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Cary Grant: The Lonely Heart

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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

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.

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.

This book was so horrible that I stopped reading it after a few pages. It detailed a false view of Cary Grant. Speculations have always been around of Cary Grant as a homosexual, but no basis for fact has ever arisen, therefore you cannot include such details without their false sense of themselves in the book. The books STINKS and its not worth the paper that it is printed on!

Wow. I'm certainly glad I didn't read these other reviews before I read this book. I don't agree with them at all. Grant was a closet bisexual (fact). He was abusive to some of the woman in his life (fact). He was a tyrant on the film set at times (fact). It's all here. He was not a nice man at times (fact). But he was a spy for the allies during the war and he knew who could be trusted and who couldn't. You meet his friends, his lovers (of both sexes) and you see the real man. I'm more saddened to learn that he hated making The Bishops Wife, my favorite Christmas movie of all time. I don't think less of the man after finding out some of his secrets, I feel sad that he was so unhappy for most of his life. He gave me so much joy in his movies, it's sad to note that he took almost no joy from making them.

I didn't learn a thing about Cary Grant by reading this "biography". It is nothing but tabloid trash; overly focused on speculations about Grant's sexuality and possible seedy connections. I was looking for an in-depth and serious book about one of the great screen stars of our time, not a lengthy gossip column. Definitely not recommended.