Cary may refer to:

People[link]

Surname[link]

• Alexander Cary, Master of Falkland (b. 1963), son of Lucius Cary, 15th Viscount Falkland
• Alice Cary (1820–1871), American poet
• Annie Louise Cary (1842–1921), American singer
• Anthony Cary, 5th Viscount of Falkland (1656–1694), Scottish nobleman
• Caitlin Cary (b. 1968), American country singer
• Charles P. Cary (1856-1943), American educator
• Constance Cary Harrison (1843–1920), American writer
• Diana Serra Cary (b. 1918), American actress
• Diane Cary, American actress
• Dick Cary (1916-1994), American jazz musician
• Elizabeth Cary, Lady Falkland (1584–1639), English poet, translator and dramatist
• Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz, born Elizabeth Cabot Cary, (1822–1907), American educator
• Columba Cary-Elwes (1903–1994), British monk
• Frank T. Cary (1920–2006), American businessman
• Glover H. Cary (1885–1936), member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Kentucky
• Henry Cary (disambiguation), several people
• Hetty Cary (1836–1892), known for making the first three battle flags of the Confederacy
• Howard Cary (1908–1991), founder of Applied Physics Corporation (Cary Instruments)
• John Cary (1754–1835), British cartographer
• Joyce Cary (1888–1957), Irish novelist and artist
• Lott Cary (1780–1828), African-American Baptist minister
• Lucius Cary, 2nd Viscount Falkland (c. 1610-1643), English politician, soldier and author
• Lucius Cary, 10th Viscount Falkland (1803–1884), British colonial administrator
• Lucius Cary, 15th Viscount Falkland (b. 1935), British Liberal Democrat politician
• Mary Ann Shadd (1823–1893), Quaker and social reformer, married name Cary
• Phillip Cary (b. 1958), American Augustine scholar and philosophy professor
• Phoebe Cary (1824–1871), American poet
• Robert Cary (priest) (1615?-1688), English chronologist
• Robert Webster Cary (1890–1967), U.S. Medal of Honor recipient
• Samuel Fenton Cary (1814–1900), American politician and prohibitionist
• Tristram Cary (1925–2008), English composer
• Trumbull Cary (1787-1869), New York politician

Given name[link]

• Cary Brothers, musician
• Cary Grant, actor
• Cary Elwes, actor
• Cary Kaplan, sports marketer

Places[link]

• Cary (barony), County Antrim, Northern Ireland
• Castle Cary, Somerset, England
• Cary, Illinois, United States
• Cary Plantation, Maine, United States
• Cary, Mississippi, United States
• Cary, North Carolina, United States
• Cary, Wisconsin, United States

Other[link]

• River Cary
• Cary Academy
• Cary Instruments, the optical instrumentation division of Varian Instruments
• Cary Audio Design, manufacturer of vacuum tube and solid state audio components

See also[link]

• Carey (disambiguation)
• Carrie (disambiguation)
• Carry (disambiguation)
• Caries

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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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Cary Brothers
Background information
Origin	Los Angeles, USA
Genres	Indie rock, alternative rock
Years active	2003–present
Labels	Procrastination Music (2004 - 2007, 2009 - present) Bluhammock Music (2007 - 2009)
Website	www.carybrothers.com

Cary Brothers is an American indie rock singer-songwriter originally from Nashville, Tennessee. After moving to Los Angeles and becoming a regular performer at the influential Hotel Cafe venue, Brothers first gained national attention with his song "Blue Eyes" on the Platinum-selling, Grammy-winning "Garden State" soundtrack.^[1] As an independent artist, he has since toured worldwide, released two full length records, and become one of the most-licensed artists in film and television.^[2] In the electronic dance music world, Brothers has found success collaborating with DJ Tiesto on a club remix of his song "Ride" as well as original material for Tiesto's latest collection "Kaleidoscope."

