20C American, Cary Grant, Autographed Photo to L. Lanin
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20C American, Cary Grant, Autographed Photo to L. Lanin Description: Black and white photograph, framed (with glass). Inscribed lower right: "To Jimmy Lanin-/ All good wishes/ Cary Grant". Dimensions: Image size (approx.):7 1/4 x 8 1/2in. Frame size: 9 x 11 1/2in. Weight: 1.5lbs. (Box F) Artist's Biography: Cary Grant born Archibald Alexander Leach, British. Once told by an interviewer "Everybody would like to be Cary Grant". Grant is said to have replied: "So would I." His early years in Bristol, England, would have been an ordinary lower middle class childhood except for one extraordinary event. At age 9, he came home from school one day and was told his mother had gone off to a seaside resort. She was in a mental institution for years and he never was told. From the age of 9 until his late 20s, he didn't see his mother at all. He left school at 14, lying about his age and forging his father's signature on a letter to join Bob Pender's troupe of knockabout comedians. He learned pantomime as well as acrobatics as he toured with the Pender troupe in the English provinces, picked up a cockney accent in the music halls in London, and then in July 1920 he was one of the eight Pender boys selected to go to America. Their show on Broadway, "Good Times", ran for 456 performances, giving Grant time to acclimatize. He would stay in America.
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