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Grant may refer to:

Places[link]

• Grant County (disambiguation)

United Kingdom[link]

• Castle Grant, 1.5 miles north of Grantown-on-Spey, Scotland

United States[link]

• Grant, Alabama
• Grant, Inyo County, California
• Grant, Sonoma County, California
• Grant, Colorado
• Grant-Valkaria, Florida
• Grant, Iowa
• Grant, Michigan
• Grant, Minnesota
• Grant, Nebraska
• Grant, Wisconsin (disambiguation) (six towns)
• Grant City, Indiana
• Grant City, Missouri
• Grant City, Staten Island
• Grant Park, Illinois
• Grant Park (Chicago)
• Grant Town, West Virginia
• Grant Township (disambiguation) (100 townships in 12 states)
• Grants, New Mexico
• U.S. Grant Bridge over Ohio River and Scioto River

India[link]

• Jolly Grant Airport Dehradun, Uttarakhand

Businesses[link]

• Donald M. Grant, Publisher, Inc., a fantasy and science fiction small press publisher in New Hampshire
• W. T. Grant variety store, a chain of mass-merchandise stores
• William Grant & Sons, a Scotch whisky distilling company

Military history[link]

• USS Albert W. Grant (DD-649), a US Navy destroyer
• M3 Lee, an American tank, a modified version was called the Grant

Law and philanthropy[link]

• Grant, in United States law, a term in conveyancing
• Grant (money), an award usually funded by a government, business, or foundation, often with not-for-profit preconditions

Other[link]

• Colloquial term for a United States fifty-dollar bill which bears a portrait of President Ulysses S. Grant
• Grant of Arms in nobility
• "Grant", a poem by Patti Smith from her 1978 book Babel (book)
• Grant (automobile), a defunct Findlay, Ohio auto manufacturer
• In Search of the Castaways (originally titled The Children of Captain Grant), a novel by Jules Verne
• Cyclone Grant, a tropical cyclone that made landfall near Darwin, Australia, in late-December 2011

People[link]

• Ulysses S. Grant, the 18th President of the United States and general of the Union during the American Civil War
• Frederick Dent Grant, son of the 18th President

See also[link]

• Grant County (disambiguation)
• Grantor (disambiguation)

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Eddy Grant
Background information
Birth name	Edmond Montague Grant
Born	(1948-03-05) 5 March 1948 (age 64)
Origin	London, England
Genres	Reggae
Occupations	Musician
Instruments	Vocals, Guitar, Bass, Drums, Keyboards
Years active	1968–present
Labels	Ice, Capitol

Edmond Montague "Eddy" Grant (born 5 March 1948) is a musician, born in Plaisance, Guyana.^[1]

Life and career[link]

When he was still a young boy, his parents emigrated to London, UK, where he settled. He lived in Kentish Town and went to school at the Acland Burghley Secondary Modern at Tufnell Park. He had his first number one hit in 1968, when he was the lead guitarist and main songwriter of the group The Equals, with his self-penned song "Baby Come Back".^[2] The tune also later topped the UK Singles Chart again when covered by Pato Banton.^[3] Notably, he openly used his songwriting for political purposes, especially against the then-current apartheid regime of South Africa. The Clash recorded a version of "Police On My Back" for their Sandinista! set.

Musical achievements[link]

• In 1982, his solo recording of "I Don't Wanna Dance" spent three weeks at Number one in the UK Singles Chart.^[4] He scored a Top Ten album in the same year, with Killer on the Rampage.^[5]
• "Electric Avenue" was both a UK and US number 2 in 1983, selling over a million copies. A later remix also made the UK Top Ten, in 2001.^[5]
• In 1984 Grant had a minor hit single in the US with his original song written to accompany the Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner film, Romancing the Stone. Despite being commissioned by the film's producers, all but the guitar solo (which played when Douglas and Turner were in a small house in the jungle) would be cut from the film during its final edit. The song, which was Grant's last Hot 100 hit, did not appear on its soundtrack. Grant released the song as a single with the original video that featured scenes from the film. Later the video was re-edited without the Romancing the Stone clips.
• His later single, "Gimme Hope Jo'anna", during the apartheid regime ("Joanna" stands for Johannesburg, South Africa) was a song about apartheid in that country, and was subsequently banned in South Africa. This song was later adapted for use on a commercial for Yop, a commercially available yogurt-based drink, with the altered non-political lyrics "give me Yop (me mama) when the morning come".
• Other songs, such as "War Party" were also political protest songs. "The only decoration is the one upon the grave". "Living On The Front Line" was another. "They got me living on top of my existence, oh appreciating my resistance".
• Defined a Caribbean music meta-genre and philosophy called ringbang,^[6] which he first described in 1994.

