The Reading Chair: “Cary Grant: A Brilliant Disguise” by Scott Eyman

Thomas Burchfield
16 min readDec 18, 2020

A brilliant look at how Archie Leach from Bristol England, created the brilliant disguise we know and love as Cary Grant.

Cary Grant: Illegally handsome

Nearly sixty years after his last movie in 1965 and thirty-four years after his death in 1986, Cary Grant remains the Man, the One. His appeal to both men and women remains intense and universal and his image genuinely…

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Thomas Burchfield

Essayist, film critic, humorist, and novelist. The author of 1920s noir gangster novel , BUTCHERTOWN, available at Amazon and other booksellers.