Cary Grant Bio, Age, Death, Will, Parents, Divorce, Daughter, Movies, Glasses And Net Worth.

Cary Grant Biography

Cary Grant born as  Archibald Alexander Leach is an English-born American actor, known as one of classic Hollywood’s definitive leading men. He was known for his transatlantic accent, debonair demeanor, light-hearted approach to acting, and sense of comic timing. Grant was born in Horfield, Bristol.

Cary ran away from home at the age of 13 to perform as a juggler with a comedy troupe, Then later toured the U.S., where he honed his acting skills. In the 1930s he signed with Paramount Pictures. Grant made films well into the 1960s, establishing a debonair persona that made him a screen icon.

Cary Grant Age

He was born on 18th January 1904 in Horfield, Bristol, United Kingdom and died on 29 November 1986 in St. Lukes Hospital, Davenport at the age of 82 years after a long battle with stroke.

Cary Grant Death

Cary Grant fell ill during a late afternoon rehearsal and was helped from the stage to his hotel room. Several hours later, it was announced during the pre-performance gala that Cary Grant was ill and would not appear at the Adler. There was a loud groan of disappointment, but the party went merrily on while Grant was slipped out of the hotel on a gurney.  I hurried back to the office and made a strange statement to the city desk editor of the evening, “I think he’s dead.”

Rumors were flying. Newspeople were gathering from afar in an impromptu hospital media room that had been stocked with Swiss cheese sandwiches and fruit. AP showed up in the late hours. The Des Moines Register was there. The Chicago Tribune had flown in a reporter. People magazine had rushed in its regional correspondent. TV camera people and reporters were getting tangled in each other.

At 12:45 a.m., Dr. Jim Gilson, who had attended Grant in his last hours, stood before a glare of TV lights and announced that the debonair star had died of a massive intracerebral hemorrhage at 11:22 p.m.

Cary Grant Will

The late actor Cary Grant left the bulk of his estate to his widow, Barbara Harris Grant, and his only child, 20-year-old Jennifer, according to terms of his will filed in Santa Monica Probate Court on Wednesday.

Grant, celebrated for his wit and charm during a career that spanned generations, died Saturday night in Davenport, Iowa, of a massive stroke. He was 82. His will gave his four-acre Beverly Hills estate and its contents to his wife, whom Grant married in 1981. She also will receive half of the remainder of his personal estate.

The other half will be held in trust for his daughter, born during Grant’s marriage to actress Dyan Cannon. Jennifer Grant will receive the income from the trust until she is 30 when she will gain access to half of the principal, attorney Jay J. Stein said. The remainder will be turned over to her when she reaches 35, Stein said. Grant asked in the will, signed Nov. 26, 1984, that the value of the estate is described only as “in excess of $10,000.” A full accounting of the estate, which will be filed in Probate Court, is expected to take several months, Stein said.

Grant’s will also stipulate several cash awards. Among them were a $100,000 bequest to his longtime bookkeeper, Joseph Marin; $50,000 to the Motion Picture Relief Fund; $25,000 to Variety Arts International, and $20,000 to the John Tracy Clinic for hearing-impaired children.

The actor asked that his personal effects be distributed to family and friends, including his wife and daughter; long-time attorney Stanley E. Fox; singer Frank Sinatra; Grant’s third wife, BetsyDrake; director Stanley Donen; financier Kirk Kerkorian, and Hollywood Park managing partner Marjorie L. Everett.

 

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Cary Grant Parents

Cary Grant was born Archibald Alexander Leach on January 18, 1904, in Bristol, England. His parents, Elias and Elsie Leach, were poor, and they quarreled often as they struggled to raise their only child. Grant found an escape from the family tension in the newly emerging “picture palaces.” He recalled in a Ladies Home Journal (1963) interview that “those Saturday matinees free from parental supervision were the high point of my week.”

At the age of ten Grant was told that his mother had left for a seaside resort. In reality, she had been sent to a nearby mental institution for a nervous breakdown. She remained there for twenty years. Grant was an adult before he learned of his mother’s true whereabouts. “There was a void in my life,” Grant said of the lost time with mother, “a sadness of spirit that affected each daily activity with which I occupied myself in order to overcome it.”

Cary Grant Wife|Divorce

Although Grant achieved tremendous success as an actor, his first four marriages ended in divorce. Grant speculated that this poor record was tied to the disappearance of his mother. His fifth wife, Barbara Harris, was at his side when he died of a massive stroke in 1986.

Today Grant’s name remains a symbol of the stylish sophistication that was his trademark, and repeated viewings of his films reveal an actor whose ability to delight an audience is timeless.

Cary Grant Daughter-Jennifer Grant

Jennifer Diane Grant 2 is an American actress, the only child of actors Cary Grant and Dyan Cannon. She is best known for roles in the television series Beverly Hills, 90210 and Movie Stars.

