Cary grant was he gay
From Scott Eyman’s “Cary Grant: A Brilliant Disguise&#; (Simon & Schuster, ), as excerpted in The Daily Beast:
&#;[Writer] Bill Royce and Grant even had a conversation about sex. After Royce unburdened himself about his affairs with both men and women, Grant responded by implying he had been basically gay as a young man, later bisexual, still later straight.
&#;[Randolph] Scott, he said, had seen their relationship as &#;locker-room playing around.&#; It had nothing to do with how a man should lead his life. Besides that, at one point Darryl Zanuck had taken Randy aside and told him that enough was enough.
&#;Grant explained sexuality in terms of act, of acting. He told Royce that to not completely travel one’s sexuality would be prefer an actor playing only one character for life. Everybody, he said, had more than one character inside them. He didn’t think homosexual acts were anything to be ashamed of, or, for that matter, proud of. They simply were part of the journey, not necessarily the final destination.
&#;I think Cary saw the searching I was
The 'truth' about Cary Grant's sexuality is finally revealed: He was the subject of rumours for decades, now a friend has told all about his male lover. TOM LEONARD explores the Hollywood legend's legacy
He was an player who married five times, on the final occasion to a woman 46 years his junior. He had flings with a string of beauties, including Grace Kelly and Sophia Loren. And, not surprisingly, he was Hollywood’s most sought-after leading man for almost three decades.
Given this track record, it wasn’t hard for the clip studios to portray Cary Grant as the most voracious of red-blooded heterosexuals. But, while its actions succeeded with the general public, it was a different story when it came to Tinseltown’s cognoscenti.
‘Whom does he think he is fooling?’ the notorious Hollywood gossip columnist Hedda Hopper once asked waspishly.
She was referring to whispers that Grant was queer. The debate over the sexuality of a matinee idol who once said ‘making love is the best form of exercise’ has raged for almost a century.
The women in Grant’s life – such as his wives and his
Cary Grant’s Daughter Finally Reveals if He Was Gay or Not
Cary Grant’s only daughter, Jennifer Grant, whose mom is actress Dyan Cannon, finally wants to put the rumors to rest. For decades, fans own speculated about Grant’s sexuality, with some believing that he was gay after being married five times and only having one kid at the age of Grant, whose real name was Archibald &#;Archie&#; Leach, lived with his co-star Randolph Scott in Malibu for 12 years after working together on the film Hot Saturday, which only fueled the rumors.
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She said, &#;I guess the [misconception about my father] that comes to thought is the scrutinize of, ‘Was he straight? Was he gay?’ When I wrote my novel [in ], I got hate mail saying, ‘Why aren’t you standing up for the truth that your father was homosexual?’ But the truth of the matter is, I never saw anything to point out that. And had he been lgbtq+, I absolutely would’ve stood up for it. He had gay friends and there’s just absolutely nothing to be ashamed of there. But I had to speak the truth, which was
By Stephen M. Silverman
Tuesday April 26, PM EDT
Cary Grant and daughter Jennifer Grant
Everett Collection; Robert Legg
A manual written by Cary's daughter,"Good Stuff"
Hers was a Hollywood fairy-tale existence few, if anybody, can live: creature the child of arguably the most famous show star in the planet – and, certainly, the most dapper, elegant and charming. His name was Cary Grant.
"Okay, I had a crush on Dad. Okay, more than a little crush on Dad," Jennifer Grant, 45, writes in her warm memoir, Good Stuff: A Reminiscence of My Father, Cary Grant, which Alfred A. Knopf is publishing May 3. "My other authentic crushes were Donny Osmond and Jean-Paul Belmondo."
But it was Cary Grant who picked up young Jennifer at school, who interpret to her, taught her life lessons and saved every photo, souvenir and scrap of paper that the two of them shared for the 20 years he was in her life. He died, at 82, in
Those mementos and Jennifer's memories of them form the crux of her publication, which is dedicated to her mother, the actress Dyan Cannon. (Cannon an