'Gay' images of Cary Grant were just a studio publicity campaign

Good friends: Randolph Scott and Cary Grant at their home in 1935

Dalya Alberge
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He was one of the biggest stars of the golden age of Hollywood, with Ingrid Bergman and Grace Kelly among his leading ladies on screen and five wives in real life.

However, photographs leaked in the 1930s of Cary Grant with his friend and fellow actor Randolph Scott have led to the assumption that he preferred men instead of women.