Cary Grant  North By  Northwest

North by Northwest is a tale of mistaken identity, with an innocent man pursued across the United States by agents of a mysterious organization trying to prevent him from blocking their plan to smuggle out microfilm which contains government secrets. This is one of several Hitchcock films which feature a music score by Bernard Herrmann and an opening title sequence by graphic designer Saul Bass, and it is generally cited as the first to feature extended use of kinetic typography in its opening credits.

North by Northwest is listed among the canonical Hitchcock films of the 1950s and is often listed among the greatest films of all time. It was selected, in 1995 for preservation in the National Film Registry by the United States Library of Congress as being “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant

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Cary Grant Glasses

Cary Grant adjusts his glasses. The frames give his charismatic character, Roger Thornhill, definition. He’s a man on the run, mistaken for someone else but taking matters into his own hands. This is a moment of flirtation and revelation in the iconic thriller “North by Northwest.” With their signature commitment to character and style, Oliver Peoples will bring to market an optical and sunglass inspired by this significant moment. More than an accessory, they represent the style and character of one of cinema’s greatest figures.

Cary Grant Net Worth At  Death

Cary Grant was an English actor who had a net worth of $60 million at the time of his death in 1986. That’s equal to approximately $130 million after adjusting for inflation.

Cary Grant Suspicion

On this day in 1941, Suspicion, a romantic thriller starring Cary Grant and Joan Fontaine and directed by Alfred Hitchcock, makes its debut. The film, which earned a Best Picture Academy Award nomination and a Best Actress Oscar for Fontaine, marked the first time that Grant, one of Hollywood’s quintessential leading men, and Hitchcock, one of the greatest directors in movie history, worked together. The two would later collaborate on Notorious, To Catch a Thief and North by Northwest.

Cary Grant Once Upon A Time

Jerry Flynn (Cary Grant) is a highly acclaimed theatre owner and Broadway producer, who after three consecutive flops finds himself in severe financial difficulty, and the possibility of losing his theatre. On exiting the theatre one evening he comes across Pinky Thompson (Ted Donaldson), a young boy who is friends with a caterpillar called Curly (yes – I *DID* say caterpillar!) that dances to the tune “Yes Sir, that’s my baby!”. Seeing this as an opportunity to hold onto his beloved theatre, he and Pinky set up a partnership. But Jeannie (Pinky’s sister played by Janet Blair) has other ideas. Naturally, being a CG film, this disagreement turns into the romance between Flynn and Jeannie. Although the caterpillar becomes a symbol of hope for mankind, Flynn still wants to save his theatre and is prepared to sell Curly to Hollywood for $100,000. At the last minute he relents, but it is too late as Curly is missing. However, before the end of the movie, Curly is found……….to have turned into a beautiful butterfly!!

 Cary Grant  Movies

• Arsenic and Old Lace (Frank Capra, 1944)
• Charade (Stanley Donen, 1963)
• Suspicion (Alfred Hitchcock, 1941)
• Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (H.C. Potter, 1948)
• An Affair to Remember (Leo McCarey, 1957)
• Penny Serenade (George Stevens, 1941)
• Indiscreet (Stanley Donen, 1958)
• To Catch a Thief (Alfred Hitchcock, 1955)
• My Favorite Wife (Garson Kanin, 1940)
• The Talk of the Town (George Stevens, 1942)

Cary Grant Randolph Scott

They were two handsome bachelors, who happened to be Hollywood heartthrobs and roommates. Cary Grant and Randolph Scott lived together off-and-on for nearly 12 years, sharing a Santa Monica beach house and a mansion in Los Angeles’ Los Feliz neighborhood.

But where the two living together as a gay couple in plain sight during the oppressive 1930s? Hollywood of that period was run by the infamous iron-fisted studio system, which monitored, managed and practically dictated a star’s personal and public life. Leading men like Grant and Scott would almost certainly not have been allowed to openly live homosexual lives, much less as a couple.

Cary Grant Quotes

• When people tell you how young you look, they are telling you how old you are.
• Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops.
• We have our factory, which is called a stage. We make a product, we color it, we title it and we ship it out in cans.
• My father used to say, ‘Let them see you and not the suit. That should be secondary.’
• Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.
• Ah, beware of snobbery; it is the unwelcome recognition of one’s own past failings.
• My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can.
• Divorce is a game played by lawyers.
• Do your job and demand your compensation – but in that order.
• I pretended to be somebody I wanted to be until finally, I became that person. Or he became me.

Cary Grant Bringing Up Baby

It is debated by some whether Bringing Up Baby is the first fictional work (apart from pornography) to use the word gay in a homosexual context. In one scene, Cary Grant’s character is wearing a woman’s marabou-trimmed négligée; when asked why he replies exasperatedly “Because I just went gay all of a sudden!” (leaping into the air at the word gay). As the term gay did not become familiar to the general public until the Stonewall riots in 1969, it is debated whether the word was used here in its original sense (meaning “happy”)or is an intentional, joking reference to homosexuality.

