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A Smooth Transition; How Archie Leach Became Cary Grant
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CARY GRANT
A Class Apart
By Graham McCann
Columbia University Press. 346 pp. $24.95
Graham McCann gets to the essential point right off the bat.
"Cary Grant was an excellent idea," he writes in the opening
paragraph of this admirable biography. "He did not exist, so someone
had to invent him." The man who did was named Archie Leach, born in
the English city of Bristol in 1904. Cary Grant was born 27 years
later, when Leach signed with Paramount and permitted his name to be
changed. He so liked this name and the persona that came with it
"that he devoted the rest of his life to its ...
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News Wire article from: The Hindustan Times
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