Cary Grant (63 page)

“to accept the responsibility for my own actions …”
Grant, “Archie Leach.” Additional information and quotes from Grant's diaries are from John Whalen, “The Trip,”
Los Angeles Weekly,
July 9, 1998.

“I've heard the fag rumor …”
Quoted in Jeffrey Robinson, “Cary Grant: ‘I've Lived My Life,'”
Redbook,
March 1987, p. 28.

Joint statement of separation.
The statement was issued jointly by Grant and Drake and appeared in the
Los Angeles Times,
October 17, 1958.

“I was doing so swell those days …”
Curtis,
Tony Curtis.

“I never worked it deliberately …”
Ibid.

Grant's “autobiography.”
Grant, “Archie Leach.”

Instead, the magazine went ahead and ran its lengthy contracted LSD story.
Bergquist, “Curious Story.”

“I was a self-centered boor …”
Lecture to an audience of students at UCLA, July 14, 1962.

“tycoon, bargaining with a mind …”
Bergquist, “Curious Story.”

Details of Grant's Universal contract.
Newsday,
December 19, 1964.

“The final outrage …”
McDougal,
Last Mogul,
259–60.

Grant films grossed more than $10 million at Radio City.
Variety,
January 6, 1960.
“there is no doubt that I am aging …”
Quoted in
The New York Times,
February 2, 1961.

Mitchum and Grant's relationship during
The Grass Is Greener.
Some information and the Mitchum quote come from Server.

“Cary played a titled Englishman …”
Quoted in
The New Yorker,
January 13, 2000.
Grant and Drake visiting Monaco.
Some of the information and the quote is from Spada,
Grace,
226–27. Other sources wish to and will remain anonymous.

“How old Cary Grant? …”
In 1962,
Time,
doing a story on Grant, was said to have wired the question to Grant, who sent back his “Old Cary Grant” reply. The story is apocryphal; no telegram was ever sent to Grant; nor did he ever reply in kind.

“I had just returned from Rome …”
Interview by Henry Gris,
Coronet,
March 1971.

“Cary called me …”
Ibid.

“I bombed right in front of Wald.”
Quoted in Dean Gautschy,
Los Angeles HeraldExaminer,
September 28, 1963.

“No matter how good I am …”
Quoted in Al Cohn,
Newsday,
December 19, 1964.

“consistently better than ordinary …”
Andrew Sarris,
Village Voice,
January 1, 1964.

“I don't know …”
Grant, quoted by Charles Champlin,
Los Angeles Times,
December 1, 1996 (obit.).

“I'm only telling you …”
Interview by Roderick Mann,
Sunday Graphic,
July 31, 1965.

“I don't like to see men of my age …”
Interview by Sheilah Graham,
Hollywood Citizen-News,
February 8, 1966.

“One does join in the stream of life …”
Quoted in
New York Daily News,
February 28, 1966.

“I was sitting up front in the car …”
Interview by
Ticketron,
1972.

Grant and Cannon disagree before the press.
Reported in
Variety,
August 10, 1966.

Grant declared that the institution of marriage was dying.
Los Angeles Times,
August 7, 1966.

“He struck me as an angry …”
Interview by the author. Information regarding Grant's relationship with Taplinger, Flynn, Blackman, and Barrie is from various sources, as noted, including this interview. All Flynn quotes in this chapter are from my interview with her.

Cannon's testimony.
This and all other testimony quoted is from court records, Los Angeles Superior Court.

Friendship with George Barrie.
Barrie first called Grant after reading an interview in which Grant objected to women using hairspray. After Grant's statement, the company's stock had fallen one full point. Once they got to know each other they became frequent social companions. Grant always said he admired Barrie for having built his cosmetics empire from scratch.

“Every one of my wives left me …”
Interview in
The New York Times,
1971.

“My first wife …”
Quoted in Donaldson, 202–203.

“she never smoked …”
Quoted in
Variety,
January 24, 1973.

“I was there the night Mr. Grant called …”
Joey Reynolds, interview by the author.

“Jennifer once walked up to the screen …”
Interview by Al Cohn,
Newsday,
September 14, 1975.

“My intention was to make myself happy …”
Guy Flatley, “About Cary Grant: From Mae to September,”
New York Times,
July 22, 1973.

“Jennifer is my best production.”
Quoted in Warren Hoge, “The Other Cary Grant,”
The New York Times Magazine,
July 31, 1977.

“as periodically dependable …”
The quipper wishes anonymity.

“I wouldn't think of it …”
Interview by Tom Shales for the
Washington Post,
reprinted in the
Los Angeles Times,
December 25, 1981.