History[link]

With songs influenced by everything from 1980s British New Wave music to 1970s folk music, Brothers achieved early critical and commercial success with his independent EPs "All the Rage" (2004) and "Waiting for Your Letter" (2005), both of which reached the top of the iTunes Singer/Songwriter charts.^[3] During this early stage of his career, Brothers found much success on MySpace, where he amassed over 8 million plays and 100,000 fans on his music page.^[4]

While many artists focus their efforts on radio exposure, Brothers went a slightly different route and pushed to get songs out to the public through film and television shows, leading a generation of similar-minded indie artists in the United States. Brothers' songs have appeared on the medical dramas Grey's Anatomy and ER, Scrubs the Fox mystery Bones, WB's Smallville, USA Network comedy Psych, ABC Family's show Kyle XY, One Tree Hill, and the hit Emma Stone comedy Easy A.^[5] The original version of Brothers' song "Ride" appeared on the soundtrack to the feature film The Last Kiss alongside Coldplay and Ray Lamontagne. Brothers has also performed on The Late Late Show, Jimmy Kimmel Live! and Direct TV's CD USA. In 2005, he made a guest appearance with London band Aqualung on The Late Show with David Letterman and The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.

Brothers plays regularly as part of the musical community at the Hotel Café in Los Angeles,^[6] and he has since toured across America and Canada with such acts as Liz Phair, KT Tunstall, Aqualung, Ben Lee, Matt Nathanson, Imogen Heap, and The Fray. In addition to his career as a musician, he co-created The Hotel Cafe Tour, currently in its fourth year in both the U.S. and Europe.^[7] Brothers also co-produced Joshua Radin's first EP and the song "Winter" from Radin's record We Were Here.

In 2007, Cary Brothers signed a record deal with indie label Bluhammock Music for the release of his first full-length album, Who You Are, on May 29, 2007, which made the Billboard Heatseekers Chart.^[8] Produced by Chad Fischer (Alexi Murdoch) and mixed by Greg Collins (Grammy Winner - U2), the record features guest musicians Matt Hales from Aqualung and Priscilla Ahn. The video for the single "Ride" starring Brittany Snow was added to the rotation on VH1 in the U.S. In addition, the record won "Best Rock Album of 2007" by the Indie Acoustic Project.^[9] Brothers' track 'Ride' has also been mixed by Tiësto and was a success on the dancefloors of Europe in 2008. He helped close Friday night at Bonnaroo in the Summer of 2008 by making a guest appearance with Tiësto and repeated this musical pairing a few months later at the O2 arena in London.^[10]

In 2009, Brothers went into the studio to work on his second full length record.^[11] In addition, that year he had an original track called "Here on Earth" on the Tiësto record Kaleidescope alongside Sigur Rós, Tegan and Sara, Kele Okereke, Priscilla Ahn and Emily Haines.^[12]

"Under Control" was released on April 6, 2010 through Brothers' own Procrastination Music label and premiered at #1 on the iTunes Singer/Songwriter charts and #10 on the Billboard Heatseekers Chart. Cary toured extensively in the United States in support of the record in 2010 and 2011 as both headliner and as an opening act for the Sara Bareilles tour. Staying active in social media, Brothers was named #14 on Paste Magazine's "50 Musicians Worth Following on Twitter" on August 2011.^[13]

Discography[link]

Albums[link]

• Who You Are (May 29, 2007)
• Under Control (April 6, 2010)

EPs[link]

• All the Rage (December 14, 2004)
• Waiting for Your Letter (September 20, 2005)
• Ride (March 25, 2008)
• Father Christmas (November 17, 2009)
• Covers Volume One EP (May, 2012)

Contributions[link]

• Joshua Radin - Co-producer of the EP First Between 3rd and 4th
• Joshua Radin - Producer of "Winter" from We Were Here
• Tiësto - Vocals on "Here on Earth" from the album Kaleidoscope
• Jim Bianco - Background vocals on "Sing" and "If Your Mama Knew" from the album Sing
• Jim Bianco - Member of the choir on "Sinners" from the album Loudmouth
• Jessie Baylin - Background vocals on "Leave Your Mark" from the album Firesight
• Ben Lee - Background vocals on "What's So Bad (About Feeling Good)?" from the album The Rebirth of Venus
• Greg Laswell - Background vocals on multiple tracks from the album Take A Bow
• Kele Okereke (of Bloc Party)/Tiesto - Harmonies on "It's Not The Things You Say" from the album Kaleidoscope
• The Scene Aesthetic - Background vocals on "Lonely Girl" from the album Brother
• Cosmic Gate - Vocals in "Wake Your Mind" from the album Wake Your Mind (2011)

