Cary Grant by Geoffrey Wansell

Cary Grant by Geoffrey Wansell

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To millions of moviegoers around the world, Cary Grant epitomizes the glamour and the style of Hollywood in its golden years. This biography recounts his early years in Bristol as Archie Leach through his film career spanning 72 films and his five marriages.

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Cary Grant by Geoffrey Wansell

To millions of moviegoers around the world, Cary Grant epitomizes the glamour and the style of Hollywood in its golden years. With his dark hair and mischievous smile, he is, was and always will be one of the great stars, and in the decade since his death, the incandescence of his image on the screen has not dimmed. Born Archie Leach, the only child of a poor tailor's presser and an unstable mother, in Bristol in 1904, Cary Grant became what the critic Pauline Kael once memorably called the "fairy tale hero". Handsome, debonair, endlessly attractive and yet never seeming to take himself seriously, he was pursued by some of the most beautiful women in the history of the cinema, among them Marlene Dietrich, Sophia Loren, Marilyn Monroe and Audrey Hepburn. In a career spanning 72 films, he appeared with such notable co-stars as Mae West, Katherine Hepburn, Ingrid Bergman, Grace Kelly. He was also directed by some of Hollywood's greatest directors, including Howard Hawks, Alfred Hitchcock, Leo McCarey, George Cukor, Stanley Donen and Frank Capra. Grant was five times married, to a succession of beautiful women, including the heiress Barbara Hutton and the actress Dyan Cannon, and sustained a tortured relationship with money.
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ISBN 13 9780747524878
ISBN 10 0747524874
Title Cary Grant
Author Geoffrey Wansell
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Hardback
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Year published 1996-09-26
Number of pages 192
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.