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- CARY GRANT'S DGHTER: DAD WASN'T GAY OR BI, BUT IF HE HAD BEEN, OK
- CARY GRANT – THE LOV HIS LIFE MAY 6, 2015 ADM DID YOU KNOW? 0 OUTSI OF HOLLYWOOD BATE RAGED FOR YEARS ABOUT MATEE IDOL CARY GRANT’S SEXUALY. WAS HE HETEROSEXUAL, HOMOSEXUAL OR BISEXUAL? HE HAD LOVERS OM BOTH SEX, SO I GUS THAT MAK HIM BISEXUAL, ALTHOUGH I ADM I HAVE NO REAL IA IF THAT IS THE SOLE CRERIA ED TO ASSS SUCH THGS. FROM WHAT I HAVE READ DOWN THE YEARS, HE APPEARS TO HAVE BEEN EPLY LOVE WH TWO PEOPLE, ONE WOMAN (SOPHIA LOREN) AND ONE MAN (RANDOLPH STT). HIS FEELGS FOR SOPHIA WERE NOT RETURNED, BUT HIS AFFAIR WH STT WENT ON FOR AROUND 40 YEARS!RANDOLPH STT & CARY GRANT THE 1930SHE AND WTERN ACTOR RANDOLPH STT SHARED A HOE FOR TEN YEARS, OM 1932 TO 1942, UNTIL CARY MARRIED WOOLWORTHS’ HEIRS BARBARA HUTTON. DURG THAT PERD CARY ALSO WED ACTRS VIRGIA CHERRILL ON ORRS OM THE STUD, BUT THAT ONLY LASTED 13 MONTHS OM 1934-5, BEFORE HE AND STT MOVED BACK TOGETHER AGA. CARY HAD ONCE SHARED A HOE WH HOLLYWOOD’S MOST LOVEABLE GAY ACTOR WILLIAM HA. LATER STILL, HE LIVED FOR A WHILE WH THE EQUALLY GAY NOEL COWARD WHO WROTE HIS FAMO SONG, ‘MAD ABOUT THE BOY’, FOR CARY. NEVERTHELS, AND SPE HIS FIVE MARRIAG, CARY’S GREAT LOVE WAS RANDOLPH STT, AND WAS MUTUAL UNTIL WELL TO THEIR LATTER YEARS.WILLIAM HAACTOR JIM HUTTON WORKED WH CARY ON WALK, DON’T RUN, 1966. ‘ONE THG CARY GRANT DID ADM WHEN WE WORKED TOGETHER – THE TWO OF , STG TALKG BETWEEN SCEN’, HE SAID, ‘WAS THAT HE HAD A CSH ON ELVIS PRLEY. HE DIDN’T SAY THE WORD ‘CSH’, BUT THAT’S CLEARLY WHAT HE MEANT’. I’D HEARD TAL THAT HOWARD HUGH HAD BEEN MORE THAN GRANT’S BT MAN. THAT THEY WERE VERY CLOSE, BUT I DIDN’T PURSUE THAT.’ WRER TMAN CAPOTE MA THE FOLLOWG MENT ABOUT HIS OWN AND GRANT’S DG TAKG DURG THE SIXTI. ‘MOSTLY, I TOOK DGS TO PLEASE CARY GRANT. HE WAS TRYG LSD, BACK WHEN WAS LEGAL. HE HAD THE NOTN THAT HE ULD BEE HETEROSEXUAL WH ’. IN ALL, CARY ATTEND ABOUT 100 LSD SSNS AND ALWAYS SAID THEY BENEFED HIM GREATLY.GAY WRER TMAN CAPOTEEVEN AS LATE AS 1980, WHEN HE WAS HIS 76TH YEAR, HE WAS STILL NYG HIS HOMOSEXUALY. ‘I HAVE NOTHG AGAST GAYS’, HE TOLD A RATHER PHY TERVIEWER. ‘I’M JT NOT ONE MYSELF’. IT WAS TOTALLY UNTE, OF URSE. ALL HOLLYWOOD KNEW OF HIS AND STT’S ROMANCE. IT HAD GONE ON FOR S. HE WAS FORCED TO MARRY VIRGIA CHERRILL 1934 BY THE STUD, JT TO GET NEWS HOUNDS OF HIS BACK, BUT HE WAS THOROUGHLY MISERABLE ABOUT THE WHOLE ARRANGEMENT AND EVEN ATTEMPTED SUICI AFTER A FEW MONTHS. VIRGIA STATED HER PLAT THAT HE WAS ‘DNK AND SULLEN FOR THE DURATN’. THE PROBLEM WAS APPARENT TO ALL WHO KNEW HIM. HE MISSED STT.VIRGIA