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poliphiloCary sounds like a girl's name. How on earth did it end up attached to one of the icons of Hollywood masculinity?
Is it a shortening of Oscar?
Or a surname- like Nelson or Shirley- reused as a forename?
Or simply the invention of a wool-gathering Hollywood publicist?
Was Archibald Leach the first Cary or are there earlier examples? Wikipedia doesn't know of any.
Is it a shortening of Oscar?
Or a surname- like Nelson or Shirley- reused as a forename?
Or simply the invention of a wool-gathering Hollywood publicist?
Was Archibald Leach the first Cary or are there earlier examples? Wikipedia doesn't know of any.
