25 years without Cary Grant...

“My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can.”

  
                                    Cary Grant (1904-1986)

Archibald Alexander Leach died 25 years ago, on a day like this, November 29, while he was preparing a performance in the Adler Theatre in Davenport, Iowa. He was from Bristol, but he eventually got the American citizenship and was well-known by mastering a curious mixture of both British and American accents, a "transatlantic accent", we could call it. He married five times, altough there were constant and insistent rumours about his homosexuality, and had one child. He was nominated twice for the Academy Award for best actor, but never actually won it. He worked with such directors as George Cukor, Alfred Hitcock or Stanley Donen, or actresses such as Grace Kelly, Audrey Hepburn, Katharine Hepburn or Ingrid Bergman. He was named the Greatest Male Star of All Time by the American Film Institute.

But nobody knows him as Archibald Alexander Leach. We know him best as...CARY GRANT.

One British actor viewed by another: Cary Grant according to Michael Caine:





As a tribute, here you have scene of one of his most famous films: An Affair to Remember, with Deborah Kerr



For more info, check The Ultimate Cary Grant Pages