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Randolph Scott & Cary Grant
Randolph Scott (January 23, 1898 – March 2, 1987) was an American film actor whose career spanned from 1928 to 1962. As a leading man for all but the first three years of his cinematic career, Scott appeared in a variety of genres, including social dramas, crime dramas, comedies, musicals (albeit in non-singing and non-dancing roles), adventure tales, war films, and even a few horror and fantasy films. However, his most enduring image is that of the tall-in-the-saddle western hero. Out of his more than 100 film appearances more than 60 were in westerns; thus, \"of all the major stars whose name was associated with the western, Scott most closely identified with it.\"Scott\'s more than thirty years as a motion picture actor resulted in his working frequently with many acclaimed screen directors, including Henry King, Rouben Mamoulian, Michael Curtiz, John Cromwell, King Vidor, Alan Dwan, Fritz Lang, and Sam Peckinpah. He also worked on multiple occasions with some noted directors: Henry Hathaway (8 times), Ray Enright (7), Edwin R. Marin (7), Andre DeToth (6), and most notably, his seven film collaborations with Budd Boetticher.Scott also worked with a widely diverse array of cinematic leading ladies, from Shirley Temple and Irene Dunne to Mae West and Marlene Dietrich. He also appeared with Gene Tierney, Ann Sheridan, Maureen O\'Hara, Nancy Carroll, Donna Reed, Gail Russell, Margaret Sullavan, Virginia Mayo, Bebe Daniels, Carole Lombard, and Joan Bennett.Tall (6 ft 2 in; 188 cm), lanky, and handsome, Scott displayed an easygoing charm and courtly Southern drawl in his early films that helped offset his limitations as an actor, where he was frequently found to be stiff or \"lumbering\". As he matured, however, Scott\'s acting improved while his features became burnished and leathery, turning him into the ideal \"strong, silent\" type of stoic hero. The BFI Companion to the western noted:In his earlier westerns ... the Scott persona is debonair, easy-going, graceful, though with the necessary hint of steel. As he matures into his fifties his roles change. Increasingly Scott becomes the man who has seen it all, who has suffered pain, loss, and hardship, and who has now achieved (but at what cost?) a stoic calm proof against vicissitude.During the early 1950s, Scott was a consistent box-office draw. In the annual Motion Picture Herald Top Ten Polls, he ranked tenth in 1950, eighth in 1951, and again tenth in 1952.Biography
Birth, family, and schooling
Scott was born in Orange County, Virginia, the only son of six children born to Scottish-American parents; George Scott, an administrative engineer in a textile firm, and Lucille Crane Scott, a member of a wealthy North Carolina family. Although Scott\'s birth was in Virginia, his family lived in North Carolina and it was there that he was raised.Because of his family\'s financial status, young Randolph was able to attend private schools such as Woodberry Forest School. From an early age, Scott developed and displayed an athletic trait, excelling in football, baseball, horse racing, and swimming.World War I
In April 1917 the United States entered World War I. Shortly afterwards, Scott, then 19 years old, joined the Army and served in France as an artillery observer with the 2nd Trench Mortar Battalion, 19th Field Artillery.Scott\'s wartime experience would give him training that would be put to use in his later film career, including the use of firearms and horsemanship.Post-war career
After the Armistice brought the war to an end, Scott stayed in France and enrolled in an artillery officers\' school. Although he eventually received a commission, Scott decided to return to America and thus journeyed home in or around 1919.With his military career over, Scott continued his education at Georgia Tech where he set his sights on becoming an all-American football player. However a severe back injury prevented him from achieving this goal. Scott then transferred to the University of North Carolina, where he majored in textile engineering and manufacturing. As with his military career, however, he eventually dropped out of college and went to work as an accountant in the textile firm where his father was employed.Stage and early film appearances
Around 1927, Scott developed an interest in acting and decided to make his way to Los Angeles and seek a career in the motion picture industry. Fortunately, Scott\'s father had become acquainted with Howard Hughes and provided a letter of introduction for his son to present to the eccentric millionaire filmmaker. Hughes responded by getting Scott a small part in a George O\'Brien film called Sharp Shooters (1928).In the next few years, Scott continued working as an extra and bit player in several films, including Weary River (1929) with Richard Barthelmess and The Virginian (1929) with Gary Cooper. Reputedly, Scott also served as Cooper\'s dialect coach in this latter film.On the advice of director Cecil B. DeMille, Scott also gained much-needed acting experience by performing in stage plays with the Pasadena Playhouse. Scott\'s stage roles during this period include:A minister in Gentlemen Be Seated.
