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THBCary Grant (1904-1986) British/American, Hollywood Memorabilia with Signature
About Seller
522 South Pineapple Avenue
Sarasota, FL 34236
United States
Sarasota Estate Auction specializes in a wide variety of furniture, antiques, fine art, lighting, sculptures, and collectibles. Andrew Ford, owner and operator of the company, has a passion for finding the best pieces of art and antiques and sharing those finds with the Gulf Coast of Florida.
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LiveMar 29, 2025
Over 800 lots will be offered in day 1 of our 2 day auction weekend! There are multiple lots of fine art from mixed medias and abstracts to landscapes and lithographs. We have a Bill Mack Swarovsky Crystal Sculpture, Movie Ephemera, Modern Furniture, Art Glass Sculptures, Park West Gallery Artworks, and more. Sarasota Estate Auction sarasotaestateauction@gmail.com
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Cary Grant (1904-1986) British/American, Hollywood Memorabilia with Signature. Color headshot at top center, signature at middle center, and informative plaque at bottom center. Seal of authenticity from Walt Disney World Co. attached bottom left.
Overall Size: 20 14 x 14 1/4 in.
Photo Size: 9 x 7 in.
Autograph Size: 1 3/4 x 3 1/4 in.
Cary Grant was born Archibald Alec Leach on January 18th, 1904 in Bristol, England. His childhood was impoverished and traumatic, as his tailor father was alcoholic and his seamstress mother was clinically depressed, so he escaped into singing, dancing, and piano lessons. At the age of 16 he went to the United States as a stage performer with the Pender Troupe, deciding to stay in New York City after a series of successful vaudeville engagements. When the theater industry collapsed during the Great Depression he moved to Hollywood, where his unique accent, debonair demeanor, and impeccable comedic timing quickly launched his film career. In private, however, his life was difficult, as he married five times and attributed much of his personal demons to abandonment issues from his mother leaving the family when he was nine. To his horror, he discovered at his father’s deathbed confession in 1935 that she had actually been forcibly institutionalized in Glenside Hospital, and made arrangements for her to leave the institution, visiting her regularly until her death. In direct contrast to his personal difficulties his fortunes soared from the late 1930s onward, as he starred in nearly forty commercially and critically successful films in a row, including The Awful Truth, Bringing Up Baby, His Girl Friday, Penny Serenade (which earned him his first Oscar nomination for Best Actor) and Suspicion and Notorious, both for Alfred Hitchcock. He went on many tours to support the war effort during WWII and obtained American citizenship in 1942 (at which time he also legally changed his name), and received his second Academy Award nomination for None but the Lonely Heart in 1944. His career began to slump in the late 1940s, and he engaged in experimental therapies to resolve his psychological issues as well as smoking addiction such as hypnotherapy and the use of LSD. Intensely private, he became one of the wealthiest actors in Hollywood history due to shrewd and lucrative business ventures, and it is likely he was in relationships with both men and women, including Academy Award-winning costume designer Orry-Kelly and actor Randolph Scott. However, he fervently denied being bisexual all his life, going so far as to sue people who insinuated it in interviews. In 1955 his role opposite Grace Kelly in Hitchcock’s To Catch a Thief revitalized his career, and in 1958 he received his first of five Golden Globe nominations for Best Actor for Indiscreet. In the early 1960s his career again began to wind down as he took less suave romantic roles, and he decided to retire in 1966 after making Walk, Don’t Run to devote himself to raising his newborn daughter Jennifer with his fourth wife Dyan Cannon. He remained in the public eye, however, representing cosmetics firm Fabergé and sitting on the board of MGM. In 1970 he received an Academy Honorary Award, and the Kennedy Center Honor in 1981. He became heavily depressed after the deaths of many of his friends and co-stars in the late 70s and early 80s, particularly Howard Hughes, Hitchcock, and Kelly, but devoted his final years to supporting charities that they had started, as well as spreading his immense wealth to philanthropic and bipartisan political events. On November 29th, 1986, while preparing for an interview at the Adler Theater in Davenport, Iowa, Grant suffered a massive stroke and died. He was named the second greatest male star of the Golden Age of Hollywood (after Humphrey Bogart) by the American Film Institute in 1999, and is still considered one of the greatest leading men to never win a major award.
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20 14 x 14 1/4 in.
