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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 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 Dyan Cannon was born Samile Diane Friesen in Washington State in 1937. This super sexy blonde got some TV roles in 1958, and her first movie role the next year (billed as "Diane Cannon"), but she was mostly stuck in sexpot type roles (for example, she was "Wiggles" in This Rebel Breed), She started a relationship with Cary Grant, who was 33 years older than her, and she mostly only appeared on TV in the early 1960s. She married Grant in 1965 (he was 61 and it was his fourth marriage) and they had a child (the only child she or Grant ever had), and she stopped acting entirely. They were divorced in 1968, and she returned to acting with a supporting role in Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice the following year, and she was nominated for Best Supporting Actress. She appeared in five movies in 1971 alone, but then made only a few appearances in the rest of the 1970s. In 1976 she produced, directed, wrote, edited, and acted in the short film Number On, which was nominated for an Oscar for Best Short Film-Live Action film. Two years later she played the wife in Heaven Can Wait and was again nominated for Best Supporting Actress. She appeared in a number of forgettable movies in the 1980s, and in 1990 she wrote, directed and starred in The End of Innocence, the story of a woman who spends her life trying to make others happy and ends up in a rehab center, and one wonders if she almost certainly wasn't telling her own life story. Cannon was a multi-talented beautiful actress who received three Oscar nominations, and yet it does not seem like her career amounted to nearly as much as it might have, had she made a few different choices over her lifetime.

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