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Cary Grant was a British-American actor. Known for his blended British and American accent, debonair demeanor, lighthearted approach to acting, and sense of comic timing, he was one of classic Hollywood's definitive leading men. He was nominated twice for the Academy Award, received an Academy Honorary Award in 1970, and received the Kennedy Center Honor in 1981. He was named the second-greatest m…
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Born 18 January 1904 · Died 29 November 1986 · Q83410
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Vermont Business Magazine: Service Provider and Producer Association Grant Now Open
“I guess to a certain extent I did eventually become the characters I was playing. I played at being someone I wanted to be until I became that person, or he became me”
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Public attention spiked: 17,942 Wikipedia readers in one day, 4.1× the usual 4,345, with 1 article edits. Editors noted: Bachelor Hall
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The Guardian: US accused of meddling in British politics with $500,000 grant for ‘public education’ courses
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Public attention spiked: 13,844 Wikipedia readers in one day, 3.6× the usual 3,868, with 1 article edits. Editors noted: Politics Added new image
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The Guardian: Cary Grant’s humble Bristol roots honoured with blue plaque
The Guardian: Charade: Audrey Hepburn and Cary Grant are irresistible in this frothy thriller
The Guardian: ‘Just a person who liked chips’: Bristol takeaway celebrates Cary Grant ties
The Guardian: Archie review – Jason Isaacs is every bit as smooth as Cary Grant
The Guardian: ‘Cary Grant’s whole life was a civil war’: the TV drama unmasking Hollywood’s permatanned icon
The Guardian: Cary Grant biopic boosts interest in star’s harsh early life in Bristol
The Guardian: The trauma of Cary Grant: how he thrived after a terrible childhood - as told by his daughter
The Guardian: The Bishop’s Wife review – Cary Grant and David Niven shine in cosy Christmas comedy
The Guardian: Cary Grant never proposed to me on set, says Sophia Loren
The American Film Institute named him the second-greatest male star of Golden Age Hollywood cinema (after Humphrey Bogart)
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More than 100 leading film directors were asked to reveal their favorite actor of all time in a Time Out poll, and Grant came second only to Marlon Brando
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Died 1986-11-29.
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“Els autografs són ridículs. Quan signes un, comença una reacció en cadena que no sóc capaç de fer res més durant la resta del dia.”
“I suppose you might call me the sophisticated type. I like to act with dialogue. Not with grunts.”
“Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.”
“I really am a happy, amusing fellow at heart. Trouble is I seem the only one left.”
“Everybody wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant. I have spent the greater part of my life fluctuating between Archie Leach and Cary Grant; unsure of either, suspecting each. I pretended to be somebody I wanted to be until finally I became that person. Or he became me.”
“I often think my life has been a failure. But whenever I drop into a theater and hear women laugh at one of my films, I think, well, if I brightened their day before they went home and did the dishes, maybe my life wasn't wasted, after all.”
“Decirle a alguien “¡Qué joven estás!” es tambien una manera de llamarle viejo.”
“Archie Leach, il fuggitivo di Bristol, studiò da vicino uomini come Jack Buchanan e Noël Coward e divenne Cary Grant.”
“Todo mundo quer ser Cary Grant. Até eu quero ser Cary Grant.”
“Divenni attore per il solito motivo: un gran bisogno di piacere e di essere ammirato.”
“Hi ha un gran desconeixement sobre LSD i és un gran repte explicar-ho... Acostumava a prendre unes 100 abans que fos il·legal.”
“No hi ha cap raó per ser infeliç mentre et vas fent vell. Només pensa en els milions a qui se'ls ha denegat aquest privilegi.”
“Mia madre non era una donna felice e io non ero un bambino felice perché mia madre mi soffocava con le sue cure.”
“No tendeixis cap als extrems. No odiïs ni estimis massa. Intenta viure en un lloc intermedi.”
“Non avrei rivisto mia madre per oltre vent'anni. Nel frattempo avevo cambiato nome ed ero diventato un uomo adulto che abitava in America, a migliaia di chilometri di distanza, in California. Quasi tutti nel mondo mi conoscevano di nome o di vista, tranne mia madre.”
“L'odi destrueix qui odia, i si estimes molt estaràs massa involucrat i no hi veuràs clar. L'amor i l'odi són com la nit i el dia.”
“Se fossi rimasto alla Paramount, avrei continuato a prendere i film scartati da Gary Cooper.”
“Sul cinema Jimmy Stewart ebbe lo stesso effetto di Marlon Brando anni dopo.”
“[Su James Stewart] Jimmy aveva l'abilità di parlare con naturalezza. Sapeva che nella vita reale, le persone quando conversano spesso si interrompono a vicenda, e che non è sempre facilissimo formulare un pensiero. Ai tecnici del suono è occorso un po' di tempo per abituarsi, ma ha avuto un impatto enorme. Poi, anni dopo, arriva Marlon e rifà la stessa cosa.”
