Are You Related or Connected to Oscar Winner: Leach-1751? [closed]

Question

Ambassadors project - Social Media will be showcasing different profiles from the different Hall of Fame categories for Musicians and Actors/Actresses, every Friday.

This week, from the Hollywood Walk of Fame, Oscar Nominee Winner, Archibald Alexander Leach aka Cary Grant.  

Tell us how you connect and what was your favorite movie of his.

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19 Degrees from Cary Grant (very distantly!) (1-1-1-4-10-3)...however, his wife, Barbara Woolworth Hutton, is my 9th cousin, 3X removed.  Our CA is John Marsh, (my 11th GGF)

My favorite movie from Cary Grant is definitely Bringing Up Baby

Answer 1

Wow, only sixteen degrees through my maternal line! Love Cary Grant, used to watch old movies and he was always one of my favorite actors.

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Even though he was way over my age limit... watching Cary's old movies sure were <swoon> worthy!

Answer 2

I am 16 degrees through his (3rd?) wife, Betsy Drake.

Without a doubt.... Houseboat is my favorite Cary Grant movie.  

Answer 3

19° through his wife Barbara Hutton and a couple other marriages

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I was waiting for someone to say Barbara Hutton and one of her half dozen marriages. 

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I’m actually related through her mother and not one of her other husbands.

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I'm also connected by 19 degrees through Betty Hutton's mother.

Answer 4

16 degrees through his first wife's second husband.

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Doesn't it seem funny to be saying first wife's second husband?   I thought this connection spotlight would be a fun one. 

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More than funny. Hysterical.

Answer 5

I am 19° through his wife Barbara Hutton's first husband.

Answer 6

24 degrees. My favourite movie of his is Charade.

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I keep forgetting about Charade.  How I could forget Cary and Audrey is a mystery! 

Answer 7

I am 19⁰ from Cary Grant through  Barbara Hutton's husband  Rubirosa.

Favorite Movie is a tie between: "Father Goose" and "An Affair to Remember".

Although I really liked "The Bishop's Wife" and "Arsenic & Old Lace", and "Operation Petticoat", and and and

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Oh and favorite movie of his, hands down, Operation Petticoat! This was always a favorite on deployment. We kept it on rotation on Sundays (we could call in to interior comms and request movies from the ship's library on Sundays they would broadcast on Ship's TV)

Answer 8

I'm 21 degrees through his longest marriage, to Betsy Drake. I had not heard of her but she sounds fascinating! Shipwreck survivor, actress, novelist, psychotherapist!

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I had not heard of her either!  Thanks for sharing.

Answer 9

16 degrees...Barbara Hutton, 9C1R on maternal, Doris Duke 13C1R on paternal...appears that similar tastes in husbands ran on both sides of my family...(!?)

I sort of vaguely remember "Arsenic", because I was an Agatha Christie fan growing up...but Operation Petticoat might be another frontrunner. I fell asleep trying to watch North by Northwest - not sure I ever watched it all the way through...

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I have not been able to watch North by Northwest entirely.  

Answer 10

I am 18 degrees.  His wife Virginia Cherill is a cousin

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Oh, a cousin!

Any favorite movie?

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Yes, Operation Petticoat is just one of many., How about for you?  Yes, we are 18 degrees, 11th cousins 1 removed.

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Houseboat is probably my favorite.  A great combo of Sophia and Cary.

Answer 11

20 degrees away, no blood relation.

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15 degrees from his wife - Barbara Hutton.  Two favorite movies of Cary Grant's are Arsenic and Old Lace & An Affair to Remember.

Answer 12

I’m 18 degrees from him via the Cromwells. 

I am 3rd cousin x 5 with General Douglas MacArthur! The former Mrs. Cromwell was his wife. That’s a surprise to me!

Answer 13

20 degrees, which is not bad. The connector to me is an East-Bulla marriage.

Of course, I always loved His Girl Friday, and looked forward to its annual broadcast on PBS. (We don't have to wait anymore in 2023!) He went toe to toe with Rosalind Russell, who is here: Caroline Rosalind Russell. She is currently unconnected to the big tree.