| Record Number |
866393 |
| ISBN |
9781432884253 |
| Author |
Eyman, Scott, 1951- author. |
| Title |
Cary Grant : a brilliant disguise / Scott Eyman. |
| Edition |
Large print edition. |
| Publisher/Date |
Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2021. |
| ©2021. |
| Pagination etc. |
931 pages (large print) ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography, etc. note |
Includes bibliographic references. |
| Contents note |
Prologue -- 1904-1938 -- 1939-1953 -- 1954-1986 -- Epilogue. |
| Summary Note |
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 11 years old. He believed her to be dead until he was informed she was alive when he was 31 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. |
| Subject - Name |
Grant, Cary, -- 1904-1986 |
| Subject |
Motion picture actors and actresses |
| Motion picture actors and actresses -- United States -- Biography |
| Large type books |
| Biographies. |
| Shelf Location |
LP B GRAN |
