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    Dear Cary: My Life with Cary Grant
    Dear Cary: My Life with Cary Grant
    Dear Cary: My Life with Cary Grant
    Audiobook10 hours

    Dear Cary: My Life with Cary Grant

    Written by Dyan Cannon

    Narrated by Dyan Cannon

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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.  
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperAudio
    Release dateSep 20, 2011
    ISBN9780062072603
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    Dyan Cannon

    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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    • 3/5
      Loved it she really made me live her love and her suffering
    • 5/5
      I enjoyed hearing Dyan Cannon’s recollection of Cary Grant. He was a piece of work. Entertainingly informative. Humor blended with sadness blended with joyful forgiveness.
    • 5/5
      Dyans candor, love and sensational voice kept me totally engaged and anxious for the next chapter.
    • 5/5
      I didn't know much about the relationship between Cannon and Grant, other than that they had a child and they divorced soon after she was born. I found it enlightening, in that we don't usually hear about the darker side of our beloved celebrities. Cannon's relationship with Grant followed the typical cycle of abuse. Being charmed by a narcissistic, charismatic man, being wooed and loved, and, then once he had her in his grips, showed his true colours. Fortuneately, Cannon found the strength to get Jennifer and herself out of that situation and break the cycle of abuse. A truly difficult story to tell, but I am glad that Cannon had the courage to share it.
    • 4/5
      I really enjoyed this story and I think Dyan Cannon did a remarkable job telling such a painful and private tale. Most of the book was a delightful love story, but the love story turned dark after the couple was married. Of course I expected this as I knew they were divorced. Overall there were quite a few lessons to be learned about spousal abuse, fame, drugs, and so on. While Ms. Cannon wasn't physically abused she certainly suffered emotional abuse at the hands of Cary Grant.
    • 4/5
      This was a brutally honest book about Dyan Cannon's relationship with Cary Grant, the depth of despair she experienced after she married him, and her journey to becoming whole again. Grant was a very complex individual but also seemed very insecure, and Cannon's analysis of his shortcomings have been covered in other books. She tried her best to understand him and "change" to be the person he wanted. Unfortunately, no matter what she did, she could never become the person he wanted. Yes, there was a 33 year age difference between them and like all girls of Cannon's age, you expect Prince Charming to come along and to everyone, Grant was, and still is, Prince Charming. However, Cannon does not discuss the bitter custody battle that took place with Grant over daughter Jennifer or if she ever met Grant's last wife. This is a great companion piece to daughter Jennifer's book on Cary Grant that was published about the same time.
    • 3/5
      This is for the audio version: Read by Dyan Cannon, it's the account of her life with Cary Grant. Perhaps the printed edition would come off better. Cannon does ok, but it sounds like she's reading someone else's writing. For example, she seems to trip over words sometimes that perhaps are words she's not accustomed to using. The story itself was enlightening to someone who knew nothing of Grant's personal life.
    • 3/5
      I wasn't thrilled with this book. Cannon makes it seem as if Grant was an LSD crazed maniac willing to give up his career and family simply because she refused to participate in his drug-induced God-seeking journeys. Cannon sounded like a shallow, giggly preadolescence as she described her life with Cary Grant. Not so sure I buy her story.