Now 90, the storied actor reflects on his long career with charm and honesty. The result is riveting.
with Sean Connery, whose director John Huston said the pair had the skill and the precision of a great vaudeville duo., “In a weird way the Second World War was the best thing that ever happened to me – certainly in terms of my health because it got me away from all the pollution and industrial filth around Bermondsey. I basically lived on a farm for six years … I’m sure that all that good country air and food accounts for the fact that I ended up being six foot two.
Caine became friends with playwrights John Osborne and Harold Pinter. You can hear the born anecdotist on every page of this book, but the stories burn brighter for the fact that he is deadly serious.is riveting – and telling. He only got the role of the tall, posh officer because of the American director Cy Endfield, who was “looking for an actor to play a cockney corporal”. “But Cy went on, ‘You know, you don’t look like a corporal.
He’ll tell you a story against himself about how he was prosing on about some Hollywood woman and how Cary Grant wouldn’t know about all that, and Grant says, “I used to be married to her.”Caine’s candid answers are all very down to earth. “I remember being very flattered later on when John said I was ‘an honest man’. That was one of the greatest compliments anyone has ever paid me.
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