Download or read book The Films of Cary Grant written by Donald Deschner and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lists and describes each film in which actor Cary Grant starred.
Download or read book Cary Grant written by Scott Eyman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2020-10-20 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Film historian and acclaimed New York Times bestselling biographer Scott Eyman has written the definitive, “captivating” (Associated Press) biography of Hollywood legend Cary Grant, one of the most accomplished—and beloved—actors of his generation, who remains as popular as ever today. 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. This “estimable and empathetic biography” (The Washington Post) draws on Grant’s own papers, extensive archival research, and interviews with family and friends making it a definitive and “complex portrait of Hollywood’s original leading man” (Entertainment Weekly).
Download or read book Cary Grant written by Marc Eliot and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cary Grant is one of Hollywood's most fascinating and timeless star. As this definitive biography shows, however, Grant's sparking on-screen image hid a tumultuous private life and a tortured soul: five marriages, numerous affairs and even an 11-year relationship with Randolph Scott.
Download or read book Cary Grant written by Pamela Trescott and published by Acropolis Books (NY). This book was released on 1987 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Some Versions of Cary Grant written by James Naremore and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book analyses Cary Grant's performances in a gallery of his best films, arguing that he not only had exceptional skill but also greater range than is usually recognized. Organized in terms of five "versions" of Grant, it emphasizes his work as a screwball farceur, a "dark" figure in suspense films, a romantic leading man, a domestic male, and a Cockney character. This is a close study of an actor who worked with such different directors as Howard Hawks, Alfred Hitchcock, and Leo McCarey, and it provides a model for the appreciation of screen acting in general"--
Download or read book Good Stuff written by Jennifer Grant and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2011-05-03 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jennifer Grant is the only child of Cary Grant, who was, and continues to be, the epitome of all that is elegant, sophisticated, and deft. Almost half a century after Cary Grant’s retirement from the screen, he remains the quintessential romantic comic movie star. He stopped making movies when his daughter was born so that he could be with her and raise her, which is just what he did. Good Stuff is an enchanting portrait of the profound and loving relationship between a daughter and her father, who just happens to be one of America’s most iconic male movie stars. Cary Grant’s own personal childhood archives were burned in World War I, and he took painstaking care to ensure that his daughter would have an accurate record of her early life. In Good Stuff, Jennifer Grant writes of their life together through her high school and college years until Grant’s death at the age of eighty-two. Cary Grant had a happy way of living, and he gave that to his daughter. He invented the phrase “good stuff” to mean happiness. For the last twenty years of his life, his daughter experienced the full vital passion of her father’s heart, and she now—delightfully—gives us a taste of it. She writes of the lessons he taught her; of the love he showed her; of his childhood as well as her own . . . Here are letters, notes, and funny cards written from father to daughter and those written from her to him . . . as well as bits of conversation between them (Cary Grant kept a tape recorder going for most of their time together). She writes of their life at 9966 Beverly Grove Drive, living in a farmhouse in the midst of Beverly Hills, playing, laughing, dining, and dancing through the thick and thin of Jennifer's growing up; the years of his work, his travels, his friendships with “old Hollywood royalty” (the Sinatras, the Pecks, the Poitiers, et al.) and with just plain-old royalty (the Rainiers) . . . We see Grant the playful dad; Grant the clown, sharing his gifts of laughter through his warm spirit; Grant teaching his daughter about life, about love, about boys, about manners and money, about acting and living. Cary Grant was given the indefinable incandescence of charm. He was a pip . . . Good Stuff captures his special quality. It gives us the magic of a father’s devotion (and goofball-ness) as it reveals a daughter’s special odyssey and education of loving, and being loved, by a dad who was Cary Grant.
Download or read book Cary Grant written by Geoffrey Wansell and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-11-15 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: His signature jaw line and charismatic characters made him an American symbol. His films, including Bringing Up Baby, The Philadelphia Story, and North by Northwest, were timeless classics. However, Grant was also married five times and sustained a tortured, obsessive relationship with money. In this beautifully illustrated and comprehensive book, Geoffrey Wansell traces the threads of both light and darkness in one of Holly-wood’s greatest stars. As his friend and co-star Deborah Kerr wrote, he was “one of the most outstanding personalities in the history of the cinema.”
Download or read book Cary Grant written by Graham McCann and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1998-06-02 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than a biography, this is a savvy portrait of how Archie Leach, born to a poor working-class family in Bristol, England became Cary Grant, one of Hollywood's most irresistible and admired celebrities of all time.
Download or read book Complete Films of Cary Grant written by Donald Deschner and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cary Grant the Making of a Hollywood Legend written by Mark Glancy and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020-09-25 with total page 569 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first biography to be based on Grant's own personal papers, Cary Grant: the making of a Hollywood legend provides a definitive account of the professional and personal life of one of Hollywood's most unforgettable, influential stars.
Download or read book Cary Grant written by Gary Morecambe and published by Robson Books Limited. This book was released on 2001 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A legendary leading man, Cary Grant, was what every man aspired to be and every woman desired. But underlying the charm was a man determined to escape a wretched childhood, and reinvent himself. His life was a mass of contradictions and speculations. Gary Morecombe's father, Eric, enjoyed a 20 year friendship with Grant and from this unique advantage point the authors have examined his life, loves and career of the troubled screen icon. This first truly objective study explores what drove this funny, flawed man who never confronted...let alone exorcised...his inner demons.
Download or read book Films of Cary Grant written by Donald Deschner and published by Carol Publishing Corporation. This book was released on 1973 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Edith Head written by Jay Jorgensen and published by Running Press Adult. This book was released on 2010-10-05 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nearly every iconic film in the last century had one thing in common: Edith Head. From her mysterious childhood to the controversial portfolio that landed her first job in a Hollywood costume department, Jorgenson provides a sleek and sophisticated portrait of the most influential costume designer of the twentieth century.
Download or read book Cary Grant written by Scott Eyman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-11-02 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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"--
Download or read book Evenings with Cary Grant written by Nancy Lynn Nelson and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cary Grant written by Richard Torregrossa and published by Bulfinch. This book was released on 2006-09-04 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With rare and never-before-published photographs, personal letters, and documents, this groundbreaking book reveals the style secrets that helped make Grant a fashion icon.
Download or read book Cary Grant written by Richard Schickel and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2009-11-29 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Schickel's text, combining critical analysis and a re-interpretation of all the available biographical information, masterfully maps the intersections where a great star's personal history and his screen personality met in a style as elegant, graceful and witty as the actor himself.
