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"Roommates" Cary Grant and Randolph Scott

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Cary Grant being obsessed with Randolph Scott in My Favorite Wife (1940)

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Cary Grant e Randolph Scott posen para Paramount Pictures diante da súa casa compartida (Hollywood, 1933)

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Nancy Carroll got a cake to celebrate the birthdays of Randolph Scott and Cary Grant during the filming of William Seiter‘s HOT SATURDAY (1932). Scott’s and Grant’s birthdays were five days apart (different birth years).

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Randolph Scott, January 23, 1898 – March 2, 1987.

With Cary Grant in 1935.

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Randolph Scott & Cary Grant in My Favorite Wife (1940) dir. Garson Kanin

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You know, that scene from My Favorite Wife where Cary Grant is (checks notes) "seething with jealousy" over That One Guy's athleticism hits different when you know Cary Grant was into men.

(Cary Grant, attempting to make Important Work Phone Calls, hopelessly distracted by an endless mental replay of That Guy's double-ring gymnastics routine, which ends, over and over again, with a perfect swan dive into Cary Grant's lap...)

And it hits different AGAIN when you realize that That One Guy is Randolph Scott.

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probably completely late for this but i feel the criminally underrated hotness of randolph scott needs some appreciation (bonus points for being cary grant's "roommate")

new hot men

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My Favorite Wife (1940) — dir. Garson Kanin

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"Roommates" Randolph Scott and Cary Grant

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Scott and Grant relaxing in their house known as the 'Bachelor Hall' in Santa Monica, California which they purchased and shared for 12 years

From the moment they moved in together nearly a century ago, Cary Grant and Randolph Scott were subjected to speculation about the nature of their relationship. They lived together on and off for about a decade, an arrangement that outlasted multiple marriages between them and paralleled Grant’s evolution into a Hollywood icon. Several men have since recounted queer sexual encounters with the pair, and still more have claimed to witness a romantic love between them. Other people who knew them firmly believed nothing went on beyond a rich friendship. Much is not—and cannot ever be—known about closeted gay life in pre-WWII America. In that messiness, biographers have been all over the map in their judgment of what exactly went on.

Yet none of that approaches the question of what Grant and Scott meant to one another, or how this relationship shaped who they became both privately and on-screen. Prior accounts of this relationship, ranging from biographies to documentaries, haven’t fully examined what was publicly known and disclosed at the time, instead relying on cheeky magazine photographs and headlines. But the intimate contents of those articles, combined with the eventual testimony of men who knew Grant and Scott, paint a unique portrait of cohabitation, codependency, and love—platonic at minimum, and very possibly romantic.

From the studio’s perspective, this portrait of codependency and late-night scrounging meant to serve, if anything, as a reminder that the stars were still very single and eligible. The excuse that they were too poor to live on their own had long expired by 1936, however, and so their life was their life—its contents unavoidably intimate. Scott married his childhood friend Marion duPont later that year, but she mostly still lived across the country; his relationship with Grant continued through to and beyond Scott’s 1939 divorce. In a profile for Modern Screen, Grant said at one point during Scott’s marriage, “Randy’s wife didn’t come between this pair of friends. On the contrary. Remarkable institution, women.”

The honeymoon period between Scott and Grant could not last forever, and accounts diverge on how things fell apart toward the end of the ’30s. For all that Grant and Scott normalized their life together, the reality of the times remained unavoidable. “Whenever they were in public, they couldn’t even touch, and could hardly walk together or even speak to each other without being watched for the slightest sign of their feelings,” writer Richard Blackwell said.

The likeliest explanation is that the romance, if it was that, ran its course because it could never fully progress. The biographer Donald Spoto wrote in his book Blue Angel about Marlene Dietrich, that RKO gave Grant an ultimatum: Stay with Scott, or renew his contract. He chose the latter option.

The British journalist Maureen Donaldson published a book looking back at her romance with Grant in the late ’70s. The memoir was cowritten by Bill Royce, a close friend of hers (and later, Grant’s) and a writer who’d previously worked for a fan magazine. As recounted in his own 2006 book (published 20 years after Grant’s death), Royce ran into Scott one day in 1976 and then told Grant about the encounter. Grant reacted with a kind of melancholy wistfulness. By this point, he was in his early 70s and retired from acting. He decided to finally reveal the truth of what Scott meant to him. (Notably, none of this was included in Donaldson’s book.)

1933 party menu: "To my spouse, Cary. Randy"

Grant set aside several hours to admit to Royce that he’d been in love with Scott from his earliest days in Hollywood. “Have you ever heard of gravity collapse? Some people call it love at first sight,” he said, according to Royce. “This was the first time I’d felt it for anyone.” Grant told Royce that he and Scott weren’t gay or straight but somewhere in between; that women as well as men slept over at their beach house; and that Scott never wanted Grant in the same way that Grant wanted Scott. They explored this attraction imbalance. Grant said that they did have sex, often awkwardly, and that they connected romantically. “There was no way Randy would have experimented with me…if he didn’t truly love me on some profound level,” he said.

Most poignantly, Grant confessed to the pain of saying goodbye to the love of his life, all those years ago: “It was dreadful having to let go of him in my heart.” But as Royce remembered Grant in that moment, the man was ultimately at peace. “Our souls did touch,” Grant said. “What more could I ask?”

(Full article)

Related: Cary Grant & Randolph Scott: The Domestic Photographs

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Randolph Scott & Karen Steele in Ride Lonesome (1959)

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Randolph Scott and Carole Lombard for SUPERNATURAL (1933), directed by Victor Halperin

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You know what would be really cool? A biopic about Cary Grant and Randolph Scott, who are played by a certain pair we all adore . . .

That would be amaaaaaaaazing, oh my god. I know those guys sadly did not have their happy ending (and I also know they, or at least Grant, weren't by any means perfect), but it would be such a good story for a beautiful, interesting, bittersweet movie, and Sebastian and Chris would be perfect for the roles, okay 😭♥️

Time to recycle my favourite gifs / pics to go with asks about Evanstan / Cary Grant & Randolph Scott:

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