Cary Grant, the Making of a Hollywood Legend

Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-0-19-005313-0
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 568 Seiten, Format (B × H): 168 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 958 g

A definitive new account of the professional and personal life of one of Hollywood's most unforgettable, influential stars.

Archie Leach was a poorly educated, working-class boy from a troubled family living in the backstreets of Bristol. Cary Grant was Hollywood's most debonair film star--the embodiment of worldly sophistication. Cary Grant: The Making of a Hollywood Legend tells the incredible story of how a sad, neglected boy became the suave, glamorous star many know and idolize. The first biography to be based on Grant's own personal papers, this book takes us on a fascinating journey from the actor's difficult childhood through years of struggle in music halls and vaudeville, a hit-and-miss career in Broadway musicals, and three decades of film stardom during Hollywood's golden age.

Leaving no stone unturned, Cary Grant delves into all aspects of Grant's life, from the bitter realities of his impoverished childhood to his trailblazing role in Hollywood as a film star who defied the studio system and took control of his own career. Highlighting Grant's genius as an actor and a filmmaker, author Mark Glancy examines the crucial contributions Grant made to such classic films as Bringing Up Baby (1938), The Philadelphia Story (1940), Notorious (1946), An Affair to Remember (1957), North by Northwest (1959), Charade (1963) and Father Goose (1964). Glancy also explores Grant's private life with new candor and insight throughout the book's nine sections, illuminating how Grant's search for happiness and fulfillment lead him to having his first child at the age of 62 and embarking on his fifth marriage at the age of 77. With this biography--complete with a chronological filmography of the actor's work--Glancy provides a definitive account of the professional and personal life of one of Hollywood's most unforgettable, influential stars.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Glancy, Mark

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Einzelne Filmschauspieler, Filmregisseure, Drehbuchautoren
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft Einzelne Theaterschauspieler & Regisseure
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Einzelne Künstler: Biographien, Monografien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Preface

- Part One: Archie

- Chapter 1

- Chapter 2

- Chapter 3

- Part Two: Tumbler

- Chapter 4

- Chapter 5

- Chapter 6

- Part Three: Matinee Idol

- Chapter 7

- Chapter 8

- Chapter 9

- Chapter 10

- Chapter 11

- Chapter 12

- Part Four: Cary

- Chapter 13

- Chapter 14

- Chapter 15

- Chapter 16

- Part Five: American

- Chapter 17

- Chapter 18

- Chapter 19

- Part Six: Movie-Made Man

- Chapter 20

- Chapter 21

- Chapter 22

- Part Seven: Truth Seeker

- Chapter 23

- Chapter 24

- Chapter 25

- Part Eight: Survivor

- Chapter 26

- Chapter 27

- Part Nine: Legend

- Chapter 28

- Chapter 29

- Chapter 30

- Sources

- Notes

- Filmography

Über Autor(innen)

Mark Glancy is Reader in Film History at Queen Mary University of London. His media work includes appearances on the BBC Radio Four programmes Archive Hour, Back Row, and Great Lives, as well as many articles on film history for the magazines BBC History and History Revealed. Most recently, he served as the editorial consultant and on-screen contributor to the feature-length documentary film Becoming Cary Grant (2017). His publications include When Hollywood Loved Britain: The Hollywood "British" Film, 1939-1945 (1999), The 39 Steps: A British Film Guide (2003), and, as a co-editor, The New Film History: Methods, Sources, Approaches (2007), and Hollywood and the Americanization of Britain, from the 1920s to the present (2013).