Charming witty effortlessly debonair and elegant Cary Grant was the ultimate leading man a silver screen icon who seemed to embody all that a movie star should be. But beneath the glamour was a real and complicated man surprisingly vulnerable unabashedly romantic often exacting perfectionist who rose above a traumatic childhood and failed marriages to become an incomparable Hollywood legend. In this sublimely truthful and candid portrait biographer Nancy Nelson draws on interviews with Grant as well as material from his personal papers along with loving revelatory reminiscences from some of his closest friends and loved ones including Katharine Hepburn Gregory Peck Audrey Hepburn Elizabeth Taylor Sophia Loren Quincy Jones James Stewart and many more to reveal the vaudevillian actor lover and father.