Song Appearances[link]

Film[link]

• Garden State Soundtrack (2004) (song: "Blue Eyes")
• Sky High Soundtrack (2005) (song: "True")
• SherryBaby Soundtrack (2006) (song: "Loneliest Girl in the World")
• The Last Kiss Soundtrack (2006) (song: "Ride")
• Feast of Love Soundtrack (2007) (song: "Honestly")
• Easy A Soundtrack (2010) (song: "If You Were Here")
• Smallville Soundtrack (2010) (song: "Can't Take My Eyes off You")

Television[link]

• Grey's Anatomy
  • "Begin the Begin" (2006) (song: "Ride")
  • "Forever Young" (2007) (song: "The Last One")
  • "Superfreak" (2010) (song: "Belong")
• Scrubs
  • "My First Kill" (2004) (song: "Blue Eyes")
  • "My Last Chance" (2004) (songs: "Honestly" and "Something")
  • "My Best Laid Plans" (2005) (songs: "Honestly", "Waiting For Your Letter")
  • "Her Story II" (2006) (song: "Ride")
• ER
  • "Strange Bedfellows" (2006) (song: "Ride")
• Cold Case
  • "Witness Protection" (2009) (song: "If You Were Here")
• Psych
  • "Murder?... Anyone?... Anyone?... Bueller?" (2008) (song: "If You Were Here")
• One Tree Hill
  • "Hundred" (2008) (song: "Ride")
  • "Don't You Forget About Me" (2010) (song: "If You Were Here")
  • "I Can't See You, But I Know You're There" (2010) (songs: "Belong" and "Can't Take My Eyes Off You")
  • "Nobody Taught Us to Quit" (2010) (song: "Alien")
  • "Anyone Who Had A Heart" (2012) (song: "Free Like You Make Me")
• Kyle XY
  • "Pilot" (2006) (songs: "Supposed to be" and "Ride")
  • "Sleepless in Seattle" (2006) (song: "Honestly")
  • "Blame It on the Rain" (2006) (song: "All the Rage")
  • "The First Cut is the Deepest" (2008) (song: "The Glass Parade")
• Eli Stone
  • "Father Figure" (2008) (song: "All The Rage")
• Bones
  • "The Man in the Wall" (2005) (song: "Something")
• Smallville
  • "Aqua" (2005) (song: "Waiting For Your Letter")
  • "Harvest" (2010) (song: "Can't Take My Eyes Off You")
• Greek
  • "The Popular Vote" (2008) (song: "Wasted One")
  • "From Rushing With Love" (2008) (song: "Something")
• Pretty Little Liars
  • "Can You Hear Me Now" (2010) (song: "Ride")
  • "Save The Date" (2011) (song: "Alien")
• Make It or Break It
  • "If Only..." (2010) (song: "Alien")
• Cougar Town
  • "All Mixed Up" (2010) (song: "Belong")
• 90210
  • "Holiday Madness" (2010) (song: "Belong")
• The Lying Game
  • "Bad Boys Break Hearts" (2011) (song: "Ride")
• The Vampire Diaries
  • "Smells Like Teen Spirit" (2011) (song: "Take Your Time")
• Switched at Birth
  • "Game On." (2012) (song: "Belong")

TV appearances[link]

• Jimmy Kimmel Live! - February 29, 2008
• The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson - September 27, 2007
• Scrubs - My First Kill (2004)
• The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn - September 20, 2004

References[link]

External links[link]

• Cary Brothers' official website
• Cary Brothers' MySpace
• Cary Brothers' Twitter
• Cary Brothers performing "The Last One" live at SXSW 2007
• Cary Brothers on AbsolutePunk.net
• LAist.com Interview with Cary Brothers
• Cary Brothers live on WOXY.com, September 26, 2005