Ice Records[link]

Grant set up his own recording company, Ice Records and the Coach House studio,^[1] but more recently has returned to the West Indies from London, choosing Barbados as a more realistic venue for a recording company, rather than his country of origin. He has also produced for the likes of Sting, Mick Jagger and Elvis Costello.

Discography[link]

Studio albums[link]

Live albums[link]

• Live at Notting Hill (1981, Ice Records)

Compilation albums[link]

• All The Hits (1984, K-tel) UK #23^[7]
• Walking on Sunshine (The Best of Eddy Grant) (1989, Parlophone Records) UK #20
• Greatest Hits (1997, EMI)
• Hits From the Frontline (1999, MCI)
• Hit Collection (1999, Wagram Records)
• The Greatest Hits (2001, Sire Records) UK #3, NZ #3
• Greatest Hits Collection (2001, Ice/Sequel-Castle) UK #94
• The Very Best of Eddy Grant - Road To Reparation (2008, Greenheart Music) UK #14

Singles[link]

Other charted songs[link]

See also[link]

• List of black Britons
• List of disco artists (A-E)
• List of Eastern Caribbean people
• List of reggae musicians
• Afro-Guyanese
• Culture of Guyana
• Music of Guyana
• Caribbean music in the United Kingdom

References[link]

External links[link]

• Ice Records
• Eddy Grant interview by Pete Lewis, 'Blues & Soul' June 2008

Natalie Grant
Background information
Born	(1971-12-21) December 21, 1971 (age 40) Seattle, Washington, U.S.
Genres	Contemporary Christian
Occupations	Singer, songwriter
Instruments	Vocals
Years active	1999–present
Labels	Curb
Website	http://www.nataliegrant.com/

Natalie Grant (born December 21, 1971 in Seattle, Washington) is a singer-songwriter of contemporary Christian music. She has received the Gospel Music Association's Dove Award for Female Vocalist of the Year four consecutive years (2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009), and again in 2012.^[1] Her signature song is Held.

Career[link]

Grant toured with award winning, multi-platinum selling Billboard magazine's Artist of The Decade MercyMe in April 2011.

She recently toured on the Speaking Louder Than Before tour with Bebo Norman and Jeremy Camp.^[2] She also contributed the song "Breathe On Me" to Crystal Aikin's self-titled debut album.

Grant's eighth album, Love Revolution, was released on August 24, 2010.^[3]

She was a speaker and performer on the Revolve Tour, a conference for teen girls from Women of Faith.

Personal life[link]

In an interview with The 700 Club, Natalie revealed that she suffered from bulimia.^[4] She says God helped her get over her eating disorder. She later wrote a book titled The Real Me: Being the Girl God Sees, about her struggle and how she overcame it.

Grant lives in Nashville, Tennessee with her Canadian producer husband, Bernie Herms, and their three daughters, which includes a set of fraternal twin girls Grace Ana and Isabella Noelle (born February 16, 2007).^[5] On December 17, 2010, Grant gave birth to their third child, Sadie Rose.

She has a passion to see an end to human trafficking. She was affected by an episode of Law & Order that dealt with the topic and began researching. Her studies led her and her husband to travel to India to witness the red-light districts and what is being done to stop them. That experience, coming in the middle of a restless, stressed-out season for her, completely changed the trajectory of Natalie's life, awakening her out of complacency and passivity and into a life driven by compassion and passion. And it has forever changed the way she approaches her music.^[6]

After realizing the need for quality aftercare for victims, in 2005 Natalie founded The Home Foundation. The Home Foundation has since evolved into Abolition International, an international leader in the fight to eradicate sex trafficking through aftercare accreditation, advocacy and education initiatives, and dedication to opening restoration homes for those already victimized by sex trafficking.^[7]

Discography[link]

• 1999: Natalie Grant
• 2001: Stronger
• 2003: Deeper Life
• 2005: Awaken
• 2005: Believe
• 2008: Relentless
• 2010: Love Revolution

Bibliography[link]

• The Real Me: Being the Girl God Sees ISBN 0-8499-0882-5

Awards and nominations[link]

GMA Dove Awards[link]

Grammy Awards[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Official Web site
• Natalie's videos on YouTube
• Natalie's videos on GodTube

Grant Taylor (Born October 31, 1991 in Atlanta, Georgia) is a professional skateboarder who grew up in Atlanta, Georgia. He is the son of former professional skateboarder Thomas Taylor. He began skating at an early age and turned pro in 2009. He won Thrasher Magazine's Skater of The Year in 2011.