A butler in Nellie, the Beautiful Model.
Metellus Cimber in William Shakespeare\'s Julius Caesar.
Hector Malone in George Bernard Shaw\'s Man and Superman.
In 1931, after several years of bit parts in the movies, Scott played his first leading role (with Sally Blane) in Women Men Marry, a film now apparently lost made for a Poverty Row studio called Headline Pictures. He followed that movie with a supporting part in a Warner Bros. production starring George Arliss entitled A Successful Calamity.In 1932 Scott appeared in a play at the Vine Street Theatre in Hollywood entitled Under a Virginia Moon. His performance in this play resulted in several offers for screen tests by the major movie studios. Scott eventually signed a seven-year contract with Paramount Pictures at a salary of US $400 per week.Paramount years
Zane Grey apprenticeship
Scott\'s first role under his new Paramount contract was a small supporting part in a comedy called Sky Bride (1932) starring Richard Arlen and Jack Oakie.wFollowing that, however, Paramount cast him as the lead in Heritage of the Desert (1932), his first significant starring role and also the one that establish him as a western hero. As with Women Men Marry, Sally Blane was his leading lady. The film was the first of ten \"B\" western films that Scott made for Paramount in a series loosely based on the novels of Zane Grey. Henry Hathaway made his directorial debut with Heritage of the Desert; he would go on to direct a total of seven out of the ten Zane Grey adaptations that Scott would appear in.Many of these Grey adaptations were remakes of earlier silent films. In an effort to save on production costs, Paramount utilized stock footage from the silent version and even hired some of the same actors, such as Raymond Hatton and Noah Beery, to repeat their roles. For the 1933 films The Thundering Herd and Man of the Forest, Scott\'s hair was darkened and he sported a trim moustache so that he could easily be matched to footage of Jack Holt, the star of the silent versions.In his book The Hollywood western, film historian William K. Everson refers to the Zane Grey series as being \"uniformly good\". He also writes:To the Last Man was almost a model of its kind, an exceptionally strong story of feuding families in the post-Civil War era, with a cast worthy of an \"A\" feature, excellent direction by Henry Hathaway, and an unusual climatic fight between the villain (Jack LaRue) and the heroine (Esther Ralston, in an exceptionally appealing performance). Sunset Pass... was not only one of the best but also one of the most surprising in presenting Randolph Scott and Harry Carey as heavies.Overall, the Zane Grey series proved to be a boon for Scott, as they provided him with \"an excellent training ground for both action and acting\".Non-western roles for Paramount
In between his work in the Zane Grey western series, Paramount cast Scott in several non-western roles. These included the \"other\" man in Hot Saturday (1932), with Nancy Carroll and Cary Grant; Hello, Everybody! (1933), an odd one-shot attempt to make a film star out of the popular but heavy-set radio singer Kate Smith; and Go West, Young Man (1936).Paramount also cast Scott in two fairly good horror films: Murders in the Zoo (1933) with Lionel Atwill, and Supernatural (1933) with Carole Lombard. Paramount also loaned him to work at other studios, including Columbia, where he appeared with Bebe Daniels in a minor romantic comedy called Cocktail Hour (1933).Star on the rise
By 1935, Scott was firmly established as a popular movie star and, thus, following the release of Rocky Mountain Mystery (1935), Paramount moved him up from his \"B\" western status to a star of \"A\" features, many on loan out.Scott made four films for RKO Radio Pictures during 1935-36. Two of these were in the popular series of musicals starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers: Roberta (1935), also starring Irene Dunne, and Follow the Fleet (1936). In both of these films Scott played Astaire\'s lunkheaded but likable pal. The other two were among the best in Scott\'s career: Village Tale (1935), \"a touching, still-obscure melodrama about small-town gossip and hypocrisy\" directed by John Cromwell, and She (1935), a superb adventure-fantasy adapted from H. Rider Haggard\'s 1886 novel.In 1936, Scott, on another loan to independent producer [Edward Small], starred in yet another adventure classic, The Last of the Mohicans, adapted from the 1826 novel by James Fenimore Cooper. A big hit in its day, the film \"gave Scott his first unqualified \'A\' picture success as a lead.