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      CARY GRANT

      A Class Apart

      Graham McCann

       Copyright

      Fourth Estate

      An imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 1 London Bridge Street London SE1 9GF

       www.harpercollins.co.uk

      This edition published in 1997

      First published in Great Britain in 1996 by Fourth Estate

      Copyright © 1996 by Graham McCann

      The right of Graham McCann to be identified as the author of this

      work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

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      Source ISBN: 9781857025743

      Ebook Edition © FEBRUARY 2016 ISBN: 9780007378722

      Version: 2016-02-08

       Dedication

       For Silvanaand in memory of my dear grandparents,Frank and Florence Geary

       Contents

       Cover

       Title Page

       STARDOM

       VII Never a Better Time

       VIII The Intimate Stranger

       IX Suspicions

       INDEPENDENCE

       X The Actor as Producer

       XI The Pursuit of Happiness

       XII The Last Romantic Hero

       RETIREMENT

       XIII The Real World

       XIV The Discreet Celebrity

       XV Old Cary Grant

       Epilogue

       Filmography

       Keep Reading

       Bibliography

       Index

       Acknowledgements

       About the Author

       Notes

       About the Publisher

       Epigraph

      Everybody wants to be Cary Grant.

      Even I want to be Cary Grant.

      CARY GRANT

Interviewer: Do you know the important people in the world today?
Two hour old baby: Well,