Evenings With Cary Grant: Recollections in His Own Words and by Those Who Knew Him Best Review

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Evenings With Cary Grant: Recollections in His Own Words and by Those Who Knew Him Best ReviewIf you love Cary Grant, you will love this fantastic book written by Nancy Nelson. What makes Nelson's book special is that because it is supported by Grant's daughter Jennifer and wife Barbara, the reader can feel confident that the facts and descriptions reported are true to Cary Grant's character. The text is an enjoyable blend of Nancy Nelson's writing as well as Cary Grant's own words and the words of those who were his close friends. I was in love with Cary Grant before reading this book, simply because I adore him in his movies. After finishing it, I adored Cary Grant as not only an incredible actor, but as an endearing and generous friend, father & husband. The mark that Cary Grant has left on us is priceless and his films continue to bring joy to so many generations after him. His charm is timeless. Nancy Nelson allows us to get as close to knowing Grant as we possibly can. I highly recommend this book.Evenings With Cary Grant: Recollections in His Own Words and by Those Who Knew Him Best OverviewA look at the life of Cary Grant describes his parents, favorite movies, his social life, and his marriages and features anecdotes by the people who knew Grant personally. Reprint. K. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Cary Grant Review

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Cary Grant ReviewThough I've seen quite a few of Cary Grant's movies, this is the first biography on him that I've read. I was quite impressed with the book. Since I had seen tv documentaries and read a little about Cary on the internet, I was familiar with his life but this helped flesh out the details. Cary Grant's rise to stardom is probably one of the most unlikely and fascinating stories of Hollywood. As a young boy (age 9) his mother was suddenly taken from him and Cary was left to assume that she'd died or abandoned him. As any psychologist can tell you, this would be a huge impact on anybody's life. The rest of the story, Archie Leach (CG's real name) turning into Cary Grant is interesting and the anecdotes related throughout the book give a good sense of Cary's character. He is shown to be a caring, private, and humorous man in real life as he was on the screen. He had his troubles as well and this book deals with those excellently. It doesn't gloss over bad parts in Grant's life. I would have appreciated more stories illustrating Grant's character and more background on his marriages (the author states the facts about how he met his wives, when they were married, and when they were divorced, but not much more). All in all, it is an excellent biography, not the sleazy type at all, and a fitting tribute to one of the greatest actor's the world has known. I plan on reading more about the fascinating life of Cary Grant.Cary Grant Overview

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Marlene: Marlene Dietrich, A Personal Biography Review

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Marlene: Marlene Dietrich, A Personal Biography ReviewQuotes that are doubtful, facts that are all personal memory (and proved wrong, many of them, long ago) - repeated again and again - the book was a scrap book of words that shed, in the end, no new light on the wonderful Marlene and, in fact, allowed silly nonsense to supplant fact. The truth is much better than this book. The word on the Internet is that the so-called interviews with Marlene never happened and that the author made them all up from other people's material.Marlene: Marlene Dietrich, A Personal Biography OverviewIn Marlene, the legendary Hollywood icon is vividly brought to life, based on a series of conversations with the star herself and with others who knew her well. In the mid-1970s Charlotte Chandler spoke with Marlene Dietrich in Dietrich's Paris apartment. The star's career was all but over, but she agreed to meet because Chandler hadn't known Dietrich earlier, "when I was young and very beautiful." Dietrich may have been retired, but her appearance and her celebrity—her famous mystique—were as important to her as ever. Marlene Dietrich's life is one of the most fabulous in Hollywood history. She began her career in her native Berlin as a model, then a stage and screen actress during the silent era, becoming a star with the international success The Blue Angel. Then, under the watchful eye of the director of that film, her mentor Josef von Sternberg, she came to America and became one of the brightest stars in Hollywood. She made a series of acclaimed pictures—Morocco, Shanghai Express, Blonde Venus, Destry Rides Again, among many others—that propelled her to international stardom. With the outbreak of World War II, the fiercely anti-Nazi Dietrich became an American citizen and entertained Allied troops on the front lines. After the war she embarked on a new career as a stage performer, and with her young music director, the gifted Burt Bacharach—whom Chandler interviewed for the book—Dietrich had an outstanding second career. Dietrich spoke candidly with Chandler about her unconventional private life: although she never divorced her husband, Rudi Sieber, she had numerous well-publicized affairs with his knowledge (and he had a longtime mistress with her approval). By the late 1970s, plagued by accidents, Dietrich had become a virtual recluse in her Paris apartment, communicating with the outside world almost entirely by telephone Marlene Dietrich lived an extraordinary life, and Marlene relies extensively on the star's own words to reveal how intriguing and fascinating that life really was.