\"Scott\'s films on his home lot at Paramount include the aforementioned Go West, Young Man (1936), which reunited him with director Henry Hathaway and is Mae West\'s adaptation of Lawrence Riley\'s Broadway hit comedy Personal Appearance; So Red the Rose (1936), directed by King Vidor and starring Margaret Sullivan; and High, Wide, and Handsome. This last film, a musical directed by Rouben Mamoulian, featured Scott in his \"most ambitious performance,\" The film is …… set in 1859 in Pennsylvania, and follows the exploits of oil prospector Scott as he struggles against various varmints and vested interests out to wreck his business, and tries to keep his marriage to Irene Dunne intact, despite the tempting presence of saloon singer Dorothy Lamour.Heroes, heavies and \"other\" men
In 1938 Scott finished his contract with Paramount and began freelancing. Some of the roles that he took over the next few years were supporting ones, while his other roles during the same time frame had him occasionally lapse into villainy. One missed opportunity also came about around this time. Due to his Southern background, Scott was considered for the role of Ashley Wilkes in Gone with the Wind, but it was Leslie Howard who eventually got the part.For 20th Century Fox Scott supported child star Shirley Temple in Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1938) and Susanna of the Mounties (1939). For the same studio he played a supporting role in his first Technicolor film, Jesse James (1939), a lavish highly romanticized account of the famous outlaw (Tyrone Power) and his brother Frank (Henry Fonda). Shortly after making this film, Scott portrayed Wyatt Earp in Frontier Marshal (1939) and, for Universal, starred with Kay Francis in When the Daltons Rode (1940).Scott followed this by co-starring with Errol Flynn in Virginia City (1940) and played the \"other\" man role in the Irene Dunne-Cary Grant romantic comedy My Favorite Wife (1940).In 1941, Scott returned to the realm of Zane Grey by co-starring with Robert Young in the Technicolor production Westernn Unionn (purposely misspelled due to limitations), directed by Fritz Lang. Scott played a \"good bad man\" in this film and gave one of his finest performances. Bosley Crowther of the New York Times wrote of him:Randolph Scott, who is getting to look and act more and more like William S. Hart, herein shapes one of the truest and most appreciable characters of his career as the party\'s scout.Also in 1941 Scott co-starred with a young Gene Tierney, in another western Belle Starr. Scott\'s only role as a truly evil villain was in Universal\'s The Spoilers, a rip-roaring adaptation of Rex Beach\'s 1905 tale of the Alaskan gold rush co-starring Marlene Dietrich and John Wayne. The movie\'s climax featured Scott and Wayne (and their stunt doubles) in one of most spectacular fistfights ever filmed. The Dietrich-Scott-Wayne combination worked so well that Universal recast the trio the following year in Pittsburgh, a war-time action-melodrama which had Wayne and Scott slugging it out once more.In 1943 Scott starred in The Desperados, Columbia Pictures\' first feature in Technicolor. The film was produced by Harry Joe Brown, with whom Scott would form a business partnership several years later.World War II
The real war
Shortly after the United States entered World War II Scott attempted to obtain an officer\'s commission in the Marines but, due to his back injury from years earlier he was turned down. However, he did his part for the war effort by touring in a comedy act with Joe DeRita (who later became a member of The Three Stooges) for the Victory Committee showcases and also raised food for the government on a ranch that he owned.Between 1942 and 1943, Scott appeared, like many film actors of the time, in several war movies, notably To the Shores of Tripoli, Bombardier, the Canadian warship drama, Corvette K-225, Gung Ho!, and China Sky.Tall in the saddle
