Randolph D Scott

Cary Grant

…Some, including Hedda Hopper[31] and screenwriter Arthur Laurents, have said that Grant was bisexual.[32] Grant allegedly was involved with costume designer Orry-Kelly when he first moved to Manhattan,[33] and lived with actor Randolph Scott off and on for 12 years.[34]Richard Blackwell wrot...

Randolph Scott

• Birth Name Scott, George Randolph
• Nickname Randy
  
• Biography Handsome leading man who developed into one of Hollywood's greatest and most popular western stars. Born to George and Lucy Crane Scott during a visit to Virginia, Scott was raised in Charlotte, North...
  
• Write biography Jim Beaver <[email protected]>
  
• Spouse Patricia Stillman (3 March 1944 - 2 March 1987) (his death); 2 children
  'Mariana duPont Somerville' (23 March 1936 - 1939) (divorced)
  
• Trade Mark Roles in westerns.
  Nearly always played the good guy.
  Deep voice and unemotional demeanor.
  Often cast as a sheriff hunting a group of outlaws.
  
• Trivia During the '30s, was roommates with Cary Grant in a beach houseknown jocularly as Bachelor Hall. The close friendship between Scottand Grant and the steady stream of women into and out of Bachelor Hal...
  Rode a beautiful blond sorrel horse named Stardust in many of hiswesterns.
  Best friends were Cary Grant, Fred Astaire, and theReverend Billy Graham (I).
  Formed Ranown Productions with producer Harry Joe Brown andproduced several films.
  Interred at Elmwood Cemetery, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA, just fourblocks from his boyhood home at 312 W. 10th Street.
  Was the inspiration for the popular 1973 song "Whatever Happened toRandolph Scott?," a top-20 country hit for theThe Statler Brothers.
  
• Other Work Radio episode: Academy Award Theatre, ep. Stagecoach; broadcast May 5, 1946.
  Radio episode: Screen Guild Theatre, ep. Pittsburgh; broadcast April 12, 1943.
  
• Biography print Robert Nott. _The Last of the Cowboy Heroes._ Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2000.
  Robert Nott. _The Films Of Randolph Scott._ Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, 2004.ISBN 0786417978
  Jefferson Brim Crow III. _Randolph Scott: The Gentleman From Virginia._ Wind River Publishing, 1987.ISBN 0940375001
  C.H. Scott. _Whatever Happened to Randolph Scott?._ Empire Publishing, 1994.ISBN 0944019161
  Jessica Johnston, Reinhard Weber. _Randolph Scott._ Landshut: Reinhard Weber, 2005. ISBN 3-9802987-9-5
  
• Personal quotes They have been the mainstay of the industry ever since its beginning.And they have been good to me. Westerns are a type of picture whicheverybody can see and enjoy. Westerns always make money. And the...
  [in 1962] All the old movies are turning up on television, and frankly,making pictures doesn't interest me too much any more.
  Frankly, I don't like publicity. I always remember something thatDavid Belasco (I) said and had incorporated in the contracts ofhis stars. His theory was, "Never let yourself be seen in public unlesst...
  
• Cover Photo "Illustrierter Film_Kurier-Wien (Roberta)" (Austria), 1935, Iss. 1160
  
• Filmography

  Ride the High Country (1962) Western

  Cary Grant: A Class Apart (2004) (TV) Biography

  China Sky (1945) Adventure

  Decision at Sundown (1957) Western

  Amérique, notre histoire (2006) (TV) Documentary

  Hangman's Knot (1952) Western

  Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade (2004) (TV) Western

  Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That (2005) (TV) Biography

  Follow the Fleet: The Origins of Those Dancing Feet (2005) (V) Short

  Jesse James (1939) Western