Born on January 18, 1904, Cary Grant (Archibald Alexander Leach) came into this world as the child of Elsie Maria…
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‧‧‧ One of 324Born on January 18, 1904, Cary Grant (Archibald Alexander Leach) came into this world as the child of Elsie Maria Leach and Elias James Leach.
His upbringing was anything but normal with his mother in and out of mental institutions for bouts of depression among other issues. He attended Bishop Road Primary School in Bristol, England where he grew up and on in the time his mother was sent away, his father Elias would tell him she was taking a long holiday.
After a few bouts, Elias had her committed and told Grant she had died while traveling. It wasn’t until he was 31 years old that his father confessed she was mentally unstable and had not been on holiday, nor was she dead, but that he could find her alive in the sanitarium.