In 1946, after playing roles that had him wandering in and out of the saddle for many years, Scott appeared in Abilene Town, an RKO release which cast him in what would become one of his classic images, the fearless lawman cleaning up a lawless town. The film \"cemented Scott\'s position as a cowboy hero\" and from this point on all but two of his starring films would be westerns. The Scott westerns of the late 1940s would each be budgeted around US$1 million.Scott renewed his acquaintance with producer Harry Joe Brown and together they began producing many of Scott\'s westerns, including several that were shot in the two-color Cinecolor process. Their collaboration produced the superior Coroner Creek (1948) with Scott as a vengeance-driven cowpoke who \"predates the Budd Boetticher/Burt Kennedy heroes by nearly a decade,\" and The Walking Hills (1949), a modern-day tale of gold hunters.During late 1940s and early 1950s Scott\'s films were made mainly for Columbia or Warner Bros. His salary for the latter studio was US$100,000 per picture.Scott\'s pictures from this period include the 1951 films Fort Worth, Man in the Saddle, and Carson City, and the 1952 films Hangman\'s Knot, Man Behind the Gun, The Stranger Wore a Gun (filmed in 3-D), and Thunder Over the Plains. Also, in 1953, Scott appeared in Riding Shotgun, an unusual western that presents (probably unintentionally) some McCarthyistic overtones. Most of these films were directed by Andre De Toth.He also did Rage at Dawn in 1955 with RKO Pictures starring Scott and Forrest Tucker, and featuring Denver Pyle, Edgar Buchanan, and J. Carrol Naish. It purports to tell the true story of the Reno Brothers, an outlaw gang which terrorized the American Midwest, particularly Southern Indiana, in the period immediately following the American Civil War.By 1956 Scott was 58 years old, an age where the careers of most leading men would be winding down. Scott, however, was about to enter his finest and most acclaimed period.The Boetticher and Kennedy films
In 1955, screenwriter Burt Kennedy had written a script entitled Seven Men from Now which was scheduled to be filmed by John Wayne\'s Batjac Productions with Wayne as the film\'s star and Budd Boetticher as its director. However, Wayne was already committed to begin filming John Ford\'s The Searchers. Wayne therefore suggested Scott as his replacement. The resulting film, released in 1956, did not make a great impact at the time but is now regarded by many as one of Scott\'s best, as well as the one that launched Scott and Boetticher into a highly successful collaboration that totaled seven films. Kennedy scripted four of them. In these films …Boetticher achieved works of great beauty, formally precise in structure and visually elegant, notably for their use of the distinctive landscape of the California Sierras. As the hero of these \"floating poker games\" (as Andrew Sarris calls them), Scott tempers their innately pessimistic view with quiet, stoical humour, as he pits his wits against such charming villains as Richard Boone in The Tall T and Claude Akins in Comanche Station.Scott and Boetticher films
Seven Men from Now (1956)
The Tall T (1956)
Decision at Sundown (1957)
Buchanan Rides Alone (1958)
Westbound (1958)
Ride Lonesome (1959)
Comanche Station (1960)
Ride the High Country (1962)
In 1962 Scott made his final film appearance in Ride the High Country, a film now regarded as a classic. It was directed by Sam Peckinpah and co-starred Joel McCrea, an actor who had a screen image similar to Scott\'s and who also from the mid-1940s on devoted his career almost exclusively to westerns.Scott and McCrea\'s farewell western is characterized by a nostalgic sense of the passing of the Old West; a preoccupation with the emotionality of male bonding and of the experiential \'gap\' between the young and the old; and the fearful evocation, in the form of the Hammonds (the villains in the film), of these preoccupations transmuted into brutal and perverse forms.Final years
Following the making of Ride the High Country, Scott retired from film making at the age of 64. Having made shrewd investments throughout his life, he eventually accumulated a fortune worth a reputed US$100 million.During his retirement years he remained friends with Fred Astaire and also became friends with the Reverend Billy Graham. Scott was described by his son Christopher as being a deeply religious man. He was an Episcopalian and a member of St. Peter\'s Episcopal Church in Charlotte, NC, where he was buried. He was also a York Rite Freemason.Scott died of heart and lung ailments in 1987 at the age of 89 in Beverly Hills, California. He was interred at Elmwood Cemetery in Charlotte, North Carolina.Personal life
