191 Facts About Cary Grant

1.

Cary Grant was known for his Mid-Atlantic accent, debonair demeanor, light-hearted approach to acting, and sense of comic timing.

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Cary Grant was one of classic Hollywood's definitive leading men from the 1930s until the mid-1960s.

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Cary Grant was nominated twice for the Academy Award for Best Actor, and in 1970 he was presented an Academy Honorary Award by his friend Frank Sinatra at the 42nd Academy Awards.

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Cary Grant was accorded the Kennedy Center Honors in 1981.

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Cary Grant became attracted to theater at a young age when he visited the Bristol Hippodrome.

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Cary Grant established a name for himself in vaudeville in the 1920s and toured the United States before moving to Hollywood in the early 1930s.

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Cary Grant began to move into dramas such as Only Angels Have Wings with Jean Arthur, Penny Serenade again with Dunne, and None but the Lonely Heart with Ethel Barrymore; he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for the latter two.

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The suspense-dramas Suspicion and Notorious both involved Cary Grant playing darker, morally ambiguous characters.

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Toward the end of his career, Cary Grant was praised by critics as a romantic leading man, and he received five nominations for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor, including for Indiscreet with Bergman, That Touch of Mink with Doris Day, and Charade with Audrey Hepburn.

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Cary Grant is remembered by critics for his unusually broad appeal as a handsome, suave actor who did not take himself too seriously, and able to play with his own dignity in comedies without sacrificing it entirely.

11.

Cary Grant was married five times, three of them elopements with actresses Virginia Cherrill, Betsy Drake, and Dyan Cannon.

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Cary Grant retired from film acting in 1966 and pursued numerous business interests, representing cosmetics firm Faberge and sitting on the board of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

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Cary Grant died of a stroke in 1986 at the age of 82.

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Cary Grant was born Archibald Alec Leach on January 18,1904, at 15 Hughenden Road in the northern Bristol suburb of Horfield.

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Cary Grant was the second child of Elias James Leach and Elsie Maria Leach.

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Cary Grant's father worked as a tailor's presser at a clothes factory, while his mother worked as a seamstress.

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Cary Grant's older brother John William Elias Leach died of tuberculous meningitis a day before his first birthday.

18.

Cary Grant had an unhappy upbringing; his father was an alcoholic and his mother had clinical depression.

19.

Cary Grant had such a traumatic childhood, it was horrible.

20.

Cary Grant's mother taught him song and dance when he was four, and she was keen on his having piano lessons.

21.

Cary Grant occasionally took him to the cinema, where he enjoyed the performances of Charlie Chaplin, Chester Conklin, Fatty Arbuckle, Ford Sterling, Mack Swain, and Broncho Billy Anderson.

22.

Cary Grant was sent to Bishop Road Primary School, Bristol, when he was.

23.

Cary Grant acknowledged that his negative experiences with his mother affected his relationships with women later in life.

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Cary Grant frowned on alcohol and tobacco, and would reduce pocket money for minor mishaps.

25.

Cary Grant attributed her behavior to overprotectiveness, fearing that she would lose him as she did John.

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When Cary Grant was nine years old, his father placed his mother in Glenside Hospital, a mental institution, and told him that she had gone away on a "long holiday"; he later declared that she had died.

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Cary Grant grew up resenting his mother, particularly after being told she left the family.

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When Cary Grant was ten, his father remarried and started a new family, and Cary Grant did not learn that his mother was still alive until he was 31; his father confessed to the lie shortly before his own death.

29.

Cary Grant made arrangements for his mother to leave the institution in June 1935, shortly after he learned of her whereabouts.

30.

Cary Grant visited her in October 1938 after filming was completed for Gunga Din.

31.

Cary Grant enjoyed the theater, particularly pantomimes at Christmas, which he attended with his father.

32.

Cary Grant befriended a troupe of acrobatic dancers known as "The Penders" or the "Bob Pender Stage Troupe".

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Cary Grant subsequently trained as a stilt walker and began touring with them.

34.

