Cary Grant: A Celebration

Cary Grant may have been ‘the best and most important actor in the history of the cinema,’ as he was once described, but off-screen he remained as elusive as one of the many enigmatic heroes he portrayed.
This most private of men was the most open of actors, a performer willing to try anything to make a scene work. It is precisely 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.
Richard Schickel’s text, combining critical analysis and a re-interpretation of all the available biographical information, masterfully maps the intersections where a great star’s personal history and his screen personality met in a style as elegant, graceful and witty as the actor himself.