Marriages
Scott married twice. The first time, in 1936, he became the second husband of heiress Marion Du Pont, daughter of William Du Pont, Sr. and great-granddaughter of Éleuthère Irénée Du Pont de Nemours, the founder of the E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company. Reputedly the couple spent little time together and the marriage ended in divorce three years later. Prior to and between his first and second marriages Scott was romantically linked with several prominent film actresses, including Lupe Velez, Sally Blane, Claire Trevor, and Dorothy Lamour. In 1944, Scott married Patricia Stillman, with whom he adopted two children. The marriage lasted 43 years until Scott\'s death in 1987.Sexual orientation
Although Scott achieved fame as a motion picture actor, he managed to keep a fairly low profile with his private life. Off screen he became good friends with Fred Astaire and Cary Grant. He met Grant on the set of Hot Saturday and shortly afterwards they began rooming together in a beach house in Malibu that became known as \"Bachelor Hall.\" According to biographer Robert Nott, \"They lived together on and off for about ten years, because they were friends and wanted to save on living expenses (they were both considered to be notorious tightwads).\" Scott shared \'Bachelor Hall\' with Grant for twelve years and it was rumored the two actors were romantically involved, and that the name \"Bachelor Hall\" and the reported parade of women there were invented by the studio who wanted to keep their valuable actors away from any public scandal.In his book, Cary Grant: Grant\'s Secret Sixth Marriage (2004), Marc Eliot claims Grant had a sexual relationship with Scott after they met on the set of Hot Saturday. In his book, Hollywood Gays (1996), Boze Hadleigh, author of numerous books purporting to \"out\" the sexual orientation of celebrities, makes various claims for Scott\'s homosexuality. He cites homosexual director George Cukor who said about the homosexual relationship between the two: \"Oh, Cary won\'t talk about it. At most, he\'ll say they did some wonderful pictures together. But Randolph will admit it – to a friend.\" There is considerable disagreement about the veracity of Hadleigh\'s claims about alleged homosexuals in Hollywood. According to William J. Mann\'s book, Behind the Screen: How Gays and Lesbians Shaped Hollywood, 1910-1969, photographer Jerome Zerbe spent \"three gay months\" in the movie colony taking many photographs of Grant and Scott, \"attesting to their involvement in the gay scene.\" In 1995, Richard Blackwell published his autobiography From Rags to Bitches, where he declared he was lovers to both Grant and Scott.In 1944, Scott and Grant stopped living together but remained close friends throughout their lives. Grant\'s insistence that he had \"nothing against gays, I\'m just not one myself,\" is treated at length in Peter Bogdanovich\'s book of essays about actors, Who the Hell\'s in It. Scott\'s adopted son, Christopher, also challenged the rumors. Following Scott\'s death, Christopher wrote a book entitled, Whatever Happened to Randolph Scott?, in which he rebuts rumors of his father\'s alleged homosexuality. Budd Boetticher, the director most often linked with Scott\'s work, had this to say about the rumors: \"Bullshit\".Cultural references
Scott is the putative subject of the Statler Brothers song \"Whatever Happened to Randolph Scott?\", lamenting the passing of western films.He is mentioned in the film Blazing Saddles when Sheriff Bart tries to convince the citizens of Rock Ridge, who were reluctant to support him, he says that they \"would do it for Randolph Scott\" and all then rise, putting their hands to their hearts and saying reverently \"Randolph Scott,\" echoed by an off-screen chorus.Randolph Scott and To the Shores of Tripoli are referred to in Tom Lehrer\'s song \"Send the Marines\".Scott is rumored to be the image behind the original Oakland Raider emblem, a rendition of his head as the pirate akin to Jerry West\'s \"Logo\" symbol of the NBA.
