GAY OR NOT, CARY GRANT'S IMAGE IS UNFLICKERING - The Washgton Post

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• CARY GRANT’S DGHTER SLAMS SPECULATN IN WAS GAY: ‘I NEVER SAW A HT OF THAT’
• CARY GRANT'S DGHTER: DAD WASN'T GAY OR BI, BUT IF HE HAD BEEN, OK
• WAS CARY GRANT GAY? RUMORS OF HIM BEG GAY
• GAY OR NOT, CARY GRANT'S IMAGE IS UNFLICKERING
• WHEN HOLLYWOOD STUDS MARRIED OFF GAY STARS TO KEEP THEIR SEXUALY A SECRET
• CARY GRANT'S DGHTER: DAD WASN'T GAY OR BI, BUT IF HE HAD BEEN, OK

CARY GRANT’S DGHTER SLAMS SPECULATN IN WAS GAY: ‘I NEVER SAW A HT OF THAT’

“That I’m a homosexual and that I’m a miserable tightwad. After Royce unburned himself about his affairs wh both men and women, Grant rpond by implyg he had been basilly gay as a young man, later bisexual, still later straight.

He didn’t thk homosexual acts were anythg to be ashamed of, or, for that matter, proud of. And there are men like that, but there are also men who are ocsnally gay and ocsnally straight.

”My sense of was that he found homosexual life unrewardg. ”“My sense of was that he found homosexual life unrewardg.

CARY GRANT'S DGHTER: DAD WASN'T GAY OR BI, BUT IF HE HAD BEEN, OK

Jennifer Grant ni that the Old Hollywood screen star was homosexual.

WAS CARY GRANT GAY? RUMORS OF HIM BEG GAY

Now, Grant’s dghter, Jennifer, is shuttg down allegatns that her famo dad was really gay. Jennifer shut down mors that her father was homosexual. While Grant — who died 1986 — fashned a persona for himself where he was a ladi’ man, njecture that he was a homosexual still spun throughout his life.

Jennifer also touched upon the age-old talk about her dad her 2011 memoir, “Good Stuff: A Remiscence of My Father, Cary Grant” — which ments that she ma rulted hate mail allegg that she was homophobic. “When the qutn aris, generally speaks more about the person askg … Dad somewhat enjoyed beg lled gay. The “Philalphia Story” actor even had to battle the gay mors jt a few years before his passg.

“Homo. Cary Grant’s dghter Jennifer has spoken about his sexualy (Picture: REX)Cary Grant’s only child has addrsed long-standg mours of his sexualy, shuttg down ias that he was gay.

GAY OR NOT, CARY GRANT'S IMAGE IS UNFLICKERING

For s has been moured that like several of his ntemporari, cludg Rock Hudson, Grant might have also been gay. When she phed back agast the gossip about her father’s sexualy her memoir, Jennifer said she received hate mail sayg she was ‘anti-gay, which uldn’t be further om the tth’. MORE: ‘In the 80s I was told an openly gay man like me uldn’t ont the news’.

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But 1934, even as mors of his gay affair wh Stt beme rife, he married Virgia Cherrill. [Jeniffer] claims she wouldn't blame men for wantg [Grant] and would not be surprised if he flirted mentators today look at Gary and Stt's photographs and picture a perfect and happy gay uple, but acrdg to people who were close to them at the time, they were nothg but pals. In addn to raisg spicn by livg wh Stt the '30s, Grant reportedly lived a gay life but was forced to ver up his sexualy.

WHEN HOLLYWOOD STUDS MARRIED OFF GAY STARS TO KEEP THEIR SEXUALY A SECRET

Kelly claims that Grant only married his many wiv to hi his so, Grant nied any implitns that he was gay, even sug edian Chevy Chase for slanr after he joked that the actor was homosexual. | Source: Getty ImagIn her 2011 memoir, the actor's only dghter, Jennifer, also refuted any claims that her dad was gay, sayg that the reports were unbelievable yet unrstandable. She claims she wouldn't blame men for wantg him and would not be surprised if he flirted back, addg:"Dad somewhat enjoyed beg lled gay.

She noted that Grant probably experimented wh his sexualy, but do experimentg make him gay? "If experimentatn mak one gay, then my gus is that most of the world is gay. “I received hate mail sayg that I was anti-gay, which uldn’t be further om the tth, ” she told The Guardian.

While Jennifer “never got that ht” that her dad might be gay or bisexual, she do unrstand that the possibily is out there, well before she was here to read the full article. Cary Grant was long mored to be gay or bisexual.

CARY GRANT'S DGHTER: DAD WASN'T GAY OR BI, BUT IF HE HAD BEEN, OK

The possibily has been raised that gay stume signer Orry-Kelly and Grant were lovers, and the late Hollywood htler Stty Bowers claimed he had sex wh her memoir Good Stuff: A Remiscence of My Father, published 2011, Jennifer Grant said her father wasn’t gay but enjoyed the speculatn. ”After her memoir me out, she received hate mail accg her of beg homophobic, but she said that’s absolutely not the se. )From Your Se ArticlCary Grants Dghter Deni Father Was Gay ›Cary Grant, Spencer Tracy Used Male Htlers, Book Alleg ›Artist Spotlight Kurt Kper ›Paper Trail: Great Amerin Couple ›Celebry Bgrapher Charl Higham Dead at 81 ›15 Bisexual Men Who Prove It's Not Jt a Phase ›Betty Whe Didnt Out Cary Grant ›.

But one of the most persistent mors about Grant was that he was secretly gay, or at least bisexual. Zerbe himself was gay, and his work had a homoerotic tge even when created for a female, heterosexual dience.

"[Tom] said, 'People say you're gog to be the next Cary Grant, ' and I said, 'That's crazy, there's nobody like Cary Grant and there will never be another Cary Grant and I unrstand he was a homo, '" Chase relled to that 1980 appearance, Chase had followed up wh, "He was brilliant. The se was reportedly settled urt and, though neher actor mented on the settlement, is reported Chase paid $1 ln the Sunday episo of "Club Random, " Chase add: "By the way, I don't thk Cary was gay. Jennifer Grant ma clear that she would not have had any issu wh her father beg gay or bisexual, but she simply did not see any evince to support the theory other than his close iendships.