Cary Grant: A Celebration

by Richard Schnickel (Author)

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  Hardcover
  1995

  $4.96

• Used

  Paperback
  1998

  $4.90

  During Cary Grant's long life a great deal of testimony accumulated. Even early in the search for him, it can be established that he had a dark side and a light side. The source of Cary's art, argues Schickel, lay in his ability to colour his comedy with malice and self-absorption. The reverse was true also - he seemed easily able to get a laugh even in the midst of dramatic tension. This most private of men was an open actor, a performer willing to try anything to make a scene work. It is perhaps because he was able so artfully to reveal so much of himself in this way that he revealed almost nothing of himself under direct questioning. This tribute to Cary Grant's art is based on a re-evaluation of all his films and a re-interpretation of all the biographical information. Schickel maps the intersection where the man's personal history and his screen personality met.