CHERRILL & CARY GRANTTHE LIGHTFULLY OUTSPOKEN CAROLE LOMBARD KNEW EVERYBODY’S SECRETS. AFTER ALL, SHE WAS WED TO THE ‘KG’ HIMSELF, CLARK GABLE, A MAN WHO HARBOURED ONE HIMSELF REGARDG A HOMOSEXUAL EXPERIENCE. ONE DNKEN NIGHT 1929 HE HAD BEEN SCED BY BILLY HA. A LATER, THE DIRECTOR OF GONE WH THE WD, GEE COR, (AN OPENLY GAY MAN), WAS HEARD TO REFER TO CLARK AS ‘ONE OF BILLY’S TRICKS’. THE REMARK POSIVELY ZOOMED AROUND HOLLYWOOD, AND SO UPSET GABLE THAT HE HAD COR REMOVED OM THE PICTURE. ‘I WON’T BE DIRECTED BY A FAIRY’, THE ‘KG’ PLAED. ‘I HAVE TO WORK WH A REAL MAN.’ CAROLE KNEW ALL ABOUT , AND SHE ALSO KNEW HOW EP THE LOVE BETWEEN GRANT AND STT WAS EVEN IF, AS SHE PUT , ‘THEIR RELATNSHIP IS PERFECT. RANDY PAYS THE BILLS, AND CARY MAILS THEM.’NOEL COWARD, MAE WT & CARY GRANTSHE WAS REFERRG TO CARY’S LEGENDARY TIGHT-FISTED APPROACH TO MONEY. IN 1959, HE WAS PAID $450,000 FOR MAKG NORTH BY NORTHWT, PL A PERCENTAGE OF THE PROFS, PL AN ADDNAL $315,000 BEE THE SHOOT WENT NE WEEKS PAST HIS NTRACTED TIME. HAVG BEEN A STAR SCE THE 1930S, HE WAS A VERY WEALTHY MAN, YET EVA MARIE SAT RELLED HER BEMEMENT AT SEEG HIM CHARGE FANS 15 CENTS A TIME FOR HIS TOGRAPH! WHEN HE DIED 1986 HIS TATE WAS VALUED AT $60 LN.JT A FEW DAYS OM PLETN OF FILMG PENNY SERENA 1941, THE TRAGIC NEWS REACHED CARY THAT THE LUFTWAFFE HAD BOMBED BRISTOL, THE HOMETOWN HE HAD LEFT TWENTY YEARS EARLIER, KILLG FIVE MEMBERS OF HIS FAY – AN NT AND UNCLE, THEIR DGHTER AND SON--LAW, AND THEIR GRANDCHILD. CARY WAS STILL A BRISH CIZEN, BUT HIS STAR WAS ON THE RISE HOLLYWOOD SO HE OPTED NOT TO RETURN TO BRA. INSTEAD, HE DONATED HALF HIS SALARY TO BRISH WAR RELIEF. GIVEN HIS REPUTATN AS A MISERLY PENNY-PCHER THIS WAS PROBABLY A NSIRABLE WRENCH FOR HIM. NEEDLS TO SAY, HIS GENERO DONATN WAS MA FULLY PUBLIC BY THE STUD.IN 1940, CARY AND RANDY MA THEIR ONLY MOVIE TOGETHER, A LIGHT-HEARTED ROMANTIC EDY LLED MY FAVOURE WIFE, WHICH HAD A SCRIPT THAT REQUIRED THEM TO FD OVER THE FEMALE LEAD IRENE DUNNE. THOSE WHO KNOW ABOUT THE MERA SAY PICKS UP ON CHEMISTRY BETWEEN PEOPLE. BOTH MEN CLEARLY APPEAR MORE AT EASE WH EACH OTHER THAN THEY DO WH DUNNE, THE WOMAN THEY ARE SUPPOSED TO BE MADLY LOVE WH. COLUMNIST HEDDA HOPPER WROTE HER PERSONAL PAPERS AFTER CARY DIVORCED HIS FIRST WIFE: ‘WHOM DO HE THK HE’S FOOLG? HE STARTED WH THE BOYS AND NOW HE’S GONE BACK TO THEM.’ HEDDA WAS ANOTHER WHO KNEW EVERYTHG THAT WENT ON TSEL TOWN.GRANT & STT WH IRENE DUNNE MY FAVOURE WIFEWHILE HE WAS SPA 1956 MAKG THE PRI AND THE PASSN, CARY FELL HOPELSLY LOVE WH HIS -STAR SOPHIA LOREN (WHO ULD POSSIBLY BLAME HIM?) AND ASKED HER MENTOR CARLO PONTI TO SECRETLY AGREE TO HER PLAYG THE FEMALE LEAD HIS MOVIE HOEBOAT (1958) WHEN WAS READY TO GO TO PRODUCTN THE FOLLOWG YEAR. PONTI GAVE HIM THE GREEN LIGHT, UNAWARE OF THE FEELGS FIFTY-TWO YEAR-OLD CARY HELD FOR HIS 22 YEAR-OLD PROTEGE. GRANT LDLY ARRANGED THE AL, KNOWG FULL WELL THAT HIS OWN WIFE AT THAT TIME, BETSY DRAKE, HAD ALREADY BEEN PROMISED THE ROLE HE NOW GAVE TO LOREN.THE PARABLE SOPHIA LOREN THE PRI & THE PASSNBY THE TIME FILMG BEGAN, HOWEVER, SOPHIA WAS VERY MUCH LOVE WH PONTI. UNTERRED, GRANT SHOWERED HER WH FLOWERS AND GIFTS AND EVEN PROPOSED MARRIAGE. WHILE HE AWAED AN ANSWER, SOPHIA AND PONTI SLIPPED ACROSS THE BORR TO MEXI AND QUIETLY TIED THE KNOT. THEY RETURNED TO THE SET ON THE FOLLOWG MONDAY TIME TO SHOOT THE FAL SCENE THE MOVIE WHICH, IRONILLY, HAPPENED TO BE THE WEDDG BETWEEN SOPHIA’S CHARACTER AND GRANT’S. OUCH!RANDOLPH STT AS MOST WTERNS FANS REMEMBER HIMGRANT AND STT WERE LOVE MOST OF THEIR ADULT LIV. SADLY FOR THEM, WAS AN ERA WHEN OTHERS, WH A LOT AT STAKE, HAD THE POWER TO ORR THEM TO BE APART, HENCE THE LOVELS MARRIAG FOR BOTH MEN. WHEN FACED WH A CHOICE TO EHER LIVE THEIR LIV TOGETHER OBSCURY, OR TO NTUE HIDG THEIR AFFECTN AND MATA THEIR STAT AS HIGHLY PAID MOVIE STARS, THEY OPTED FOR THE LATTER. SO, LERALLY FOR S, THEY TRIED TO KEEP THEIR AFFECTNS OM THE MEDIA. ONE EVENG, WHEN BOTH MEN WERE THEIR SEVENTI, THE MARE D’ OF THE BEVERLY HILLCRT HOTEL OBSERVED THEM SEATED A QUIET BOOTH AFTER THE PLACE HAD EMPTIED. THEY WERE HOLDG HANDS.CARY GRANT LATER YEARSONE FAL WORD ON THE SUBJECT: CARY’S DGHTER WROTE HER MEMOIR, GOOD STUFF, WHICH WAS RELEASED JANUARY 2015. IN SHE DISMISSED THE TALK OF HER FATHER’S HOMOSEXUALY AS ‘GOSSIP’, NOTHG MORE. NOT SURPRISGLY, HER BOOK IS MOSTLY ABOUT HIM, AND SHE VOT SEVERAL PAG TO THE ‘MOURS’. RANDOLPH STT, HER FATHER’S ‘BT IEND’ FOR NEARLY FIFTY YEARS, IS NOT EVEN MENTNED! FORM YOUR OWN NCLNS ON THAT IF YOU WILL.BETSY DRAKEBISEXUAL HOLLYWOODRLO PONTIROLE LOMBARDRY GRANTCLARK GABLEELVIS PRLEYGEE CORHEDDA HOPPERHOEBOATIRENE DUNNEJIM HUTTONMY FAVOURE WIFENOEL WARDNORTH BY NORTHWTRANDOLPH STTSOPHIA LORENTHE PRI AND THE PASSNTMAN POTEVIRGIA CHERRILLWILLIAM HA PREVTHE BT MOVIE MIC? NEXTELVIS PRESLEY – WAS HE BISEXUAL? BE THE FIRST TO MENT LEAVE A REPLY CANCEL REPLYYOUR EMAIL ADDRS WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED.COMMENTNAME *EMAIL *WEBSESAVE MY NAME, EMAIL, AND WEBSE THIS BROWSER FOR THE NEXT TIME I MENT. IF A NEW COMMENT IS POSTED:DO NOT SEND EMAIL NOTIFITNS.SEND EMAIL NOTIFITN ONLY IF SOMEONE REPLI TO MY COMMENT(S).SEND EMAIL NOTIFITN WHENEVER A NEW COMMENT IS POSTED.