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Cary Grant: Father
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Synopsis: Cary Grant scored still another box-office smash with his 1958 vehicle Houseboat. Grant plays a widowed father who packs himself and his spoiled kiddies off to a ramshackle houseboat. Enter Sophia Loren, who is attempting to break loose from her tyrannical father's (Eduardo Cianelli) iron grip.Read More
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Toward the end of his career, Grant made the offbeat film "Father Goose", in which he played an unshaven, grizzled, semi-alcoholic South Pacific beachcomber pressed into WWII service. It was the first time that he departed from the "Cary Grant" formula since "None But the Lonely Heart," in 1944. Grant felt close affinity with his role, as he noted: "As precise as I've always been about my attire and appearance, there's been that hidden desire, a subconscious urge, to go around like my character, unshaven, untidy.
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After becoming a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1942, Grant married ultra-wealthy socialite Barbara Hutton, becoming a surrogate father and lifelong influence on her son, Lance Reventlow, who later died in a plane crash. The couple were derisively nicknamed "Cash and Cary," although in an extensive prenuptial agreement Grant refused any financial settlement in the event of a divorce. After divorcing in 1945, they remained lifelong friends.
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In later years, Grant surmised that his mother had had a nervous breakdown, having never recovered from his elder brother's death. Aged only two months, this child died as a result of convulsions brought on by gangrene. Others have speculated... that Grant's father locked her away because at that time divorce was costly and socially unacceptable, and he wanted to provide a home for his pregnant mistress.
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