Katharine Hepburn
Studio publicity photograph, ca. 1941
Born	Katharine Houghton Hepburn (1907-05-12)May 12, 1907 Hartford, Connecticut, U.S.
Died	June 29, 2003(2003-06-29) (aged 96) Fenwick, Connecticut, U.S.
Alma mater	Bryn Mawr College
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1928–94
Spouse	Ludlow Ogden Smith (m.1928–34; divorced)
Partner	Spencer Tracy (1941–67; his death)
Parents	Katharine Martha Houghton Hepburn Thomas Norval Hepburn
Awards	4 Academy Awards, 2 BAFTAs, 1 Emmy (full list)

Katharine Houghton Hepburn (May 12, 1907 – June 29, 2003) was an American actress of film, stage, and television. Known for her headstrong independence and spirited personality, Hepburn's career as a Hollywood leading lady spanned more than 60 years. Her work came in a range of genres, from screwball comedy to literary drama, and she received four Academy Awards for Best Actress—a record for any performer. Hepburn's characters were often strong, sophisticated women with a hidden vulnerability.

Raised in Connecticut by wealthy, progressive parents, Hepburn began to act while studying at Bryn Mawr College. After four years in the theatre, favorable reviews of her work on Broadway brought her to the attention of Hollywood. Her early years in the film industry were marked with success, including an Academy Award for her third picture, Morning Glory (1933), but this was followed by a series of commercial failures. In 1938 she was labeled "box office poison". Hepburn masterminded her own comeback, buying out her contract with RKO Radio Pictures and acquiring the film rights to The Philadelphia Story, which she sold on the condition that she be the star. In the 1940s she was contracted to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, where her career focused on an alliance with Spencer Tracy. The screen-partnership spanned 25 years, and produced nine movies.

Hepburn challenged herself in the latter half of her life, as she regularly appeared in Shakespeare stage productions and tackled a range of literary roles. She found a niche playing middle-aged spinsters, such as in The African Queen (1951), a persona the public embraced. Three more Oscars came for her work in Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967), The Lion in Winter (1968), and On Golden Pond (1981). In the 1970s she began appearing in television movies, which became the focus of her career in later life. She remained active into old age, making her final screen appearance in 1994 at the age of 87. After a period of inactivity and ill-health, Hepburn died in 2003 at the age of 96.

Hepburn famously shunned the Hollywood publicity machine, and refused to conform to societal expectations of women. She was outspoken, assertive, athletic, and wore pants before it was fashionable. She married once, as a young woman, but thereafter lived independently. A 26-year affair with her co-star Spencer Tracy was hidden from the public. With her unconventional lifestyle and the independent characters she brought to the screen, Hepburn came to epitomize the "modern woman" in 20th-century America and helped change perceptions of women. In 1999, she was named by the American Film Institute as the top female Hollywood legend.^[1]

Early life[link]

Hepburn was born in Hartford, Connecticut, on May 12, 1907, the second of six children. Her parents were Thomas Norval Hepburn (1879–1962), a urologist at Hartford Hospital, and Katharine Martha Houghton (1878–1951), a feminist campaigner. Both fought for social change in America: Thomas Hepburn helped establish the New England Social Hygiene Association, which educated the public about venereal disease,^[2] while Katharine Martha headed the Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association and later campaigned for birth control with Margaret Sanger.^[3] As a child, Hepburn joined her mother on several "Votes For Women" demonstrations.^[4] The Hepburn children were raised to exercise freedom of speech and encouraged to think and debate on any topic they wished.^[5] Her parents were criticized by the community for their progressive views, which stimulated Hepburn to fight against barriers she encountered.^[6][7] Hepburn said she realized from a young age that she was the product of "two very remarkable parents",^[8] and credited her "enormously lucky" upbringing with providing the foundation for her success.^[9][10] She remained close to her family throughout her life.^[11]

Hepburn's college yearbook photo, 1928. It was while studying at Bryn Mawr College that she chose acting as a career.