Jesse Lasky was a Broadway producer at the time and saw Cary Grant performing at the Wintergarten theater in Berlin around 1914.

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In 1915, Cary 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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Cary Grant was quite capable in most academic subjects, but he excelled at sports, particularly fives, and his good looks and acrobatic talents made him a popular figure.

37.

Cary Grant developed a reputation for mischief, and frequently refused to do his homework.

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Cary Grant spent his evenings working backstage in Bristol theaters, and was responsible for the lighting for magician David Devant at the Bristol Empire in 1917 at the age of 13.

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Cary Grant began hanging around backstage at the theater at every opportunity, and volunteered for work in the summer as a messenger boy and guide at the military docks in Southampton, to escape the unhappiness of his home life.

40.

On March 13,1918, the 14-year-old Cary Grant was expelled from Fairfield.

41.

Wansell claims that Cary Grant had set out intentionally to get himself expelled from school to pursue a career in entertainment with the troupe, and he did rejoin Pender's troupe three days after being expelled.

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Cary Grant's father had a better-paying job in Southampton, and Grant's expulsion brought local authorities to his door with questions about why his son was living in Bristol and not with his father in Southampton.

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The Pender Troupe began touring the country, and Cary Grant developed the ability in pantomime to broaden his physical acting skills.

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Biographer Richard Schickel writes that Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford were aboard the same ship, returning from their honeymoon, and that Cary Grant played shuffleboard with him.

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Cary Grant was so impressed with Fairbanks that he became an important role model.

46.

Cary Grant became a part of the vaudeville circuit and began touring, performing in places such as St Louis, Missouri, Cleveland, and Milwaukee, and he decided to stay in the US with several of the other members when the rest of the troupe returned to Britain.

47.

Cary Grant became fond of the Marx Brothers during this period, and Zeppo Marx was an early role model for him.

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Cary Grant formed another group that summer called "The Walking Stanleys" with several of the former members of the Pender Troupe, and he starred in a variety show named "Better Times" at the Hippodrome towards the end of the year.

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Cary Grant spent the next couple of years touring the United States with "The Walking Stanleys".

50.

Cary Grant visited Los Angeles for the first time in 1924, which made a lasting impression on him.

51.

Cary Grant became a leading man alongside Jean Dalrymple and decided to form the "Jack Janis Company", which began touring vaudeville.

52.

Cary Grant was sometimes mistaken for an Australian during this period and was nicknamed "Kangaroo" or "Boomerang".

53.

Cary Grant's accent seemed to have changed as a result of moving to London with the Pender troupe and working in many music halls in the UK and the US, and eventually became what some term a transatlantic or mid-Atlantic accent.

54.

One critic wrote that Cary Grant "has a strong masculine manner, but unfortunately fails to bring out the beauty of the score".

55.

MacDonald later admitted that Cary Grant was "absolutely terrible in the role", but he exhibited a charm which endeared him to people and effectively saved the show from failure.

56.

The play ran for 72 shows, and Cary Grant earned $350 a week before moving to Detroit, then to Chicago.

57.

Cary Grant visited his half-brother Eric in England, and he returned to New York to play the role of Max Grunewald in a Shubert production of A Wonderful Night.

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Cary Grant still found it difficult forming relationships with women, remarking that he "never seemed able to fully communicate with them" even after many years "surrounded by all sorts of attractive girls" in the theater, on the road, and in New York.

59.

In 1930, Cary Grant toured for nine months in a production of the musical The Street Singer.

60.

Cary Grant received praise from local newspapers for these performances, gaining a reputation as a romantic leading man.

61.

Cary Grant admitted that he was drawn to acting because of a "great need to be liked and admired".

62.

Cary Grant was eventually fired by the Shuberts at the end of the summer season when he refused to accept a pay cut because of financial difficulties caused by the Depression.

63.

Cary Grant's unemployment was short-lived, however; impresario William B Friedlander offered him the lead romantic part in his musical Nikki, and Grant starred opposite Fay Wray as a soldier in post-World War I France.

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Cary Grant delivered his lines "without any conviction" according to McCann.

65.

