Affair to Remember

by William Royce and Maureen Donaldson

Book Overview

My Life with Cary Grant by Maureen Donaldson This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0399134506
• ISBN13: 9780399134500
• Release Date: February 1989
• Publisher: Putnam Publishing Group
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Excellent, insightful book!!!!!

Like an above reveiwer siad: I felt like I knew Mr. Grant after reading this. Ms. Donaldson has written a superb book revealing the real Cary Grant. We, the readers, see Mr. Grant for the real person he is. A gentleman, an overprotective loving father, an insecure, private man. and she writes of her relationship with Cary. Their many many good times together. The insecurities of Cary's that drove her nuts and finally ended their relationship, and her relationship with Cary's daughter Jennifer. Her and Jennifer became close friends. I felt like I knew Cary Grant inside and out after reading this. I recommend this book to all fellow Cary Grant fans!!!

So Intresting

I really enjoyed reading this book. Cary Grant might be very complex and difficult person to live with.Yet he is gentle and kind.That is enough.I simply feel sorry that Maureen Donaldson didn't marry him.She Couldn't realize how much she was loved!She will also regret not marrying him for the rest of her life!! (Sorry for my bad English)

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I've just finished reading this and i'm a little shellshocked. Not because I feel Grant has been villified but perhaps merely because it shows such a debonair and enigmatic idol of mine as a true fallible human being. Like the other reviewer commented, I too thought it seemed to be written with a fair amount of objectivity. It did not come across to me as a bitter and delibrate attempt to trash or undermine Grant. It does come across, however, as a bit of a tacky and harrowing romance novel, even the presentation of the book conveys such an image. I think if you're a Cary Grant fan that wants to find out a little more about Archie Leach and is willing to accept the fact that their view of Cary may be tarnished in the process; then go ahead and read this, it is an interesting and (from what I can tell) balanced read. Let's all hope he was happy in the end.

Great Book

I felt like I knew Cary Grant much better after reading this book. It seems to have been written with some objectivity. The book makes you feel as though you are right in the middle of their relationship. I really enjoyed reading about the details of the most dashing man of the classic movie era. There will never be another Cary Grant, unfortunately.