Luis Fernando Romo

Updated Thursday, March 7, 2024-9:44 p.m.

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"Who do you think you're fooling?" gossip columnist

Hedda Hopper

once exclaimed

regarding the true connection between

Cary Grant and Randolph Scott.

For decades,

rumors

about a love relationship between the two actors have crossed the big screen without disrupting the

macho heartthrob

archetype that Grant embodied in the history of cinema.

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The germ of this gossip dates back to

the early 1930s

when Grant and Scott starred in

Saturday Night Out

(1932) because they were

contracted

by Paramount Pictures.

As a result of the

chemistry

during filming, Cary proposed to his colleague

that they move to his house

in the residential neighborhood of Hollywood Hills, specifically in Griffith Park, under the gigantic Hollywoodland sign (over time the 'land' would end up disappearing). .

When the fan magazine

Modern Screen

published a photo of the stars

looking at each other lovingly while savoring some

fish and seafood

dishes

in the framework of an interview about the celebrities' favorite dishes, the bickering quickly reached biblical proportions.

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In a short time

they were photographed in the garden, in the pool,

running along the beach in swimsuits, playing the piano... Immediately,

Paramount put the machinery

of its marketing department into motion to refine the image of its two leading men.

He forced them to get married.

It was necessary to give a good image in the archaic and homophobic mecca of cinema.

The protagonist of

Bringing Up Baby

(1938) passed

through the altar five times,

one of them with the billionaire heiress

Barbara Hutton

who confessed that, after the divorce, Cary had been the only man who had not taken

a single dollar from her.

,

and another with actress

Dyan Cannon

(87), mother of his only daughter,

Jennifer

(58).

And

Scott,

performer of

Land of the Audacious

(1939), did it twice.

When Cary Grant met

Bill Royce

in 1973 , who was then working for gossip journalist Rona Barrett (87),

the interpreter undressed

- metaphorically - in front of that 25-year-old young man.

He had nothing to lose.

He was already

an immortal star.

The

Daily Mail

now reveals part of those conversations: "Have you ever heard of a gravitational collapse?

Some call it love at first sight.

That was the first time I felt it for someone."

This is what the actor told Bill about Randolph Scott, thus confirming their relationship.

The Hollywood heartthrob

did not like to label himself

and, therefore, was close to the Kinsey report, controversial behavioral studies on

sexual behavior

that claimed that many people's sexuality is on a spectrum rather than being rigidly defined.

At one point, Royce told Scott Eyman, author of

Cary Grant: A Brilliant Disguise

, that "my feeling was that

homosexual life seemed unrewarding to him

(Grant). As he got older

he wanted to have children

and he didn't think he would have." no chance of having them as long as I lived that life.

Grant died in 1986 and Scott the following year.