Dear Cary: My Life With Cary Grant - Plot & Excerpts
From a distance of about ten yards, I watched Cary as he prepared himself for the next scene. He was doing location work in Jamaica on Father Goose and had invited me down for a couple of weeks of the filming. In this picture, Cary had uncharacteristically donned the aspect of a ragged, whiskey-soaked sailor. He was as unkempt as his costar, Leslie Caron, was groomed (even though the story had them stranded on a Pacific island during World War II). Cary was having a ball playing a disheveled rogue. Jamaica was wonderful. I slept late in Cary’s rented beachfront villa, took long walks on the shore, and every day went to the set to join him for lunch. Then I’d stay for the rest of the day to watch filming. I really loved seeing Cary frolic with the child actors. They followed him around like ducklings, laughing and giggling at his monkey faces and pratfalls. He was like a big, happy kid. This man was meant to have children, I thought, and I said as much to him: “You are great with those children!
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