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Accessibility Links Skip to content. This is one reason why modern commentators often assume that Grant and Scott were lovers rather than roommates. There are so many pictures of them, looking so handsome and happy together, that their affair appears to be a very appealing, very well-documented truth.
Yet the stories printed about stars in the film fan magazines were as fanciful, and often as downright fictional, as any of the films that the stars made. In the U. Judging by the advertisements, most of the readers were women, seeking a measure of glamour and escapism without having to visit the movie theater. The magazines were not scandal sheets but instead portrayed Hollywood stardom as a lifestyle free of ordinary responsibilities and conventions, even if it did come with expensive obligations such as a chauffeur and first-class travel.
Stars were not asked to talk about acting or their careers but instead to reveal their homes and cars to the camera and to comment on their travel plans and their romances.
Scott, too, made a lot of films without much success, including the flop Hot Saturday , in which he and Grant vied for the affections of star Nancy Carroll.
The publicity, it was hoped, would build some interest in them and in their films. For example, in the fan magazine Modern Screen , they revealed their favorite seafood recipes crab and asparagus salad for Grant, baked lobster for Scott to readers, who presumably might practice making the dishes for them.
On the radio, they emphasized this by advertising Betty Crocker prepared foods, speaking about how useful instant-food products were to men who had no wives to cook for them. None of the people who knew them at this time thought that the two men were anything other than straight.
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