Cary Grant: A Brilliant Disguise

Author:	Eyman, Scott
Binding:	Paperback
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ISBN:	9781501191398
Publisher:	Simon & Schuster
Language:	English
Page Count:	556
Publication Date:	11/2/2021
Size:	9.16" l x 6.15" w x 1.60"
Series:	N/A

Category	Subject
Biography & Autobiography	Entertainment & Performing Arts
Performing Arts	Film

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).