Dear Cary - Dyan Cannon [133]
On top of the world.
About the Author
DYAN CANNON is an award-winning film and television actress, director, screenwriter, editor, and producer. She 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 has matched those two honors with two Golden Globe awards nominations for her acting, and won one, to which she added a New York Film Critics award. Dyan Cannon lives in Hollywood and is at courtside for every Los Angeles Lakers home game.
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Credits
Cover design by Robin Bilardello
Cover photograph © by Bettmann/Corbis
Unless otherwise credited, all photographs and art courtesy of the author.
Copyright
DEAR CARY. Copyright © 2011 by Bonkers Entertainment, Inc. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
EPub Edition September 2011 ISBN: 9780062079138
FIRST EDITION
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Cannon, Dyan.
Dear Cary : a memoir / Dyan Cannon. — 1st ed.
p. cm.
ISBN 978-0-06-196140-3
1. Grant, Cary, 1904–1986. 2. Grant, Cary, 1904–1986—Marriage. 3. Cannon, Dyan. 4. Cannon, Dyan—Marriage. 5. Motion picture actors and actresses—United States—Biography. 6. Wives—United States—Biography. I. Title.
PN2287.G675C36 2011
791.43'028092—dc23
2011018260
11 12 13 14 15 OV/RRD 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
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Table of Contents
Cover
Title Page
Dedication
Contents
Chapter 1: When in Rome
Chapter 2: Back to Earth
Chapter 3: Lunch, Not Marriage
Chapter 4: Have Girlfriend, Will Travel
Chapter 5: Riding High
Chapter 6: Table for Two
Chapter 7: Fork in the Road
Chapter 8: Nobody’s Perfect
Chapter 9: Enamored
Chapter 10: Time Flies
Chapter 11: Discovered
Chapter 12: Getting to Know You
Chapter 13: Oneness
Chapter 14: Game Time
Chapter 15: Coming Up Short
Chapter 16: Long-Distance Love
Chapter 17: The Middle Finger
Chapter 18: The Dismantling Effect
Chapter 19: The Big Sting
Chapter 20: A Coke and a Kiss
Chapter 21: Happy New Year
Chapter 22: Emergencies
Chapter 23: Hormones and Hamburgers
Chapter 24: Honeymoon Getaway
Chapter 25: Pressure Cooker
Chapter 26: Culinary Capers
Chapter 27: Completion
Chapter 28: The Big Freeze
Chapter 29: Husbands and Wives
Chapter 30: Shrinking
Chapter 31: Tripping and Zipping
Chapter 32: Standoff
Chapter 33: Breaking Points
Chapter 34: Time Out
Chapter 35: Grant vs. Grant
Chapter 36: Zoo Time
Chapter 37: Breakthrough
Chapter 38: Liberation Day
Dear Cary
Author's Note
Acknowledgments
Photo Insert
About the Author
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Copyright
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