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Cary Grant : A Brilliant Disguise by Scott Eyman
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller Notes
- “Tight spine and clean text”
- ISBN
- 9781501192111
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
ISBN-10
1501192116
ISBN-13
9781501192111
eBay Product ID (ePID)
24038407768
Product Key Features
Book Title
Cary Grant : a Brilliant Disguise
Number of Pages
576 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Film / General, Entertainment & Performing Arts, Film / History & Criticism
Publication Year
2020
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Performing Arts, Biography & Autobiography
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.8 in
Item Weight
30.3 Oz
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Width
6.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2020-001234
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
Praise for Hank and Jim: The Fifty-Year Friendship of Henry Fonda and James Stewart "[A] remarkably absorbing, supremely entertaining joint biography of two Hollywood legends." -- The New York Times Book Review "Scott Eyman has a gift for exploring subjects we think we know, then deepening and enriching that knowledge through diligent research and his gift of observation. This book is no exception. Henry Fonda and James Stewart have never been captured so well, nor has their extraordinary fifty-year friendship." --Leonard Maltin John Wayne: The Life and Legend "Authoritative and engaging." --Peter Bogdanovich, The New York Times Book Review "Deeply researched and totally absorbing." -- The Wall Street Journal "Wayne's intimates have told Eyman things here that they've never told anyone else." -- The Los Angeles Times Lion of Hollywood: The Life and Legend of Louis B. Mayer "Wonderfully readable . . . [Eyman] tracks Mayer's rise and fall with exhaustive detail and novelistic sweep." --Manohla Dargis, New York Times Books Review "Anyone interested in filmmaking, then or now, should read Eyman's book at least twice." --Robert Osborne, The Hollywood Reporter Print the Legend: The Life and Times of John Ford "Eyman has emerged as one of the most distinguished and reliable of popular film historians." -- Washington Post Book World Ernst Lubitsch: Laughter in Paradise "The book is written with the kind of intuitiveness that's rooted in knowledge and affection. Eyman's scholarship gives the reader pleasure." --Pauline Kael, Was there ever a more fabulously charming, witty, stylish and seductive movie star than Cary Grant? Scott Eyman's biography peers under the hood of Hollywood's most self-invented persona to explore the anxious, self-pitying, needy and depressed narcissist lurking within. Eyman does so with empathy, critical admiration and a deeply historical perspective that bring to life not just this remarkable performer but the golden age of Hollywood that he dominated., The long quest by Scott Eyman to reclaim the Golden Age of Hollywood reaches its apotheosis with this always intelligent, carefully documented, intimate life story that helps explain the charm, genius, and immortality of Cary Grant., The most entertaining and enlightening star biography in years . . . A captivating look at a captivating star., That gap between the sublimely charming screen invention and the real man born Archie Leach is at the center of Scott Eyman's new biography, Cary Grant: A Brilliant Disguise, a complex portrait of Hollywood's original leading man., [An] estimable and empathetic biography . . . Eyman rightly homes in on [Grant's] inner chiaroscuro, that never-resolving oscillation between dark and light -- or, if you like, between Archie Leach and the man he became., Eyman's best and most heartfelt book . . . Eyman's biographical insights show that [Grant's] jauntiness was a mask covering insatiable unease., As always, Scott Eyman builds on a bedrock of scrupulous research, spiking his narrative with juicy behind-the-scenes stories. The result is a richly detailed portrait of the man whose greatest performance was the one that fooled moviegoers for decades: the belief that Archie Leach was just like the movie star we knew as Cary Grant., Replete with meticulous research, perceptive observations, and sharp critiques, this account of the actor's life consistently engages and illuminates. . . . Top-shelf film history., Here is the astonishing story of someone with enormous talent and charm, who never quite believed he had become the man he most wanted to be. And how lucky we were, his adoring public, to have watched it happen., As Scott Eyman's masterful biography reveals, being 'Cary Grant' required A Brilliant Disguise. This is a riveting, scrupulously researched account of how Archie Leach, a penniless runaway from a broken home, willed himself into becoming one of the most iconic stars in Hollywood history. In examining Grant's incredible feat of self-invention and the steep price the actor paid for his extraordinary success, Eyman once again demonstrates why he is one of our finest biographers.
Dewey Decimal
791.43028092
Synopsis
Film historian and acclaimed New York Times bestselling biographer Scott Eyman has written the definitive, "captivating" (Associated Press) biography of Hollywood legend Cary Grant, one of the most accomplished--and beloved--actors of his generation, who remains as popular as ever today. 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., Film historian and acclaimed bestselling biographer Scott Eyman has written the definitive biography of Hollywood legend Cary Grant, one of the most accomplished actors of his generation.
LC Classification Number
PN2287.G675E94 2020
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