Cary Grant: A Brilliant Disguise (576 pages) is available for booksellers such as Amazon and Barnes & Noble. As Grant explained to Douglas Fairbanks Jr., a good friend since they costarred in Gunga Din, he did the show for “jam money.” Fairbanks found this amusing since, as he would confide, “Cary’s still got the first dollar he ever earned.” “A Conversation with Cary Grant” began with eight minutes of film clips, ending with a shot of Grant walking out to accept his honorary Academy Award in 1970. —The New York Times Book Review "Scott Eyman has a gift for exploring subjects we think we know, then deepening and enriching that knowledge through diligent research and his gift of observation. When, Archie asked, should the flowers be presented to George and Gracie? When we got to passport control, the customs officer asked us why we were coming to England. His father was a feckless alcoholic, and his mother was committed to an asylum when Archie was 11. This way Archie could work from dinnertime until the early hours of the morning, and still have his days free for auditions and his blondes.”, While Archie was struggling, George Burns and Gracie Allen were doing just fine. Like Chaplin, Grant could also project a wary coldness that shadowed the humor and charm, giving his character a sense of dimension it would not otherwise have had. Similarly, he tended to emphasize the comedy in “romantic comedy.” What really turned Grant on as an actor was the possibility of fun, so that he could unleash his inner clown, which is why he seemed to stimulate other actors to his own level of attentive intelligence and joie de vivre. And there was something else. —HARRISON FORD  Was the Star Wars series bound to succeed?…, 50 green  This was a job with benefits. When he did want a woman, as in His Girl Friday, his character arranged things so that he would be the last man standing—a fait accompli. ", Praise for Hank and Jim: The Fifty-Year Friendship of Henry Fonda and James Stewart "[A] remarkably absorbing, supremely entertaining joint biography of two Hollywood legends." The acts on offer ranged from Eddie Cantor and Al Jolson, whose vaudeville days were far behind them, to one Al Lydell, “America’s Foremost Portrayer of Senility.” But Archie Leach is nowhere to be found. The reporters were waiting, only to be flummoxed when United Press ran with a bulletin from CNN in London that Cary Grant had died in Davenport, Iowa. For that matter, why would a theoretically gay actor in a tightly closeted time go out of his way to appear in hilarious drag—a fetching peignoir in Bringing Up Baby, while hopping up and down proclaiming, “I just went gay all of a sudden!” Not to mention the title character in I Was a Male War Bride? This new biography by Scott Eyman details the reality of Grant's life and his transformation from working class Archie Leach to monumental star. But he wouldn’t let us.” At about 9:15 p.m., an ambulance arrived to take Grant to St. Luke’s Hospital. At this point, Grant thought he had a stomach flu. When he was 11, his alcoholic, emotionally absent father had his “emotionally and intellectually erratic” wife committed to an asylum for 20 years. By Scott Eyman. Orry George Kelly was born on December 31, 1897 in Kiama, New South Wales, a small coastal town seventy-three miles from Sydney. As if anybody could forget Cary Grant. A perfect model for biography standards Recently, headlines erupted about a popular celebrity accused of being someone entirely different off camera than their public persona would have us believe. Dillinger has…, WE’RE NOT CHEERFUL ANYMORE  “I tried to change. In New York, he met vaudevillians George Burns, Gracie Allen, and Jack Benny, who all became lifelong friends. Scott Eyman’s biography peers under the hood of Hollywood’s most self-invented persona to explore the anxious, self-pitying, needy and depressed narcissist lurking within. Learn how to enable JavaScript on your browser. The death certificate, signed by Dr. Gilson, stated that his death was due to “massive intracerebral hemorrhage.” There was no neurological ICU in Davenport, and, allowing for the state of medicine in 1986, even if the stroke had occurred in a major city such as Chicago the outcome would probably not have been any different. At the automat everything was cheap.”. Eyman's (Hank and Jim) engaging, thorough biography explores this lifelong performance, covering his subject's five marriages, his relationships with playwright Clifford Odets and directors Howard Hawks and Alfred Hitchcock, and his innate insecurity, which was famously aided by LSD therapy in the late 1950s. The word had gone out that Grant was ill. By 12:30 a.m., a reporter from the Chicago Tribune had arrived at St. Luke’s. ‘Cary Grant: A Brilliant Disguise’ Review: The Enigma of Charisma Impeccably dressed and haunted by his early years, he kept his ambition in check and charmed the world. “We’ll go through it again,” he said. “George was an absolute genius,” Archie remembered, “timing his laughs with that cigar.… The straight man says the plant line, and the comic answers it. Or was it? In ‘Cary Grant: A Brilliant Disguise,’ working-class Archie Leach becomes a Hollywood legend. Orry-Kelly was living at 10 Commerce Street in Greenwich Village, next to Edna St. Vincent Millay, just around the corner from the Cherry Lane Theatre. Dozens of books have been written about Cary Grant, but Scott Eyman's Cary Grant: A Brilliant Disguise is the definitive biography that finally cracks the actor's elusive and enigmatic façade. Archie escaped this trauma at the local music hall, first working odd jobs and then appearing onstage, where he demonstrated a talent for comic gymnastics. Executive summary: “Cary Grant: A Brilliant Disguise,” the latest in Scott Eyman’s long series of Class-A Hollywood biographies, opens strong with the last day of the acclaimed actor’s life and quickly declines to a tedious slog in a book more like a catalog than a life story. Shortly afterward Grant began to develop a slight balance issue, at which point he and Barbara returned to his dressing room, where he became dizzy and vomited. The longtime speculation about Grant’s bisexuality comes up often, but would benefit from more nuanced consideration. "As Scott Eyman's masterful biography reveals, being 'Cary Grant' required A Brilliant Disguise. His great-great-grandfather William Young Hansell was an Army officer in the War of 1812. by Scott Eyman. Archie remembered his salary as $40 a week, which sounds high for an out-of-work vaudevillian, but his memory for money was good, so it’s certainly possible. Probably. His specific genius was to project a consistent image of style and grace... with a little something extra. He set the stool on which he would sit downstage, close to the audience, and instructed the stagehand, a man named Jack Dexter, about the necessity of timing his entrance on the stage to synchronize precisely with his entrance on the film.

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