Jennifer Grant was born in 1966 in Burbank, California. Her father, Cary Grant was born Archibald "Archie" Leach in 1904 in Bristol, England before moving to the U.S. and making a name for himself as a leading man in Hollywood's Golden Age. An older father, Grant was attentive to his young daughter, as Jennifer told NPR's Jacki Lynden in 2011. "He wanted me to have accurate records of my life growing up with him because his own records were burned in the bombings of Bristol in World War II," she said.
To do so, Cary taped and captured moments of Jennifer's childhood on Super 8 film and with slides and photographs. "[E]very note I wrote him, every note he wrote me — and letter — he saved in boxes. And he put them in a fireproof vault in our house to ensure the safety of these archives for me," she said. By 1987, Jennifer was on a far different path than what one might expect from the child of two Hollywood celebrities. She had just graduated from Stanford University with a history and political science degree and planned to attend law school. But all that changed once her father died, she said.
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