In the film, the line was an ad-lib by Grant and not in any version of the original script. According to Vito Russo in The Celluloid Closet (1981, revised 1987), the script originally had Grant’s character say “I…I suppose you think it’s odd, my wearing this. I realize it looks odd…I don’t usually…I mean, I don’t own one of these”. Russo suggests that this indicates that people in Hollywood (at least in Grant’s circles) were familiar with the slang connotations of the word; however, neither Grant nor anyone involved in the film suggested this.

The 1933 film My Weakness had previously used the word “gay” as an overt descriptor of homosexuality; one of two men pining away for the same woman suddenly suggests a solution to their mutual problem: “Let’s be gay!” However, the Studio Relations Committee censors decreed that the line was too risqué and had to be muffled. The film This Side of Heaven (1934) included a scene in which a fussy, gossipy interior decorator tries to sell a floral fabric pattern to a customer, who knowingly replies, “It strikes me as a bit too gay.”

Cary Grant World War 2

In 1947, Grant received the Kings Medal for Services in the Cause of Freedom for meritorious service during World War II, when he had donated his salaries from two movies to the British war effort.

On December 25, 1949, Grant got married for the third time, to 26-year-old Betsy Drake—his co-star in “Every Girl Should Be Married” (1948).

Cary Grant Arsenic and Old Lace

Newly-wed drama critic Mortimer Brewster (Cary Grant) frantically tries to embark on his honeymoon with impatient new bride (Priscilla Lane), but has to contend with his well-meaning but ditzy old aunts (Josephine Hull and Jean Adair), who have been bumping off lonely elderly gentlemen with their lethal elderberry wine (spiked with arsenic, strychnine and “just a pinch of cyanide”). If that isn’t enough, he also has to juggle his sociopathic brother (Raymond Massey) – a dead-ringer for Boris Karloff, who played the original lead in the original 1941 Broadway play – and his sidekick Dr Einstein (Peter Lorre), as well as his other unhinged brother who thinks he’s Teddy Roosevelt (John Alexander).

In one of his best comic performances, Cary Grant effortlessly delivers rapid-fire dialogue, facial contortions and pratfalls to make any slapstick fan happy – lookout for Archie Leach’s tombstone, an in-joke about Cary Grant’s birth name.

Cary Grant Notorious

Notoriety is this story’s ammunition and its unstable commodity. The bad reputation of a Nazi’s daughter makes the excellent cover as she spies for Uncle Sam and infiltrates a nest of Hitlerites in 1946 Rio plotting to restore the Reich – and her bad reputation as a recklessly unhappy drunk makes her even more plausible in this undercover role. But when things turn sour, the symptoms of a hangover are dangerously close to those of poisoning.

Screenwriter Ben Hecht and director Alfred Hitchcock created a brilliantly crafted, and deliciously entertaining story of espionage, spousal abuse, and toughly self-reliant romantic guys who mask their hurt feelings with cynicism: and Ingrid Bergman’s outstanding performance has something of her personae in Casablanca and Gaslightergman plays Alicia Huberman, a German-born naturalised American in Miami whose family name has been disgraced by her father being convicted on a charge of spying for Nazi Germany. Cary Grant plays Devlin, an American intelligence agent who coolly recruits Alicia at a boozy party to work for the United States government because he knows something no-one else does: how much she detested her father and his fascism, and how much she loves her adopted country. He spirits her to Rio de Janeiro (interestingly, the Christ the Redeemer statue is not shown in any establishing shot) where her mission is to gain admission to a noisome coterie of ruthless Far-Right sympathizers and their prominent social leader, French émigré Alexander Sebastian, an impulsive, highly-strung figure wonderfully played by Claude Rains.

Cary Grant To Catch A Thief

Cary Grant plays John Robie, a reformed jewel thief who was once known as The Cat, in this suspenseful Alfred Hitchcock classic thriller. Robie is suspected of a new rash of gem thefts in the luxury hotels of the French Riviera, and he must set out to clear himself. Meeting pampered heiress Frances (Grace Kelly), he sees a chance to bait the mysterious thief with her mother’s (Jessie Royce Landis) fabulous jewels. His plan backfires, however, but France, who believes him guilty, proves her love by helping him escape. In a spine-tingling climax, the real criminal is exposed.

Cary Grant His Girl Friday

His Girl Friday, American screwball comedy film, released in 1940, that was director Howard Hawks’ innovative remake of The Front Page (1931). The lightning-fast repartee and prickly courtship of the film’s two leads made it a classic in the genre.

