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How Cary Grant’s Roommate Randolph Scott Helped Him Create His Smooth and Cultured Image

Cary Grant became a charming onscreen persona with a little help from his roommate, Randolph Scott, and they had 'been the closest of friends for years.'

When director Henry Hathaway sought an actor to play an upper-class cavalryman opposite Gary Cooper in 1935’s Lives of a Bengal Lancer, Paramount Studios suggested Cary Grant. Signed with Paramount under the new name Cary Grant in 1932, he appeared in at least four films a year but didn’t leave much of an impression until 1937’s comedy The Awful Truth, in which he played half of a wealthy couple on the rocks. “He told him he remembered seeing him as a kid in vaudeville on the East Coast,” recalled Virginia in Cary Grant: Brilliant Disguise, a biography of the star by Scott Eyman.

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