Grant's personal life was complicated, involving five marriages and speculation about his sexuality.
In
1932 he met fellow actor
Randolph Scott on the set of
Hot Saturday, and the two shared a rented beach house (known as "Bachelor Hall") on and off for twelve years. Rumors ran rampant at the time that Grant and Scott were lovers.
Authors
Marc Elliot,
Charles Higham and
Roy Moseley consider Grant to have been
bisexual, with Higham and Moseley claiming that Grant and Scott were seen kissing in a public carpark outside a social function both attended in the 1960s. In his book,
Hollywood Gays,
Boze Hadleigh cites an interview with homosexual director
George Cukor, who said about the alleged homosexual relationship between Scott and Grant: "Oh, Cary won't talk about it. At most, he'll say they did some wonderful pictures together. But Randolph will admit it – to a friend."
According to screenwriter
Arthur Laurents, Grant was "at best bisexual".
William J. Mann's book
Behind the Screen: How Gays and Lesbians Shaped Hollywood, 1910-1969 recounts how photographer
Jerome Zerbe spent "three gay months" (his words) in the movie colony taking many photographs of Grant and Scott, "attesting to their involvement in the gay scene." Zerbe says that he often stayed with the two actors, "finding them both warm, charming, and happy." In addition,
Darwin Porter's book,
Brando Unzipped (
2006) claims that Grant had a homosexual affair with
Marlon Brando
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