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Article: CARY GRANT, DEBONAIR LEADING MAN, DIES AT 82.(Main)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- December 1, 1986
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Byline: Cathleen Decker
Cary Grant, a onetime child acrobat who, with a crook of his elegant head and a line of clipped, seductive patter, became the world's sophisticated cinematic ideal, has died at the age of 82.
The actor was in Davenport, Iowa, Saturday night when illness forced him to cancel an evening performance of his one-man show called "A Conversation With Cary Grant" at the Adler Theater. He was later pronounced dead of a massive stroke at 11:22 p.m. at St. Luke's Hospital there. His wife, Barbara, was at his side.
The man who transformed himself from a lower- class uncultured Brit into urbanity personified had been retired for two ...