Profile
Cary Grant
Actor
Male
Born
Jan 18, 1904
Hometown
Bristol
Died
Nov 29, 1986
Death Place
Iowa
Religion
Anglican / Episco...
Height
6' 1" (187 cm)
Nationality
American
Archibald Alexander Leach, better known by his stage name Cary Grant, was an English actor who later took U.S. citizenship. Known for his transatlantic accent, debonair demeanor and "dashing good looks", Grant is considered one of classic Hollywood's… Read More
Family
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Cary Grant
d.1986
parents
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Elias James LeachFather, deceased -
Elsie Maria KingdonMother, deceased
children
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Timeline
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CHILDHOOD
1904
Birth
Born on January 18, 1904.
TEENAGE
1918
14 Years Old
Grant was expelled from the Fairfield Grammar School in Bristol in 1918.
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TWENTIES
1931
27 Years Old
After appearing in several musicals on Broadway under the name Archie Leach, Grant went to Hollywood in 1931.
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THIRTIES

1934
30 Years Old
Grant was married five times. He wed Virginia Cherrill on February 10, 1934.
1935
31 Years Old
She divorced him on 26 March 1935, following charges that Grant had hit her.

1942
38 Years Old
In 1942, he married Barbara Hutton, one of the wealthiest women in the world, and became a father figure to her son, Lance Reventlow.
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FORTIES


1953
49 Years Old
Throughout his life, Grant maintained personal friendships with colleagues of varying political stripes, and his few political activities seemed to be shaped by personal friendships. Repulsed by the human costs to many in Hollywood, Grant publicly condemned McCarthyism in 1953, and when his friend Charlie Chaplin was blacklisted, Grant insisted that the actor's artistic value outweighed political concerns.
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FIFTIES
1962
58 Years Old
This would prove to be his longest marriage, ending on August 14, 1962.
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LATE ADULTHOOD

1965
61 Years Old
Accepting the Best Original Screenplay Oscar in 1965, Father Goose co-writer Peter Stone had quipped, "My thanks to Cary Grant, who keeps winning these things for other people."
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1970
66 Years Old
Grant was nominated for two Academy Awards, for Penny Serenade (1941) and None But the Lonely Heart (1944), but never won a competitive Oscar; he received a special Academy Award for Lifetime Achievement in 1970.

1976
72 Years Old
In 1976, after his retirement from films, Grant made his one overtly partisan appearance, introducing his friend Betty Ford, the First Lady, at the Republican National Convention, but even in this he maintained some distance from partisanship, speaking of "your" party, rather than "ours" in his remarks.
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1981
77 Years Old
On April 11, 1981, Grant married long-time companion Barbara Harris, a British hotel public-relations agent, who was 47 years his junior.
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Grant was preparing for a performance at the Adler Theatre in Davenport, Iowa, on the afternoon of November 29, 1986, when he sustained a cerebral hemorrhage (he had previously suffered a stroke in October 1984).
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