Cary Grant played a self-centered newsman determined to keep his ex-wife and former star reporter (played by Rosalind Russell) on staff to help get the scoop on an escaped murderer. At the same time, he tries to prevent her marriage to the handsome but boring Bruce Baldwin (Ralph Bellamy).

Cary Grant Father Goose

Cary Grant stars in one of his funniest roles as a boozy beachcomber sitting out WWII in peace – until the Allies recruit him to be a lookout on the South Pacific isle. During an enemy attack, he answers a distress call and discovers a beautiful French schoolmarm (Leslie Caron) and her seven girl students. And so begins a hilarious battle of the sexes between a messy American, a prim Mademoiselle, and seven mischievous little girls. Who will win is anybody’s guess, but you can be sure that FATHER GOOSE delivers plenty of romantic fun and adventure along the way.

Cary Grant Walk Don’t Run

Cary Grant made his last film appearance before retiring from the screen, at age 62, in Walk, Don’t Run, an amiable if slight comedy, loosely based on George Stevens’ Oscar-nominated comedy, “The More the Merrier.”

Stevens’ 1943 film, starring Joel McCrea and Jean Arthur, dealt with romantic complications, arising due to the housing shortage in Washington D.C. during World War II. In Walk, Don’t Run, the story is updated to the housing shortage that prevailed in Tokyo during the 1964 Olympic Games.

Going back to his roots, Grant plays British industrialist Sir William Rutland, who arrives in Tokyo two days before the start of the games and cannot find any accommodations. In despair, he answers an ad for an “apartment to share” and convinces the occupant, Christine Easton (Samantha Eggar), to rent him a room.

The next day he meets the handsome Steve Davis (Jim Hutton), a member of the U.S. Olympic walking team. Steve also needs a room and convinces Christine to take him on as a second tenant. After meeting Christine’s pompous fiancé, Julius D. Haversack (John Standing), Rutland decides to exercise his matchmaking skills in an effort to get Christine and Steve together.

Rutland sublets half of his cramped space to American Olympic competitor Steve Davis. While Easton is less than thrilled with the arrangement, she has to put up with it, as she has already spent Rutland’s share of the rent. Rutland sets about playing matchmaker for the two young people, in spite of their disparate personalities and Easton’s engagement to a boringly dependable British diplomat, Julius P. Haversack.

To further his matchmaking, Rutland strips down to his shorts and T-shirt, pretending to be a competitor so that he can talk to Davis during the men’s 50 kilometers walk, and try to heal the breach between the lovers.

 Cary Grant Every Girl Should Be Married

Anabel Sims (Betsy Drake) is a 20-year-old working girl who runs into pediatrician Dr. Madison Brown (Cary Grant) at the magazine rack in a diner. She is immediately smitten with him and decides then and there that she is going to marry him. The rest of the film shows how she stalks him, lies to him (and others), and manipulates people to get Dr. Brown to notice her and “fall in love”.

She finds out where he works, eats, and shops and gathers information from the people who work there. She compiles a database of all the things he likes. She lies to him about having a rich and famous boyfriend in a feeble attempt to make him jealous. One of her schemes backfires and she is forced to manipulate her boss, department store owner Roger Sanford (Franchot Tone), into a kiss on a crowded sidewalk in hopes of getting Dr. Brown’s attention. A street photographer gets a photo of the kiss, puts it on the front page of the newspaper (“Love Comes to Main Street”), and she uses her newfound fame to manipulate her way into a month rent-free in a new housing development … and lures the good doctor there for a quiet dinner.

Cary Grant Indesceet

Romance is in the air when a dashing diplomat (Cary Grant) is introduced to a beautiful and famous actress (Ingrid Bergman). The fact that he’s married doesn’t stop the lovestruck pair from falling into a passionate affair. But it turns out that the actress isn’t the only one with a talent for role-playing — her married lover is actually a single playboy with no intentions of settling down. When his secret is revealed she decides to give her Romeo a taste of his own medicine and discovers it’s just what the love doctor ordered.

Cary Grant Operation Petticoat

Cary Grant and Tony Curtis ship out for laughs and adventure in one of the most hilarious comedies to ever hit the high seas. Commander Matt Sherman (Grant) has his toughest assignment yet – to put a broken sardine can of a submarine back into action. Enter supply officer Nick Holden (Curtis), a master scavenger with the (illegal) means to get the Sea Tiger purring – or at least afloat. But after the rescue of five stranded (and beautiful) nurses, the grey, the battle-scarred sub has suddenly transformed into a pink, party-ready hot tub. Now there’s only one course of action Sherman and his men can take – surrender

Cary Grant Room For One More

Screen legend Cary Grant and Betsy Drake (who were in real-life husband and wife) star in a heartwarming comedy about a couple with three children who decide that three is definitely not enough. The comic complications of adopting a few new family members enliven this vastly enjoyable family film.

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