Cary Grant: The Lonely Heart [Hardcover]

Charles Higham (Author), Roy Moseley (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 1989

Extensively documented and filled with illuminating comments from Grant's fellow actors, friends, and associates, The Lonely Heart is a fascinating and controversial portrait of an elegant, tormented man, Cary Grant.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 16 pages
• Publisher: Harcourt; 1ST edition (March 1989)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0151157871
• ISBN-13: 978-0151157877
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 6.2 x 1.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 1.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,492,374 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Old Gossip, June 1, 2004

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Gary F. Taylor "GFT" (Biloxi, MS USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Cary Grant: The Lonely Heart (Hardcover)

Depending on whom you ask, you will be told that Cary Grant was homosexual, bisexual, or heterosexual; that he was a hard drinker and occasional drug user or that he despised both; that he was a miser or that he was uncommonly generous; that he was an abusive husband or a remarkably tender lover; that he was disturbed to the point of psychosis or that he was the most level-headed man imaginable. And it is quite possible that he was indeed all these seemingly contradictory things at various points in his complicated life.

But rather than actually explore any of these subjects, Mosely and Higham simply rake up a lot old gossip and let it go at that--and what emerges is not so much a portrait of Cary Grant but the extreme lights in which Hollywood scandal mongers tended to regard him. This is Cary Grant according gossip columnists, intent upon enticing readers with tabloid accusations instead of making any actual exploration of the nature of the man behind the movie image. Not recommended.

GFT, Amazon Reviewer

6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Dreadful, January 3, 2007

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peekay1861 "peekay1861" (Wyoming) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Cary Grant: The Lonely Heart (Paperback)

My disgust with this book is not its gossipy nature or its interest in Grant's sexuality. I loathe this book because the authors seem incapable of getting the basic facts straight. Statements of fact -- rather obvious things like the year of Grant's first visit to America -- are contradicted within the space of a few pages. Did these guys read each other's work? The whole thing is just a stupid, stupid mess. The authors should be beaten and their editor should be shot.

The only book I've ever thrown in the trash.

10 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars A Dissappointment, May 27, 2001

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Rebecca Willardson (Hemet,CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Cary Grant: The Lonely Heart (Paperback)

This book is a dissappointment to say the least! With very little basis in any fact the book is presented negativly by the authors. Has a good title but is weak from beginning to to end.