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a lot of 2 RE-STRIKE 11x14 stills of Cary Grant and Greer Garson. 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. 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" AND Greer Garson was an English actress from the 1930s and 1960s. In the late 1930s, she was appearing on stage in London (her first great success was "Street Scene"), and Louis B. Mayer saw her in "Old Music" in London in 1939, and signed her to star in MGM's Goodbye Mr. Chips, where she was nominated for the Best Actress Academy Award. Some of her movies include: Mrs. Miniver (winner of the Best Actress Academy Award for this film; in the title role), Julius Caesar, The Valley Of Decision (nominated for the Best Actress Academy Award for this film), Mrs. Parkington (nominated for the Best Actress Academy Award for this film), Madame Curie (nominated for the Best Actress Academy Award for this film), Blossoms In The Dust (nominated for the Best Actress Academy Award for this film), Sunrise At Campobello (nominated for the Best Actress Academy Award for this film), and many more! Note that these stills were printed from the original plates, likely in the 1970s by dealers, and are high quality, but are NOT originals from the 1940s. Be sure not to bid on these thinking they are from the 1940s or studio issued, as they are NOT!

Note that this is one of fifteen bulk lots of 11x14 re-strike photos we are currently offering. They were created by a Hollywood memorabilia shop, either in the late 1960s or in the 1970s, and as described above, they were almost certainly printed from the original negatives, which came into the hands of dealers at that time. Many re-strikes have been unknowingly (or knowingly) sold as originals from the 1930s or 1940s, but these are definitely not (but they DO look great on your wall, and 99% of people would not know they were not an original).

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