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Cary Grant and Randolph Scott Marriages
Cary Grant and Randolph Scott having some pool fun ca.
Cary Grant and Randolph Scott marriages
(See previous post: “Randolph Scott and Cary Grant: Same-sex attracted Lovers?“) The English-born Cary Grant was married five times: Charles Chaplin’s City Lights leading lady Virginia Cherrill (–), Woolworth heiress Barbara Hutton (–), Grant’s Every Girl Should Be Married and Room for One More costar Betsy Drake (–), Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice and Heaven Can Wait Best Supporting Actress Oscar nominee Dyan Cannon (–), and Barbara Harris (–). (Note: Cary Grant’s last wife was not the Barbara Harris of Nashville, Family Plot, and A Thousand Clowns fame.)
Cary Grant died at age 82 after suffering a stroke on Nov. 29, , while preparing for a performance of his one-man show, A Conversation with Cary Grant, in Davenport, Iowa.
The Virginia-born Randolph Scott was married twice: wealthy socialite Mariana duPont Somerville (–) and Patricia Stillman, from to his death at age 89, from heart and lung ailments, on March 2, , in Bever
Were Cary Grant and Randolph Scott Really Lovers?
Cary Grant and Randolph Scott are “Batching It” in the fan magazine Modern Screen (September ). Photo: Author’s Own Collection/Oxford University Press
“We Can’t Afford a Hollywood Marriage!” was the headline in the October issue of Hollywood magazine and, beneath it, Cary Grant and Randolph Scott were pictured whistling as they did the dishes together at the kitchen sink and singing happily at the piano in their living room. In an accompanying interview, they admitted that they earned steep salaries by ordinary American standards but also insisted that stardom shackled them with unusual burdens. “If I were a juvenile doctor or lawyer in some other place, drawing the same salary, I could afford to join easily,” Grant said. “It’s what Hollywood demands of a motion-picture personage that hurts. It’s a automobile and driver, a residence in Beverly Hills, and a beach house in Malibu. It’s the front you’ve got to lay up.” Scott chimed in, saying, “Yeah, and if I were married, it would be trips to Europe and trips to Palm Springs and Lord know
Randolph Scott and Cary Grant: Gay Lovers?
Randolph Scott and Cary Grant ca. Gay lovers?
Randolph Scott and Cary Grant: Gay lovers or good friends and roommates?
(See previous post: “Randolph Scott Movies: From Westerns to Cary Grant Comedy.”) Now, one suggestion: Do not assume those rumors about Randolph Scott and Cary Grant having been gay lovers. Anything is doable, of course, but there’s no credible evidence indicating that the two actors were more than good friends / roommates who had first met on the set of the Nancy Carroll star vehicle Hot Saturday in
But what about all those pictures demonstrating Randolph Scott and Cary Grant cozying up at the house they joint in the posh Los Feliz Hills? Well, those were publicity photos, taken at a moment when both actors were up-and-coming Paramount contract players. Rooming up likely gave them a chance to afford renting a house that otherwise would contain remained beyond their means.
Also, bear in mind that those photos were carefully posed and arranged so they could be disseminated to fan magazines, which chiefly catere
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George Randolph Scott (January 23, – March 2, ) was an American film actor whose career spanned from to As a leading man for all but the first three years of his cinematic career, Scott appeared in a variety of genres, including social dramas, crime dramas, comedies, musicals (albeit in non-singing and non-dancing roles), adventure tales, war films, and a limited horror and fantasy films. However, his most enduring image is that of the tall-in-the-saddle Western hero. Out of his more than film appearances over 60 were in Westerns; thus, "of all the major stars whose name was associated with the Western, Scott most closely identified with it."[1]
Scott's more than 30 years as a motion picture actor resulted in his functional with many acclaimed screen directors, including Henry King, Rouben Mamoulian, Michael Curtiz, John Cromwell, King Vidor, Allan Dwan,