Cary Grant: Rumors of Being Gay–Randolph Scott

Cary Grant lived with actor Randolph Scott off and on for twelve years.  Some claim that it was a gay relationship, though there is no definitive evidence.

Movie Stars: Grant, Cary–Hollywood’s Greatest Movie Actor, Star, Icon

Cary Grant’s spectacular career spanned over three decades, during which he made 72 features, most of them commercial hits.

Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer, The (1947): Cary Grant as Cocky Playboy, Myrna Loy, and Shirley Temple

Shockingly, this weak Cary Grant-Shirley Temple farce won the Original Screenplay Oscar, one of the weakest choices in the Academy's history, considering that in the same year the nominees included: “Body and Soul,” Cukor's “A Double Life,” Chaplin's “Monsieur Verdoux,” and Vittorio De Sica's “Shoeshine.”

 

Holiday (1938): Cukor’s Oscar-Nominated Masterpiece, Starring Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant at Their Best

To be effective as screen comedy, Philip Barry’s play required particular kind of acting, lightly stylized but not affected. Cukor and his actors (Hepburn and Grant) show understanding of the required lyric quality and distinctive rhyme.