Archibald Alexander Leach (January 18, 1904 – November 29, 1986), better known by his stage name Cary Grant, was a British-American actor. With his distinctive yet not quite placeable Mid-Atlantic accent, he was noted as perhaps the foremost exemplar of the debonair leading man: handsome, virile, charismatic and charming.He was named the second Greatest Male Star of All Time by the American Film Institute. His popular classic films include The Awful Truth (1937), Bringing Up Baby (1938), Gunga Din (1939), Only Angels Have Wings (1939), His Girl Friday (1940), The Philadelphia Story (1940), Arsenic and Old Lace (1944), Notorious (1946), To Catch A Thief (1955), An Affair to Remember (1957), North by Northwest (1959), and Charade (1963).At the 42nd Academy Awards the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences honored him with an Honorary Award \"for his unique mastery of the art of screen acting with the respect and affection of his colleagues\".Early life and career
Archibald Alexander Leach was born in Horfield, Bristol, United Kingdom in 1904 to Elsie Maria Kingdon (1877-1973) and Elias James Leach (1873-1935). An only child, he had a confused and unhappy childhood, attending Bishop Road Primary School. His father placed his mother in a mental institution when he was nine and his mother never overcame her depression after the death of a previous child. His father had told him that she had gone away on a \"long holiday\" and it was not until he was in his thirties that Leach discovered her alive, in an institutionalized care facility.He was expelled from the Fairfield Grammar School in Bristol in 1918. He subsequently joined the \"Bob Pender stage troupe\" and travelled with the group to the United States as a stilt walker in 1920 at the age of 16, on a two-year tour of the country. He was processed at Ellis Island on July 28, 1920. When the troupe returned to the UK, he decided to stay in the US and continue his stage career.Still under his birth name, he performed on the stage at The Muny in St. Louis, Missouri, in such shows as Irene (1931); Music in May (1931); Nina Rosa (1931); Rio Rita (1931); Street Singer (1931); The Three Musketeers (1931); and Wonderful Night (1931).Hollywood stardom
After some success in light Broadway comedies, he went to Hollywood in 1931, where he acquired the name Cary Lockwood. He chose the name Lockwood after the surname of his character in a recent play called Nikki. He signed with Paramount Pictures, but while studio bosses were impressed with him, they were less than impressed with his adopted stage name. They decided that the name Cary was OK, but Lockwood had to go due to a similarity with another actor\'s name. It was after browsing through a list of the studio\'s preferred surnames, that Cary Grant was born. Grant chose the name because the initials C and G had already proved lucky for Clark Gable and Gary Cooper, two of Hollywood\'s then-biggest movie stars.Having already appeared as leading man opposite Marlene Dietrich in Blonde Venus (1932), his stardom was given a further boost by Mae West when she chose him for her leading man in two of her most successful films, She Done Him Wrong and I\'m No Angel (both 1933). I\'m No Angel was a tremendous financial success and, along with She Done Him Wrong, which was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture, saved Paramount from bankruptcy. Paramount put Grant in a series of indifferent films until 1936, when he signed with Columbia Pictures. His first major comedy hit was when he was loaned to Hal Roach\'s studio for the 1937 Topper (which was distributed by MGM).Grant starred in some of the classic screwball comedies, including Bringing Up Baby (1938) with Katharine Hepburn, His Girl Friday (1940) with Rosalind Russell, Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) featuring Priscilla Lane, and Monkey Business (1952) opposite Ginger Rogers and Marilyn Monroe. Under the tutelage of director Leo McCarey, his role in The Awful Truth (1937) with Irene Dunne was the pivotal film in the establishment