ΔTHIS SE AKISMET TO RCE SPAM. LEARN HOW YOUR MENT DATA IS PROCSED.LOOKG FOR SOMETHG? SEARCH FOR: RECENT POSTS F TROOP (1965-7) JULY 1, 2023 1 DID YOU KNOW? PT219 JUNE 28, 2023 1 BEATTY, WOOD, WAGNER & BARDOT JUNE 25, 2023 0 LGTTM – SIX DAYS, SEVEN NIGHTS (1998) JUNE 22, 2023 0 PROMINENT DIRECTORS – PT1 JUNE 19, 2023 2ARCHIV ARCHIV SELECT MONTH JULY 2023 (11) JUNE 2023 (11) MAY 2023 (10) APRIL 2023 (7) MARCH 2023 (9) FEBARY 2023 (10) JANUARY 2023 (10) DECEMBER 2022 (11) NOVEMBER 2022 (10) OCTOBER 2022 (11) SEPTEMBER 2022 (10) AUGT 2022 (11) JULY 2022 (10) JUNE 2022 (10) MAY 2022 (10) APRIL 2022 (9) MARCH 2022 (11) FEBARY 2022 (9) JANUARY 2022 (10) DECEMBER 2021 (10) NOVEMBER 2021 (10) OCTOBER 2021 (10) SEPTEMBER 2021 (10) AUGT 2021 (10) JULY 2021 (11) JUNE 2021 (9) MAY 2021 (9) APRIL 2021 (11) MARCH 2021 (10) FEBARY 2021 (9) JANUARY 2021 (12) DECEMBER 2020 (10) NOVEMBER 2020 (10) OCTOBER 2020 (9) SEPTEMBER 2020 (10) AUGT 2020 (12) JULY 2020 (10) JUNE 2020 (11) MAY 2020 (10) APRIL 2020 (10) MARCH 2020 (11) FEBARY 2020 (9) JANUARY 2020 (10) DECEMBER 2019 (11) NOVEMBER 2019 (10) OCTOBER 2019 (10) SEPTEMBER 2019 (10) AUGT 2019 (11) JULY 2019 (11) JUNE 2019 (10) MAY 2019 (10) APRIL 2019 (11) MARCH 2019 (15) FEBARY 2019 (14) JANUARY 2019 (15) DECEMBER 2018 (15) NOVEMBER 2018 (15) OCTOBER 2018 (16) SEPTEMBER 2018 (15) AUGT 2018 (15) JULY 2018 (16) JUNE 2018 (16) MAY 2018 (15) APRIL 2018 (15) MARCH 2018 (16) FEBARY 2018 (14) JANUARY 2018 (13) DECEMBER 2017 (16) NOVEMBER 2017 (15) OCTOBER 2017 (15) SEPTEMBER 2017 (15) AUGT 2017 (16) JULY 2017 (15) JUNE 2017 (15) MAY 2017 (16) APRIL 2017 (15) MARCH 2017 (15) FEBARY 2017 (15) JANUARY 2017 (16) DECEMBER 2016 (15) NOVEMBER 2016 (16) OCTOBER 2016 (17) SEPTEMBER 2016 (16) AUGT 2016 (16) JULY 2016 (17) JUNE 2016 (16) MAY 2016 (15) APRIL 2016 (15) MARCH 2016 (15) FEBARY 2016 (13) JANUARY 2016 (17) DECEMBER 2015 (16) NOVEMBER 2015 (15) OCTOBER 2015 (15) SEPTEMBER 2015 (16) AUGT 2015 (15) JULY 2015 (13) JUNE 2015 (14) MAY 2015 (16) APRIL 2015 (23) MARCH 2015 (31) FEBARY 2015 (40) RSS FEEDSCHARACTER ACTORS (9)DID YOU KNOW? 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(1) ALL TOPICSTAGSDREY HEPBURN (33) AVA GARDNER (35) BARBARA STANWYCK (27) BETTE DAVIS (43) BG CROSBY (28) BURT LANSTER (34) RY GRANT (44) CHARLTON HTON (27) CLARK GABLE (62) BORAH KERR (27) ELIZABETH TAYLOR (33) ELVIS PRLEY (33) ERROL FLYNN (45) ANK SATRA (56) GARY OPER (45) GONE WH THE WD (29) GRACE KELLY (39) GREGORY PECK (30) HOWARD HUGH (33) HUMPHREY BOGART (28) GRID BERGMAN (30) JAM STEWART (40) JOAN CRAWFORD (50) JOHN WAYNE (47) JUDY GARLAND (32) LANA TURNER (40) LRENCE OLIVIER (32) MARILYN MONROE (65) MARLON BRANDO (43) MICHAEL E (28) MICKEY