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Cary Grant : A Class Apart
by McCann, Graham
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 1857023668
- ISBN 13
- 9781857023664
- Seller
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ELY, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London & Boston: Fourth Estate. Very Good/Very Good. 1996. First UK Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo 1857023668 Dust jacket complete, unclipped. Black cloth with bright gilt titling on spine. No ownership inscription. Photographs. viii,(5) 346 pages clean and tight. Cary Grant made men seem like a good idea. Tall, dark and handsome with a rare gift for light comedy, he played a leading man who liked to be led, a man of the world who was a man of the people. Cary Grant was Hollywood's quintessential democratic gentleman. Born in England as Archie Leach, made famous in America as Cary Grant, he was a star for more than thirty vearc, in more than seventy movies, his popularity i1! in-a,t when he brought his career to close. He was never replaced: nobody else talked like than, !coked like that, behaved like that. He was a class apart. Cary Grant never explained how he came to play `Cary Grant' so well. `Nobody is ever truthful about his own life,' he said. `There are always ambiguities.' This book explores the ambiguities in the life and work of Cary Grant; 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. Thorough and meticulously researched, this book is a dazzling and entertaining account of Cary Grant's broad and enduring appeal. .
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- Bookseller
- CHARLES BOSSOM (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 130138
- Title
- Cary Grant : A Class Apart
- Author
- McCann, Graham
- Illustrator
- Photographs
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good/Very Good
- Edition
- First UK Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 1857023668
- ISBN 13
- 9781857023664
- Publisher
- Fourth Estate
- Place of Publication
- London & Boston
- Date Published
- 1996
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