Skateboarding[link]

Grant Taylor turned pro in 2009, shortly after his acclaimed appearance in Nike SB's "Debacle". His sponsors include Alien Workshop, Independent, Volcom, Stratosphere Skateshop, Nike SB and Spitfire. He along with members of the Nike SB Team won Thrasher's King of The Road in 2010 and participated in the 2011 competition. He won "Skater of The Year" in 2011 at the age of 20. His stance is Goofy.

Awards[link]

Thrasher's 2011 Skater Of The Year

Transworld Skateboarding 2010 Awards Best Transition

Transworld Skateboarding 2010 Awards Best Video Part "Debacle"

Video Parts[link]

Nike SB

• On Tap (2004)
• Nothing But The Truth (2007)
• Debacle (2009)
• Don't Fear The Sweeper (2010)
• The SB Chronicles volume 1 (2011)

Skate Park of Tampa

• Tampa AM Experience (2006)

Independent Truck Company

• 30th Anniversary Tour (2008)

Alien Workshop

• Mind Field (2009)

Thrasher

• King of The Road (2010)
• Killing Time (2011)
• King of The Road (2011)

Stratosphere Skateshop

• VHS Tape (2010)

References[link]

• http://www.skatevideosite.com/skaters/219/grant+taylor
• http://www.volcom.com/news/article.asp?articleID=4678
• http://www.thrashermagazine.com/component/option,com_hwdvideoshare/Itemid,90/lang,en/task,viewvideo/video_id,1379/
• http://www.volcom.com/team/team_rider_detail.asp?TeamID=2&riderID=27&SectionId=1
• http://skateboarding.transworld.net/1000087707/news/grant-taylor-new-alien-workshop-pro/

Cary Grant
Cary Grant in a 1941 publicity still
Born	Archibald Alexander Leach (1904-01-18)January 18, 1904 Bristol, England, United Kingdom
Died	November 29, 1986(1986-11-29) (aged 82) Davenport, Iowa, United States
Cause of death	Cerebral hemorrhage
Other names	Archie Leach
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1932–1966
Spouse	Virginia Cherrill (1934–1935) Barbara Hutton (1942–1945) Betsy Drake (1949–1962) Dyan Cannon (1965–1968) Barbara Harris (1981–1986)
Partner	Maureen Donaldson (1973–1977)[1]
Children	Jennifer Grant, born on (1966-02-26) February 26, 1966 (age 46)
Awards	Academy Honorary Award - 1970 For his unique mastery of the art of screen acting with the respect and affection of his colleagues. Kennedy Center Honors - 1981

Archibald Alexander Leach^[2] (January 18, 1904 – November 29, 1986), better known by his stage name Cary Grant, was an English-American actor.^[3] Known for his transatlantic accent, debonair demeanor and "dashing good looks", Grant is considered one of classic Hollywood's definitive leading men.

Grant was named the second Greatest Male Star of All Time by the American Film Institute. Noted particularly for his work in comedy but also for drama, Grant's best-known films include The Awful Truth (1937), Bringing Up Baby (1938), Gunga Din (1939), The Philadelphia Story (1940), His Girl Friday (1940), Arsenic and Old Lace (1944), Notorious (1946), To Catch A Thief (1955), An Affair to Remember (1957), North by Northwest (1959) and Charade (1963).