“I stayed close to Cary always …”
Curtis,
Tony Curtis.

Grant and Charlie Callas.
Charlie Callas, interview by the author.

Grant trying to sound Jewish …”
Ibid.

“I remember …”
Lecture at Flint Center, DeAnza Community College, Cupertino, California, November 3, 1982.

“I don't have the energy for it …”
Lecture at the Masonic Auditorium at San Francisco, as reported by Jennings Parrott in the
Los Angeles Times,
January 31, 1985. A detailed recapitulation of Grant's presentations may be found in Nelson,
Evenings with Cary Grant.

Comments of doctors during Grant's stroke.
There are several sources for the comments of Drs. Manlove and Gilson, and paramedic Lund, including the
Los Angeles Times, People,
and Warren G. Harris,
Good Housekeeping,
September 1987.

“I don't know how I consider death …”
People,
December 15, 1986.

“I would like to be remembered as a congenial fellow …”
Quoted by Kent Schuelke,
Interview,
“Cary Grant,” January 1987.

THIS IS THE NIGHT
(1932, year of release). Paramount Publix. Directed by Frank
Tuttle. Produced by Benjamin Glazer. Screenplay by Avery Hopwood and Benjamin Glazer, from
Pouche,
by René Peter and Henri Falk, also George Marion Jr. and René Peter. Principal cast: Lily Damita, Charles Ruggles, Roland Young, Thelma Todd, Cary Grant, Irving Bacon. B&W.

SINNERS IN THE SUN
(1932). Paramount Publix. Directed by Alexander Hall.
Produced by Paramount Publix. Screenplay by Vincent Lawrence, Waldemar Young, and Samuel Hoffenstein, from a story by Mildred Cram. Principal cast: Carole Lombard, Chester Morris, Adrienne Ames, Alison Skipworth, Walter Byron, Reginald Barlow, Zita Moulton, Cary Grant. B&W.

MERRILY WE GO TO HELL
(1932). Paramount Publix. Directed by Dorothy Arzner.
Produced by Paramount Publix. Screenplay by Edwin Justus Mayer, from
I, Jerry, Take Thee, Joan,
by Cleo Lucas. Principal cast: Sylvia Sidney, Fredric March, Adrianne Allen, Skeets Gallagher, Florence Britton, Esther Howard, George Irving, Kent Taylor, Charles Coleman, Leonard Carey, Cary Grant. B&W.

DEVIL AND THE DEEP
(1932). Paramount Publix. Directed by Marion Gering.
Produced by Paramount Publix. Screenplay by Benn Levy and Harry Hervey. Principal cast: Tallulah Bankhead, Gary Cooper, Charles Laughton, Cary Grant, Gordon Westcott, Paul Porcasi, Juliette Compton, Arthur Hoyt, Dorothy Christy. B&W.

BLONDE VENUS
(1932). Paramount Publix. Directed by Josef von Sternberg. Produced by Paramount Publix (Josef von Sternberg, uncredited). Screenplay by Jules Furthman and S. K. Lauren, from a story by Josef von Sternberg. Principal cast: Marlene Dietrich, Herbert Marshall, Cary Grant, Dickie Moore, Gene Morgan, Rita La Roy, Sidney Toler, Cecil Cunningham. B&W.

HOT SATURDAY
(1932). Paramount Publix. Directed by William A. Seiter. Produced by
Paramount Publix. Screenplay by Seton I. Miller, Josephine Lovett, and Joseph
Moncure March, from the novel by Harvey Fergusson. Principal cast: Nancy Carroll, Cary Grant, Randolph Scott, Edward Woods, Lilian Bond, William Collier Sr., Jane Darwell, Rita La Roy, Grady Sutton. B&W.

MADAME BUTTERFLY
(1932). Paramount Publix. Directed by Marion Gering.
Produced by Paramount Publix. Screenplay by Josephine Lovett and Joseph Moncure March, from a story by John Luther Long and the play by David Belasco. Principal cast: Sylvia Sidney, Cary Grant, Charles Ruggles, Sándor Kállay, Irving Pichel, Helen Jerome Eddy, Edmund Breese, Sheila Terry. B&W.

SHE DONE HIM WRONG
(1933). Paramount Publix. Directed by Lowell Sherman.
Produced by Paramount Publix. Screenplay by Harvey Thew and John Bright, adapted from the play
She Done Him Wrong,
by Mae West. Principal cast: Mae West, Cary Grant, Gilbert Roland, Noah Beery, Rafaela Ottiano, David Landau, Rochelle Hudson, Owen Moore, Fuzzy Knight, Louise Beavers, Dewey Robinson, Grace La Rue. B&W.

