Good stuff a reminiscence of my father, Cary Grant
The author is the only child of Cary Grant and Dyan Cannon. This portrait is of the relationship between a daughter and her father, one of America's most iconic male movie stars. She writes of their life together through her high school and college years until his death in 1986 at the age of ei...
| Main Author: | Grant, Jennifer, 1966- |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Alfred A. Knopf,
2011.
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Table of Contents:
- The knee-jerk "no"
- Archives: the time machine
- 9966: freedom has a beautiful structure
- Butter and margarine
- Friendship is born of respect
- Friends and travel
- Smart women
- Racetrack
- Dodger days
- Acting
- Fame
- Fame, the lifestyle
- Society of gossips, or, mind your own business
- Mom & Dad, mad at the cookies
- The beautiful English woman in Dad's Jennifer-blue Cadillac
- Dad and Barbara
- The Grants
- It's okay to be a pip
- Dad and me: slow like stew
- Marbles now or horses later?
- The phantom pot smoke
- Don't marry the guy you break the bed with
- Polishing an Academy Award
- The Leach potato wart cure
- My father was a hottie
- Deeper waters
- Life with death.