The young Hepburn was a tomboy who liked to call herself Jimmy and cut her hair short like a boy's.^[12] Thomas Hepburn was eager for his children to use their minds and bodies to the limit, and taught them to swim, run, dive, ride, wrestle, and play golf and tennis.^[13] Golf became a passion for his oldest daughter: she took daily lessons and became very good, reaching the semi-final of the Connecticut Young Women's Golf Championship.^[14] She loved swimming in Long Island Sound, and took ice-cold baths every morning in the belief that "the bitterer the medicine, the better it was for you."^[15] Hepburn was a fan of movies from a young age, and went to see one every Saturday night.^[16] With her friends and siblings, she would put on plays and perform to her neighbors for 50 cents a ticket to raise money for the Navajo people.^[17]

On April 3, 1921, while visiting friends in Greenwich Village, Hepburn discovered the body of her older brother Tom, whom she adored,^[18] dead from an apparent suicide. He had tied a sheet around a beam and hanged himself.^[19] The Hepburn family denied it was suicide and maintained that Tom's death must have been an experiment that had gone wrong.^[20] The incident made the teenage Hepburn nervous, moody, and suspicious of people.^[21] She shied away from other children, dropped out of Oxford School, and began receiving private tutoring.^[22] For many years, she used Tom's birthday (November 8) as her own. It was not until her 1991 autobiography, Me: Stories of My Life, that Hepburn revealed her true birth date.^[23]

In 1924, Hepburn gained a place at Bryn Mawr College. She attended the institution primarily to satisfy her mother, who had studied there, and recalled disliking the experience.^[24] It was the first time she had been in school for several years, and she was self-conscious and uncomfortable with her classmates.^[25] She struggled with the scholastic demands of university, and was once suspended for smoking in her room.^[26] Hepburn was drawn to acting but roles in college plays were conditional on good grades. Once her marks had improved, she began performing regularly.^[26] The lead role in a production of The Woman in the Moon in her senior year, and the positive response it received, cemented Hepburn's plans to pursue a theatrical career.^[14] She graduated with a degree in history and philosophy in June 1928.^[27]

Career[link]

Breaking into theatre (1928–1932)[link]

Hepburn left Bryn Mawr determined to become an actress.^[28] The day after graduating,^[29] she traveled to Baltimore to meet Edwin H. Knopf, who ran a successful stock theatre company. Impressed by her eagerness, Knopf cast Hepburn in his current production, The Czarina.^[30] She received good reviews for her small role; the Printed Word described her performance as "arresting".^[31] She was given a part in the following week's show, but here Hepburn was less accomplished. She was criticized for her shrill voice, and so left Baltimore to study with an acclaimed voice tutor in New York City.^[32]

Hepburn in the role that brought her to the attention of Hollywood, 1932's The Warrior's Husband

Knopf decided to produce The Big Pond in New York and called for Hepburn to be the understudy to the leading lady. A week before opening, the lead was fired and replaced with Hepburn, which gave her a starring role after only four weeks in the theatre.^[33] On opening night, Hepburn turned up late, mixed her lines, tripped over her feet, and spoke too high and fast to be comprehensible.^[32] She was promptly fired, and the original leading lady rehired. Undeterred, Hepburn joined forces with producer Arthur Hopkins, and accepted the role of a schoolgirl in These Days. Her Broadway debut came on November 12, 1928, at the Cort Theatre, but reviews for the show were poor and it closed after eight nights.^[32] Hopkins promptly hired Hepburn as the lead understudy in Philip Barry's play Holiday. In early December, after only two weeks, she quit to marry Ludlow Ogden Smith, her beau from college. She planned to leave the theatre behind, but began to miss the work and quickly resumed the understudy role in Holiday, which she held for six months.^[34]

In 1929, Hepburn turned down a role with the Theatre Guild to play the lead in Death Takes a Holiday. She felt the role was perfect,^[35] but again she was fired.^[36] Hepburn went back to the Guild and took an understudy role for minimum pay in A Month in the Country. In the spring of 1930, Hepburn joined a stock company in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. She left halfway through the summer season, and continued studying with a drama tutor.^[37] In early 1931, she was cast in the Broadway production of Art and Mrs. Bottle. She was released from the role after the playwright took a dislike to her, saying "She looks a fright, her manner is objectionable, and she has no talent", but then rehired when no other actress could be found.^[38] It went on to be a small success.^[39]

