num_pages: 576
description: Film historian and acclaimed New York Times bestselling biographer Scott Eyman has written the definitive biography of Hollywood legend Cary Grant one of the most accomplishedand belovedactors 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 when he was thirty-one years old he was informed she was alive. 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 worshiped him in movies such as Gunga Din Notorious and North by Northwest. Drawing on Grants own papers extensive archival research and interviews with family and friends this is the definitive portrait of a movie immortal.
language: English
title: Cary Grant: A Brilliant Disguise
publisher: Simon & Schuster