‘Cary Grant: A Brilliant Disguise’ By Scott Eyman c.2020, Simon & Schuster $35 / 576 pages Recently, during the pandemic and election season, I felt down.
Until I watched “Bringing Up Baby,” the 1938 screwball comedy. Like millions of other fans, especially queer aficionados, I cracked up when David (Cary Grant) loses his clothes.
He’s wearing Susan’s (Katharine Hepburn) bathrobe. A prim, proper dowager comes to the door. “Why are you wearing those clothes,” she asks. “Because I just went gay all of a sudden!” David (Grant) exclaims. “Gary Grant: A Brilliant Disguise” by film historian Scott Eyman is a fascinating, comprehensive biography of the screen legend.