ROONEY (32) NATALIE WOOD (28) PL NEWMAN (31) PETER LAWFORD (26) RICHARD BURTON (29) RA HAYWORTH (26) ROBERT MCHUM (41) ROBERT TAYLOR (27) ROCK HUDSON (32) RONALD REAGAN (32) SEAN NNERY (41) SHIRLEY TEMPLE (32) SPENCER TRACY (39) TONY CURTIS (29) WILLIAM HOLN (28)RECENT COMMENTSMATT ON MOVIE TRIVIA – PT61.GIGANT ON MOVIE TRIVIA – PT221MICHAEL PATRICK POWERS ON MOVIE TRIVIA – PT221AVA PTMAN ON NATALIE WOOD – WHAT HAPPENED?NARELLE ROSE COX ON WILLIAM HOLN – HIS LIFE AND HIS LOVAVA PTMAN ON LET’S GO TO THE MOVIES – PT11.CAROL BELL ON STEVE MCQUEEN – NOT A NICE GUY.SPENCER VERE ON RA HAYWORTH – A TRAGIC REPEAT OFFENR?JOHN MANCO ON JENNIFER O’NEILL AND ‘THE SUMMER OF ’42’.VOLENA CICHSKI ON GAY/BISEXUAL ACTORS OLD TV SERI ( PT 1 )CRAIG ON F TROOP (1965-7)KATHLEEN ON ANTHONY QUN – A HYPOCRE OR JT A PRODUCT OF HIS TIM?CRAIG ON KATE, BETTE & GEORGEDENISE ON STANWYCK & TAYLOR – A LAVENR MARRIAGE?DAN ON MOVIE TRIVIA – PT220DIANE D ON 20 ACTORS/PERFORMANCES I LEAST ENJOY WATCHINGCATMAC ON LGTTM – ‘THE ABSENT-MD PROFSOR’ & ‘SABOTR’.DAN ON LGTTM – ‘THE ABSENT-MD PROFSOR’ & ‘SABOTR’.DAN ON LGTTM – ‘THE ABSENT-MD PROFSOR’ & ‘SABOTR’.APRIL ON WILLIAM HOLN – HIS LIFE AND HIS LOVCOPYRIGHT &PY; 2023 | WORDPRS THEME BY MH THEM INSERT/ED LK
- CARY GRANT’S HIDN GAY RELATNSHIP WH RANDOLPH STT
- SO, CARY GRANT AND KATHARE HEPBURN HAD GAY LOVE AFFAIRS. AND?
- 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
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CARY GRANT – THE LOV HIS LIFE MAY 6, 2015 ADM DID YOU KNOW? 0 OUTSI OF HOLLYWOOD BATE RAGED FOR YEARS ABOUT MATEE IDOL CARY GRANT’S SEXUALY. WAS HE HETEROSEXUAL, HOMOSEXUAL OR BISEXUAL? HE HAD LOVERS OM BOTH SEX, SO I GUS THAT MAK HIM BISEXUAL, ALTHOUGH I ADM I HAVE NO REAL IA IF THAT IS THE SOLE CRERIA ED TO ASSS SUCH THGS. FROM WHAT I HAVE READ DOWN THE YEARS, HE APPEARS TO HAVE BEEN EPLY LOVE WH TWO PEOPLE, ONE WOMAN (SOPHIA LOREN) AND ONE MAN (RANDOLPH STT). HIS FEELGS FOR SOPHIA WERE NOT RETURNED, BUT HIS AFFAIR WH STT WENT ON FOR AROUND 40 YEARS!RANDOLPH STT & CARY GRANT THE 1930SHE AND WTERN ACTOR RANDOLPH STT SHARED A HOE FOR TEN YEARS, OM 1932 TO 1942, UNTIL CARY MARRIED WOOLWORTHS’ HEIRS BARBARA HUTTON. DURG THAT PERD CARY ALSO WED ACTRS VIRGIA CHERRILL ON ORRS OM THE STUD, BUT THAT ONLY LASTED 13 MONTHS OM 1934-5, BEFORE HE AND STT MOVED BACK TOGETHER AGA. CARY HAD ONCE SHARED A HOE WH HOLLYWOOD’S MOST LOVEABLE GAY ACTOR WILLIAM HA. LATER STILL, HE LIVED FOR A WHILE WH THE EQUALLY GAY NOEL COWARD WHO WROTE HIS FAMO SONG, ‘MAD ABOUT THE BOY’, FOR CARY. NEVERTHELS, AND SPE HIS FIVE MARRIAG, CARY’S GREAT LOVE WAS RANDOLPH STT, AND WAS