
Cary Grant: The Making of a Hollywood Legend
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Narrated by:
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Daniel Henning
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By:
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Mark Glancy
Archie Leach was a poorly educated, working-class boy from a troubled family living in the backstreets of Bristol. Cary Grant was Hollywood's most debonair film star - the embodiment of worldly sophistication. Cary Grant: The Making of a Hollywood Legend tells the incredible story of how a sad, neglected boy became the suave, glamorous star many know and idolize. The first biography to be based on Grant's own personal papers, this book takes us on a fascinating journey from the actor's difficult childhood through years of struggle in music halls and vaudeville, a hit-and-miss career in Broadway musicals, and three decades of film stardom during Hollywood's golden age.
Leaving no stone unturned, Cary Grant delves into all aspects of Grant's life, from the bitter realities of his impoverished childhood to his trailblazing role in Hollywood as a film star who defied the studio system and took control of his own career. Highlighting Grant's genius as an actor and a filmmaker, author Mark Glancy examines the crucial contributions Grant made to such classic films as Bringing Up Baby (1938), The Philadelphia Story (1940), Notorious (1946), An Affair to Remember (1957), North by Northwest (1959), Charade (1963), and Father Goose (1964).
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Excellent Overview of CG Life & Films
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Interesting but lengthy
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Nice Man
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The Golden age of Movies
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Makes me want to watch his movies again
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I could not stop listening to this fascinating account, not only of the main character, but of in-depth critiques of films, explanations of casting, designs, scripts and box office.
There are extraordinarily personal accounts of emotions, friendships, directors and other actors. All of those detailed memories along with lifestyle, culture and society of the thirties and forties and into the seventies.
One of the biggest pleasures of this book were the truly detailed descriptions of Cary Grant's many films with their storylines, characters and critical responses.
The author explains in the beginning of the book that he had access to personal papers and archive material in a vault that Cary Grant kept. This proves to be a treasure trove of amazingly accurate memories dating back to the actor's earliest life, then well into his career over many years.
In addition to the biography itself, Daniel Henning narrates beautifully, even using a slight Cary Grant-type speech when quoting the actor.
I could go on and on about this absolute hidden gem. So whether you are at all familiar with Cary Grant or know nothing about him, try this biography because it reaches into so much of the times and places and people of many past eras. And now, I simply must re-watch a number of Cary Grant's films as I've gained such wonderful insight into each one.
This biography has become one of my most favorite Audible books.
A HIDDEN GEM!
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Loved this book!
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Little slow
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Not What I Hoped For
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The author spends an inordinate amount of time recapping the plots and details of Grant’s movies. Every time he launches into another description he seems to want to justify it by explaining that this was a seminal role or turning point in his acting career. He could have cut a lot of these descriptions out and the book would have been much shorter and less tedious.
I expected more of Cary Grant as a person and that’s where this biography is unsatisfying. I’m left with a picture of a workmanlike and skilled actor who wasn’t particularly deep or very interested in anything much outside of making pictures. He liked exceptionally young and beautiful women but didn’t have the maturity to stick with any of them for very long.
Who was Cary Grant or Archibald Leach? I still don’t know and this book didn’t have much to tell me. Maybe that’s all there is.
Not Terribly Interesting
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