Dear Cary: My Life with Cary Grant

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3.9
68 reviews
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368
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Withhonesty and heart-rending emotion, actress and filmmaker DyanCannon tells the story of her topsy-turvy relationship with Hollywood legendCary Grant. Cannon’s captivating narrative takes the reader behind the scenesof Hollywood’s Golden Age, inside America’s high court of glamour and notorietyin which Cary Grant was king. In his private life alongside Cannon, however, astory that began with all the romance of his famous films—Charade, ToCatch a Thief, An Affair to Remember or The Philadelphia Story—wouldend up taking a series of tragic and unpredictable twists and turns. Insharing Grant’s inside story for the first time, Dear Cary is exactlywhat Hollywood is always looking for . . . the next blockbuster, and a storyfor romance lovers of all ages.  

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3.9
68 reviews
Kamas Kirian
February 6, 2016
All in all, I liked this book. I thought the first half was excellent, but the second half was merely good. Maybe it was my mood, maybe it is just the fact that Cary Grant is my favorite actor, so anything even remotely disparaging is somewhat unlikeable. That being said, it's a love story at heart, which is something I don't really get into. As memoirs go, it's pretty good. It only really deals with a small time frame in her life, that spent immediately before to immediately after her time with Cary Grant, though in the last few pages she makes a revelation in her life a few years after the divorce. And then a little afterword about recent events. There are some images spread throughout the book of letters/notes he wrote to her, and some photos at the end. The eBook was formatted fine with no obvious errors.
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A Google user
October 20, 2011
REALITY CHECK: This book was a shameless, self-promoting, self-flattering work of fiction and nearly everyone she writes about is dead. Dyan describes herself as an 'old-fashioned, marriage-minded girl'. Obviously, she was a highly manipulative one at that -- using the oldest trick in the book to force Cary into wedlock by "accidentally" getting pregnant. They eloped on July 22, 1965, in Las Vegas and their daughter, Jennifer, was born on February 26, 1966. Do the math. There is no mention of how they divorced soon after Jennifer's birth, and Dyan dragged "the love of her life's" name and reputation through the mud during the divorce proceedings, and how while she was gone making films, and Cary retired to be a stay-at-home-dad, she dragged him through an ugly 10 year child custody battle.At her in-person bookstore promotions, she loves to repeatedly tell the crowd that she was the only woman Cary ever trusted to have a child with.It's also interesting why Dyan would choose to write this book on the heels of her daughter's book -- "Good Stuff," a biography of her life with her famous father.
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Phylis Porter
February 18, 2016
This was a wonderful and insightful story that I hope many will have the privilege to enjoy. It is an inspirational story for us all as we deal with our own personal demons in life. It clearly shows us the way to the light and out of the darkness of becoming lost from who we truly are.
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About the author

Award-winning film and television actress, director, screenwriter, editor, and producer Dyan Cannon is the first woman in the history of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to be nominated for Oscars both as an actress and as a filmmaker. She lives in Hollywood and is at courtside for every Los Angeles Lakers home game.

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