Cary Grant set out to establish himself as what McCann calls the "epitome of masculine glamour", and made Douglas Fairbanks his first role model.

66.

Cary Grant made his feature film debut with the Frank Tuttle-directed comedy This is the Night, playing an Olympic javelin thrower opposite Thelma Todd and Lili Damita.

67.

Cary Grant disliked his role and threatened to leave Hollywood, but to his surprise a critic from Variety praised his performance, and thought that he looked like a "potential femme rave".

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In 1932, Cary Grant played a wealthy playboy opposite Marlene Dietrich in Blonde Venus, directed by Josef von Sternberg.

69.

Cary Grant's role is described by William Rothman as projecting the "distinctive kind of nonmacho masculinity that was to enable him to incarnate a man capable of being a romantic hero".

70.

Cary Grant found that he conflicted with the director during the filming and the two often argued in German.

71.

In 1933, Cary 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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Pauline Kael noted that Cary Grant did not appear confident in his role as a Salvation Army director in She Done Him Wrong, which made it all the more charming.

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For I'm No Angel, Cary Grant's salary was increased from $450 to $750 a week.

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Cary Grant's prospects picked up in the latter half of 1935 when he was loaned out to RKO Pictures.

75.

When his contract with Paramount ended in 1936 with the release of Wedding Present, Cary Grant decided not to renew it and wished to work freelance.

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Cary Grant claimed to be the first freelance actor in Hollywood.

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The film was a box office bomb and prompted Cary Grant to reconsider his decision.

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Cary Grant's Columbia contract was a four-film deal over two years, guaranteeing him $50,000 each for the first two and $75,000 each for the others.

79.

In 1937, Cary 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.

80.

Cary Grant's performance received positive feedback from critics, with Mae Tinee of The Chicago Daily Tribune describing it as the "best thing he's done in a long time".

81.

Cary Grant played one half of a wealthy, freewheeling married couple with Constance Bennett, who wreak havoc on the world as ghosts after dying in a car accident.

82.

Cary Grant was initially uncertain how to play his character, but was told by director Howard Hawks to think of Harold Lloyd.

83.

Cary Grant was given more leeway in the comic scenes, the editing of the film and in educating Hepburn in the art of comedy.

84.

Cary Grant again appeared with Hepburn in the romantic comedy Holiday later that year, which did not fare well commercially, to the point that Hepburn was considered to be "box office poison" at the time.

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Cary Grant played a British army sergeant opposite Douglas Fairbanks Jr.

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In 1940, Cary 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 its strong chemistry and "great verbal athleticism" between Cary Grant and Russell.

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Cary Grant reunited with Irene Dunne in My Favorite Wife, a "first rate comedy" according to Life magazine, which became RKO's second biggest picture of the year, with profits of $505,000.

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Cary Grant felt his performance was so strong that he was bitterly disappointed not to have received an Oscar nomination, especially since both his lead co-stars, Hepburn and James Stewart, received them, with Stewart winning for Best Actor.

89.

Cary Grant joked "I'd have to blacken my teeth first before the Academy will take me seriously".

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Cary Grant's not being nominated for His Girl Friday the same year is a "sin of omission" for the Oscars.

91.

Wansell claims that Cary Grant found the film to be an emotional experience, because he and wife-to-be Barbara Hutton had started to discuss having their own children.

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Cary Grant did not warm to co-star Joan Fontaine, finding her to be temperamental and unprofessional.

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In 1942, Cary 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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Cary Grant appeared in several routines of his own during these shows and often played the straight-man opposite Bert Lahr.

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On film, Cary Grant played Leopold Dilg, a convict on the run in The Talk of the Town, who escapes after being wrongly convicted of arson and murder.

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Crowther praised the script, and noted that Cary Grant played Dilg with a "casualness which is slightly disturbing".

97.

Cary Grant took up the role after it was originally offered to Bob Hope, who turned it down owing to schedule conflicts.

98.

Cary Grant next appeared with Ingrid Bergman and Claude Rains in the Hitchcock-directed film Notorious, playing a government agent who recruits the American daughter of a convicted Nazi spy to infiltrate a Nazi organization in Brazil after World War II.

