Alexander Scarlett
Cary Grant – iconic British comic actor
Cary Grant was one of the greatest actors of Britain, who was famous for its great acting and comic timing. Archibald Alexander Leach (January 18, 1904 to November 29, 1986), better known by his screen name, Cary Grant, was an English film actor. With his distinctive Mid-Atlantic accent, he was perhaps the most important example of Debonair leading man, not only handsome, but witty and charming. He was named the second largest Male Star of All times by the American Film Institute.
Archie Leach was born in Horfield, Bristol, England. An only child (before he was born his parents had a son who died was very young), Leach had a confused and unhappy childhood. His mother, Elsie, was placed in a mental institution when he was nine. His father (who later became a relationship had another woman with whom he had a son) he never told the truth, and he only learned in 1935 that she was still alive, in an institution.
This left with a Leach uncertainty in his relationships with women and a secretive about his inner life. These uncertainties, by his own admission, led him to crave attention and applause and a new persona, that would attract to create. After being expelled from Fairfield Grammar School in Bristol in 1918 (for the study the girls' bathroom), he joined the Bob Pender stage company. Grant traveled with the company to the United States in 1920 for a tour two years, when the company returned to England, Grant decided to stay in the U.S.
Over time, he created a unique accent and persona that mixed working and upper class accents, while supporting himself as, among other things, a hawker.
After some success in light Broadway comedies, he came to Hollywood in 1931 where he acquired the name of Cary Grant.
Grant starred in some of the classic screwball comedies, including The Awful Truth with Irene Dunne (the most important film in the establishment of Grant's screen persona), Bringing Up Baby with Katharine Hepburn, His Girl Friday with Rosalind Russell and Arsenic and Old Lace with Priscilla Lane. These performances solidified his appeal, and The Philadelphia Story, with Hepburn and James Stewart, presented his most famous screen role: the charming, albeit sometimes unreliable man, formerly married to an intelligent and strong-willed woman who first divorced him, then realized that he – with all his faults – irresistible.
Grant was one of the top Hollywood box-office attractions for several decades. He was a versatile actor, who is demanding physical comedy in movies like Gunga Din with the skills he had learned on stage. Howard Hawks said that Grant was "so far the best there is. There is none comparable to him."
Grant was a favorite actor Alfred Hitchcock, notorious dislike for actors, who said that Grant was "the only actor I ever loved in my entire life." Grant appeared in Hitchcock classics Suspicion, Notorious, To Catch a Thief and North by Northwest.
In the mid 1950s, Grant formed his own production company, Grantley Productions, and produced a number of films distributed by Universal, such as Operation Petticoat, Indiscreet, that touch of Mink (co-starring Doris Day) and Father Goose.
While Grant was nominated for two Academy Awards in the year 1940, he was denied the Oscar during his active career he was considered an outsider by virtue of the fact that he was the first actor to "go independent," effectively bucking the old studio system, which pretty much completely controlled what an actor could or could not do. In this way, Grant was able to control every aspect of his career. The costs were not a golden statuette during his active career.
Grant finally the long overdue honor he so deserved in 1970 a special Academy Award for Lifetime Achievement. In 1981 he received the Kennedy Center Honors.
Filmography
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This Is the Night (1932)
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Sinners in the Sun (1932)
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Singapore Sue (1932) (short subject)
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Merry We Go to Hell (1932)
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Devil and the Deep (1932)
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Blonde Venus (1932)
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Hot Saturday (1932)
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Madame Butterfly (1932)
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Hollywood on Parade (1932) (short subject)
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She Done him wrong (1933)
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Woman accused (1933)
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Hollywood on Parade No. 9 (1933) (short subject)
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The Eagle and the Hawk (1933)
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Gambling Ship (1933)
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I'm No Angel (1933)
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Alice in Wonderland (1933)
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Thirty days Princess (1934)
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Born to Be Bad (1934)
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Kiss and Make Up (1934)
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Women should listen (1934)
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Enter Madame (1935)
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Wings in The Dark (1935)
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The Last Outpost (1935)
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Pirate Party on Catalina Island (1935) (short subject)
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Sylvia Scarlett (1935)
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The Amazing Quest of Ernest Bliss (1936)
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Big Brown Eyes (1936)
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Suzy (1936)
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Wedding Present (1936)
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When You're in Love (1937)
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Topper (1937)
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The Toast of New York (1937)
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The Awful Truth (1937)
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Bringing Up Baby (1938)
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Holiday (1938)
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Gunga Din (1939)
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Only Angels Have wings (1939)
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In name only (1939)
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His Girl Friday (1940)
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My Favorite Women (1940)
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The Howards Virginia (1940)
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The Philadelphia Story (1940)
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Penny Serenade (1941)
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Suspicion (1941)
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The Talk of the Town (1942)
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Once on a Honeymoon (1942)
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Mr. Lucky (1943)
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Destination Tokyo (1943)
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Once Upon a Time (1944)
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Road to Victory (1944) (short subject)
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None but the Lonely Heart (1944)
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Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
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Without Subject (1946) (Cameo)
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Night and Day (1946)
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Notorious (1946)
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The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947)
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The Bishop's Wife (1947)
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Mr. Blandings builds his Dream House (1948)
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Every Girl Should Be Married (1948)
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I was a male War Bride (1949)
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Crisis (1950)
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People will talk (1951)
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Room for One More (1952)
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Monkey Business (1952)
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Dream Wife (1953)
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To Catch a Thief (1955)
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An Affair to Remember (1957)
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The pride and the passion (1957)
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Kiss Them for Me (1957)
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Indiscreet (1958)
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Houseboat (1958)
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North by Northwest (1959)
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Operation Petticoat (1959)
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The grass is greener (1960)
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That Touch of Mink (1962)
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Charade (1963)
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Father Goose (1964)
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Tribute to the Will Rogers Memorial Hospital (1965) (short subject)
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Walk, Do not Run (1966)
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Elvis: That , The Way It Is (1970) (Documentary Comments)
In the last few years of his life, Grant undertook tours of the United States with "a conversation with Cary Grant "in which he would show clips from his films and answer audience questions. It was just one of these performances, in Davenport, Iowa, on November 29 1986, a stroke that Grant (November 29, 1986), and died in hospital a few hours later.
Ian Fleming stated that he partially had Cary Grant in mind when he his suave super-spy James Bond. The later Bond, Roger Moore, was selected for sharing wry sense of humor of Grant.
In November 2004 Grant was named "The Greatest Movie Star of All Time" by Premiere Magazine.
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