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Everyone Wanted to Be Cary Grant. Even Cary Grant

Cary Grant wasn't really Cary Grant—he was Archibald Alexander Leach born January 18, 1904 in Bristol, England into working-class poverty with his father Elias pressing clothes in a garment factory and mother Elsie a seamstress, lost his older brother John to tuberculosis when Archie was nine months old leaving his mother sunk in depression and cold toward him, had his mother disappear when he was nine in 1913 with his father claiming she went to a seaside resort while actually committing her to an asylum for over twenty years without telling Archie the truth, was expelled from school at 14 for sneaking into the girls' bathroom ending his education, joined Bob Pender's troupe of acrobats at 16 learning stilt-walking and tumbling in music hall shows, toured America with the troupe in 1920 and stayed in New York at 16 refusing to return to Bristol, worked odd jobs selling ties and doing stilt-walking acts at Coney Island while studying how wealthy Americans spoke and moved, worked his way into Broadway theater through the 1920s deliberately losing his thick Bristol accent and inventing a new persona piece by piece, went to Hollywood in 1931 and was signed by Paramount Pictures who suggested changing Archibald Leach to Cary Grant when he was 27, struggled in early forgettable films until 1937's "The Awful Truth" with Irene Dunne where he found his sophisticated charming persona, perfected screwball comedy in 1938's "Bringing Up Baby" with Katharine Hepburn and 1940's "The Philadelphia Story" becoming Hollywood's most reliable leading man, worked with Alfred Hitchcock who saw darkness beneath the charm in "Suspicion" 1941, "Notorious" 1946 with Ingrid Bergman showing cruelty, "To Catch a Thief" 1955, and the masterpiece "North by Northwest" 1959 running across Mount Rushmore in a suit still looking impeccable, married five times starting with actress Virginia Cherrill in 1934 lasting barely a year, married heiress Barbara Hutton in 1942 called "Cash and Cary" by press divorcing 1945, married actress Betsy Drake in 1949 who introduced him to LSD therapy leading to over 100 legal LSD sessions in the late 1950s trying to heal childhood trauma before divorcing 1962, married actress Dyan Cannon in 1965 having his only child daughter Jennifer at age 62 before divorcing 1968, married Barbara Harris in 1981 who was 47 years his junior staying together until his death, lived for years with actor Randolph Scott in the 1930s-40s generating persistent bisexuality rumors he always denied, was nominated for two Oscars for "Penny Serenade" 1941 and "None But the Lonely Heart" 1944 never winning until receiving an Honorary Oscar in 1970 acknowledging Hollywood's failure to honor him properly, starred in romantic classic "An Affair to Remember" 1957 and "Charade" 1963 with Audrey Hepburn still charming at 59, retired from acting in 1966 at age 62 with "Father Goose" as his last film saying he was too old but really exhausted from performing Cary Grant, finally found his mother in 1935 learning she'd been in the asylum the entire time getting her released and supporting her until she died in 1973 though they never truly connected, spent his final twenty years doing one-man shows and working as a perfume consultant living quietly, suffered a massive cerebral hemorrhage on November 29, 1986 in Davenport, Iowa while preparing for a show dying that night at age 82, famously said "Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant" revealing the tragic truth that he spent his entire life trying to become the character he invented, left behind films that are masterclasses in screen acting with students studying his movement, timing, and effortless elegance, but achieved something remarkable and tragic by becoming an idea of perfection so complete that Archie Leach disappeared entirely and even Cary Grant himself couldn't live up to Cary Grant, creating the greatest performance in Hollywood history—a role he played so convincingly for so long that the performer forgot where the performance ended and the man began, or maybe there was no man left at all, just an abandoned Bristol boy who ceased to exist and became someone perfect, someone who didn't hurt, someone everyone wanted to be, even himself.