"Evenings with Cary Grant: Recollections in His Own Words and by Those Who Knew Him Best" by Nancy Nelson

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Charming, witty, effortlessly debonair, and elegant, Cary Grant was the ultimate leading man, a silver screen icon who seemed to embody all that a movie star should be. But beneath the glamour was a real and complicated man—surprisingly vulnerable, unabashedly romantic, an often exacting perfectionist who rose above a traumatic childhood and failed marriages to become an incomparable Hollywood legend.

More than 20 years after the first edition, Applause Theatre & Cinema Books publishes a fresh new edition of Evenings with Cary Grant by Nancy Nelson (Sept. 2012), the fan-preferred biography. In 1981, the author first persuaded Cary Grant to make public appearances and then represented and accompanied him and his wife for his superb one-man show called “A Conversation with Cary Grant.” Through those evenings and in many other more private conversations, she produced a book more personal than any other Cary Grant biography. As Gregory Peck said, this is “the first book about the real Cary—lively, warm, always entertaining, totally honest—like the man himself.”

Additionally, Nelson draws on material from Grant’s personal papers, along with loving, revelatory reminiscences from some of his closest friends and loved ones—including Katharine Hepburn, Gregory Peck, Audrey Hepburn, Elizabeth Taylor, Sophia Loren, Quincy Jones, James Stewart, and many more—to reveal the vaudevillian, actor, lover, and father. With a treasury of both well-loved and rarely seen photographs and a foreword by Grant's wife, Barbara, and daughter, Jennifer, this is the definitive biography of one of the screen's greatest stars.