MUTUAL UNTIL WELL TO THEIR LATTER YEARS.WILLIAM HAACTOR JIM HUTTON WORKED WH CARY ON WALK, DON’T RUN, 1966. ‘ONE THG CARY GRANT DID ADM WHEN WE WORKED TOGETHER – THE TWO OF , STG TALKG BETWEEN SCEN’, HE SAID, ‘WAS THAT HE HAD A CSH ON ELVIS PRLEY. HE DIDN’T SAY THE WORD ‘CSH’, BUT THAT’S CLEARLY WHAT HE MEANT’. I’D HEARD TAL THAT HOWARD HUGH HAD BEEN MORE THAN GRANT’S BT MAN. THAT THEY WERE VERY CLOSE, BUT I DIDN’T PURSUE THAT.’ WRER TMAN CAPOTE MA THE FOLLOWG MENT ABOUT HIS OWN AND GRANT’S DG TAKG DURG THE SIXTI. ‘MOSTLY, I TOOK DGS TO PLEASE CARY GRANT. HE WAS TRYG LSD, BACK WHEN WAS LEGAL. HE HAD THE NOTN THAT HE ULD BEE HETEROSEXUAL WH ’. IN ALL, CARY ATTEND ABOUT 100 LSD SSNS AND ALWAYS SAID THEY BENEFED HIM GREATLY.GAY WRER TMAN CAPOTEEVEN AS LATE AS 1980, WHEN HE WAS HIS 76TH YEAR, HE WAS STILL NYG HIS HOMOSEXUALY. ‘I HAVE NOTHG AGAST GAYS’, HE TOLD A RATHER PHY TERVIEWER. ‘I’M JT NOT ONE MYSELF’. IT WAS TOTALLY UNTE, OF URSE. ALL HOLLYWOOD KNEW OF HIS AND STT’S ROMANCE. IT HAD GONE ON FOR S. HE WAS FORCED TO MARRY VIRGIA CHERRILL 1934 BY THE STUD, JT TO GET NEWS HOUNDS OF HIS BACK, BUT HE WAS THOROUGHLY MISERABLE ABOUT THE WHOLE ARRANGEMENT AND EVEN ATTEMPTED SUICI AFTER A FEW MONTHS. VIRGIA STATED HER PLAT THAT HE WAS ‘DNK AND SULLEN FOR THE DURATN’. THE PROBLEM WAS APPARENT TO ALL WHO KNEW HIM. HE MISSED STT.VIRGIA CHERRILL & CARY GRANTTHE LIGHTFULLY OUTSPOKEN CAROLE LOMBARD KNEW EVERYBODY’S SECRETS. AFTER ALL, SHE WAS WED TO THE ‘KG’ HIMSELF, CLARK GABLE, A MAN WHO HARBOURED ONE HIMSELF REGARDG A HOMOSEXUAL EXPERIENCE. ONE DNKEN NIGHT 1929 HE HAD BEEN SCED BY BILLY HA. A LATER, THE DIRECTOR OF GONE WH THE WD, GEE COR, (AN OPENLY GAY MAN), WAS HEARD TO REFER TO CLARK AS ‘ONE OF BILLY’S TRICKS’. THE REMARK POSIVELY ZOOMED AROUND HOLLYWOOD, AND SO UPSET GABLE THAT HE HAD COR REMOVED OM THE PICTURE. ‘I WON’T BE DIRECTED BY A FAIRY’, THE ‘KG’ PLAED. ‘I HAVE TO WORK WH A REAL MAN.’ CAROLE KNEW ALL ABOUT , AND SHE ALSO KNEW HOW EP THE LOVE BETWEEN GRANT AND STT WAS EVEN IF, AS SHE PUT , ‘THEIR RELATNSHIP IS PERFECT. RANDY PAYS THE BILLS, AND CARY MAILS THEM.’NOEL COWARD, MAE WT & CARY GRANTSHE WAS REFERRG TO CARY’S LEGENDARY TIGHT-FISTED APPROACH TO MONEY. IN 1959, HE WAS PAID $450,000 FOR MAKG NORTH BY NORTHWT, PL A PERCENTAGE OF THE PROFS, PL AN ADDNAL $315,000 BEE THE SHOOT WENT NE WEEKS PAST HIS NTRACTED TIME. HAVG BEEN A STAR SCE THE 1930S, HE WAS A VERY WEALTHY MAN, YET EVA MARIE SAT RELLED HER BEMEMENT AT SEEG HIM CHARGE FANS 15 CENTS A TIME FOR HIS TOGRAPH! WHEN HE DIED 1986 HIS TATE WAS VALUED AT $60 LN.JT A FEW DAYS OM PLETN OF FILMG PENNY SERENA 1941, THE TRAGIC NEWS