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Article: Carry on, Cary Grant.(notes from a blond)
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- The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)
- Article date:
- September 14, 2004
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Here we are previewing what's coming up this fall, and we already know the quote of the year, if not the century. It's from Betsy Drake, an actress with a minor vogue in the '40s who spent some of those years married to Cary Grant. A recent documentary dissects that extraordinary actor's career and concludes, as I did when I met him years ago, that Cary Grant was an invention of a person named Archie and was more complex a character than any of the ones that were written for him. That's the reason no one who searches for the next Cary Grant ever finds him: There was no real Cary Grant to begin with.
Anyway, much is made in the documentary of the famous rumors ...
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Article: A Smooth Transition; How Archie Leach Became Cary ...
The Washington Post;
February 12, 1997 ;
700+ words
...CARY GRANT A Class Apart By Graham McCann Columbia ... essential point right off the bat. "Cary Grant was an excellent idea," he writes in ... the English city of Bristol in 1904. Cary Grant was born 27 years later, when Leach ...
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