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More than a biography, this is a savvy portrait of how Archie Leach, born to a poor working-class family in Bristol, England became Cary Grant, one of Hollywood's most irresistible and admired celebrities of all time.
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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)
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- PublisherColumbia University Press
- Publication date2001
- ISBN 10 0231108850
- ISBN 13 9780231108850
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages360
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