WOMAN ACCUSED
(1933). Paramount Publix. Directed by Paul Sloane. Produced by
Paramount Publix. Screenplay by Bayard Veiller, based on a story by Polan Banks, from a
Liberty
magazine serial: individual episodes by Rupert Hughes, Vicki Baum, Zane Grey, Viña Delmar, Irvin S. Cobb, Gertrude Atherton, J. P. McEvoy, Ursula Parrott, Polan Banks, and Sophie Kerr. Principal cast: Nancy Carroll, Cary Grant, John Halliday, Irving Pichel, Louis Calhern, Norma Mitchell, Jack La Rue, Frank Sheridan, John Lodge, Lona Andre. B&W.

THE EAGLE AND THE HAWK
(1933). Paramount Publix. Directed by Stuart Walker.
Produced by Paramount Publix. Screenplay by Bogart Rogers and Seton I. Miller, from a story by John Monk Saunders. Principal cast: Fredric March, Cary Grant, Jack Oakie, Carole Lombard, Sir Guy Standing, Forrester Harvey, Virginia Hammond. B&W.

GAMBLING SHIP
(1933). Paramount Publix. Directed by Louis J. Gasnier and Max
Marcin. Produced by Paramount Publix. Screenplay by Max Marcin, Seton I. Miller, and Claude Binyon, from stories by Peter Ruric. Principal cast: Cary Grant, Benita Hume, Roscoe Karns, Glenda Farrell, Jack La Rue, Arthur Vinton, Edward Gargan. B&W.

I'M NO ANGEL
(1933). Paramount Publix. Directed by Wesley Ruggles. Screenplay by
Mae West and Lowell Brentano. Produced by Paramount Publix. Principal cast: Mae West, Cary Grant, Edward Arnold, Ralf Harolde, Russell Hopton, Gertrude Michael, Kent Taylor, Dorothy Peterson, Gregory Ratoff, Gertrude Howard, Nat Pendleton. B&W.

ALICE IN WONDERLAND
(1933). Directed by Norman Z. McLeod. Produced by
Paramount Publix. Screenplay by Joseph L. Mankiewicz and William Cameron Menzies, from the writings of Lewis Carroll. Principal cast: Charlotte Henry, Richard Arlen, Roscoe Ates, Gary Cooper, Leon Errol, Louise Fazenda, W. C. Fields, Skeets Gallagher, Cary Grant, Sterling Holloway, Edward Everett Horton, Roscoe Karns,
Baby LeRoy, Mae Marsh, Polly Moran, Jack Oakie, Edna May Oliver, May Robson, Charles Ruggles, Alison Skipworth, Ned Sparks. B&W.

THIRTY DAY PRINCESS
(1934). Paramount Publix. Directed by Marion Gering.
Produced by B. P. Schulberg, Schulberg Productions. Screenplay by Preston Sturges, Frank Partos, Sam Hellman, and Edwin Justus Mayer, from a story by Clarence Budington Kelland. Principal cast: Sylvia Sidney, Cary Grant, Edward Arnold, Henry Stephenson, Vince Barnett, Edgar Norton, Lucien Littlefield. B&W.

BORN TO BE BAD
(1934). United Artists. Directed by Lowell Sherman. Produced by 20th Century. Screenplay by Ralph Graves and Harrison Jacobs. Principal cast: Loretta Young, Cary Grant, Jackie Kelk, Henry Travers, Russell Hopton, Andrew Tombes, Marion Burns, Paul Harvey. B&W.

KISS AND MAKE UP
(1934). Paramount Publix. Directed by Harlan Thompson.
Produced by B. P. Schulberg. Screenplay by Harlan Thompson, George Marion Jr., and Jane Hinton, from a story by István Békeffy. Principal cast: Cary Grant, Helen Mack, Genevieve Tobin, Edward Everett Horton, Lucien Littlefield, Mona Maris, Toby Wing. B&W.

LADIES SHOULD LISTEN
(1934). Paramount Publix. Directed by Frank Tuttle.
Produced by Douglas MacLean. Screenplay by Claude Binyon and Frank Butler, from a play by Alfred Savoir and Guy Bolton. Principal cast: Cary Grant, Frances Drake, Edward Everett Horton, Rosita Moreno, George Barbier, Nydia Westman, Charles Ray, Clara Lou Sheridan. B&W.

