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The organization was established by silent film pioneer Mary Pickford in 1921 to provide care to members of the entertainment community during times of need. Today, their facility in Woodland Hills, California, serves as both a healthcare center and retirement home. Learn more by visiting www.mptf.com

 

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November 2024 Vintage Icon, Cary Grant

Cary Grant's career in entertainment began when he dropped out of school at age 14, lying about his age and forging his father's signature on a letter to join a troupe of knockabout comedians. While touring, he learned pantomime and acrobatics. In 1920, at the age of 16, he was selected as one of eight boys in the troupe to travel to the United States to perform on Broadway in a show called "Good Times," which ran for 456 performances.

 

Grant made his feature film debut in 1932's This is the Night, one year later, Mae West wanted Grant to star opposite her in She Done Him Wrong (1933). He would reunite with West in I'm No Angel (also 1933). His more notable films of the 1930's came towards the end of the decade, opposite Jean Harlow in Suzy (1936), Constance Bennett in Topper (1937) and Katharine Hepburn in Bringing Up Baby (1938).

 

In the 1940's, Grant became one of Hollywood's defining stars, becoming the ideal leading man across every genre, his most notable are The Philadelphia Story (1940), Penny Serenade (1941), Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) and Notorious (1946).

 

Grant's career in the 1950's remain best-remembered for his collaborations with director Alfred Hitchcock, opposite Grace Kelly in To Catch a Thief (1955) and Eva Marie Saint in North by Northwest (1959). Grant continued to make audiences swoon until his retirement in 1966 at the age of 62. Afterwards, he joined the board of The Magic Castle, Western Airlines and MGM. In his last years, he toured with a one-man show called "A Conversation With Cary Grant" in which he'd show film clips and answer audience questions. It was just before one of these shows that he suffered a cerebral hemorrhage and passed away at the age of 82.

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