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Wansell notes how Cary Grant's performance "underlined how far his unique qualities as a screen actor had matured in the years since The Awful Truth".

100.

In 1947, Cary Grant played an artist who becomes involved in a court case when charged with assault in the comedy The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer, opposite Myrna Loy and Shirley Temple.

101.

Cary Grant finished the year as the fourth most popular film star at the box office.

102.

In 1949, Cary 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.

103.

In 1952, Cary Grant starred in the comedy Room for One More, playing an engineer husband who with his wife adopt two children from an orphanage.

104.

Cary Grant reunited with Howard Hawks to film the off-beat comedy Monkey Business, co-starring Ginger Rogers and Marilyn Monroe.

105.

Cary Grant had hoped that starring opposite Deborah Kerr in the romantic comedy Dream Wife would salvage his career, but it was a critical and financial failure upon release in July 1953, when Cary Grant was 49.

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Cary Grant believed that his film career was over, and briefly left the industry.

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In 1955, Cary 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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Cary Grant found Hitchcock and Kelly to be very professional, and later stated that Kelly was "possibly the finest actress I've ever worked with".

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Cary Grant was one of the first actors to go independent by not renewing his studio contract, effectively leaving the studio system, which almost completely controlled all aspects of an actor's life.

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Cary Grant decided which films he was going to appear in, often had personal choice of directors and co-stars, and at times negotiated a share of the gross revenue, something uncommon at the time.

111.

In 1957, Cary Grant starred opposite Kerr in the romance An Affair to Remember, playing an international playboy who becomes the object of her affections.

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Schickel sees the film as one of the definitive romantic pictures of the period, but remarks that Cary Grant was not entirely successful in trying to supersede the film's "gushing sentimentality".

113.

That year, Cary Grant appeared opposite Sophia Loren in The Pride and the Passion.

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Cary Grant had expressed an interest in playing William Holden's character in The Bridge on the River Kwai at the time, but found that it was not possible because of his commitment to The Pride and the Passion.

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Later in 1958, Cary Grant starred opposite Bergman in the romantic comedy Indiscreet, playing a successful financier who has an affair with a famous actress while pretending to be a married man.

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Schickel stated that he thought the film was possibly the finest romantic comedy film of the era, and that Cary Grant himself had professed that it was one of his personal favorites.

117.

In 1959, Cary Grant starred in the Hitchcock-directed film North by Northwest, playing an advertising executive who becomes embroiled in a case of mistaken identity.

118.

Weiler, writing in The New York Times, praised Cary Grant's performance, remarking that the actor "was never more at home than in this role of the advertising-man-on-the-lam" and handled the role "with professional aplomb and grace".

119.

Cary Grant wore one of his most iconic suits in the film which became very popular, a fourteen-gauge, mid-gray, subtly plaid, worsted wool one custom-made on Savile Row.

120.

Cary Grant finished the year playing a US Navy submarine skipper opposite Tony Curtis in the comedy Operation Petticoat.

121.

In 1960, Cary 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.

122.

McCann notes that Cary Grant took great relish in "mocking his aristocratic character's over-refined tastes and mannerisms", though the film was panned and was seen as his worst since Dream Wife.

123.

In 1962, Cary 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.

124.

Cary Grant invites her to his apartment in Bermuda, but her guilty conscience begins to take hold.

125.

In 1963, Cary Grant appeared in his last typically suave, romantic role opposite Audrey Hepburn in Charade.

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Cary Grant found the experience of working with Hepburn "wonderful" and believed that their close relationship was clear on camera, though according to Hepburn, he was particularly worried during the filming that he would be criticized for being far too old for her and seen as a "cradle snatcher".

127.

Cary Grant retired from the screen in 1966 at the age of 62 when his daughter Jennifer Cary Grant was born, so he could focus on bringing her up and to provide a sense of permanence and stability in her life.

128.

Cary Grant had become increasingly disillusioned with cinema in the 1960s, rarely finding a script of which he approved.