ENTER MADAME
(1935). Paramount Publix. Directed by Elliott Nugent. Produced by
Benjamin Glazer. Screenplay by Charles Brackett and Gladys Lehman, from a play by Gilda Varesi Archibald and Dorothea Donn-Byrne. Principal cast: Elissa Landi, Cary Grant, Lynne Overman, Sharon Lynn, Michelette Burani, Paul Porcasi, Adrian Rosley, Cecilia Parker, Frank Albertson, Diana Lewis. B&W. Wings in the Dark (1935). Paramount Pictures. Directed by James Flood. Produced by Arthur Hornblow Jr. Screenplay by Jack Kirkland, Frank Partos, Dale Van Every, and E. H. Robinson, from a story by Nell Shipman and Philip Hurn. Principal cast: Myrna Loy, Cary Grant, Roscoe Karns, Hobart Cavanaugh, Dean Jagger, Samuel S. Hinds, Bert Hanlon, Graham McNamee. B&W.

THE LAST OUTPOST
(1935). Paramount Pictures. Directed by Charles Barton and
Louis Gasnier. Produced by E. Lloyd Sheldon. Screenplay by Philip MacDonald, Frank Partos, and Charles Brackett, from a story by F. Britten Austin. Principal cast: Cary Grant, Claude Rains, Gertrude Michael, Kathleen Burke, Colin Tapley, Akim Tamiroff, Billy Bevan, Margaret Swope. B&W.

SYLVIA SCARLETT
(1936). RKO Radio. Directed by George Cukor. Produced by Pandro
S. Berman. Screenplay by Gladys Unger, John Collier, and Mortimer Offner, from the novel by Compton MacKenzie. Principal cast: Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Brian Aherne, Edmund Gwenn, Natalie Paley, Dennie Moore, Lennox Pawle. B&W.

BIG BROWN EYES
(1936). Paramount Pictures. Directed by Raoul Walsh. Produced by
Walter Wanger. Screenplay by Raoul Walsh and Bert Hanlon, from a story by James Edward Grant. Principal cast: Cary Grant, Joan Bennett, Walter Pidgeon, Lloyd Nolan, Alan Baxter, Marjorie Gateson, Isabel Jewell, Douglas Fowley. B&W.

SUZY
(1936). MGM. Directed by George Fitzmaurice. Produced by Maurice Revnes.
Screenplay by Dorothy Parker, Alan Campbell, Horace Jackson, and Lenore Coffee, from a novel by Herbert Gorman. Principal cast: Jean Harlow, Franchot Tone, Cary Grant, Lewis Stone, Benita Hume, Reginald Mason, Inez Courtney, Una O'Connor. B&W.

WEDDING PRESENT
(1936). Paramount Pictures. Directed by Richard Wallace. Produced by B. P. Schulberg. Screenplay by Joseph Anthony, from a story by Paul Gallico. Principal cast: Joan Bennett, Cary Grant, George Bancroft, Conrad Nagel, Gene Lockhart, William Demarest, Inez Courtney, Edward Brophy, Lois Wilson. B&W.

WHEN YOU'RE IN LOVE
(1937). Columbia. Directed by Robert Riskin. Produced by
Everett Riskin. Screenplay by Robert Riskin, from a story by Ethel Hill and Cedric Worth. Principal cast: Grace Moore, Cary Grant, Aline MacMahon, Henry Stephenson, Thomas Mitchell, Catherine Doucet, Luis Alberni, Emma Dunn, Frank Puglia. B&W.

The Amazing Quest of Ernest Bliss (
aka
Romance and Riches)
(1937).
Grand National. Directed and produced by Alfred Zeisler. Screenplay by John L. Balderston, from a short story, “The Amazing Quest of Ernest Bliss,” by E. Phillips Oppenheim. Principal cast: Cary Grant, Mary Brian, Peter Gawthorne, Henry Kendall, Iris Ashley, Leon M. Lion, John Turnbull. B&W.

TOPPER
(1937). MGM. Directed by Norman Z. McLeod. Produced by Hal Roach.
Screenplay by Jack Jevne, Eric Hatch, and Eddie Moran, from
The Jovial Ghosts
by Thorne Smith. Principal cast: Constance Bennett, Cary Grant, Roland Young, Billie Burke, Alan Mowbray, Eugene Pallette, Arthur Lake, Hedda Hopper, Virginia Sale, Hoagy Carmichael. B&W.

THE TOAST OF NEW YORK
(1937). RKO Radio. Directed by Rowland V. Lee.
Produced by Edward Small. Screenplay by Dudley Nichols, John Twist, and Joel Sayre, from
The Book of Daniel Drew
by Bouck White and
Robber Barons
by Matthew Josephson. Principal cast: Edward Arnold, Cary Grant, Frances Farmer, Jack Oakie, Donald Meek, Thelma Leeds, Clarence Kolb, Billy Gilbert, George Irving, Oscar Apfel, Dewey Robinson, Gavin Gordon, Joyce Compton. B&W.