Nominated twice for the Academy Award for Best Actor, for Penny Serenade (1941) and None But the Lonely Heart (1944), and five times for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor, Grant was continually passed over, and in 1970 was given an Honorary Oscar at the 42nd Academy Awards. Frank Sinatra presented Grant with the award, "for his unique mastery of the art of screen acting with the respect and affection of his colleagues".^[4][5]

Early life and career[link]

Archibald Alexander Leach was born at 15 Hughenden Road, Horfield, Bristol, England, to Elsie Maria Kingdon (1877–1973) and Elias James Leach (1873–1935).^[6][7] An only child, Leach had an unhappy upbringing, attending Bishop Road Primary School. His mother had suffered from clinical depression since the death of a previous child. Her husband placed her in a mental institution, and told his nine-year-old son only that she had gone away on a "long holiday". Believing she was dead, Grant did not learn otherwise until he was 31 and discovered her alive in a care facility.^[8] When Grant was 10, his father abandoned him after remarrying and having a baby with his new young wife.^[9]

Grant was expelled from the Fairfield Grammar School in Bristol in 1918. After joining the "Bob Pender Stage Troupe", Leach performed as a stilt walker and travelled with the group to the United States in 1920 at the age of 16, on a two-year tour of the country. He was processed at Ellis Island on July 28, 1920.^[10]

When the troupe returned to the UK, he decided to stay in the U.S. and continue his stage career. During this time, he became a part of the vaudeville world and toured with Parker, Rand and Leach. Still using his birth name, he performed on the stage at The Muny in St. Louis, Missouri in such shows as Irene (1931); Music in May (1931); Nina Rosa (1931); Rio Rita (1931); Street Singer (1931); The Three Musketeers (1931); and Wonderful Night (1931). Leach's experience on stage as a stilt walker, acrobat, juggler, and mime taught him "phenomenal physical grace and exquisite comic timing" and the value of teamwork, skills which would benefit him in Hollywood.^[8]

Hollywood stardom[link]

After appearing in several musicals on Broadway under the name "Archie Leach,"^[11] Grant went to Hollywood in 1931.^[8] When told to change his name, he proposed "Cary Lockwood," the name of the character he had played in the Broadway show Nikki, based upon the recent film The Last Flight. He signed with Paramount Pictures, where studio bosses decided that the name "Cary" was acceptable, but that "Lockwood" was too similar to another actor's surname. Paramount gave their new actor a list of surnames to choose from, and he selected "Grant" because the initials C and G had already proved lucky for Clark Gable and Gary Cooper, two of Hollywood's biggest movie stars.

Grant appeared as a leading man opposite Marlene Dietrich in Blonde Venus (1932), and his stardom was given a further boost by Mae West when she chose him for her leading man in two of her most successful films, She Done Him Wrong and I'm No Angel (both 1933).^[12] I'm No Angel was a tremendous financial success and, along with She Done Him Wrong, which was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture, saved Paramount from bankruptcy. Paramount put Grant in a series of unsuccessful films until 1936, when he signed with Columbia Pictures. His first major comedy hit was when he was loaned to Hal Roach's studio for the 1937 Topper (which was distributed by MGM).

in The Philadelphia Story (1940)

The Awful Truth (1937) was a pivotal film in Grant's career, establishing for him a screen persona as a sophisticated light comedy leading man. As Grant later wrote, "I pretended to be somebody I wanted to be and I finally became that person. Or he became me. Or we met at some point." Grant is said to have based his characterization in The Awful Truth on the mannerisms and intonations of the film's director, Leo McCarey, whom he resembled physically. As writer/director Peter Bogdanovich notes, "After The Awful Truth, when it came to light comedy, there was Cary Grant and then everyone else was an also-ran."

With Ingrid Bergman in Notorious (1946)

The Awful Truth began "what would be the most spectacular run ever for an actor in American pictures."^[8] During the next four years, Grant appeared in several classic romantic comedies and screwball comedies, including Holiday (1938), Bringing Up Baby (1939), and The Philadelphia Story (1940) with Katharine Hepburn; His Girl Friday(1940) with Rosalind Russell; and My Favorite Wife (1940), which reunited him with Irene Dunne, his co-star in The Awful Truth. During this time he also made the adventure films Gunga Din and Only Angels Have Wings (both 1939) and dramas Penny Serenade (1941, also with Dunne) and Suspicion (1941, the first of Grant's four collaborations with Alfred Hitchcock).

