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Biography - Cary Grant: Hollywood's Leading Man [VHS]

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I'm a fan of the Biography series and of Cary Grant. Biography keeps with its winning formula of filling out the timeline of Cary Grant's life with interesting anecdotes, comments from friends, and excellent pictures and film clips. The show keeps away from the gossipy side, but does reveal interesting facts that may be unknown to a new or just casual Cary Grant fan. I highly recommend it for someone new to Cary Grant's films and would like a basic, but thorough, look at the great actor's private life.

A & E's biography CARY GRANT: HOLLYWOOD'S LEADING MAN is based on the book EVENINGS WITH CARY GRANT: Recollections in His Own Words and by Those Who Knew Him Best. Written by Nancy Nelson, with foreword by his wife Barbara and daughter Jennifer, EVENINGS WITH CARY GRANT is the definitive Grant biography. It has just been re-published in trade paperback by Kensington Press, under its Citadel imprint, and is available on Amazon. com. Some reviews: "Forget the other Grant books, this is it. Superb." (Kirkus Reviews); "The biography Cary Grant deserves . . . This is the standout Grant biography that should remain as his testament in print." (The Philadelphia Inquirer); "It's a funny, lovely book about Cary." (Katharine Hepburn); "The first book about the real Cary--lively, warm, always entertaining, totally honest--like the man himself." (Gregory Peck); "Here's a book as charming and likable as its subject--and that's saying a lot." (Booklist); "For a book about Grant that's almost as much fun as his films, this is the genuine article." (Variety).

If you are a Cary Grant fan, this book was written FOR YOU!

Peter Graves narrates a fifty minute review of the extensive film career of Cary Grant. Noting his greatest hits, Grant's public persona is not deeply examined; least of all, why Grant's crafting of a particular kind of leading man was so immensely popular. As Grant would have wanted it, his private life remains unknown apart from a public record of several marriages and divorces.