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.