Cary Grant was a British-American actor, known as one of classic Hollywood's definitive leading men. He began a career in Hollywood in the early 1930s, and became known for his transatlantic accent, light-hearted approach to acting and comic timing, and debonair demeanor.
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| 1904/01/18 | Archibald Alexander Leach is born in Horfield, Bristol. | Born | |||||
| 1908/00/00 | After 14-year-old Archie is expelled from school for entering the girls' bathroom, his father Elias, sends him to join the Pender acrobats, a vaudeville troop. | Life | |||||
| 1915/00/00 | A Britol science teacher who wired stages at the Bristol Hippodrome introduces Archie Leach to the theater. | Life | Bristol Hippodrome | Bristol | |||
| 1920/00/00 | Bob Pender's Knockabout Comedians sail on the Olympic to America and open at the Hippodrome in a revue called "Good News", which ran for 9 months. | Actor | |||||
| 1922/00/00 | After a 2 year American tour on the Keith Vaudeville Circuit (or wheel), the Bob Pender's Knockabout Comedians play their final show at the Palace Theater in New York City. | Actor | Palace Theatre | New York City | |||
| 1923/00/00 | Able to juggle, perform acrobatics and ride a unicycle, Archibald Leach performs stilt walking in Coney Island. He also works as a barker, enticing visitors to come see the premature human babies living in glass incubators at Dr Martin Couney's sideshow. | Actor | Coney Island | ||||
| 1924/00/00 | Former Bob Pender's Knockabout Comedians are booked as "The Walking Strangers" on the Pantages vaudeville circuit. | Actor | |||||
| 1927/11/30 | First production at the Hammerstein is a 3-hour musical called "Golden Dawn". Even though it featured Broadway's first topless chorus line, Walter Winchell dubbed it the "Golden Yawn". Archie Leach sang one song and had one line of dialogue. | Actor | Ed Sullivan Theater | New York City | |||
| 1929/01/28 | Leach is cast opposite Jeanette MacDonald in "Boom Boom" at the Casino Theatre. Built in 1882 at 1404 Broadway (demo 1930), it was the 1st in NYC to offer a roof garden, be lit by electricity and popularize the chorus line. | Actor | |||||
| 1929/05/00 | Paramount invites Archie Leach and Jeanette MacDonald to a screen test at their Austoria Studio, neither were offered a contract. Leach was told his neck was too long, so in the future he had shirts custom made to hide his neck. | Actor | Kaufman Astoria Studios | New York City | |||
| 1930/00/00 | One cloudy day, Fred Allen takes Leach up to the observation platform of the Woolworth to show that just because he couldn't see his future, it didn't prove it wasn't there. Allen told leach that faith, was the belief in this world and one's place in it. | Life | Woolworth Building | New York City | |||
| 1931/00/00 | Archibald Leach signs a five-year contract at 450 dollars a week for Paramount Studios and changes his name to Cary Grant. | Actor | Paramount Studios | Los Angeles | |||
| 1932/00/00 | Grant acts in 7 films. He is the small-town ladies' man in "Hot Saturday," a javelin thrower in "This Is the Night," rotten Ridgeway in "Sinners in the Sun" and Lt Pinkerton in "Madame Butterfly" opposite Sylvia Sidney. | Actor | |||||
| 1932/11/21 | Mae West and Cary Grant begin filming "She Done Him Wrong". The film wast shoot in 18 days instead of the typical 15 to 20 weeks for a big picture. | Actor | She Done Him Wrong | Paramount Studios | Los Angeles | ||
| 1933/00/00 | "She Done Him Wrong " is released. | Actor | She Done Him Wrong | ||||
| 1937/00/00 | "The Awful Truth " is released. | Actor | The Awful Truth | ||||
| 1938/02/18 | "Bringing Up Baby " is released. | Actor | Bringing Up Baby (film) | ||||
| 1940/01/11 | "His Girl Friday" is released. | Actor | His Girl Friday | ||||
| 1940/12/30 | Patrons "queued up during a spell of foul weather to pay top prices" for The Philadelphia Story and within four days "had set a new record for the period with 110,168 paid admissions in the nation's No 1 movie house." - Time magazine | Actor | The Philadelphia Story | Radio City Music Hall | New York City | ||
| 1942/00/00 | Cary Grant becomes an American citizen. | Life | |||||
| 1942/07/08 | Reverend H Paul Romeis, pastor of a Lutheran church in San Bernardino, marries Barbara Reventlow and Archibald Leach at Frank Vincent's house on Lake Arrowhead. | Groom | Lake Arrowhead | California | Marriage of Barbara Hutton and Cary Grant | ||
| 1959/00/00 | "North By Northwest " is released. | Actor | North By Northwest (film) |
6 Creative Works by Cary Grant »
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| Title | Type | Association | Y/M/D | Moniker |
| She Done Him Wrong | Actor | Film | 1933/00/00 |
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| The Awful Truth | Actor | Film | 1937/00/00 |
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| Bringing Up Baby (film) | Actor | Film | 1938/02/18 |
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| His Girl Friday | Actor | Film | 1940/01/11 |
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| The Philadelphia Story | Actor | Film | 1940/12/30 |
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| North By Northwest (film) | Actor | Film | 1959/00/00 |
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