January 18, 1904
Oscar-winning actor Cary Grant, whose birth name was Archibald Alexander Leach, was born 121 years-ago today in Bristol, England. When Grant was nine years old, his father placed his mother in a mental institution, telling the young lad that she had gone away on a "long holiday". Later, he told young Archibald that she had died. Grant wo…
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