<div class='timeline-item'><div class='timeline-left'><div class='timeline-date'>1904</div></div><div class='timeline-center'></div><div class='timeline-right'><div class='timeline-text timeline-text-title'>Cary Grant is Born</div><div class='timeline-text'>On January 18, 1904, Cary Grant was born in Bristol, England. His birth name was Archibald Alexander Leach.</div></div></div><div class='timeline-item'><div class='timeline-left'><div class='timeline-date'>1920</div></div><div class='timeline-center'></div><div class='timeline-right'><div class='timeline-text timeline-text-title'>Begins Career as an Actor and Acrobat</div><div class='timeline-text'>Leach begins his performing career at age 16, touring the United States as an acrobat with a vaudeville troupe.</div></div></div><div class='timeline-item'><div class='timeline-left'><div class='timeline-date'>1931</div></div><div class='timeline-center'></div><div class='timeline-right'><div class='timeline-text timeline-text-title'>Moves to Hollywood</div><div class='timeline-text'>Leach moves to Hollywood and adopts the stage name "Cary Grant".</div></div></div><div class='timeline-item'><div class='timeline-left'><div class='timeline-date'>1934</div></div><div class='timeline-center'></div><div class='timeline-right'><div class='timeline-text timeline-text-title'>First Leading Role in Film</div><div class='timeline-text'>Grant stars in his first leading role, in the film This Is The Night.</div></div></div><div class='timeline-item'><div class='timeline-left'><div class='timeline-date'>1936</div></div><div class='timeline-center'></div><div class='timeline-right'><div class='timeline-text timeline-text-title'>Paired with Katharine Hepburn</div><div class='timeline-text'>Grant appears alongside Katharine Hepburn in the romantic comedy Sylvia Scarlett.</div></div></div><div class='timeline-item'><div class='timeline-left'><div class='timeline-date'>1959</div></div><div class='timeline-center'></div><div class='timeline-right'><div class='timeline-text timeline-text-title'>Receives Honorary Oscar</div><div class='timeline-text'>Grant receives an honorary Academy Award for “his unique mastery of the art of screen acting.”</div></div></div><div class='timeline-item'><div class='timeline-left'><div class='timeline-date'>1986</div></div><div class='timeline-center'></div><div class='timeline-right'><div class='timeline-text timeline-text-title'>Retires from Acting</div><div class='timeline-text'>Grant retires from acting after starring in Walk, Don't Run, his last major film role.</div></div></div>