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Cary Grant : [a biography]
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Cary Grant : [a biography]

Author: Marc Eliot
Publisher: Santa Ana, CA : Books on Tape, 2004.
Edition/Format: Audiobook on tape : Biography : Biography : English : UnabridgedView all editions and formats
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"He is Hollywood's most fascinating and timeless star. Although he came to personify the debonair American, Cary Grant was born Archibald Leach on January 18, 1904, in the seaport village of Bristol, England. Combining the captivating beauty of silent-screen legend Rudolph Valentino with the masculine irresistibility of Clark Gable, Grant emerged as Hollywood's quintessential leading man. Today, "the man from dream  Read more...
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Genre/Form: Audiobooks.
Named Person: Cary Grant
Material Type: Biography, Audio book, etc.
Document Type: Sound Recording
All Authors / Contributors: Marc Eliot
ISBN: 1415917256 : 9781415917251
OCLC Number: 57072700
Notes: Subtitle from container.
Description: 10 sound cassettes (ca. 15 hr. 30 min.) : analog, Dolby processed.
Responsibility: by Marc Eliot.

Abstract:

"He is Hollywood's most fascinating and timeless star. Although he came to personify the debonair American, Cary Grant was born Archibald Leach on January 18, 1904, in the seaport village of Bristol, England. Combining the captivating beauty of silent-screen legend Rudolph Valentino with the masculine irresistibility of Clark Gable, Grant emerged as Hollywood's quintessential leading man. Today, "the man from dream city," as critic Pauline Kael once described him, remains forever young, an icon of quick wit, romantic charm, and urbane sophistication, the epitome of male physical perfection. Yet beneath this idealized movie image was a conflicted man struggling to balance fame with a desire for an intensely private life separate from the "Cary Grant" persona celebrated by directors and movie studios. Exploring Grant's troubled childhood, ambiguous sexuality, and lifelong insecurities as well as the magical amalgam of characteristics that allowed him to remain Hollywood's favorite romantic lead for more than thirty-five years, Cary Grant is the definitive examination of every aspect of Grant's professional and private life, and the first to reveal the man behind the movie star"--Container.

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