REACHED CARY THAT THE LUFTWAFFE HAD BOMBED BRISTOL, THE HOMETOWN HE HAD LEFT TWENTY YEARS EARLIER, KILLG FIVE MEMBERS OF HIS FAY – AN NT AND UNCLE, THEIR DGHTER AND SON--LAW, AND THEIR GRANDCHILD. CARY WAS STILL A BRISH CIZEN, BUT HIS STAR WAS ON THE RISE HOLLYWOOD SO HE OPTED NOT TO RETURN TO BRA. INSTEAD, HE DONATED HALF HIS SALARY TO BRISH WAR RELIEF. GIVEN HIS REPUTATN AS A MISERLY PENNY-PCHER THIS WAS PROBABLY A NSIRABLE WRENCH FOR HIM. NEEDLS TO SAY, HIS GENERO DONATN WAS MA FULLY PUBLIC BY THE STUD.IN 1940, CARY AND RANDY MA THEIR ONLY MOVIE TOGETHER, A LIGHT-HEARTED ROMANTIC EDY LLED MY FAVOURE WIFE, WHICH HAD A SCRIPT THAT REQUIRED THEM TO FD OVER THE FEMALE LEAD IRENE DUNNE. THOSE WHO KNOW ABOUT THE MERA SAY PICKS UP ON CHEMISTRY BETWEEN PEOPLE. BOTH MEN CLEARLY APPEAR MORE AT EASE WH EACH OTHER THAN THEY DO WH DUNNE, THE WOMAN THEY ARE SUPPOSED TO BE MADLY LOVE WH. COLUMNIST HEDDA HOPPER WROTE HER PERSONAL PAPERS AFTER CARY DIVORCED HIS FIRST WIFE: ‘WHOM DO HE THK HE’S FOOLG? HE STARTED WH THE BOYS AND NOW HE’S GONE BACK TO THEM.’ HEDDA WAS ANOTHER WHO KNEW EVERYTHG THAT WENT ON TSEL TOWN.GRANT & STT WH IRENE DUNNE MY FAVOURE WIFEWHILE HE WAS SPA 1956 MAKG THE PRI AND THE PASSN, CARY FELL HOPELSLY LOVE WH HIS -STAR SOPHIA LOREN (WHO ULD POSSIBLY BLAME HIM?) AND ASKED HER MENTOR CARLO PONTI TO SECRETLY AGREE TO HER PLAYG THE FEMALE LEAD HIS MOVIE HOEBOAT (1958) WHEN WAS READY TO GO TO PRODUCTN THE FOLLOWG YEAR. PONTI GAVE HIM THE GREEN LIGHT, UNAWARE OF THE FEELGS FIFTY-TWO YEAR-OLD CARY HELD FOR HIS 22 YEAR-OLD PROTEGE. GRANT LDLY ARRANGED THE AL, KNOWG FULL WELL THAT HIS OWN WIFE AT THAT TIME, BETSY DRAKE, HAD ALREADY BEEN PROMISED THE ROLE HE NOW GAVE TO LOREN.THE PARABLE SOPHIA LOREN THE PRI & THE PASSNBY THE TIME FILMG BEGAN, HOWEVER, SOPHIA WAS VERY MUCH LOVE WH PONTI. UNTERRED, GRANT SHOWERED HER WH FLOWERS AND GIFTS AND EVEN PROPOSED MARRIAGE. WHILE HE AWAED AN ANSWER, SOPHIA AND PONTI SLIPPED ACROSS THE BORR TO MEXI AND QUIETLY TIED THE KNOT. THEY RETURNED TO THE SET ON THE FOLLOWG MONDAY TIME TO SHOOT THE FAL SCENE THE MOVIE WHICH, IRONILLY, HAPPENED TO BE THE WEDDG BETWEEN SOPHIA’S CHARACTER AND GRANT’S. OUCH!RANDOLPH STT AS MOST WTERNS FANS REMEMBER HIMGRANT AND STT WERE LOVE MOST OF THEIR ADULT LIV. SADLY FOR THEM, WAS AN ERA WHEN OTHERS, WH A LOT AT STAKE, HAD THE POWER TO ORR THEM TO BE APART, HENCE THE LOVELS MARRIAG FOR BOTH MEN. WHEN FACED WH A CHOICE TO EHER LIVE THEIR LIV TOGETHER OBSCURY, OR TO NTUE HIDG THEIR AFFECTN AND MATA THEIR STAT AS HIGHLY PAID MOVIE STARS, THEY OPTED FOR THE LATTER. SO, LERALLY FOR S, THEY TRIED TO KEEP THEIR AFFECTNS OM THE