“[Su James Stewart in una scena di "Scandalo a Filadelfia"] Abbiamo fatto una scena insieme in cui lui era ubriaco... bè, sono rimasto affascinato, mentre lo guardavo – nel film si vede benissimo. Era talmente bravo!”
“Crec que la majoria de nosaltres ens convertim en actors perquè volem l'afecte, l'amor i l'aplaudiment.”
“I do! I don't remember ever saying it in a movie, but now, every once in a while when I'm with friends, I say, "Judeeee, Judeeee, Judeeee," and everyone breaks up. Isn't that a good imitation of an imitation of an imitator?”
“[Sulla cerimonia degli Oscar ai suoi primi anni] Era una cerimonia privata, no? Niente televisione, niente radio: solo un gruppo di amici che danno un party. Perché vedi, c'è un che di imbarazzante in questo gruppo di gente ricca che si dà premi e si congratula a vicenda. Quando è cominciata ci scherzavamo sopra.”
“Si vols ser actor, el meu consell és aprendre les teves línies i no et barregis amb els altres actors.”
“[Su Marilyn Monroe] Sembrava davvero timida; ricordo che quando la manodopera dello studio le fischiava dietro, appariva imbarazzata.”
“Tothom vol ser Cary Grant, fins i tot, jo vull ser Cary Grant.”
“My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between times, I occupy myself as best I can.”
“Era toccato dagli dei. Quando entrava in una stanza, eri costretto a guardarlo. Piaceva agli uomini come alle donne, e questo è incredibilmente raro. (Burt Reynolds)”
“Comment: The Fabergé reference appears to be Grant's winking acknowledgment of the fact that the interview had only come about because the actor, who had been elected to that company's board of directors roughly 12 years earlier, was in town solely to open/promote their new Toronto plant.”
“L'unico vero principe di Hollywood. (Marlene Dietrich)”
“The film I most cared about was a flop. None But the Lonely Heart was the only time I played a character very near myself, a man unsure of himself, a drifter, a rake.”
“Cary è diventato un così raffinato maestro della commedia (sofisticata o francamente comica) che in generale non si fa caso ai suoi talenti drammatici.”
“Una volta disse che anche lui avrebbe tanto desiderato essere Cary Grant. Voleva dire che nessun essere umano al mondo avrebbe potuto incarnare tutte le qualità delle quali il suo personaggio era un esempio o una promessa.”
A theater on the MGM lot was renamed the "Cary Grant Theatre"
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Was honored with the "Man of the Year" award by the New York Friars Club at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel
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Awarded Kennedy Center Honors (1981).
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Grant was accorded the Kennedy Center Honors
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Sat on the board of MGM Films and MGM Grand Hotels following the division of the parent company
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The Los Angeles County Museum of Art put on a two-month retrospective of more than 40 of Grant's films
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“Evidently from the same 1980 James Bawden interview; as quoted in "Cary Grant's Star Never Lost its Glow" by Bawden, Toronto Star (December 1, 1986), p. D1”
“On Irene Dunne, in a 1980 interview/profile by James Bawden in The Hamilton Spectator; as quoted in Conversations with Classic Film Stars (2016) by Bawden and Ron Miller, p. 123”
Hosted the American Film Institute's tribute to Alfred Hitchcock, and presented Laurence Olivier with his honorary Oscar
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“1978 interview with Roderick Mann, "Cary Grant: Doing What Comes naturally," Los Angeles Times (June 11, 1978), p. 39; as quoted in "Quotable Cary" at American Masters (25 May 2005)”
At the Royal Lancaster Hotel in London, where Harris was working at the time and Grant was attending a Fabergé conference
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Grant made a public appearance at the Republican Party National Convention in Kansas City during which he gave a speech in support of Gerald Ford's reelection and for female equality before introducing Betty Ford onto th
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Howard Hawks in 1977, Lord Mountbatten and Barbara Hutton in 1979, Alfred Hitchcock in 1980, Grace Kelly and Ingrid Bergman in 1982, and David Niven in 1983
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In 1975, Grant was an appointed director of MGM.
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Grant was an appointed director of MGM
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Deschner ranked the film as the highest earning film of Grant's career at the US box office, with takings of $9
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And he continued to promote the city throughout the 1970s
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Awarded Academy Awards (1970).
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And received the Kennedy Center Honor in 1981
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“In response to interviewer Hy Gardner's query as to which impressionist did the best version of that signature catch-phrase; in "Q & A on Cary Grant", Variety (January 7, 1970), p. 45”
Awarded Academy Honorary Award (1969).
