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Cary Grant

Perhaps the most dashing of all Hollywood film stars, stole the hearts of
millions of audience members during his 40 years of acting.
Born Archibald Alexander Leach on January 18,1904 in Bristol England, he was the only

child of impoverished parents Elsie and Elias. At the age of nine he lost his mother when

she was institutionalized at Fishpond’s Country Home for the Mental Defectives. Around

that time, he developed a love for the English music hall and began working at odd jobs at

the Hippodrome and Empire theaters. At 14, he joined the Bob Pender comedy troupe and

honed his dancing, acrobatic, stilt-walking and pantomime skills. The troupe performed in

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Singapore Sue. Grant then traveled to Los Angeles, where he made a successful screen

test for Paramount. The studio offered him a five-year contract, suggesting he change his

name to Cary Lockwood; Leach negotiated with them, and they settled on the name Cary

Grant.

Grant's feature debut was in This Is the Night in 1932. He soon found himself playing

opposite such top Paramount female stars as Nancy Carroll, Sylvia Sidney, Marlene

Dietrich and Mae West . In 1935 Grant appeared with Katharine Hepburn in Sylvia

Scarlett. When his Paramount contract expired in 1937, Grant chose not to sign with

another studio. Instead, he selected his own films, scripts and directors.

Grant's first hit was Topper in1937, but it was The Awful Truth that made him a star.

For the next three years, Grant appeared in a succession of hits: Bringing up Baby ,

Holiday, Gunga Din, Only Angels Have Wings, His Girl Friday, My Favorite Wife and

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