129.

Cary Grant remarked: "I could have gone on acting and playing a grandfather or a bum, but I discovered more important things in life".

130.

Cary Grant knew after he had made Charade that the "Golden Age" of Hollywood was over.

131.

Cary Grant expressed little interest in making a career comeback, and would respond to the suggestion with "fat chance".

132.

Cary Grant did briefly appear in the audience of the video documentary for Elvis's 1970 Las Vegas concert Elvis: That's the Way It Is.

133.

Cary Grant stated that Warren Beatty had made a big effort to get him to play the role of Mr Jordan in Heaven Can Wait, which eventually went to James Mason.

134.

Cary Grant visited Monaco three or four times each year during his retirement, and showed his support for Kelly by joining the board of the Princess Grace Foundation.

135.

Cary Grant turned 80 on January 18,1984, and Peter Bogdanovich noticed that a "serenity" had come over him.

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Cary Grant made some 36 public appearances in his last four years, from New Jersey to Texas, and his audiences ranged from elderly film buffs to enthusiastic college students discovering his films for the first time.

137.

Cary Grant admitted that the appearances were "ego-fodder", remarking that "I know who I am inside and outside, but it's nice to have the outside, at least, substantiated".

138.

Scott played a role, encouraging Cary Grant to invest his money in shares, making him a wealthy man by the end of the 1930s.

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Behind his business interests was a particularly intelligent mind, to the point that his friend David Niven once said: "Before computers went into general release, Cary Grant had one in his brain".

140.

Cary Grant accepted a position on the board of directors at Faberge.

141.

Cary Grant's pay was modest in comparison to the millions of his film career, a salary of a reported $15,000 a year.

142.

Cary Grant played an active role in the promotion of MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas when opened in 1973, and he continued to promote the city throughout the 1970s.

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Cary Grant later joined the boards of Hollywood Park, the Academy of Magical Arts, and Western Airlines.

144.

One of the wealthiest stars in Hollywood, Cary Grant owned houses in Beverly Hills, Malibu, and Palm Springs.

145.

Cary Grant was immaculate in his personal grooming, and Edith Head, the renowned Hollywood costume designer, appreciated his "meticulous" attention to detail and considered him to have had the greatest fashion sense of any actor she had worked with.

146.

McCann notes that because Cary Grant came from a working-class background and was not well educated, he made a particular effort over the course of his career to mix with high society and absorb their knowledge, manners, and etiquette to compensate and cover it up.

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Cary Grant's image was meticulously crafted from the early days in Hollywood, where he would frequently sunbathe, and avoided being photographed smoking despite smoking two packs a day at the time.

148.

Cary Grant remained health conscious, staying very trim and athletic even into his late career, though Grant admitted he "never crook[ed] a finger to keep fit".

149.

Cary Grant said that Grant and Sinatra were the closest of friends and that the two men had a similar radiance and "indefinable incandescence of charm", and were eternally "high on life".

150.

Cary Grant lived with actor Randolph Scott off and on for 12 years, which some claimed was a homosexual relationship.

151.

Cary Grant became a fan of the comedians Morecambe and Wise in the 1960s, and remained friends with Eric Morecambe until his death in 1984.

152.

Cary Grant began experimenting with the drug LSD in the late 1950s, before it became popular.

153.

Cary Grant had an estimated 100 sessions over several years.

154.

Cary Grant wed Virginia Cherrill on February 9,1934, at the Caxton Hall registry office in London.

155.

Cary Grant divorced him on March 26,1935, following charges that he had hit her.

156.

Cary Grant dated Betty Hensel for a period, then married Betsy Drake on December 25,1949, the co-star of two of his films.

157.

Cary Grant married Dyan Cannon on July 22,1965, at Howard Hughes' Desert Inn in Las Vegas, and their daughter Jennifer was born on February 26,1966, his only child; he frequently called her his "best production".

158.

On March 12,1968, Cary Grant was involved in a car accident in Queens, New York, en route to JFK Airport, when a truck hit the side of his limousine.

