The scrapbooks show that the images of Grant and Scott at home together were published over and over again, across a range of fan magazines, in the mids.
If there is a gay perspective in the photos, it is likely due to the photographer, Jerome Zerbe, who was young, gay, and intent on taking a different approach to photographing stars. He eschewed the carefully lit, studio-bound glamour photography that was the norm in s Hollywood, preferring to capture stars in shots that appear spontaneous and unposed, and therefore seem to be more intimate and revealing.
Beefcake was too vulgar for magazines so heavily invested in glamour, but these playful, tasteful images suited the magazines perfectly. In later years, neither Grant nor Scott ever commented on this publicity campaign and what they thought of it, but they may have been sharing an inside joke about it in the only other film that they made together, My Favorite Wife, in By this time, both Grant and Scott were well-known stars and could afford to laugh about the contrivances of their early publicity.
All rights reserved. Already a subscriber? Log in or link your magazine subscription. Account Profile. Sign Out. Photo: Oxford University Press. Guests at his home could find half-eaten sandwiches in the fridge and buttons clipped from old shirts.
Grant could be a generous friend and lover, but only on his terms. His many affairs and failed marriages — he died at 82 in while married to his fifth wife — were likely casualties of his tendency to drive women away before they could leave him.
His screen persona was so convincing that heiress Barbara Hutton, aka wife No. Therapy and his use of LSD, beginning in the late s, helped Grant, among other things, forgive his parents of their failings and young Archie Leach of his. The result is a captivating look at a captivating star. Douglass K. The result is a captivating look at a captivating star. Douglass K. Sections U. Science Technology Business U.
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