Cary Grant's Birth Card: The 9 of Diamonds

In the record

Cary Grant (born Archibald Alec Leach; 18 January 1904 – 29 November 1986) was an English-American actor. The birth-card coordinate for January 18 is the 9 of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of Cary Grant's 1981 Kennedy Center Honors.

Kennedy Center Honors record

• 1981 Kennedy Center Honors — Cary Grant

Cary Grant is on the 1981 Kennedy Center Honors roster as Cary Grant (https://www.kennedy-center.org/whats-on/honors/). Cary Grant (Q83410, Wikipedia “Cary Grant”) appears here as a person-scope honoree. Cary Grant is listed as a person-scope honoree for each year in this pack. Honors in this pack for Cary Grant: 1981 Cary Grant. Cary Grant's English Wikipedia title is the same string as the harvested name. Birth date 1904-01-18 is the Wikipedia infobox day for Cary Grant, verified against Wikidata P569 1904-01-18 (match). Kennedy Center artist-bio date status for Cary Grant is unavailable. The harvested card symbol for January 18 is 9♦. A public death date of November 29, 1986 (1986-11-29) is listed on Wikidata P570 for Cary Grant. Source URL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cary_Grant is the Wikipedia article used for Cary Grant. This page does not invent a childhood or a private address for Cary Grant. It only names the calendar coordinate for January 18 and the Honors years already listed for Cary Grant.

The 9 of Diamonds coordinate

Cary Grant was born January 18, 1904 (1904-01-18). Month 1 and day 18 give solar value 35, which is the 9 of Diamonds (The Universal Provider). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day). The year 1904 is unused, so Cary Grant's 1904 birth year does not move the card. The 9 of Diamonds does not predict a Kennedy Center Honor and is not a verdict on Cary Grant. Quoted system copy for the 9 of Diamonds, not a biography of Cary Grant: You give in a way you can sustain, and you let someone give back. You think about resources in terms of universal good and human need. You want to provide for humanity. Your vision is about abundance for all. Harvested gifts listed for the 9 of Diamonds: Visionary thinking about resource distribution; Generous impulse toward universal good; Ability to inspire others to contribute; Natural idealism about abundance. Harvested life-direction line for the 9 of Diamonds: Your curriculum is learning that you can't help anyone if you destroy yourself. You're learning to secure your own oxygen mask first.

Live 9 of Diamonds meaning page

Wikipedia summary used as source_text

Cary Grant was an English-American actor. Known for his blended British and American accent, debonair demeanor, lighthearted approach to acting, and sense of comic timing, he was one of classic Hollywood's definitive leading men. He was nominated twice for the Academy Award, received an Academy Honorary Award in 1970, and received the Kennedy Center Honor in 1981. He was named the second-greatest male star of the Golden Age of Hollywood by the American Film Institute in 1999.

Cary Grant in the public record

Known for his blended British and American accent, debonair demeanor, lighthearted approach to acting, and sense of comic timing, he was one of classic Hollywood's definitive leading men. He was nominated twice for the Academy Award, received an Academy Honorary Award in 1970, and received the Kennedy Center Honor in 1981. He was named the second-greatest male star of the Golden Age of Hollywood by the American Film Institute in 1999. Grant was born into an impoverished family in Bristol, where he had an unhappy childhood marked by the absence of his mother, and his father's alcoholism. He became attracted to theatre at a young age when he visited the Bristol Hippodrome. At 16, he went as a stage performer with the Pender Troupe for a tour of the United States. After a series of successful performances in New York City, he decided to stay there. He established a name for himself in vaudeville in the 1920s and toured the United States before moving to Hollywood in the early 1930s.

Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Cary Grant (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.

Where the record meets the cards

No sentence in the sourced record shows a clear echo of the published language for 9♦, 5♦, Q♦, 4♥, 10♠, 4♠, 7♠, 2♣, K♣, J♦, 4♦, 2♠, 8♥, 6♣, 6♠, Q♥, 10♣, 8♦, K♠. None is claimed here. The coordinate rests on the calendar date alone, and this page does not forecast an honor.

Also on the record

1. Grant initially appeared in crime films and dramas, such as Blonde Venus (1932) and She Done Him Wrong (1933), but later gained renown for his performances in romantic screwball comedies such as The Awful Truth (1937), Bringing Up Baby (1938), His Girl Friday (1940), and The Philadelphia Story (1940).
2. These pictures are frequently cited among the greatest comedy films of all time.
3. Other well-known films in which he starred in this period were the adventure Gunga Din (1939), the dark comedy Arsenic and Old Lace (1944), and the dramas Only Angels Have Wings (1939), Penny Serenade (1941), and None but the Lonely Heart (1944), the latter two for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor.
4. During the 1940s and 1950s, Grant had a close working relationship with director Alfred Hitchcock, who cast him in four films: Suspicion (1941), Notorious (1946), To Catch a Thief (1955), and North by Northwest (1959).

Other honorees with this card

• Billy Crystal — 2023 Kennedy Center Honors
• Bono — 2022 Kennedy Center Honors with U2
• Danny Kaye — 1984 Kennedy Center Honors
• David Letterman — 2012 Kennedy Center Honors
• Fred Astaire — 1978 Kennedy Center Honors
• Herbie Hancock — 2013 Kennedy Center Honors
• Judith Jamison — 1999 Kennedy Center Honors
• Quincy Jones — 2001 Kennedy Center Honors
• Sylvester Stallone — 2025 Kennedy Center Honors

FAQ

What is Cary Grant's birth card?

The 9 of Diamonds. January 18 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. Cary Grant's year of birth is not used.

Does a birth card predict a Kennedy Center Honor?

No. These pages are coordinates, not fortune-telling. A birth card names a calendar day in a 52-card year. It does not forecast awards, character, or fate.

Where do Cary Grant's dates and Honors credits come from?

Birth date 1904-01-18 is the day-precision Wikipedia infobox date for Cary Grant, verified against Wikidata P569 (CC0, day precision, Gregorian preferred). The two sources match. Year-only infoboxes and Wikipedia↔Wikidata conflicts are dropped, not guessed. Honoree identity comes from the Wikipedia Kennedy Center Honors roster, which cites Kennedy Center pages. The Honors line is 1981 Kennedy Center Honors. Kennedy Center artist-bio date status is unavailable. Page hooks and evidence come from the Wikipedia REST summary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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