Cary Grant Net Worth

Cary Grant was an iconic actor who was born in England in 1904. He was famously quoted as saying "Everybody would like to be Cary Grant" to which he replied "So would I". Grant was born Archibald Alexander Leach to Elsie Maria and Elias James Leach, who worked in a factory. He is remembered as one of the most beloved actors of all time.
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Who is it? actor, soundtrack, producer
Birth Day January 18, 1904
Birth Place UK
Cary Grant age 116 YEARS OLD
Birth Sign Capricorn
Birth Name Archibald Alec Leach
Nick Names
Height 6' 1½" (1.87 m)

💰 Net worth

This Is the Night (1932) $450 /week
Sinners in the Sun (1932) $450 /week
Singapore Sue (1932) $150
Singapore Sue (1932) $450 /week
Merrily We Go to Hell (1932) $450 /week
Devil and the Deep (1932) $450 /week
Blonde Venus (1932) $450 /week
Hot Saturday (1932) $450 /week
Madame Butterfly (1932) $450 /week
She Done Him Wrong (1933) $750 /week
The Woman Accused (1933) $750 /week
The Eagle and the Hawk (1933) $750 /week
Gambling Ship (1933) $750 /week
I'm No Angel (1933) $750 /week
Alice in Wonderland (1933) $750 /week
Enter Madame! (1935) $2,500 /week
Wings in the Dark (1935) $2,500 /week
The Last Outpost (1935) $2,500 /week
Sylvia Scarlett (1935) $2,500 /week + $15,000 bonus
Big Brown Eyes (1936) $3,500 /week
Suzy (1936) $3,500 /week
The Amazing Quest of Ernest Bliss (1936) $3,500 /week
Wedding Present (1936) $3,500 /week
When You're in Love (1937) $50,000
Topper (1937) % of Gross
The Toast of New York (1937) $50,000
The Awful Truth (1937) $50,000 + 10% of gross ($500,000 in back end earnings)
Bringing Up Baby (1938) $75,000 + 11% gross ($139,150)
Gunga Din (1939) $125,000
In Name Only (1939) $100,000
The Philadelphia Story (1940) $150,000
The Philadelphia Story (1940) $137,500 (donated to British War Relief Fund)
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) $100,000
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) $160,000 (donated to British War Relief, USO, and Red Cross)
None But the Lonely Heart (1944) $150,000 + 10% of the Profits
Night and Day (1946) $150,000
The Bishop's Wife (1947) $500,000
I Was a Male War Bride (1949) $100,000 (plus 10% of the gross receipts if they reached $1m.)
People Will Talk (1951) $300,000
To Catch a Thief (1955) $750,000 + 10% of grosses over $8,000,000
Indiscreet (1958) $300,000 + Rolls Royce
North by Northwest (1959) $450,000 (plus $315,000 overtime and percentage of gross profit)
Operation Petticoat (1959) $3,000,000 (including his percentage of the gross profits.)
That Touch of Mink (1962) $4,000,000 (including his percentage of the gross profits.)

Once told by an interviewer, "Everybody would like to be Cary Grant", Grant is said to have replied, "So would I."

Cary Grant was born Archibald Alexander Leach on January 18, 1904 in Horfield, Bristol, England, to Elsie Maria (Kingdon) and Elias James Leach, who worked in a factory. His early years in Bristol would have been an ordinary lower-middle-class childhood, except for one extraordinary event. At age nine, he came home from school one day and was told his mother had gone off to a seaside resort. However, the real truth was that she had been placed in a mental institution, where she would remain for years, and he was never told about it (he would not see his mother again until he was in his late 20s).

He left school at age 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, was one of the eight Pender boys selected to go to the United States. Their show on Broadway, "Good Times", ran for 456 performances, giving Grant time to acclimatize. He would stay in America. Mae West wanted Grant for She Done Him Wrong (1933) because she saw his combination of virility, sexuality and the aura and bearing of a gentleman. Grant was young enough to begin the new career of fatherhood when he stopped making movies at age 62.

One biographer said Grant was alienated by the new realism in the film industry. In the 1950s and early 1960s, he had invented a man-of-the-world persona and a style - "high comedy with polished words". In To Catch a Thief (1955), he and Grace Kelly were allowed to improvise some of the dialogue. They knew what the director, Alfred Hitchcock, wanted to do with a scene, they rehearsed it, put in some clever double entendres that got past the censors, and then the scene was filmed. His biggest box-office success was another Hitchcock 1950s film, North by Northwest (1959) made with Eva Marie Saint since Kelly was by that time Princess of Monaco.

Although Grant retired from the screen, he remained active. He accepted a position on the board of directors at Faberge. By all accounts this position was not honorary, as some had assumed. Grant regularly attended meetings and traveled internationally to support them. The position also permitted use of a private plane, which Grant could use to fly to see his daughter wherever her mother Dyan Cannon, was working. He later joined the boards of Hollywood Park, the Academy of Magical Arts (The Magic Castle - Hollywood, California), Western Airlines (acquired by Delta Airlines in 1987) and MGM.

Grant expressed no interest in making a career comeback. He was in good health until almost the end of his life, when he suffered a mild stroke in October 1984. In his last years, he undertook tours of the United States in a one-man-show, "A Conversation with Cary Grant", in which he would show clips from his films and answer audience questions. On November 29, 1986, Cary Grant died at age 82 of a cerebral hemorrhage in Davenport, Iowa.

In 1999, the American Film Institute named Grant the second male star of Golden Age of Hollywood cinema (after Humphrey Bogart). Grant was known for comedic and dramatic roles; his best-known films include Bringing Up Baby (1938), The Philadelphia Story (1940), His Girl Friday (1940), Arsenic and Old Lace (1944), Notorious (1946), An Affair to Remember (1957), North by Northwest (1959) and Charade (1963).