The author's premise is that Archie Leach, a poor, lower class boy from Bristol, England, fled an unhappy childhood, joined an acrobat troupe, traveled to America, segued into vaudeville, then theater, then movies and eventually reinvented himself as the suave gentleman, Cary Grant. Living this life in "disguise" created tensions that took him his whole life to resolve. Despite having a compelling subject matter, this book is boring. Eyman goes off on anecdotal tangents about people and social events in Grant's milieu and provides a wealth of irrelevant detail that adds little. Unfortunately, there's little about others who must have been important, such as his agent, his tailor. And poorly written into the bargain with grammatical mistakes, hackneyed, trite phrases and unexplained Hollywood terminology. i struggled to finish it.