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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. It is always interesting to me that people achieve greatness and still have flaws and human qualities. Adapting to a lifestyle of show business glamour and expectations, Cary Grant built a life of wealth and fame. But, Grant also was calculating. Mindful of money and financial well-being. Mindful of persona. Always with the knowledge that he -- Archie Leach -- understood that success can be fleeting and wasted. Grant used his time as a movie actor to build a reputation that carries over today. ( ) Excellent biography of Cary Grant by author Scott Eyman who excels at research. The book contains many interviews with those who knew and worked with Grant. I found it fascinating that Grant went from what appeared to be an insecure guy who pinched every penny to a caring, giving individual who did things like go to a co-star (Ted Donaldson) high school graduation. Well worth reading. Very good treatment of a Hollywood giant. He led an interesting life and was one of the most successful studio stars. His success lasted for decades and he walked away with little apparent regret. The book is thorough without being needlessly salacious. It is organized well and moves the reader along. Recommended. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
"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. Drawing on Grant's own papers, extensive archival research, and interviews with family and friends, this is the definitive portrait of a movie immortal."--Amazon.com
"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"-- No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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