159.

Cary Grant was hospitalized for 17 days with three broken ribs and bruising.

160.

Cary Grant had a brief affair with actress Cynthia Bouron in the late 1960s.

161.

Cary Grant had been at odds with the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences since 1958, but he was named as the recipient of an Academy Honorary Award in 1970.

162.

Cary Grant announced that he would attend the awards ceremony to accept his award, thus ending his 12-year boycott of the ceremony.

163.

Cary Grant challenged her to a blood test and Bouron failed to provide one, and the court ordered her to remove his name from the certificate.

164.

Cary Grant's friends felt that she had a positive impact on him, and Prince Rainier of Monaco remarked that Cary Grant had "never been happier" than he was in his last years with her.

165.

Biographer Nancy Nelson noted that Cary Grant did not openly align himself with political causes but occasionally commented on current events.

166.

Cary Grant spoke out against the blacklisting of his friend Charlie Chaplin during the period of McCarthyism, arguing that Chaplin was not a communist and that his status as an entertainer was more important than his political beliefs.

167.

In 1976, Cary 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 the stage.

168.

Williams recalls that Cary Grant rehearsed for half an hour before "something seemed wrong" all of a sudden, and he disappeared backstage.

169.

Cary Grant was taken back to the Blackhawk Hotel where he and his wife had checked in, and a doctor was called and discovered that Cary Grant was having a massive stroke, with a blood pressure reading of 210 over 130.

170.

Cary Grant spent 45 minutes in the emergency room before being transferred to intensive care.

171.

Cary Grant was supposed to stick around, our perpetual touchstone of charm and elegance and romance and youth.

172.

Jennifer Cary Grant acknowledged that her father neither relied on his looks nor was a character actor, and said that he was just the opposite of that, playing the "basic man".

173.

Cary Grant's appeal was unusually broad among both men and women.

174.

McCann notes that Cary Grant typically played "wealthy privileged characters who never seemed to have any need to work in order to maintain their glamorous and hedonistic lifestyle".

175.

Martin Stirling thought that Cary Grant had an acting range which was "greater than any of his contemporaries", but felt that a number of critics underrated him as an actor.

176.

Cary Grant believes that Grant was always at his "physical and verbal best in situations that bordered on farce".

177.

Cary Grant professed that the real Cary Grant was more like his scruffy, unshaven fisherman in Father Goose than the "well-tailored charmer" of Charade.

178.

Biographers Morecambe and Stirling believe that Cary Grant was the "greatest leading man Hollywood had ever known".

179.

David Thomson and directors Stanley Donen and Howard Hawks concurred that Cary Grant was the greatest and most important actor in the history of the cinema.

180.

Cary Grant was a favorite of Hitchcock, who admired him and called him "the only actor I ever loved in my whole life", and remained one of Hollywood's top box-office attractions for almost 30 years.

181.

Cary Grant was nominated for Academy Awards for Penny Serenade and None But the Lonely Heart, but he never won a competitive Oscar.

182.

Cary Grant did receive a special Academy Award for Lifetime Achievement in 1970.

183.

Cary Grant was awarded a special plaque at the Straw Hat Awards in New York in May 1975 which recognized him as a "star and superstar in entertainment".

184.

Cary Grant was invited to a royal charity gala in 1978 at the London Palladium.

185.

In 1995, more than 100 leading film directors were asked to reveal their favorite actor of all time in a Time Out poll, and Cary Grant came second only to Marlon Brando.

186.

In November 2005, Cary Grant again came first in Premiere magazine's list of "The 50 Greatest Movie Stars of All Time".

187.

The biennial Cary Grant Comes Home Festival was established in 2014 in his hometown Bristol.

188.

McCann declared that Cary Grant was "quite simply, the funniest actor cinema has ever produced".

189.

Cary Grant was portrayed by John Gavin in the 1980 made-for-television biographical film Sophia Loren: Her Own Story.

190.

From 1932 to 1966, Cary Grant starred in over seventy films.

191.

Cary Grant was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for Penny Serenade and None but the Lonely Heart.