Evenings with Cary Grant

Engaging, warm chronological memoir of Cary Grant, assembled from his own words and those of friends and fellow actors by Nelson, who represented Grant on the lecture circuit during his last years. Nelson met Grant while arranging for his "Evenings with Cary Grant''--Grant made 36 such unrehearsed appearances, speaking intimately to 1,000 to 3,000 listeners and answering questions for about two hours a show, to standing ovations. Nelson contemplated a book based on the notes she had made at these events, but discovered that her connections as an agent served her better--a rich source of stories featuring Cary Grant that might have been told often, but never to a mass audience. This is a lovely Grant biography/memoir, with reminiscences of many times and places from people who knew Grant in those times and places.