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Cary Grant's suit : nine movies that made me the wreck I am today / Todd McEwen.

by McEwen, Todd, author.

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Mirefoot, Burneside, Kendal : Notting Hill Editions, 2023.

McEwen, Todd -- Childhood and youth.

Motion pictures -- Influence.

Motion pictures -- Appreciation.

Motion pictures -- History.

9781912559404 (hardcover) :

1912559404 (hardcover)

154 pages ; 19 cm

I am sucked into the system -- What the outdoors had to offer -- Blotto -- Technicolor -- 20,000 leagues under the sea -- Hulot -- Horror feebs of the fifties! -- Casablanca -- Chinatown -- Watching The 39 steps -- Ornaments on the tree of White Christmas -- Cary Grant's suit.

"Todd McEwen grew up in Southern California, so his head was hopelessly messed with by the movies. As the son of relatively normal people, Todd had no in with Hollywood, a mere thirteen miles away, yearn and try as he might. This is a kid who loved the movies so much, he got up at 4:30 in the morning to watch Laurel and Hardy. A kid who insisted on his birthday that his father project 8mm cartoons onto the family's dining room curtains so they could be slowly parted, just like at a real cinema. This is a kid who liked to leave the movie and trudge up hundreds of dangerous iron steps to visit the lugubrious and always surprised projectionist. This is a kid who, years later, watched Chinatown over 60 times. So far." -- Back cover.

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