eMoviePoster.comAuction History Result 4d005 CARY GRANT 8x10 transparency 1950s Paramount head & shoulders portrait in button up shirt! Date Sold 2/11/2018Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Photographic Transparency (measures 8" x 10" [20 x 25 cm]) (Learn More) Cary Grant was born Archibald Alexander Leach in Bristol, England in 1904. After a bizarre childhood (he came home one day when he was nine and was told his chronically depressed mother had died, when actually his father had put her in a mental institution!), young Archie was kicked out of school and ran away and joined a group of stage acrobats. When he was 16 the group went on a two year tour of the U.S., and when the tour ended, he stayed and acted on the stage. In 1931 he had much success in regional theater in St. Louis, and he moved to Hollywood. At this point he changed his name to Cary Grant. After a few minor roles he starred in Blonde Venus opposite Marlene Dietrich, and in She Done Him Wrong, opposite Mae West (it is Grant she invites to come up and see her sometime). He was under contract to Paramount, and was the first choice for every romantic comedy and melodrama, and when his contract was up he refused to re-sign, and he remained independent for the rest of his career, and he made excellent choices in what movies he made. He remained a major star throughout the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s, and he was equally successful in comedy as he was in dramas and thrillers. His best movies span his entire career. Just a few of them are Penny Serenade (nominated for the Best Actor Academy Award for this film), None But The Lonely Heart (nominated for the Best Actor Academy Award for this film), Bringing Up Baby, Only Angels Have Wings, Mr. Lucky, Arsenic and Old Lace, Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House, An Affair to Remember, and of course the movies he made with Alfred Hitchcock. His personal life was very different from his onscreen persona (supposedly, when he was told "everybody would like to be Cary Grant" he said "So would I!"). He was married five times, but he spent most of the years in-between those marriages living with Randolph Scott, and many have suggested he was bisexual. Chevy Chase once publicly joked that Grant was gay, and Grant sued him over it. In the early 1960s he took LSD over 100 times, and in 1965 he married the much younger Dyan Cannon, and they had a daughter together, the only child either ever had. He retired in 1966, and passed away in 1986 at the age of 82. I don't know that there was ever a more appealing romantic leading man than Cary Grant and he had great romantic chemistry with every one of his leading ladies. He was the inspiration for the line, "Women want to be with him, men want to BE him". Important Added Info: Note that this is a CAMERAR ORIGINAL transparency, the actual film that was in the camera when the photographer shot this transparency. Our consignor knows this is from the early 1950s, but does not know if it is connected to a movie. If anyone knows more about this, please e-mail us and we will post it here. The coloring of the transparency has shifted over the years, and our consignor prepared a "color corrected" version through PhotoShop. We have an image of the transparency as it appears alongside the color corrected version, but of course, the auction is for a single transparency. Note that this is one of 61 auctions of transparencies and negatives that come directly from the personal files of publicist Rolf Larsen, who worked in the Paramount Pictures publicity department from the early 1950s through the early 1970s. Larsen worked closely with many of the biggest stars on the studio roster and his massive collection of original photographers transparencies and negatives spans over more than two decades of Hollywood history. This is the first offering of these rare (and often unseen for decades!) images from eMoviePoster.com from this remarkable collection. Some of the great celebrities presented in these auctions include Sophia Loren, Eva Marie Saint, Stella Stevens, Audrey Hepburn, Cary Grant, Dean Martin, Doris Day, Henry Fonda, Deborah Kerr, Janet Leigh, Lizbeth Scott, Barbra Streisand, Angie Dickinson, Anne Baxter, Ava Gardner, Betty Hutton, and many more. All of the 61 auctions that are from Rolf Larsen's personal files have this paragraph on them. Also every one of these 365 auctions have had their transparencies and/or negatives scanned expertly. This auction contains that scan with the "eMoviePoster.com" watermark over it. ONLY the winner of this auction will, on request, be sent UNWATERMARKED scan(s) of the items in this auction, which will both save them the time and expense of scanning them themselves, and also allow them to make high quality positive prints of the items they purchased. Condition: good to very good. The color of the transparency has shifted from how it originally was, but otherwise, it is in nice condition. We have supplied a second image that is "color corrected" to look as it originally was (see above). Learn More about condition grades
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