Editing Cary Grant (section)

=== Marriages ===

Grant was married five times.{{sfn|Drury|2008|p=51}} He wed [[Virginia Cherrill]] on February 9, 1934, at the [[Caxton Hall]] [[register office]] in London.{{sfn|Wansell|2011|p=35}} She divorced him on March 26, 1935,{{sfn|Houseman|1991|p=128}} following charges that he had hit her.{{sfn|Eliot|2004|p=249}} They were involved in a bitter divorce case which was widely reported in the press, with Cherrill demanding $1,000 a week from him in benefits from his Paramount earnings.{{sfn|Wansell|2011|p=38}} Grant then  dated actress [[Phyllis Brooks]] from 1937. They considered marriage and vacationed together in Europe in mid-1939, visiting the Roman villa of Dorothy Taylor Dentice di Frasso in Italy, but the relationship ended later that year.{{sfn|Wansell|2011|p=57}}

He married [[Barbara Hutton]] in 1942,{{sfn|Seymour|2009|p=260}} one of the wealthiest women in the world, following a $50&nbsp;million inheritance from her grandfather [[Frank Winfield Woolworth]].{{sfn|Gressor|Cook|2005|p=259}} They were derisively nicknamed "Cash and Cary",{{sfn|McIntosh|Weaver|1983|p=41}} although Grant refused any financial settlement in a prenuptial agreement{{sfn|Heymann|1987|p=294}} to avoid the accusation that he married for money.{{Efn|Grant was quoted as saying: "I may not have married for very sound reasons, but money was never one of them."{{sfn|Hadleigh|2012|p=212}}}} Toward the end of their marriage they lived in a white mansion at 10615 Bellagio Road in Bel Air.{{sfnm|1a1=Higham|1a2=Moseley|1y=1990|1p=183|2a1=Chase|2y=2004|2p=97}} They divorced in 1945, although they remained the "fondest of friends".<ref>{{cite book |title = Cary Grant in the spotlight |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=hKMcHcq3c8QC |year = 1980 |publisher = Galley Press |isbn = 978-0-8317-3957-7 |page = 69 }}</ref> He dated Betty Hensel for a period,{{sfn|Wansell|1983|p=189}} then married [[Betsy Drake]], the co-star of two of his films, on December 25, 1949. In 1957 Grant had an affair with [[Sophia Loren]].<ref>{{cite web |last=Thorpe |first=Vanessa |date=October 18, 2014 |title=Sophia Loren: how Cary Grant begged me to become his lover |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/oct/19/sophia-loren-reveals-the-story-of-cary-grants-passion |accessdate=August 23, 2024 |work=[[The Guardian]]}}</ref> Drake and Grant separated in 1958,<ref>{{cite news |last1=Roberts |first1=Sam |title=Betsy Drake, 92, Actress Who Starred With (and Wed) Cary Grant, Dies |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/12/movies/betsy-drake-movie-and-stage-actress-dies-at-92.html |access-date=23 August 2024 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=November 12, 2015}} ISSN&nbsp;0362-4331</ref> divorcing on August 14,1962.{{sfn|Parish|2010|p=200}} It was his longest marriage.{{sfn|Schickel|2009|p=28}}
[[File:Cary Grant Betsy Drake Dick Stabile 1955.jpg|thumb |right|upright|Grant with [[Betsy Drake]] and saxophonist [[Dick Stabile]] ''(right)'' in 1955]]
Grant married [[Dyan Cannon]] on July 22, 1965, at the [[Desert Inn]] in Las Vegas,{{sfnm|1a1=Higham|1a2=Moseley|1y=1990|1p=312|2a1=Drury|2y=2008|2p=52}} and their daughter [[Jennifer Grant|Jennifer]], his only child, was born on February 26, 1966;<ref name=ew>{{cite magazine |first = Nancy |last = Sidewater |url = https://www.ew.com/article/2009/08/07/cary-grant-weds-dyan-cannon-1965l |title = Cary Grant Weds Dyan Cannon (1965) |magazine = Entertainment Weekly |date = August 7, 2009 |access-date = March 13, 2013 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160615100046/http://www.ew.com/article/2009/08/07/cary-grant-weds-dyan-cannon-1965 |archive-date = June 15, 2016 |url-status=live }}</ref> he frequently called her his "best production".<ref>{{cite news |url = https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=yVkiAAAAIBAJ&pg=1816,133428 |title = Hollywood loses a legend |work = Montreal Gazette |date = December 1, 1986 |page = 1 |access-date = March 13, 2013 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20190402101845/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=yVkiAAAAIBAJ&sjid=TagFAAAAIBAJ&pg=1816,133428&dq=cary+grant+best+production |archive-date = April 2, 2019 |df = mdy-all }}</ref> He said of fatherhood:

