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A Hollywood star writes to his daughter

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Shaun Usher
Jan 18, 2022
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On this day in 1904, Archibald Alec Leach was born at 15 Hughenden Road in Bristol, England, in a small terraced house that he would call home until a teenager. 62 years later, by which time he’d changed his name to Cary Grant and worked for many years as one of Hollywood’s brightest and most bankable stars, he proudly stood outside a hospital in Califo…

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