Many have speculated about their relationship over the years.
A new book looks at the evidence.
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We Cant Afford a Hollywood Marriage!
Its what Hollywood demands of a motion-picture personage that hurts.
Its a car and driver, a house in Beverly Hills, and a beach house in Malibu.
Its the front youve got to put up.
This is one reason why modern commentators often assume that Grant and Scott were lovers rather than roommates.
Paramounts publicists came up with the stories as a means of promoting two up-and-coming stars at once.
The publicity, it was hoped, would build some interest in them and in their films.
Across the articles, they are portrayed as bachelors desperately in need of a womans help and care.
The fan magazines, however, portray life at the beach house in a very different way.
In fact, the photographs were not hidden at all.
This did not go unnoticed by Paramounts publicists, and in some instances they thought it was too overt.
The Paramount publicists marked these as kill shots that is, photos that should not be published.
FromCary Grant, the Making of a Hollywood Legend, by Mark Glancy.
Copyright 2020 by Mark Glancy and published by Oxford University Press.