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Cary Grant: A Biography Review

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Cary Grant: A Biography ReviewThank Goodness that Cary Grant led an interesting and sometimes spectacular life, otherwise this book would be a complete bore. My biggest complaint is that Marc Elliot only offers theories and opinions and very little fact or even sound logic behind some very outlandish claims. For example, he supposes that Cary Grant must have been a male escort because how else could he have survived in New York on his own at 17 years old. Even though we learn that he lived with two other men who helped him out and worked at any job he could get: stiltwalking, selling ties and starting up his own acrobat troupe. By the way since one of the men he lived with was gay, Marc also surmizes that he and Cary were lovers. As further proof of his being a male escort he offers the fact that Mae West casts the very handsome and young Cary in two of her movies even though he was a complete unknown. Furthermore, since she was known to arrange dates for rich men and women with her showbiz friends in New YOrk and since Cary was in New York at the same time and also in showbiz then she must have been his pimp in those early years. Add to that the fact that Cary couldn't stand Mae West seems to somehow substantiate this theory (at least in his own mind). It was this type of logic(illogic) and supposition that is peppered throughout the book that finally renderes it unreliable and essentially fictional.
He offers no first hand annecdotes, facts or source material that supports his theory/supposition that Cary is gay. Someone repeating gossip is just gossip and thats all thats offered. Even though he goes into great detail showing how Cary was blacklisted by the studios for being the first actor to go independent and even Marc Elliot suggests that much of the gay gossip orignated from the studios trying to punish and hopefully reign in their very very big star. They used Hedda Hopper and the other gossip mongers to beserch him in any way they could, hoping he would submit to their demands. Its sad that Marc Elliot doesnt offer anything of value; no articles, no interviews or even 2nd hand accounts of his homosexuality, bi-sexuality or even frugality. He just repeats old rumors that have been repeated over and over again through the years, and presents them as facts.
The funniest/insulting part was Marc Elliots' ( as one reviewer said) attempt at psychoanalysis of Cary Grant and his sexual relationships. Its amazing since the author never met Cary Grant and doesnt interview anyone who knew or slept with the man for that matter, even though 3 of his wives are still living. He bases this in depth analysis on divorce records and gossip again. He says Cary's first marriage fell apart because of his relationship with Scott, but his first wife according to these same records only accuses him of being domineering and jealous: Randolph Scott doesnt come up at all even as a buddy who is around too much; since she was in the midst of a divorce trying to get a rather large settlement (but failed) you'd think something juicy like that would have come up. He also skips over completely his five year live in relationship with Phyllis Brooks who lived with him off and on at the Scott beach house or that Scott himself married twice and had two children during this supposed affair. The author seems to edit things as he sees fit to substantiate his theories, but just gets so much wrong its hard to take any of it seriously. I think the worst example is his accusing Cary of having a gay affair (again) with his chaueffer, even though the chaueffer says it never happened and admits to having a relationship with Cary's 3rd wife after their divorce. Elliot never interviews or seems to take notice of interviews with Betsy Drake (3rd wife), Cannon (4th wife) or his 5th wife who all state that Cary was never gay and he also never interviews the chaueffer, though he's also alive and well. The book is such a shallow offering that it seems to come from nothing but the most salacious rumors the author could find and put in a book form. He put no time or effort into this and its obvious.
The only value I found in this book were the first few chapters of Cary's early life. What a sad childhood and what a brave and resourceful man Cary Grant must have been to survive without love or care and to be on his own since 10 years old and truly overcome insurmountable obstacles. That alone is enough to make his star shine brighter.Cary Grant: A Biography Overview

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