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  1. Nov 17, 2015 · Betsy Drake had written an early script for the film, hoping that it would be a vehicle for her and Grant. But Grant insisted the script be reworked with Sophia Loren playing Betsy’s role.

  2. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Betsy_DrakeBetsy Drake - Wikipedia

    Drake wrote the original script for the film Houseboat (1958) under a pseudonym, basing it on an unpublished story she had written. [7][8] Starring Grant, Drake anticipated co-starring in the film.

  3. Betsy, nursing her toothache, and her humiliation at being practically thrown into the arms of a movie star the first day out, wasn't budging from her cabin. But on the fourth day, she came up for air.

  4. Jul 3, 2022 · As she peered through the surveyor’s scope and their newly acquired homesite at Bermuda Dunes, Betsy Drake exclaimed in her distinctive low and dulcet voice: “It looks good anyway you look at...

  5. Nov 12, 2015 · For one, Drake was perhaps one of Hollywood’s leading advocates of the use of LSD (legal at the time) for therapeutic purposes. In fact, it was Betsy who convinced her husband, suffering a lifetime of depression, to use the drug to kill his psychological bogey men.

  6. Nov 12, 2015 · Betsy Drake, an actress and writer who in the 1950s introduced her then-husband, Cary Grant, to the hallucinogen LSD, endured his infatuation with Italian screen siren Sophia Loren and survived the sinking of the Andrea Doria ocean liner, died Oct. 27 at her home in London. She was 92.

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  8. Nov 12, 2015 · Betsy Drake had written an early script for the film, hoping that it would be a vehicle for her and Grant. But Grant insisted the script be reworked with Sophia Loren playing Betsy’s...