of Grant\'s screen persona. These performances solidified his appeal, and The Philadelphia Story (1940), with Hepburn and James Stewart, showcased his best-known screen persona: the charming if sometimes unreliable man, formerly married to an intelligent and strong-willed woman who first divorced him, then realized that he was—with all his faults—irresistible.Grant was one of Hollywood\'s top box-office attractions for several decades. He was a versatile actor, who did demanding physical comedy in movies like Gunga Din (1939) with the skills he had learned on the stage. Howard Hawks said that Grant was \"so far the best that there isn\'t anybody to be compared to him\".Grant was a favorite actor of Alfred Hitchcock, notorious for disliking actors, who said that Grant was \"the only actor I ever loved in my whole life\". Grant appeared in such Hitchcock classics as Suspicion (1941), Notorious (1946), To Catch a Thief (1955) and North by Northwest (1959). Biographer Patrick McGilligan wrote that, in 1965, Hitchcock asked Grant to star in Torn Curtain (1966), only to learn that Grant had decided to retire after making one more film, Walk, Don\'t Run (1966); Paul Newman was cast instead in Torn Curtain, opposite Julie Andrews.In the mid-1950s, Grant formed his own production company, Grantley Productions, and produced a number of movies distributed by Universal, such as Operation Petticoat (1959), Indiscreet (1958), That Touch of Mink (co-starring with Doris Day, 1962), and Father Goose (1964). In 1963, he appeared opposite Audrey Hepburn in Charade (1963). His last feature fim was Walk, Don\'t Run (1966) with Samantha Eggar.Grant was once considered a maverick as he was the first actor to \"go independent,\" effectively bucking the old studio system, which almost completely controlled what an actor could or could not do. In this way, Grant was able to control every aspect of his career. He decided which movies he was going to appear in, he had personal choice of the directors and his co-stars and at times, even negotiated a share of the gross, something unheard of at the time, but now common among A-list stars.Grant was nominated for two Academy Awards in the 1940s. He was denied the Oscar throughout his active career because he was one of the first actors to be independent of the major studios. Grant received a special Academy Award for Lifetime Achievement in 1970. In 1981, he was accorded the Kennedy Center Honors.Retirement and death
Although Grant had retired from the screen, he remained active in other areas. In the late 1960s, he accepted a position on the board of directors at Fabergé. By all accounts this position was not honorary as some had assumed, as Grant was regularly attending meetings and his mere appearance at a product launch would almost certainly guarantee its success. The position also permitted use of a private plane, which Grant could use to fly to see his daughter wherever her mother, Dyan Cannon, was working. He later joined the boards of Hollywood Park, western Airlines (now Delta Air Lines), and MGM.In the last few years of his life, Grant undertook tours of the United States in a one man show. It was called \"A Conversation with Cary Grant\", in which he would show clips from his films and answer audience questions. Grant was preparing for a performance at the Adler Theater in Davenport, Iowa on the afternoon of 29 November 1986 when he suffered a massive cerebral hemorrhage. (He had also suffered a minor stroke in October 1984.) He died at 11:22 pm in St. Luke\'s Hospital.Personal life
