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- Grant — 19 years her senior, twice divorced and one of the world’s most debonair and captivating movie stars — was struck by Drake’s charm and low-voiced allure. By chance, they met aboard the Queen Mary and they shared an intense shipboard attraction. She and Grant married on Christmas Day 1949, with industrialist Howard Hughes as best man.
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Long enough for Cary Grant and Betsy Drake to fall in love. And nine years later, on an October day in the middle of a Hollywood heatwave, they insisted they were still in love.
Nov 13, 2015 · An earlier version of this story incorrectly said that Betsy Drake and and Cary Grant were married in Palm Springs. They were married in Arizona.-----
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Jul 3, 2022 · Drake lived with her husband, Cary Grant, in Palm Springs in an idyllic Spanish house designed by famous Santa Monica architect John Byers.
Grant and Drake separated in 1958, remaining friends, and divorced in 1962. Their marriage constituted his longest union. Grant credited her with broadening his interests beyond his career and with introducing him to the then-legal LSD therapy and to hypnosis. Later, Drake took LSD as a way of recovering from the trauma of divorce.
Long enough for Cary Grant and Betsy Drake to fall in love. And nine years later, on an October day in the middle of a Hollywood heatwave, they insisted they were still in love. But in the next five searing minutes, they sat here together and composed an epitaph for their marriage.
Nov 12, 2015 · She and Grant separated in 1958 and divorced in 1962. The LSD therapy, she said, gave her the courage to leave him. Several years later, Grant said: “I never clearly resolved why Betsy and I...
Nov 17, 2015 · But it was there she realised her husband was falling in love with his co-star Sophia Loren. Furious and upset, she ran off before the press found out and sailed back to New York on the...