Grant remained one of Hollywood's top box-office attractions for almost 30 years.^[8] Howard Hawks said that Grant was "so far the best that there isn't anybody to be compared to him".^[13] David Thomson called him "the best and most important actor in the history of the cinema".^[8]

as John Robie in Alfred Hitchcock's
To Catch a Thief (1955)

Grant was a favorite of Hitchcock, who called him "the only actor I ever loved in my whole life".^[14] Besides Suspicion, Grant appeared in the Hitchcock classics Notorious (1946), To Catch a Thief (1955) and North by Northwest (1959). Biographer Patrick McGilligan wrote that, in 1965, Hitchcock asked Grant to star in Torn Curtain (1966), only to learn that Grant had decided to retire after making one more film, Walk, Don't Run (1966); Paul Newman was cast instead, opposite Julie Andrews.^[15]

In the mid-1950s, Grant formed his own production company, Granart Productions, and produced a number of movies distributed by Universal, such as Operation Petticoat (1959), Indiscreet (1958), That Touch of Mink (co-starring with Doris Day, 1962), and Father Goose (1964). In 1963, he appeared opposite Audrey Hepburn in Charade. His last feature film was Walk, Don't Run three years later, with Samantha Eggar and Jim Hutton.

In Hitchcock's North by Northwest (1959)

Grant was the first actor to "go independent" by not renewing his studio contract, effectively leaving the studio system,^[8] which almost completely controlled what an actor could or could not do. In this way, Grant was able to control every aspect of his career, at the risk of not working because no particular studio had an interest in his career long term. He decided which movies he was going to appear in, he often had personal choice of the directors and his co-stars and at times even negotiated a share of the gross revenue, something uncommon at the time. Grant received more than $700,000 for his 10% of the gross for To Catch a Thief, while Hitchcock received less than $50,000 for directing and producing it.^[16]

Grant was nominated for two Academy Awards, for Penny Serenade (1941) and None But the Lonely Heart (1944), but never won a competitive Oscar; he received a special Academy Award for Lifetime Achievement in 1970. Accepting the Best Original Screenplay Oscar in 1965, Father Goose co-writer Peter Stone had quipped, "My thanks to Cary Grant, who keeps winning these things for other people." In 1981, Grant was accorded the Kennedy Center Honors.

Never self-absorbed, Grant poked fun at himself with statements such as, "Everyone wants to be Cary Grant—even I want to be Cary Grant,"^[17] sometimes elaborating, "I pretended to be somebody I wanted to be and I finally became that person. Or he became me. Or we met at some point." He poked fun at himself in ad-lib lines - such as in the film "His Girl Friday", saying, "I never had so much fun since Archie Leach died" and in "Arsenic and Old Lace" a gravestone is seen bearing the name Archie Leach. According to an extremely famous story now believed to be apocryphal, after seeing a telegram from a magazine editor to his agent asking "How old Cary Grant?" Grant reportedly responded with "Old Cary Grant fine. How you?"^[18][19]

Retirement and death[link]

Statue of Cary Grant in Millennium Square, Bristol, England

Cary Grant retired from the screen at 62 when his daughter Jennifer was born, in order to focus on raising her and to provide a sense of permanency and stability in her life. While raising his daughter, he archived artifacts of her childhood and adolescence in a (bank quality) room sized vault he had installed in the house. His daughter attributed this meticulous collection to the fact that artifacts of his own childhood had been destroyed during the bombing of Bristol in World War II (an event that also claimed the lives of his uncle, aunt and cousin as well as the cousin's husband and grandson) and he may have wanted to prevent her from experiencing a similar loss.^[20]

Although Grant had retired from the screen, he remained active in other areas. In the late 1960s, he accepted a position on the board of directors at Fabergé. By all accounts this position was not honorary, as some had assumed; Grant regularly attended meetings and his mere appearance at a product launch would almost certainly guarantee its success. 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^{[disambiguation needed ]}, The Academy of Magical Arts (The Magic Castle, Hollywood, CA) Western Airlines (now Delta Air Lines), and MGM.^[21]

In the last few years of his life, Grant 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. Grant was preparing for a performance at the Adler Theater in Davenport, Iowa on the afternoon of November 29, 1986 when he sustained a cerebral hemorrhage (he had previously suffered a stroke in October 1984). He died at 11:22 pm^[21] in St. Luke's Hospital at the age of 82. The bulk of his estate, worth millions of dollars, went to his fifth wife Barbara Harris and his daughter Jennifer Grant.^[22]

In 2001 a statue of Grant was erected in Millennium Square, a regenerated area next to the harbour in his city of birth, Bristol, England.