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A growth of nearly 80% since the inaugural year in 1964
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“taking LSD was an utterly foolish thing to do but I was a self-opinionated boor, hiding all kinds of layers and defences, hypocrisy and vanity. I had to get rid of them and wipe the slate clean.”
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As part of a remedy to save their relationship
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And pursued numerous business interests, representing cosmetics firm Fabergé and sitting on the board of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
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When his daughter Jennifer Grant was born, Grant retired from the screen so he could focus on bringing her up and to provide a sense of permanence and stability in her life
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When Grant became one of his pallbearers
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Grant changed from his typically suave, distinguished screen persona to play a grizzled beachcomber who is coerced into serving as a coastwatcher on an uninhabited island in the World War II romantic comedy Father Goose
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They met when Grant was a struggling performer who had just been evicted from a boarding house for nonpayment; they had a volatile, on-and-off relationship over three decades until Orry-Kelly died in 1964, when Grant became one of his pallbearers.
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Grant appeared in his last typically suave, romantic role opposite Audrey Hepburn in Charade
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Grant visited Washington, D
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Grant starred in the romantic comedy That Touch of Mink, playing suave, wealthy businessman Philip Shayne romantically involved with an office worker, played by Doris Day
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Awarded David di Donatello for Best Foreign Actor for North by Northwest (1960).
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Grant appeared opposite Deborah Kerr, Robert Mitchum, and Jean Simmons in The Grass Is Greener, which was shot in England at Osterley Park and Shepperton Studios
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Grant starred in the Hitchcock-directed film North by Northwest, playing an advertising executive who becomes embroiled in a case of mistaken identity
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Grant starred opposite Bergman in the romantic comedy Indiscreet, playing a successful financier who has an affair with a famous actress (Bergman) while pretending to be a married man
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Grant starred opposite Deborah Kerr in the romance An Affair to Remember, playing an international playboy who becomes the object of her affections
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Grant had an affair with Sophia Loren
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Grant agreed to star opposite Grace Kelly in To Catch a Thief, playing a retired jewel thief named John Robie, nicknamed "The Cat", living in the French Riviera
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Grant starred in the comedy Room for One More, playing an engineer husband who, with his wife (Betsy Drake), adopt two children from an orphanage
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Told a reporter that he would like to see a female president of the United States but asserted a reluctance to comment on political affairs, believing it was not the place of actors to do so
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Grant starred alongside Ann Sheridan in the comedy I Was a Male War Bride in which he appeared in scenes dressed as a woman, wearing a skirt and a wig
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Grant played an artist who becomes involved in a court case when charged with assault in the comedy The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (released in the U
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Although they remained the "fondest of friends"
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Grant starred alongside Priscilla Lane, Raymond Massey and Peter Lorre, in Frank Capra's dark comedy Arsenic and Old Lace, playing the manic Mortimer Brewster, who belongs to a bizarre family that includes two murderous
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One of the wealthiest women in the world, following a $50 million inheritance from her grandfather Frank Winfield Woolworth
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Grant participated in a three-week tour of the United States as part of a group to help the war effort and was photographed visiting wounded marines in hospital
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Grant became a naturalized United States citizen on 26 June 1942, aged 38, at which time he also legally changed his name to Cary Grant.
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Grant played a callous newspaper editor who learns that his ex-wife and former journalist, played by Rosalind Russell, is to marry insurance officer Ralph Bellamy in Hawks' comedy His Girl Friday, which was praised for i
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Grant played roles that were more dramatic, albeit with comical undertones
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Starred opposite Katharine Hepburn in the screwball comedy Bringing Up Baby, featuring a leopard and frequent bickering and verbal jousting between Grant and Hepburn
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Grant began the first film under his contract with Columbia Pictures, When You're in Love, portraying a wealthy American artist who eventually woos a famous opera singer (Grace Moore)
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With the release of Wedding Present, Grant decided not to renew it and wished to work freelance
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Grant gained attention for appearing in the pre-Code films She Done Him Wrong and I'm No Angel opposite Mae West
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Grant played a wealthy playboy opposite Marlene Dietrich in Blonde Venus, directed by Josef von Sternberg
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At the Paramount studio when Scott was filming Sky Bride while Grant was shooting Sinners in the Sun; they moved in together and shared a beach house in Malibu that became known as "Bachelor Hall"
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Grant toured for nine months in a production of the musical The Street Singer
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Joined the William Morris Agency and was offered another juvenile part by Hammerstein in his play Polly, an unsuccessful production
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Was cast as an Australian in Reggie Hammerstein's musical Golden Dawn, for which he earned $75 a week
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Grant won a scholarship to attend Fairfield Grammar School in Bristol, although his father could barely afford to pay for the uniform
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Born 1904-01-18.
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