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A biography narrating how the English working-class boy Archie Leach transformed himself into the actor Cary Grant and a role model of elegance and class for the socially ambitious around the world
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Writing with the low-key stylishness his subject deserves, academic Graham McCann pays tribute to the working-class Englishman who became "a democratic symbol of gentlemanly grace" to moviegoers world-wide. Aptly subtitled A Class Apart, the book sympathetically depicts Archie Leach--born into poverty, his mother committed to an asylum when he was nine--reinventing himself as Cary Grant, whose debonair screen persona showed no signs of these difficult origins. A decorous account of Grant's private life (McCann dismisses talk of bisexuality as mere rumour) accompanies cogent descriptions of his performances. --Christine Buttery
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"More than a dozen previous books about the actor are available, but McCann's well-researched addition is particularly valuable for its careful investigation of old canards." -- "Publishers Weekly"
"British-American film critic David Thomson, who considers Grant 'the most important actor in the ceinma, ' calls this the best book about him so far." -- "Desert Sun (Knight Ridder Newspapers)"
"British-American film critic David Thomson, who considers Grant 'the most important actor in the ceinma, ' calls this the best book about him so far." -- Desert Sun (Knight Ridder Newspapers)
"More than a dozen previous books about the actor are available, but McCann's well-researched addition is particularly valuable for its careful investigation of old canards." -- Publishers Weekly
"British-American film critic David Thomson, who considers Grant 'the most important actor in the ceinma, ' calls this the best book about him so far." -- "Desert Sun (Knight Ridder Newspapers)"
"More than a dozen previous books about the actor are available, but McCann's well-researched addition is particularly valuable for its careful investigation of old canards." -- "Publishers Weekly"
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- PublisherColumbia University Press
- Publication date1997
- ISBN 10 0231108842
- ISBN 13 9780231108843
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages358
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