Cary Grant: Dark Angel by Geoffrey Wansell

Author:Geoffrey Wansell [Wansell, Geoffrey]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Biography & Autobiography, Entertainment & Performing Arts, Movie Star, Nonfiction, Retail
ISBN: 9781611453102
Google: XBp_Y30zMRYC
Amazon: 1611453100
Publisher: Arcade Pub.
Published: 2011-11-15T05:00:00+00:00

NO FILM IN HIS CAREER MEANT MORE THAN NONE BUT THE LONELY HEART: THE STORY OF A COCKNEY WHO DISCOVERS THE MEANING OF LIFE WHEN HIS MOTHER, PLAYED BY ETHEL BARRYMORE, IS DYING.

Cary Grant did not take any interest in the reviews for either film. He was preoccupied with planning one last attempt at a reconciliation with Barbara Hutton. He had decided to drive up to see her in San Francisco. When he arrived, she agreed to see him and they spent the last weekend of September 1944 together discussing their future. Within a few days they were back

together — in a new house in Bellagio Road overlooking the Bel Air golf course, not large enough to accommodate Hutton’s servants or her companion. A delighted Grant instructed the RKO publicity department to issue a brief statement confirming their reconciliation, and then he and his wife disappeared. He had promised Barbara he would spend more time with her.

For a time they became ‘millionaire recluses’, in the words of one gossip column. Hutton tried to accept that he could not stand her dinner parties — where everyone seemed ‘only ever to speak in French’ — and tried to share his fascination with whose film had ‘opened well’. But they were still uncomfortable with each other, conscious that each was trying too hard. Gradually his dark moods began to return, and she became more remote. Finally, five months after their reconciliation, Hutton and Grant accepted the inevitable. On 26 February 1945 she moved out of the house on Bellagio Road and back to Westridge in Pacific Palisades. They issued a brief statement: ‘After much thought and with great consideration we have decided we can be happier living apart. As yet no formal plans have been formed regarding divorce.’ The next day Louella Parsons was predicting confidently that Hutton would leave Hollywood, ‘for since her reconciliation with Cary not one of her friends has seen her... They have been in complete seclusion.’

For the next few months, Cary Grant remained in that seclusion. The failure of his second marriage seemed to overwhelm him. Certainly the seventeenth Academy Awards did nothing to alleviate his despair. Though he had been nominated for an Oscar as Best Actor for his performance as Ernie Mott in None But the Lonely Heart, the award went to Bing Crosby for Going My Way. The fact that Ethel Barrymore won as Best Supporting Actress merely sharpened Grant’s sense of isolation, the feeling that he was doomed never to be taken seriously as an actor. For the next eight weeks, Cary Grant hardly went out and barely talked to a soul.

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