Hepburn appeared in a number of plays with a summer stock company in Ivoryton, Connecticut, and she proved to be a hit.^[38] During the summer of 1931, Philip Barry asked her to appear in his new play, The Animal Kingdom, alongside Leslie Howard. They began rehearsals in November, Hepburn feeling sure this was the role to make her a star, but Howard disliked the actress and again she was fired.^[40] When she asked Barry why she had been let go, he responded, "Well, to be brutally frank, you weren't very good."^[40] This unsettled the self-assured Hepburn, but she continued to look for work.^[41] She took a small role in an upcoming play, but as rehearsals began she received an offer to read for the lead role in the Greek fable The Warrior's Husband.^[42]

The Warrior's Husband proved to be Hepburn's break-out performance. Biographer Charles Higham states that the play was ideal for the actress, requiring an aggressive energy and athleticism, and she enthusiastically involved herself with its production.^[43] It opened on March 11, 1932, at the Morosco Theatre on Broadway. Hepburn's first entrance called for her to leap down a narrow stairway with a stag over her shoulder, wearing a short silver tunic. The show ran for three months, and Hepburn received positive reviews.^[44] Richard Garland of the New York World-Telegram wrote, "It's been many a night since so glowing a performance has brightened the Broadway scene."^[45]

Hollywood success (1932–1934)[link]

Hepburn's first movie appearance, in the melodrama A Bill of Divorcement (1932). Critics loved the performance and she became an instant star.

A scout for the Hollywood agent Leland Hayward spotted Hepburn's appearance in The Warrior's Husband, and asked her to test for the part of Sydney Fairfield in the upcoming RKO film A Bill of Divorcement. Hepburn was unhappy with her test scene, and sent material from Holiday instead.^[46] Director George Cukor was impressed by what he saw: "There was this odd creature," he recalled, "she was unlike anybody I'd ever heard." He particularly liked the manner in which she picked up a glass: "I thought she was very talented in that action."^[47] Offered the role, Hepburn demanded $1,500 a week, a large amount for an unknown actress.^[48] Cukor encouraged the studio to accept her demands^[28] and they signed Hepburn to a temporary contract with a three-week guarantee.^[49] RKO head David O. Selznick recounted that he took a "tremendous chance" in casting the unusual actress.^[50]

Hepburn arrived in California in July 1932, at 25 years old. She starred in A Bill of Divorcement opposite John Barrymore, showing no sign of intimidation.^[50][51] Although she struggled to adapt to the nature of film acting, Hepburn was fascinated by the industry from the start.^[52] The picture was a success and Hepburn received rave reviews.^[53] Mordaunt Hall of The New York Times called her performance "exceptionally fine ... Miss Hepburn's characterization is one of the finest seen on the screen".^[54] The Variety review declared, "Standout here is the smash impression made by Katharine Hepburn in her first picture assignment. She has a vital something that sets her apart from the picture galaxy."^[55] On the strength of A Bill of Divorcement, RKO signed the actress to a long-term contract.^[56] George Cukor became a lifetime friend and colleague—he and Hepburn made ten films together.^[57]

Film still from Little Women (1933), which was one of the most popular movies of its day

Hepburn's second film was Christopher Strong (1933), the story of an aviatrix and her affair with a married man. The picture was not commercially successful, but Hepburn's own reviews were good.^[58] Regina Crewe wrote in the Journal American that although her mannerisms were grating, "they compel attention, and they fascinate an audience. She is a distinct, definite, positive personality."^[59] Her third picture confirmed Hepburn as a major actress in Hollywood.^[60] For playing aspiring actress Eva Lovelace in Morning Glory, she won an Academy Award for Best Actress. She had seen the script on the desk of producer Pandro S. Berman and, convinced that she was born to play the part, insisted that the role be hers.^[61] Hepburn chose not to attend the awards ceremony—as she would not for the duration of her career—but was thrilled with the win.^[62] Her success continued with the role of Jo in the screen adaptation of Little Women (1933). The movie was a hit, one of the film industry's biggest successes to date,^[50] and Hepburn won the Best Actress prize at the Venice Film Festival. Little Women was one of Hepburn's personal favorites and she was proud of her performance, later saying, "I defy anyone to be as good as I was [as Jo]".^[60]