THE AWFUL TRUTH
(1937). Columbia. Directed and produced by Leo McCarey.
Screenplay by Viña Delmar, from a story by Arthur Richman. Principal cast: Irene Dunne, Cary Grant, Ralph Bellamy, Alexander D'Arcy, Cecil Cunningham, Esther Dale, Joyce Compton, Mary Forbes, Zita Moulton, Bess Flowers. B&W.

BRINGING UP BABY
(1938). RKO Radio. Directed by Howard Hawks. Produced by
Howard Hawks and Cliff Reid. Screenplay by Dudley Nichols and Hagar Wilde. Principal cast: Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Charles Ruggles, Walter Catlett,
Barry Fitzgerald, May Robson, Fritz Feld, Leona Roberts, George Irving, Tala Birell. B&W.

HOLIDAY
(1938). Columbia. Directed by George Cukor. Produced by Everett Riskin.
Screenplay by Donald Ogden Stewart and Sidney Buchman. Principal cast: Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Doris Nolan, Lew Ayres, Edward Everett Horton, Henry Kolker, Binnie Barnes, Jean Dixon, Henry Daniell. B&W.

GUNGA DIN
(1939). RKO Radio. Directed and produced by George Stevens.
Screenplay by Ben Hecht, Charles MacArthur, Joel Sayre, and Fred Guiol, inspired by the poem by Rudyard Kipling. Principal cast: Cary Grant, Victor McLaglen, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Sam Jaffe, Eduardo Ciannelli, Joan Fontaine, Montagu Love, Robert Coote, Abner Biberman, Lumsden Hare, Ann Evers. B&W.

ONLY ANGELS HAVE WINGS
(1939). Columbia. Directed and produced by Howard
Hawks. Screenplay by Jules Furthman, from a story by Howard Hawks. Principal cast: Cary Grant, Jean Arthur, Richard Barthelmess, Rita Hayworth, Thomas Mitchell, Sig Ruman, Victor Kilian, John Carroll, Allyn Joslyn, Donald Barry, Noah Beery Jr., Milisa Sierra. B&W.

IN NAME ONLY
(1939). RKO Radio. Directed by John Cromwell. Produced by George
Haight. Screenplay by Richard Sherman from the novel
Memory of Love
by Bessie Breuer. Principal cast: Carole Lombard, Cary Grant, Kay Francis, Charles Coburn, Helen Vinson, Katharine Alexander, Jonathan Hale, Nella Walker, Peggy Ann Garner. B&W.

HIS GIRL FRIDAY
(1940). Columbia. Directed and produced by Howard Hawks.
Screenplay by Charles Lederer, from
The Front Page
by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur. Principal cast: Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell, Ralph Bellamy, Gene Lockhart, Porter Hall, Ernest Truex, Cliff Edwards, Clarence Kolb, Roscoe Karns, Frank Jenks, Regis Toomey, Abner Biberman, Frank Orth, John Qualen, Helen Mack, Alma Kruger, Billy Gilbert, Pat West. B&W.

MY FAVORITE WIFE
(1940). RKO Radio. Directed by Garson Kanin. Produced by Leo
McCarey. Screenplay by Sam and Bella Spewack, from
Enoch Arden
by Alfred Tennyson. Principal cast: Irene Dunne, Cary Grant, Randolph Scott, Gail Patrick, Ann Shoemaker, Scotty Beckett, Mary Lou Harrington, Donald MacBride, Pedro de Cordoba. B&W.

THE HOWARDS OF VIRGINIA
(1940). Columbia. Directed and produced by Frank Lloyd. Screenplay by Sidney Buchman, from
The Tree of Liberty
by Elizabeth Page. Principal cast: Cary Grant, Martha Scott, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Alan Marshal, Richard Carlson, Paul Kelly, Irving Bacon, Elizabeth Risdon, Anne Revere, Richard Gaines, George Houston. B&W.

THE PHILADELPHIA STORY
(1940). MGM. Directed by George Cukor. Produced by
Joseph L. Mankiewicz. Screenplay by Donald Ogden Stewart, based on the play by Philip Barry. Principal cast: Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, James Stewart, Ruth Hussey, John Howard, Roland Young. B&W.

PENNY SERENADE
(1941). Columbia. Directed by George Stevens. Produced by Fred Guiol and George Stevens. Screenplay by Morrie Ryskind, based on a story by Martha Cheavens. Principal cast: Cary Grant, Irene Dunne, Beulah Bondi, Edgar Buchanan, Ann Doran. B&W.