MEDIA. ONE EVENG, WHEN BOTH MEN WERE THEIR SEVENTI, THE MARE D’ OF THE BEVERLY HILLCRT HOTEL OBSERVED THEM SEATED A QUIET BOOTH AFTER THE PLACE HAD EMPTIED. THEY WERE HOLDG HANDS.CARY GRANT LATER YEARSONE FAL WORD ON THE SUBJECT: CARY’S DGHTER WROTE HER MEMOIR, GOOD STUFF, WHICH WAS RELEASED JANUARY 2015. IN SHE DISMISSED THE TALK OF HER FATHER’S HOMOSEXUALY AS ‘GOSSIP’, NOTHG MORE. NOT SURPRISGLY, HER BOOK IS MOSTLY ABOUT HIM, AND SHE VOT SEVERAL PAG TO THE ‘MOURS’. RANDOLPH STT, HER FATHER’S ‘BT IEND’ FOR NEARLY FIFTY YEARS, IS NOT EVEN MENTNED! FORM YOUR OWN NCLNS ON THAT IF YOU WILL.BETSY DRAKEBISEXUAL HOLLYWOODRLO PONTIROLE LOMBARDRY GRANTCLARK GABLEELVIS PRLEYGEE CORHEDDA HOPPERHOEBOATIRENE DUNNEJIM HUTTONMY FAVOURE WIFENOEL WARDNORTH BY NORTHWTRANDOLPH STTSOPHIA LORENTHE PRI AND THE PASSNTMAN POTEVIRGIA CHERRILLWILLIAM HA PREVTHE BT MOVIE MIC? NEXTELVIS PRESLEY – WAS HE BISEXUAL? BE THE FIRST TO MENT LEAVE A REPLY CANCEL REPLYYOUR EMAIL ADDRS WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED.COMMENTNAME *EMAIL *WEBSESAVE MY NAME, EMAIL, AND WEBSE THIS BROWSER FOR THE NEXT TIME I MENT. IF A NEW COMMENT IS POSTED:DO NOT SEND EMAIL NOTIFITNS.SEND EMAIL NOTIFITN ONLY IF SOMEONE REPLI TO MY COMMENT(S).SEND EMAIL NOTIFITN WHENEVER A NEW COMMENT IS POSTED.ΔTHIS SE AKISMET TO RCE SPAM. LEARN HOW YOUR MENT DATA IS PROCSED.LOOKG FOR SOMETHG? SEARCH FOR: RECENT POSTS F TROOP (1965-7) JULY 1, 2023 1 DID YOU KNOW? 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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. 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.
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.
CARY GRANT’S HIDN GAY RELATNSHIP WH RANDOLPH STT
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. “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.
SO, CARY GRANT AND KATHARE HEPBURN HAD GAY LOVE AFFAIRS. AND?
”“My sense of was that he found homosexual life unrewardg.
But one of the most persistent mors about Grant was that he was secretly gay, or at least bisexual.
WHEN HOLLYWOOD STUDS MARRIED OFF GAY STARS TO KEEP THEIR SEXUALY A SECRET
Zerbe himself was gay, and his work had a homoerotic tge even when created for a female, heterosexual dience. He worked at a gas statn on the rner of North Van Ns Avenue and Hollywood Boulevard, out of which, he says, he and a dre of his male and female iends serviced Hollywood celebri—many of them closeted homosexuals.
They provid a safety zone for people whose reers would have been ed if the tth about them emerged the s before gay rights and the AIDS crisis. 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.