<blockquote>My life changed the day Jennifer was born. I've come to think that the reason we're put on this earth is to procreate. To leave something behind. Not films, because you know that I don't think my films will last very long once I'm gone. But another human being. That's what's important.{{sfn|McCann|1997|p=237}}</blockquote>

Grant and Cannon separated in August 1967.<ref>''New York Daily News.'' March 21, 1968. p. 2.</ref>

On March 12, 1968, Grant was involved in a car accident in Queens, New York, en route to [[JFK Airport]], when a truck hit the side of his limousine. He was hospitalized for 17 days with three broken ribs and bruising. A female companion, Baroness Gratia von Furstenberg, was also injured in the accident.{{sfn|McIntosh|Weaver|1983|p=65}}<ref>''New York Daily News.'' March 13, 1968. p. 2.</ref> Grant and Cannon divorced nine days later.<ref>{{cite news |url = https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=AF5AAAAAIBAJ&pg=2446,6230818 |title = Cary Grant's wife granted divorce |work = [[Windsor Star]] |date = March 22, 1968 |page = 48 |access-date = March 31, 2024 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150924215751/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=AF5AAAAAIBAJ&sjid=BVIMAAAAIBAJ&pg=2446,6230818&dq=cary+grant+dyan+cannon+divorce |archive-date = September 24, 2015 |df = mdy-all }}</ref>

Grant had a brief affair with actress [[Cynthia Bouron]] in the late 1960s.{{sfnm|1a1=McIntosh|1a2=Weaver|1y=1983|1p=15|2a1=Eliot|2y=2004|2pp=14–15}} He had been at odds with the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences since 1958, but received an Academy Honorary Award in 1970.{{sfn|Eliot|2004|pp=14–15}} He announced that he would attend the awards ceremony to accept it, ending his 12-year boycott of the ceremony. Two days after his announcement, Bouron filed a paternity suit against him and publicly stated that he was the father of her seven-week-old daughter,{{sfn|Eliot|2004|pp=14–15}}{{efn|Grant had a reputation for filing lawsuits against the film industry since the 1930s. The basis of these suits was that he had been cheated by the respective company. Most were described as frivolous and were settled out of court. A proposal was made to present him with an Academy Honorary Award in 1969; it was vetoed by angry Academy members. The proposal garnered enough votes to pass in 1970. It is believed{{by whom|date=March 2019}} that Bouron's accusations were part of a smear campaign organized by those in the film industry.{{sfn|Eliot|2004|pp=13–19}}}} and she named him as the father on the child's birth certificate.<ref name="films">{{cite book |title = Films in Review |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=KRELAQAAMAAJ |year = 1971 |publisher = Then and There Media, LCC. |page = 192 }}</ref> Grant challenged her to a blood test and Bouron failed to provide one, and the court ordered her to remove his name from the certificate.<ref name="films" /><ref>{{cite news |url = https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1946&dat=19701020&id=FJIuAAAAIBAJ&pg=5361,5283628 |title = Court rejects suit against Grant |agency = Reuters |date = October 20, 1970 |work = Montreal Gazette |page = 23 |access-date = March 13, 2013 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160615100224/https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1946&dat=19701020&id=FJIuAAAAIBAJ&sjid=OKEFAAAAIBAJ&pg=5361,5283628 |archive-date = June 15, 2016 |df = mdy-all }}</ref>{{efn|In 1973, Bouron was found murdered in a San Fernando parking lot.<ref>{{cite news |url = https://www.newspapers.com/clip/5443251/the_san_bernardino_county_sun/ |title = Final chapter in lurid biography |first = Marilyn |last = Beck |author-link = Marilyn Beck |date = November 6, 1973 |newspaper = [[The San Bernardino Sun]] |page = 12 |via = [[Newspapers.com]] |access-date = June 15, 2016 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160615100440/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/5443251/the_san_bernardino_county_sun/ |archive-date = June 15, 2016 |url-status=live }} {{Open access}}</ref>}} Between 1973 and 1977, he dated British photojournalist Maureen Donaldson,{{sfn|Hofstede|1994|p=194}} followed by the much younger Victoria Morgan.{{sfn|Royce|Donaldson|1989|p=131}}

On April 11, 1981, Grant married Barbara Harris, a British hotel public relations agent 46 years his junior.{{sfnm|1a1=Wansell|1y=1996|1p=281|2a1=Roberts|2y=2014|2p=106}} They met in 1976 at the [[Royal Lancaster Hotel]] in London, where Harris was working at the time and Grant was attending a Fabergé conference. They became friends, but it was not until 1979 that she moved to live with him in California. Grant's friends felt that she had a positive impact on him, and [[Prince Rainier of Monaco]] remarked that Grant had "never been happier" than he was in his last years with her.{{sfn|Morecambe|Sterling|2001|pp=312–314}}