Watch enough Alfred Hitchcock movies and you'll start to notice familiar faces, including some of the most famous ones from Hollywood's golden age. One of them is Cary Grant; during the 1940s and '50s, Hitch worked with Grant four times.
Of course, "Cary Grant" was as much a character as any of the ones that the actor born Archibald Leach played in his films, directed by Hitchcock or otherwise. Leach said of his star persona, "Everybody wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant." Graham McCann's biography "Cary Grant: A Class Apart" explores how Leach became Grant and, true to its...
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Of course, "Cary Grant" was as much a character as any of the ones that the actor born Archibald Leach played in his films, directed by Hitchcock or otherwise. Leach said of his star persona, "Everybody wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant." Graham McCann's biography "Cary Grant: A Class Apart" explores how Leach became Grant and, true to its...
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- 7/15/2022
- by Devin Meenan
- Slash Film
Cary Grant and Randolph Scott marriages (See previous post: “Randolph Scott and Cary Grant: Gay Lovers?“) The English-born Cary Grant was married five times: Charles Chaplin’s City Lights leading lady Virginia Cherrill (1934-1935), Woolworth heiress Barbara Hutton (1942-1945), Grant’s Every Girl Should Be Married and Room for One More co-star Betsy Drake (1949-1962), Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice and Heaven Can Wait Best Supporting Actress Oscar nominee Dyan Cannon (1965-1968), and Barbara Harris (1981-1986). 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 November 29, 1986, while preparing for a performance of his one-man show, A Conversation with Cary Grant, in Davenport, Iowa. (Photo: Cary Grant and Randolph Scott ca. 1933.) The Virginia-born Randolph Scott was married twice: wealthy socialite Mariana duPont Somerville (1936-1939) and Patricia Stillman, from 1943 to his...
- 8/19/2013
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
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 believe those rumors about Randolph Scott and Cary Grant having been gay lovers. Anything is possible, 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 1932. (See also: “TCM Movie Lineup: Randolph Scott Westerns.”) (Image: Shirtless Randolph Scott and Cary Grant in publicity photo ca. 1933.) But what about all those pictures showing Randolph Scott and Cary Grant cozying up at the house they shared in the posh Los Feliz Hills? Well, those were publicity photos, taken at a time when both actors were up-and-coming Paramount contract players. Rooming up likely gave them a chance to...
- 8/19/2013
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
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