cary walking his siamese cat in beverly hills, ca. – 1955

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happy birthday to cary grant

one of my favorite actors

born archibald leach in 1904

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an amusing story from his neighbor, talent agent shep gordon, who was cary’s next door neighbor in beverly hills:

One day Shep’s cat, (not the cat above), to which he had given the name The Sensitive One, disappeared and he put “missing” posters on lampposts.

“I got a phone call from Cary Grant’s housekeeper telling me they’d found the cat,” he says.

“But after that they didn’t return my calls for a couple of weeks so finally I thought I’d go to the house. I rang the doorbell and when the door opened on a fur carpet with these two silver bowls were Cary Grant and my cat.

“I could see the cat looking at me going, ‘Don’t blow this for me please.’ So we ended up with joint custody but I only took the cat back once after that. Cary Grant later gave this amazing interview to Parade magazine where he said the cat saved his life. It brought him back to wanting to live. He was about 70 at the time and I never saw him again after that.” 

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‘it is the law of life that if you are kind to someone you feel happy

if you are cruel you are unhappy

and if you hurt someone you will be hurt back.’

-cary grant

 

 

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photo credit: sanford roth, getty images 1955