpostActorMichael Andrews
1934Born to Be BadActorMalcolm Trevor
1934Kiss and Make-UpActorDr. Maurice Lamar
1934Ladies Should ListenActorJulian De Lussac
1934Thirty Day PrincessActorPorter Madison III
1933She Done Him WrongActorCaptain Cummings
1933Alice in WonderlandActorMock Turtle
1933The Eagle and the HawkActorHenry Crocker
1933Gambling ShipActorAce Corbin
1933I'm No AngelActorJack Clayton
1933The Woman AccusedActorJeffrey Baxter
1932Blonde VenusActorNick Townsend
1932The Devil and the DeepActorLt. Jaeckel
1932Hot SaturdayActorRomer Sheffield
1932Madame ButterflyActorLieutenant B.F. Pinkerton
1932Merrily We Go to HellActorCharlie Baxter
1932Singapore SueActorFirst Sailor
1932Sinners in the SunActorRidgeway
1932This Is the NightActorStephen Mathewson
1932Hollywood on ParadeActor