Betty White hinted at it. Hollywood call-boy Scotty Bower swore that it’s true. Now, thanks to a new documentary based on costume designer Orry-Kelly’s autobiography Women He’s Undressed, a new wave of Cary Grant gay rumors will keep us entertained for several minutes before the next deluge of (abnormally large) celebrity penis pics hits the Internet.
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While the autobiography coyly hints at an affair, the documentary categorically proclaims Grant and Orry-Kelly were lovers. In fact, the film alleges the actor wasn’t even particularly secretive about his string of gay male homosexual lovers until he hit what’s commonly referred to as “The Big Time.”
For context, the film historian William J. Mann makes an appearance in the documentary, very ably setting the scene: “It was a city of bachelors,” he informs the patient viewer. “You were surrounded by men who were openly living in ways you couldn’t imagine back home…”
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Kelly is quite vocal about how testy he’d become regarding Grant’s obsession with blonde women, not-so-preciously quipping that “he always comes home to me.” The two men met when the English actor — born Archibald Leach — was just turning 21 in 1925.
Somewhat more interestingly, the documentary claims the two men went on violent jags and were prone to getting physical and bashing each other about. Katherine Thompson, writer of the documentary, weirdly tells the New York Post “the physical violence between the men was not uncommon between homosexual men of the period,” as though such a phenomenon is unfathomable in 2016. [Citation needed.]
Grant was married five times; a fact which sparked curiosity from airless busybodies in his lifetime. The lazy tabloid fodder was no doubt helped by his uniquely intimate friendship with actor Randolph Scott — the two shared a house together for over a decade.
For what it’s worth, The Daily Mail mentions Grant’s daughter Jennifer shrugged off such rumors in her own memoir, saying her father liked the speculation because it “made women want to prove the assertion wrong.”
Also of potential note: The actor allegedly once told director Peter Bogdanovitch, “I’ve nothing against gays, I’m just not one myself.”
Queerty reached out to Grant via Ouija but received no statement as of press time. We’ll update as more information becomes known.
Sluggo2007
I always believed that he was a little light in the loafers.
PRINCE OF SNARKNESS aka DIVKID
My heart wants to believe but my google imaged-enabled eyestalks and occipital lobe says deluded wishful thinking old queen
Sammy Schlipshit
Everyone should browse all the photos of Grant and Scott as they were living together.
Sure appears to be young sweet love to me.
Perhaps if Grant actually said those things to his daughter, just perhaps that’s exactly how a deeply closeted guy might handle the situation.
Search for his early movies.
OMGoodness, he was ravishing.
ION…where is the icon to receive new postings?
Billy Budd
EVERYBODY who knows about old holywood knows Cary Grant was gay. In the classic comedy Some Like It Hot, Tony Curtis makes a fabulous Cary Grant impersonation of a millionnaire who feels nothing when a woman kisses him.
PRINCE OF SNARKNESS aka DIVKID
Seriously. Google image Orry-Kelly. C’mon now son
Kangol
Isn’t this OLD news? Cary Grant was outed over 30 years ago, Queerty!
Tobi
Cary Grant snogged Mae West. He was definitely gay.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVrfHXnUJFc
ErikO
This is extremely old news and he was bisexual, not gay, and he was out for the times as he lived with a male partner.
Brian
Cary Grant was not gay-identifying. However, that doesn’t mean that he wasn’t sexually interested in men at all. It is perfectly possible for a man to not want to identify as gay but to have homosexual attractions. There is no contradiction there.
I get so annoyed with people especially liberals – who insist that a man must identify as gay even if he only has a small sexual interest in men. To these annoying people I say this: go away, you’re a bunch of losers, you are identity creeps.
Identity creeps are these creepy men and women who go around insisting that their view of the world must be imposed on others in the name of identity politics. Buzz off, sweethearts.
He BGB
For one thing NEVER go by what a wife says. His wives claim he was so straight. Just because he could have sex with them they’re CONVINCED. And I bet every gay man on this post knows different when it comes to married men. Second, most British men seem gay to me or bisexual. They can turn on a dime probably more than American men.