In November 2005, Grant came in first in the "The 50 Greatest Movie Stars of All Time" list by Premiere Magazine.^[23] Richard Schickel, the film critic, said about Grant: "He's the best star actor there ever was in the movies."^[24]

Personal life[link]

Second wife Barbara Hutton

Grant was married five times. He wed Virginia Cherrill on February 10, 1934. She divorced him on March 26, 1935, following charges that Grant had hit her. In 1942 he married Barbara Hutton, one of the wealthiest women in the world, and became a father figure to her son, Lance Reventlow. The couple was derisively nicknamed "Cash and Cary", although in an extensive prenuptial agreement Grant refused any financial settlement in the event of a divorce.^{[citation needed]} After divorcing in 1945, they remained lifelong friends. Grant always bristled at the accusation that he married for money: "I may not have married for very sound reasons, but money was never one of them."^{[citation needed]}

Wife Betsy Drake in trailer of her film with Grant, Every Girl Should Be Married (1948)

On December 25, 1949, Grant married Betsy Drake. He appeared with her in two films. This would prove to be his longest marriage, ending on August 14, 1962. Drake introduced Grant to LSD, and in the early 1960s he related how treatment with the hallucinogenic drug — legal at the time — at a prestigious California clinic had finally brought him inner peace after yoga, hypnotism and mysticism had proved ineffective.^[25][26][27] Grant and Drake divorced in 1962.

He eloped with Dyan Cannon on July 22, 1965, in Las Vegas. Their daughter, Jennifer Grant, was born prematurely on February 26, 1966. He frequently called her his "best production" and regretted that he had not had children sooner. The marriage was troubled from the beginning, and Cannon left him in December 1966, claiming that Grant flew into frequent rages and spanked her when she "disobeyed" him. The divorce, finalized in 1968, was bitter and public, and custody fights over their daughter went on for nearly ten years.

On April 11, 1981, Grant married long-time companion Barbara Harris, a British hotel public relations agent, who was 47 years his junior. They renewed their vows on their fifth wedding anniversary. (Fifteen years after Grant's death, Harris married former Kansas Jayhawks All-American quarterback David Jaynes in 2001.)^[28]

Some, including Hedda Hopper^[29] and screenwriter Arthur Laurents, have said that Grant was bisexual, the latter writing that Grant "told me he threw pebbles at my window one night but was luckless".^[30] Grant allegedly was involved with costume designer Orry-Kelly when he first moved to Manhattan,^[31] and lived with actor Randolph Scott off and on for twelve years. Richard Blackwell wrote that Grant and Scott were "deeply, madly in love",^[32] and alleged eyewitness accounts of their physical affection have been published.^[31] Alexander D'Arcy, who appeared with Grant in The Awful Truth, said he knew that Grant and Scott "lived together as a gay couple", adding: "I think Cary knew that people were saying things about him. I don't think he tried to hide it."^[31] The two men frequently accompanied each other to parties and premieres and were unconcerned when photographs of them cozily preparing dinner together at home were published in fan magazines.^[31]

Barbara, Grant's widow, has disputed that there was a relationship with Scott.^[21] When Chevy Chase joked about Grant being gay in a television interview Grant sued him for slander; they settled out of court.^[33] However, Grant did admit in an interview that his first two wives had accused him of being homosexual.^[33] Betsy Drake commented: "Why would I believe that Cary was homosexual when we were busy fucking?"^[21]

Politics[link]

Cary Grant

Grant did not think movie stars should publicly make political declarations.^[34] Grant described his politics and his reticence about them this way:

"I'm opposed to actors taking sides in public and spouting spontaneously about love, religion, or politics. We aren't experts on these subjects. Personally I'm a mass of inconsistencies when it comes to politics. My opinions are constantly changing. That's why I don't ever take a public stand on issues."^[35]

Throughout his life, Grant maintained personal friendships with colleagues of varying political stripes, and his few political activities seemed to be shaped by personal friendships. Repulsed by the human costs to many in Hollywood, Grant publicly condemned McCarthyism in 1953, and when his friend Charlie Chaplin was blacklisted, Grant insisted that the actor's artistic value outweighed political concerns.^[35] Grant was also a friend of the Kennedy brothers and Robert Kennedy's press secretary Frank Mankiewicz. He hosted one of Robert Kennedy's first political fundraisers at his home. He made one of his rare statements on public issues following the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, calling for gun control.^[35]

In 1976, after his retirement from movies, Grant made his one overtly partisan appearance, introducing his friend Betty Ford, the First Lady, at the Republican National Convention,^[34] but even in this he maintained some distance from partisanship, speaking of "your" party, rather than "ours" in his remarks.^[35]

Filmography[link]

References[link]

Notes[link]

Bibliography of cited references[link]

External links[link]

Biography portal

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