By the end of 1933 Hepburn was at the top of her profession, but yearned to prove herself on Broadway.^[63] Jed Harris, one of the most successful theatre producers of the 1920s, was going through a career slump.^[64] He asked Hepburn to appear in the play The Lake, which she agreed to do for a low salary.^[65] Before she was given leave, RKO asked that she film Spitfire (1934). Hepburn's role in the movie was Trigger Hicks, an uneducated mountain girl. It is widely considered one of her worst films, and Hepburn received poor reviews for the effort.^[66] Hepburn kept a picture of Hicks in her bedroom throughout her life to "[keep] me humble."^[67]

The Lake previewed in Washington, D.C., where there was a large advance sale.^[65] Harris's poor direction had eroded Hepburn's confidence, and she struggled with the performance.^[68] Despite this, Harris moved the play to New York without further rehearsal. It opened at the Martin Beck Theatre on December 26, 1933, and Hepburn was roundly panned by the critics.^[69] Dorothy Parker quipped, "Katharine Hepburn runs the gamut of emotions from A to B."^[28] Already tied to a ten-week contract, she had to endure the embarrassment of rapidly declining box office sales.^[70] Harris decided to take the show to Chicago, saying to Hepburn, "My dear, the only interest I have in you is the money I can make out of you." Hepburn refused, and paid Harris $14,000 to close the production instead.^[71] She later referred to Harris as "hands-down the most diabolical person I have ever met",^[64] and claimed this experience was important in teaching her to take responsibility for her career.^[72]

Career struggles, "box office poison" (1934–1938)[link]

In Mary of Scotland (1936), one of a series of unsuccessful films Hepburn made in this period.

After the failure of Spitfire and The Lake, RKO cast Hepburn in The Little Minister (1934), based on a Victorian novel by James Barrie, in an attempt to repeat the success of Little Women.^[73] There was no such recurrence, and the picture was a commercial failure.^[74] The romantic drama Break of Hearts (1935) with Charles Boyer was poorly reviewed and also lost money at the box office.^[75] After three forgettable movies, success returned to Hepburn with Alice Adams (1935), the story of a girl's desperation to climb the social ladder. Hepburn loved the book and was delighted to be offered the role.^[76] The picture was a hit, one of Hepburn's personal favorites, and gave the actress her second Oscar nomination.^[77]

Berman allowed Hepburn to select her next feature.^[77] She chose George Cukor's new project, Sylvia Scarlett (1935), which paired her for the first time with Cary Grant. Her hair was cut short for the part, as her character masquerades as a boy for much of the film. Critics disliked Sylvia Scarlett and it was unpopular with the public.^[78] For her next film she played Mary Stuart in John Ford's Mary of Scotland (1936). It met with a similarly poor reception.^[79] A Woman Rebels (1937) followed, a Victorian era drama where Hepburn's character fights against convention. Quality Street (1937) also had a period setting, this time a comedy. Neither movie was popular with the public, which meant she had made four unsuccessful pictures in a row.^[80]

Alongside a series of unpopular films, problems arose from Hepburn's attitude.^[81] She had a difficult relationship with the press, with whom she could be rude and provocative.^[82] When asked if she had any children, she snapped back, "Yes I have five: two white and three colored."^[83] She would not give interviews and denied requests for autographs,^[84] which earned her the nickname "Katharine of Arrogance".^[85] The public were also baffled by her boyish behavior and fashion choices, and she became a largely unpopular figure.^[82][86] Hepburn sensed that she needed to leave Hollywood,^[87] so returned east to star in a theatrical adaptation of Jane Eyre. It had a successful tour,^[88] but uncertain about the script and unwilling to risk failure after the disaster of The Lake, Hepburn decided against taking the show to Broadway.^[87] Towards the end of 1936, Hepburn vied for the role of Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With The Wind.^[89] Producer David O. Selznick refused to offer her the part because he felt she had no sex appeal. He reportedly told Hepburn, "I can't see Rhett Butler chasing you for twelve years."^[90]