Cary Grant's Dghter: Dad Wasn't Gay or Bi, But If He Had Been, OK

Contents:

• CARY GRANT'S DGHTER: DAD WASN'T GAY OR BI, BUT IF HE HAD BEEN, OK
• WHEN HOLLYWOOD STUDS MARRIED OFF GAY STARS TO KEEP THEIR SEXUALY A SECRET
• CARY GRANT’S HIDN GAY RELATNSHIP WH RANDOLPH STT
• CARY GRANT’S DGHTER SLAMS SPECULATN IN WAS GAY: ‘I NEVER SAW A HT OF THAT’
•  A HOLLYWOOD GAY LOVE AFFAIR
• WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT MY FAVORE WIFE, THE VERY GAY FILM STARRG CARY GRANT AND HIS (ALLEGED) GAY BOYIEND
• HE CLAIMS TO HAVE PROCURED GAY LOVERS FOR CARY GRANT AND KATHARE HEPBURN. NOW HE’S THE STAR OF A SURPRISGLY TOUCHG DOCUMENTARY.
• CARY GRANT: RUMORS OF BEG GAY–RANDOLPH STT
• CARY GRANT'S DGHTER: DAD WASN'T GAY OR BI, BUT IF HE HAD BEEN, OK
• HE CLAIMS TO HAVE PROCURED GAY LOVERS FOR CARY GRANT AND KATHARE HEPBURN. NOW HE’S THE STAR OF A SURPRISGLY TOUCHG DOCUMENTARY.
• WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT MY FAVORE WIFE, THE VERY GAY FILM STARRG CARY GRANT AND HIS (ALLEGED) GAY BOYIEND

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

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. Today, the imag look like portras of a very happy gay marriage, and many ntemporary mentators assume that they really are ndid snapshots of the stars’ private liv.

Others wrers, mentg more wily on Hollywood’s opprsively closeted tradns, prent the photographs as evince of a hidn gay history.

While there is no doubt that Hollywood has a hidn gay history, is very unlikely that the photographs figure the way that ntemporary mentators suppose. If there is a gay perspective the photos, is likely due to the photographer, Jerome Zerbe, who was young, gay, and tent on takg a different approach to photographg stars.

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

Cary Grant was long mored to be gay or bisexual. 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.

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“The physil vlence between the men [was] not unmon between homosexual men of the perd, ’’ Kathere Thompson, the documentary’s wrer, told The Post.

CARY GRANT’S HIDN GAY RELATNSHIP WH RANDOLPH STT

The bate over whether the former Archie Leach was gay, bi or straight has centered for s around his on-and-off habatn wh Stt a beach hoe Malibu, which was documented a famo seri of still photographs of them domtic pos.

’’ (And 1980, he actually brought a famatn su agast edian Chevy Chase, who was forced to issue a retractn of his jokg reference to Grant as a “homo. Queerns uld be appreciated on stage, but the every day liv of major stars was often hidn sham unns known as "lavenr marriag, " acrdg to Stephen Tropiano, profsor of Screen Studi at Itha College and thor of The Prime Time Closet: A History of Gays and Lbians on marriag were arranged by Hollywood studs between one or more gay, lbian or bisexual people orr to hi their sexual orientatn om the public.

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

They date back to the early 20th century and rried on past the gay liberatn movement of the 1960s. Bowers’ acunt tails sexual enunters, gay and straight, that he claims he both arranged and took part , begng wrote that he had been sexually volved wh leadg actor Cary Grant and his roommate, Randolph Stt, for more than a .

They married 1955 and separated two years later, after mors of his homosexualy and fily began to pile up. Bettmann Archive/Getty ImagRock Hudson and his bri Phyllis Gat at their 1955 gay actors chose to live openly, spe the risk.

 A HOLLYWOOD GAY LOVE AFFAIR

He’s now often nsired one of Hollywood’s first openly gay stars.

WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT MY FAVORE WIFE, THE VERY GAY FILM STARRG CARY GRANT AND HIS (ALLEGED) GAY BOYIEND

Lavenr marriag beme ls prevalent the 1960s and ‘70s as the gay rights movement gaed momentum followg the Stonewall Rts of 1969.

HE CLAIMS TO HAVE PROCURED GAY LOVERS FOR CARY GRANT AND KATHARE HEPBURN. NOW HE’S THE STAR OF A SURPRISGLY TOUCHG DOCUMENTARY.

Although reprentatn film and on televisn was still srce, the actual liv of the stars on screen—straight, gay or bisexual—weren’t dictated by studs as much as they had been the past. “It’s happened to me more than once: While nversg wh a straight person, Cary Grant‘s name will e up and the topic of whether or not he was gay aris.

“I n’t thk of any other star whose nebulo sexualy giv rise to such a tug-of-war between the hets and the homos. The documentary follows Bower, a former sex worker, as he scrib his wild life nng a brothel out of a gas statn and divulg the many alleged secrets om his time actg as an rt to closeted gay celebri.

In the documentary, Bowers mak other salac claims about closeted gay celebri.

CARY GRANT: RUMORS OF BEG GAY–RANDOLPH STT

The list of stars he allegedly set up wh prostut reads like a stroll down the Hollywood Walk of Fame: Tennsee Williams, Charl Lghton, Vcent Price, Kathare Hepburn, Gloria Swanson, Noël Coward, Rock Hudson, Cole Porter, and Bowers released his book, sentially outg Grant, Tracy, and Hepburn, among others, as gay or bisexual, crics rangg om sual rears to Barbara Walters blasted him for spreadg salac stori about long-ad subjects who uldn’t fend themselv or qutn their veracy.

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

More, fosters a ln that moral cls don’t still exist, if not lerally ntracts, then herently an dtry that forc known gay actors to perform heterosexualy orr to further their same people who dismiss stori about Hollywood and sex as irrelevant are the on who ept outrage at the suatn that the actors had same-sex sexual relatnships and that the stori are beg told when they’re not alive to speak to them.

At a time when there still is not an out gay or lbian movie star starrg as the lead blockbters, and people still bate whether an out gay or lbian actor uld be believable as a romantic lead, the fact that Spencer Tracy and Kathare Hepburn, two inic romantic leads, had same-sex relatnships is illumatg. In this vio, we’ll explore Cary Grant’s origs and the tails of his secret gay relatnships. Movg eely as a uple wh the gay social circl of Old Hollywood, they formed a domtic partnership and found happs for a time.

In 1933, a closeted gay journalist named Ben Maddox wrote a feature about the two men and their life together. He left out any direct suatn of homosexualy, but ed var mon words that would intify the two as a uple to other gay rears.

HE CLAIMS TO HAVE PROCURED GAY LOVERS FOR CARY GRANT AND KATHARE HEPBURN. NOW HE’S THE STAR OF A SURPRISGLY TOUCHG DOCUMENTARY.

The photographs were judged harshly by some homophobic crics and mors started to churn about the actors’ sexualy. In 1934, Paramount enuraged (or possibly mand) Grant to marry orr to stifle the gay mors. The Paramount Publicy partment would perdilly plant stori about an endls stream of betiful women g an out of their beach hoe, which the media now referred to as “Bachelor Hall, ” orr to keep gay mors at bay.

In 1980, he even sued Chevy Chase for famatn after the edian referred to him as a “homo” on televisn. Jennifer Grant ni that the Old Hollywood screen star was homosexual. 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.

WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT MY FAVORE WIFE, THE VERY GAY FILM STARRG CARY GRANT AND HIS (ALLEGED) GAY BOYIEND

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.