The first problem was that Grant was three years older than Dyan’s own father - and Dyan, ‘a spirited Jewish girl from Seattle’ was 33 years younger than her groom.
This is touching.ĭEAR CARY: MY LIFE WITH CARY GRANT BY DYAN CANNON (The Robson Press £18.99)Īlthough I know Dyan Cannon solely for the Pink Panther out-takes, where she giggled uncontrollably when Peter Sellers’ Clouseau mispronounced his words, it is the case that between 19 she was married to Hollywood legend Cary Grant.
Crammed with a lot of Irish Catholic guilt, Tracy always remained faithful (in his fashion) to his estranged wife Louise. Interestingly, Curtis conjectures that had the stars actually married, it would never have lasted. Nevertheless, the public enjoyed the Hepburn-Tracy toad and grasshopper comedies, Adam’s Rib and Pat And Mike, among many others, which displayed the ‘intimacies and parries of seasoned artistes well into their 40s’. Did this include the episodes where Tracy knocked her around? More than once he was admitted to hospital ‘fighting mad’ and wearing a straitjacket. Somewhat wickedly, Hepburn didn’t want him to quit the bottle, as she thought the alcoholic rages made him ‘extremely interesting’. Spencer, meanwhile, told her to ‘shut your mouth’ - and she enjoyed being badly treated by him. ‘She questioned everything, debated everything,’ with her directors. He had urinary tract infections, heart murmurs, and was scared of flying.Īs you’d expect, much space is devoted to Katharine Hepburn, who comes across here as a pain, annoyingly self-centred and attention-seeking. He also suffered from ulcers, insomnia, bouts of dizziness and depression. Tracy was frequently arrested for public drunkenness, and unfortunately ‘Spencer was an ugly drunk’. James Curtis’s epic saga is mainly about hypochondria and over-indulgence. Though the equivalent of Mount Rushmore on the screen, this ‘granite-like wedge of a man’ was a big girl’s blouse in real life.
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