Cary Grant : a brilliant disguise

Eyman, Scott 1951- (author.).

Summary:

"Born Archibald Leach in 1904, he came to America as a teenaged acrobat to find fame and fortune, but he was always haunted by his past. His father was a feckless alcoholic, and his mother was committed to an asylum when Archie was eleven years old. He believed her to be dead until he was informed she was alive when he was thirty-one years old. Because of this experience Grant would have difficulty forming close attachments throughout his life. He married five times and had numerous affairs. Despite a remarkable degree of success, Grant remained deeply conflicted about his past, his present, his basic identity, and even the public that worshipped him in movies such as Gunga Din, Notorious, and North by Northwest. Drawing on Grant's own papers, extensive archival research, and interviews with family and friends, this is the definitive portrait of a movie immortal."--Amazon.com

"Scott Eyman, author of the New York Times bestseller JOHN WAYNE: The Life and Legend, has written an incisive, definitive biography of another great Hollywood legend, Cary Grant, drawing in part on new research into Grant's all-important early years, which permanently shaped his life"-- Provided by publisher

Contents:

Prologue
1904-1938
1939-1953
1954-1986
Epilogue.

Item details

ISBN: 9781501192128
ISBN: 150119139X
ISBN: 9781501191398
ISBN: 1501192116
ISBN: 9781501192111
Physical Description: xi, 556 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
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Edition: First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Publisher: New York, NY : Simon & Schuster, 2020.
Copyright: ©2020

Contents / Notes

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 487-529) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Prologue 1904-1938 1939-1953 1954-1986 Epilogue.

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