Cary Grant

Born: 18 January 1904 Birthplace: Bristol, England Death: 29 November 1986 Best Known As: Suave leading man from the 1930s to the 1960s Name at Birth: Archibald Alexander Leach Cary Grant was a leading box-office star for three decades, and the silver screen's definition of the quick-witted and debonair gent. He co-starred with just about every leading lady in the business, from Katharine Hepburn and Marilyn Monroe to Grace Kelly and Sophia Loren. His early films included comedies such as His Girl Friday (1940) and Bringing Up Baby (1938), and he had remarkable success as a leading man for Alfred Hitchcock in Suspicion (1941), Notorious (1946), To Catch a Thief (1955) and North by Northwest (1959). Grant was married five times: to actress Virginia Cherrill (1934-35), Woolworth heiress Barbara Hutton (1942-45), actress Betsy Drake (1949-62), actress Dyan Cannon (1965-68) and Barbara Harris (1981-86)... Cherrill, his first wife, played the blind flower girl loved by Charlie Chaplin in Chaplin's 1931 hit City Lights... Grant had one child: his daughter with Cannon, Jennifer Grant, was born in 1966.