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Cary Grant (born Archibald Alec Leach; 1904 - 1986) was an English-American actor. Known for his blended British and American accent, debonair demeanor, lighthearted approach to acting, and sense of comic timing, he was one of classic Hollywood's definitive leading men. He was nominated twice for the Academy Award, received an Academy Honorary Award in 1970, and received the Kennedy Center Honor in 1981. He was named the second-greatest male star of the Golden Age of Hollywood by the American Film Institute in 1999.

Grant was born into an impoverished family in Bristol, where he had an unhappy childhood marked by the absence of his mother, and his father's alcoholism. He became attracted to theatre at a young age when he visited the Bristol Hippodrome. At 16, he went as a stage performer with the Pender Troupe for a tour of the United States. After a series of successful performances in New York City, he decided to stay there. He established a name for himself in vaudeville in the 1920s and toured the United States before moving to Hollywood in the early 1930s.

When Grant was nine, his father placed his mother in Glenside Hospital, a mental institution, and told him she had gone away on a "long holiday", later declaring that she had died.Grant grew up resenting his mother, particularly after being told she left the family. After she was institutionalized, Grant and his father moved into Grant's grandmother's home in Bristol.When Grant was ten, his father remarried and started a new family. Grant did not learn that his mother was still alive until he was 31,his father confessing to the lie shortly before his own death.Grant made arrangements for his mother to leave the institution in June 1935, shortly after he learned of her whereabouts. He visited her regularly and financially supported her.

"Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant." - Cary Grant

James Maitland Stewart (1908 -1997) was an American actor and military aviator. Known for his distinctive drawl and everyman screen persona, Stewart appeared in 80 films from 1935 to 1991. His films are considered among the greatest of all time. In 1999, the American Film Institute (AFI) ranked him third on its list of the greatest American male actors;he received numerous honors including the AFI Life Achievement Award in 1980, the Kennedy Center Honor in 1983, as well as the Academy Honorary Award and Presidential Medal of Freedom, both in 1985.

Born and raised in Indiana, Pennsylvania, Stewart started acting while at Princeton University. After graduating, he began a career as a stage actor, making his Broadway debut in 1932 in the play Carry Nation. He landed his first supporting role in The Murder Man (1935) and had his breakthrough in Frank Capra's ensemble comedy You Can't Take It with You (1938). He later starred in Capra's political comedy Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939), and Ernst Lubitsch's romantic comedy The Shop Around the Corner (1940).

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Grant
Suspicion (1941), Notorious (1946), To Catch a Thief (1955), and North by Northwest (1959).

Stewart
James Stewart went on to star in four films directed by Alfred Hitchcock, Rope (1948), Rear Window (1954), The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956), and Vertigo.

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George Cukor's The Philadelphia Story (1940) is the only film in which Cary Grant and James Stewart appeared together. Though Grant was considered the lead actor, Stewart nabbed the Best Actor award at the Academy Awards.

The Philadelphia Story is a 1940 American romantic comedy film starring Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, James Stewart and Ruth Hussey. The film is based on the 1939 Broadway play of the same name by Philip Barry about a socialite whose wedding plans are complicated by the simultaneous arrival of her ex-husband and a tabloid magazine journalist. The socialite, played by Hepburn, was inspired by Helen Hope Montgomery Scott (1904-1995), a Philadelphia heiress who had married Barry's friend.

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Alfred Hitchcock's dolly/zoom shot was first used in Vertigo, an in-camera effect that distorts perspective to create disorientation, which illustrated Stewart's Acrophobia.

What is Acrophobia?
Acrophobia, also known as hypsophobia, is a specific phobia characterized by an extreme fear of heights, even when the actual risk is minimal. Unlike normal caution at high places, acrophobia can cause panic attacks, dizziness, nausea, and a sense of losing control when exposed to elevated locations, such as balconies, ladders, bridges, or tall buildings. It can also be triggered by imagining heights or watching objects move at high speed.

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James Stewart was married twice.

On August 9, 1949, Gloria Rankin Stewart (née Hatrick, formerly McLean ; March 10, 1918 – February 16, 1994) became the second wife of actor James Stewart.

Stewart, who adopted both children from her first marriage, Ronald, then age five, and Michael, age three. Together, she and Stewart had twin daughters born on May 7, 1951:Judy and Kelly. Kelly Stewart became an anthropologist. It was a happy marriage.

Cary Grant was married five times, three of them elopements, with actresses Virginia Cherrill (1934–1935), Betsy Drake (1949–1962), and Dyan Cannon (1965–1968), with whom he had his only child. Barbara Harris was his fifth and final wife. They wed on April 11, 1981, when Grant was 77 and Harris was 30. Their marriage lasted until Grant’s death from a stroke on November 29, 1986

Grant's biographer Graham McCann claimed that his mother, Elsie Maria Kingdon Leach "did not know how to give affection and did not know how to receive it either.” Biographer Geoffrey Wansell notes that his mother blamed herself bitterly for the death of Grant's brother John,and never recovered from it. Grant acknowledged that his negative experiences with his mother affected his relationships with women later in life.

Elsie's life was marked by tragedy. She blamed herself for the death of Grant's brother John, which affected her emotional availability. When Grant was nine, his father placed Elsie in Glenside Hospital, a mental institution, and told young Grant she had gone on a long holiday, later claiming she had died. This sudden disappearance left Grant feeling abandoned, hungry, and alone, profoundly shaping his childhood and later relationships. He did not reunite with her until adulthood, at age 31, after he had already established his Hollywood career. He had her placed in a higher-level mental institution, visited her regularly and financially supported her.