Buy this book on-line HIGHAM**, CHARLES & MOSELEY, ROY: : CARY GRANT - The Lonely HeartLONDON.NEL,1989. ISBN 0450425975.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.NFINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn but price-clip to dw/dj.Very light shelf-wear and creasing to dw/dj edges.Fore-edges aged as usual/normal,contents bright and clean.Colour portrait photographic upper wrap with b/w photographic portrait to rear wrap.Blue paper-covered boards with gilt letters to spine/backstrip and blue glossy endpapers with a white facsimile autograph/signature of Grant.UK, 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,vii+306pp includes 24pp b/w photographs,filmography and an index.
One of the greatest stars of the cinema - yet Cary Grant remains a mystery to his millions of fans.The most secretive of men,he managed to conceal the truth of his existence to all,save a Hollywood few.Now,three years after his death (1989),comes the first major biography.
In interviews with many of his co-stars,former colleagues and friends such as Ronald Reagan, Katherine Hepburn, Stewart Granger and George Burns and members of his family,including Virginia Cherrill,the authors have pieced together the private life of Cary Grant that was far removed from the public face: debonair leading man with a host of successful films from She Done Him Wrong in 1933,through The Philadelphia Story and Notorious to Indiscreet, North By Northwest and Charade more than three decades later.
Here for the first time is the definitive and revealing account of the childhood of Archibald Alec Leach (his real name) in Bristol,where he was born in 1904,the son of a trouser-presser.
Higham and Moseley - both experienced biographers - tell how the young Archie joined a team of circus acrobats,the Bob Pender Troupe and toured the music-halls of Europe and America; how he arrived in Hollywood in the early 1930's,tested for a contract and had his name changed to Cary Grant.His relationships with women, including his five wives,his close friendships with Howard Hughes and Randolph Scott are all documented in vivid detail and for the first time the authors reveal the true love of his life.
A stirring and provocative biography which unravels,at last,the mystery of the life of this most enigmatic of stars.
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