Randolph Scott
George Randolph Scott Crane ( born January 23, 1898 Orange County, Virginia; † March 2, 1987 in Beverly Hills, California ) was an American film actor. His career stretched from the end of silent films in the late 1920s until the early 1960s. Its high popularity reached Scott during the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s, among others, with films such as gold smuggling into Virginia, The Spoilers, ticket to the afterlife, Hooper or Sacramento.
Life and career
Scott always kept upright image of the Sauber 's. In the tabloids, there have been times the rumor that he stands in a homosexual relationship with his fellow actors Cary Grant, as the two around ten years lived in a shared house. This early Urbanization was justified by the strong economy of both, but which were already big stars and big earners so at this time. This cohabitation ended in 1942, when Cary Grant, the Woolworth heiress Barbara Hutton, at that time the richest woman in the world got married.
Randolph Scott himself was also a wealthy man, he invested his movie fees with foresight and founded his own production company. He should have also successfully playing the stock market and was considered at the time of his consequent withdrawal from the public to be the richest Hollywood actor.
Scott's outstanding position as a Western actor has been subjected by Mel Brooks in 1974 in his film Blazing Saddles a pastiche - which, however, his extraordinary importance for the genre of the idealistic and heroic scale American westerns all the highlights more.
In 1936, he married Marion DuPont, from the billionaire family DuPont. This marriage ended in divorce three years later. In 1944, he married Patricia Stillman. The marriage lasted until his death. Both had two adopted children.
Randolph Scott died in 1987 at the age of 89 years in Beverly Hills and was buried at the Elmwood Cemetery in Charlotte (North Carolina).