“When I go to see her, the minute I get there I start clearing my th…” — Cary Grant

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“When I go to see her, the minute I get there I start clearing my throat.”

Cary Grant · interview

On visiting his mother, Elsie Leach, after some twenty years in which he believed her dead.

Compiled undated on The Ultimate Cary Grant Pages under his mother; no dated primary publication cited.

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