Description: Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Date Published: 1998-03-15
ISBN-13:9780231108850ISBN:0231108850
Description: Very Good. Great title in great condition. Pages are free of marks and writing. Covers have only light wear on edges and corners. Satisfaction guaranteed. If item not as described, return for refund of purchase price. read more
Binding: HC
Publisher: Columbia University Press, New York
Date Published: (1996)
ISBN-13:9780231108843ISBN:0231108842
Description: B&W illustrations. Fine w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover) 346pp. ISBN 0231108842 The author traces the transformation of a life and looks closely at the sources of Cary Grant's charms. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Date Published: 1998-03-15
ISBN-13:9780231108850ISBN:0231108850
Description: Very Good. Tight, bright and shiny, uncreased spine, pages clear and bright, shelf and edge wear, corners bumped and curled, bottom page corners curled, cover crease and curl, smudges and spots on inside front cover. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Columbia Univ Pr, Irvington, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1997
ISBN-13:9780231108843ISBN:0231108842
Description: Good in Good jacket. Ex-Library. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. First Printing. Clean pages with no markings except the normal library markings and attachments. The dust jacket is enclosed in a clear plastic cover and is taped to the book. read more
Edition: First edition.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Columbia University Press, New York
Date Published: 1997
ISBN-13:9780231108843ISBN:0231108842
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. 352 p. Audience: General/trade. "Graham McCann writes insightfully about Grant's work and life, including rumors of his homosexuality and his LSD therapy. Generously filled with anecdotes about fellow actors and directors, a realistic portrait of a complicated man emerges..." 352 pages. Illustrated with b&w photographs. First printing. Mylar wrapped dj. read more
Edition: No Edition Stated
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Columbia University Press, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780231108843ISBN:0231108842
Description: Good in Good jacket. Tipped spine. Spine beginning to unravel at the bottom. Novel. Hard cover. Shelf B-3. read more
Description: Acceptable. Ships from the UK. Former Library book. Shows definite wear, and perhaps considerable marking on inside. Your purchase also supports literacy charities. read more
Edition: Second Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Michael Joseph, Columbia University Press
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780231108843ISBN:0231108842
Description: Good in Good jacket. Ex-Library. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Good/Good. Second Printing. This lovely hard cover book, 346 pages long, is in good condition, with moderate shelf wear, light bumping to the spine ends and cover corners, light page edge soiling. The pages are tight and bright. Ex-Library with the usual stamping and marking, pastedown on the front free endpaper. The dust jacket is in good condition, with light shelf wear, light bumping to the cover edges, light surface scuffing and ... read more
Edition: First Edition/First Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Columbia University Press, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780231108843ISBN:0231108842
Description: Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Fourth Estate
Date Published: 1997
ISBN-13:9781857025743ISBN:1857025741
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Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover; Second Printing
ISBN-13:9780231108843ISBN:0231108842
Description: Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. Hardcover. Columbia University Press, 1997. 1st Edition/2nd Printing. Fine Book in Near Fine Dust Jacket. Light shelf wear to Jacket. Overall, a clean and tight copy to add to a collection or read and enjoy. Dust Jacket protected with a new archival cover. Bubble wrapped and shipped promptly in a box. read more
Edition: 1st Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Columbia Univ Pr, Irvington, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1997
ISBN-13:9780231108843ISBN:0231108842
Description: Photo Illustrated. Very Good + in Very Good + jacket. 6.5 x 9.5 hard cover book. White and gray lettering on the black and blue dust jacket spine with a black and white photo illustrated cover. A comprehensive biography of Cary Grant. 346 pages. 1st Edition. Slight soil, dust jacket rubbing. Tight binding. Very Good +/Very Good + condition. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Fourth Estate Ltd, London, United Kingdom
Date Published: 1997
ISBN-13:9781857025743ISBN:1857025741
Description: Collectible; Very Good. VG 1ST IMPRESSION 1997 4TH ESTATE PB WITH ORIGINAL COVER & GLOSSY PHOTO SECTIONS. REWARDING CARY GRANT BIOGRAPHY. PRICE-STICKER MARK TO FRONT COVER-CORNER RUBBING & MINOR CREASES, INNERS UNREAD. IMMEDIATE DISPATCH WORLDWIDE FROM UK FILM SPECIALIST. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9780231109932ISBN:0231109938
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Pages clean, no marks, tears or creases, cover very good with faint smudge side page block edge, NO spine crease. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Columbia University Press, New York, NY, USA
Date Published: 2004
ISBN-13:9780231108843ISBN:0231108842
Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. 8vo. A very good copy in unclipped jacket. A little marking to fore edge but internally pages are clean and briht. Small bump to top corner of rear board. Appreciative biography of Holllywood's most charming leading man. Next post UK. read more
"This book is one of the best I've read about Cary Grant. A biography, but mostly insofar as it pertains to the artist he became. The book is more of a critical study than anything, written by Graham McCann, a professor who has obviously done his research and who also clearly admires Cary Grant - the man and the actor - very much.
The brilliance of Grant's showbiz savvy is enough to fill a book in itself. He was one of the first stars to break free of the studio system and go freelance, one of the first to produce his own pictures and get a percentage of the profits of his work. Nobody told him to do these things, he was just that smart and determined, and with his immense talent and pull at the box office he was able to have the career he wanted, not the career Paramount or RKO or MGM wanted him to have.
And of course there's a lot about the movies themselves, Grant's work in finding his niche and refining his craft. It's unbelievable to think that he made something like 20 movies before the man we think of as "Cary Grant" really emerged with "The Awful Truth." Once he found his groove though, man what a run. He made 72 or so movies in all, a few of them stinkers, some of them only so-so, some of them among the greatest of their kind, but in almost all of them he was so damn good. He constantly changed and grew. Think of bumbling, shy David Huxley in "Bringing Up Baby", fast-talking Walter Burns in "His Girl Friday", mysterious secret agent T.R. Devlin in "Notorious", cynical, tough pilot Geoff Carter in "Only Angels Have Wings" and lower class cockney Ernie Mott in "None But the Lonely Heart" and you can see that he had a lot of range, while still always remaining Cary Grant.
He was such a complicated man, and he really created himself, his "Cary Grant" persona, transforming himself from the lower class Archie Leach from Bristol, England, who left school and started working as an acrobat and vaudeville performer at age 14, into the man the world thought of as the epitome of elegance, wit and sophistication.
He made it all look so easy. "I pretended to be somebody I wanted to be," Grant once said, "and, finally, I became that person. Or he became me." It's quite a remarkable thing."
"I have to say that I really enjoyed this book. I admired its respectful treatment of a man who, I think, was one of the greatest movie actors of all time. Unlike many biographers, the author of this book actually seemed to like his subject. Many biographies seem designed merely to point out the worst aspects of a person, tearing them apart bit by bit, pushing the worst parts of their lives forward in a sensationalist effort to sell their books. Sometimes they even present unsubstantiated popular rumors as fact. By the end of these books, you no longer like the person that you read about. This biography, on the other hand, did not ruin the way that I see Cary Grant. I learned more about him, including his flaws, but I do not see him as a terrible human being. I was given a chance to see the good points as well as the bad, and I can still watch his movies with the same enjoyment that I had before (maybe even more, knowing what went into them). Great job!"
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