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The only man who didn’t want to be Cary Grant was Cary Grant himself

Two new books reveal how the tortured Hollywood star only found peace when he retired from the movies

Cary Grant in his mid-forties.‘There is a light and dark side to him’, wrote David Thomson, ‘but whichever is dominant, the other creeps into view’. Credit Alamy.
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  • Cary Grant: The Making of a Hollywood Legend

    Mark Glancy

    OUP, pp. 568, £22

  • Cary Grant: A Brilliant Disguise

    Scott Eyman

    Simon & Schuster, pp. 576, £25

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