Grant was married five times, and was dogged by rumors that he was bisexual. He wed Virginia Cherrill on February 10, 1934. She divorced him on March 26, 1935, following charges that Grant had hit her. He married Barbara Hutton and became a father figure to her son, Lance Reventlow. The couple were derisively nicknamed \"Cash and Cary,\" although in an extensive prenuptial agreement Grant refused any financial settlement in the event of a divorce. After divorcing in 1945, they remained lifelong friends. Grant always bristled at the accusation that he married for money: \"I may not have married for very sound reasons, but money was never one of them.\"Grant married Betsy Drake on December 25, 1949. He appeared with her in two films. This would prove to be his longest marriage, ending on August 14, 1962. Drake introduced Grant to LSD, and in the early 60s he related how treatment with the hallucinogenic drug—legal at the time—at a prestigious California clinic had finally brought him inner peace after yoga, hypnotism, and mysticism had proved ineffective.He eloped with Dyan Cannon on July 22, 1965 in Las Vegas. Their daughter, Jennifer Grant, was born prematurely on February 26, 1966. He frequently called her his \"best production\", and regretted that he had not had children sooner. The marriage was troubled from the beginning and Cannon left him in December 1966, claiming that Grant flew into frequent rages and spanked her when she \"disobeyed\" him. The divorce, finalized in 1968, was bitter and public, and custody fights over their daughter went on for nearly ten years.On 11 April 1981 Grant married long-time companion, British hotel PR agent Barbara Harris, who was 47 years his junior. They renewed their vows on their fifth wedding anniversary. In 2001, Harris married former All-American quarterback David Jaynes.Grant was allegedly involved with costume designer Orry-Kelly when he first moved to Manhattan, and lived with Randolph Scott off and on for twelve years. Richard Blackwell wrote that Grant and Scott were \"deeply, madly in love\", and alleged eyewitness accounts of their physical affection have been published. Hedda Hopper and screenwriter Arthur Laurents have also alleged that Grant was bisexual, the latter writing that Grant \"told me he threw pebbles at my window one night but was luckless\". Alexander D\'Arcy, who appeared with Grant in The Awful Truth, said he knew that he and Scott \"lived together as a gay couple\", adding: \"I think Cary knew that people were saying things about him. I don\'t think he tried to hide it.\" The two men frequently accompanied each other to parties and premieres and were unconcerned when photographs of them cozily preparing dinner together at home were published in fan magazines.Grant\'s widow, Barbara, has disputed that there was a relationship with Scott. When Chevy Chase joked about Grant being gay in a television interview, he sued him for slander; they settled out of court. However, he did admit in an interview that his first two wives had accused him of being homosexual. Betsy Drake commented: \"Why would I believe that Cary was homosexual when we were busy fucking? Maybe he was bisexual. He lived 43 years before he met me. I don\'t know what he did\".Politics
Grant was a Republican, but did not think movie stars should publicly make political declarations. During his career some people considered him to be a left-winger, as he publicly condemned McCarthyism in 1953 and vocally supported his blacklisted friend Charlie Chaplin. Grant was also criticized by right-wing columnist Hedda Hopper for vacationing in the Soviet Union after filming Indiscreet (1958). He appeared to worsen the situation by remarking to an interviewer \"I don\'t care what kind of government they have over there, I never had such a good time in my life\". In June 1968 he made a public appeal for gun control following the assassination of his friend, Democratic Senator Robert F. Kennedy. After his retirement from acting, Grant was active in a number of Republican causes. He introduced First Lady Betty Ford to the audience at the Republican National Convention in 1976. He was also a vocal supporter of his friend Ronald Reagan during the 1980s.
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Thank you for viewing my sale. Please check out myother photos!Good luck with your offerding.( Vintage Photos, My Vintage Photos, MyVintagePhotos, Photographs )RANDOLPH SCOTT & CARY GRANT HOLLYWOOD ACTORS 8x10\" HAND COLOR TINTED PHOTOGRAPH:
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