cary grant

a class apart

1997
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Paperback: 432 pages
Publisher: Fourth Estate; New Ed edition (3 July 1997)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1857025741
ISBN-13: 978-1857025743
Product Dimensions: 19.8 x 12.8 x 3.2 cm

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Cary Grant made men seem like a good idea. Born in England as Archie Leach, made famous in America as Cary Grant, tall, dark and handsome with a rare gift for light comedy, he played a leading man that liked to be led, a man of the world who was a man of the people. He was a class apart.

In this definitive biography Graham McCann explores the ambiguities in the life and work of Hollywood's quintessential democratic gentleman: a working-class Englishman who portrayed a well-bred American: the playful entertainer who became a powerful businessman: the intimate stranger who was often the seduced male.