Cary Grant : a brilliant disguise
"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 an 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...
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| Language: | English |
| Edition: | Large print edition. |
| Series: | Thorndike Press large print biographies and memoirs.
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| Summary: | "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 an 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. Drawing on Grant's own papers, extensive archival research, and interviews with family and friends, this is the definitive portrait of a movie immortal"--Page 4 of cover. |
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| Physical Description: | 931 pages (large print), 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 837-925). |
| ISBN: | 9781432884253 1432884255 |