Motion Picture (Feb-Jul 1941)

crust of gentility. And anyone who can call Cary Grant "friend" has to be a dam' real guy. When one's both, he's both real and regular. Talking about Cary brings up the interesting fact that it probably won't be long now (even perhaps by the time you read this) that Hollywood's most famous two-bachelor menage will be set up in housekeeping again. The famous Cary Grant-Randy Scott bachelor hall seems destined for another run. But don't get me wrong. Don't get me wrong, TWICE. You can jump to two conclusions about two young men living together. They're either the kind that you don't talk to your mother about, or they have such parties that the neighbors telephone the police. But what makes the GrantScott menage so utterly distinctive is the fact that it's neither. It's the strangest bachelor combination Hollywood has ever seen, and there are a lot of garbage-minded folk who still don't get it. Let's go back first, and find how it began, this Grant-Scott twosome. When Randy first arrived in Hollywood, Cary'd been here only a short time. Neither of them was a big shot ; both were making measly money. They were introduced in the Paramount commissary. Now in Hollywood, when two handsome young would-be stars meet, they usually declare war; it's professional jealousy. But right then and there, the Grant-Scott combine started to be different. Even though they were, professionally speaking, rivals, they became firm friends. Cary was bemoaning the fact that his pal, Lester Cole, had decided to marry and was leaving Cary holding the sack — in this case, a large studio apartment which Gary, with his then-small income, couldn't maintain. Well, that was all that Randy needed. He moved in. And then and there began not a brawling, dame-ridden, carousing -bachelor double, but a joining of male interests that has lasted unbroken through the years. You see, unlike two ordinary guys sharing a home, Cary and Randy have never tried to work at being "buddies." Each has his own friends ; they never try to mix them. For example : when Cary entertained, Randy either went out, or isolated himself in his room, and left the entire rest of the bachelor paradise to Cary and his guests. And viceversa. They work that out in all the details of sharing their place. They never invade each other's privacy ; never intrude upon each other's individuality. And — get this ! — neither ever discusses the other's affairs with a third party. Ever since that first venture together, Cary and Randy have been sharing houses. First Cary married, and naturally, they separated. After all, honeymooners don't want a boy-friend living with them. But after Cary's marriage blew up, they teamed again. And then it was Randy's turn to marry. And poof went the bachelor hall. But now there's that beach-house Cary has built at Santa Monica. He hasn't moved in yet. BUT — Randy has ! Randy is occupying it in solitary splendor, for the present. He has a butler and a cook, and he entertains small groups of friends, in Cary Grant's house. If they're swank friends, he has a formal dinner, and drags out the Grant silver and china and crystal and it's the most perfectly-appointed table that even Ouida and Basil Rathbone could desire, and everything's as precise and formal as a fox hunt in Vuhginyuh, suh. If they're not that sort of friends, Randy skips the butler and the cook stuff, and he takes the party out to the kitchen, and they raid the icebox and gnaw turkey-wings and drink beer or what'11-you-have and Randy heats up a coupla cans of zoop, and Randy lets loose with that belly-busting laugh of his, and to hell with formality and the F'uhst Fam'lies of Vuhginyuh, suh! NORMA SHEARER, M-G-M STAR. 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