Born January 18: Cary Grant

Cary Grant and Randolph Scott met on the set of a movie called, in something of an understatement, Hot Saturday, and almost immediately they began living together in a house nicknamed Bachelor Hall, which they would share off and on for twelve years (1932-1944). Their affair has always been spun, desperately, as two stars who lived together merely because both were "tightwads." During that time, Grant was married to Virginia Cherrill from February 1934 to March 1935 and to Barbara Hutton from 1942 to 1945. Two questions: What sort of man keeps his house with his bud even after he gets married, and what sort of tightwad prefers spending the money to maintain two households rather than one? George Cukor confirmed that Randolph Scott would talk about their affair to friends, and a slew of recent biographers have also verified their relationship. Grant himself told an interviewer that his first two wives, overlapping with Scott, "accused him of being homosexual," though, of course, he always denied it and was as quick as Tom Cruise to sue for libel. (He sued Chevy Chase for saying, "What a gal!") Several other men have said they had affairs with Grant, including his chauffeur in 1957 and fashion arbiter Richard Blackwell, who wrote in his autobiography of having sex with both Grant and Scott. Grant's fifth and final wife was 47 years his junior. He died at 82 in 1986.

Comments

[Michael]

The text makes it sound like yes, but I don't see anything specifically gay in a picture of two guys in a pool. Then again, I don't have the best gaydar.

[Jason]

Perhaps he was a tortured gay, which would explain his guided 'trips' on LSD in the 60s. Maybe he was trying to guide himself out of being gay.

At any rate, I woulndn't have kicked him out of bed for eating crackers!

[Term Papers]

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