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By Daily Mail Reporter<\/a>
Last updated at 2:57 AM on 28th April 2011<\/p>\n

Cary Grant’s daughter has penned a memoir about the famous actor, admitting he liked it when people called him gay.<\/p>\n

The British screen icon, who was married five times, was often dogged by rumours that he was bisexual.<\/p>\n

But his daughter Jennifer Grant, 45, says the Hot Saturday star actually liked the mystique surrounding his sexuality because it ‘made women want to prove the assertion wrong’.<\/p>\n

\"Rumours:<\/p>\n

Rumours: Cary Grant, pictured with fellow actor Randolph Scott, who he was rumoured to have had a gay affair<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

In the memoir, Good Stuff: A Reminiscence of My Father, Cary Grant, Jennifer writes: ‘You Can’t blame men for wanting him, and wouldn’t be surprised if Dad even mildly flirted back.<\/p>\n

‘When the question arises, it generally speaks more about the person asking.’<\/p>\n

But she adds: ‘Dad somewhat enjoyed being called gay. He said it made women want to prove the assertion wrong.’<\/p>\n

Grant was notoriously private about his personal life.<\/p>\n

In the Thirties, rumours swirled about his close friendship with fellow actor Randolph Scott, who he met on the set of the 1932 film Hot Saturday.<\/p>\n

Shortly afterwards they moved into a Malibu beach house together, which became known as Bachelor Hall.<\/p>\n

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Recollections: His daughter Jennifer writes in a new memoir that her father liked being called gay because it ‘made women want to prove the assertion wrong’<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

In his book, Cary Grant: Grant’s Secret Sixth Marriage published in 2004, Marc Eliot claimed Grant had a sexual relationship with Scott.<\/p>\n

Jennifer was born to Grant’s fourth wife, Dyan Cannon, who he eloped with in 1965 to Las Vegas.<\/p>\n

Their marriage was short lived and ended in divroce two years later after she left him.<\/p>\n

Cannon, an american television actress and screenwriter, claimed that he flew into frequent rages and spanked her when she disobeyed him.<\/p>\n

In her memoir, Jennifer admits she had a bit of a crush on her father.<\/p>\n

‘Okay, I had a crush on Dad. Okay, more than a little crush on Dad.<\/p>\n

‘My other real crushes were Donny Osmond and Jean-Paul Belmondo.’<\/p>\n

Of her parents’ relationship, she said: ‘Something in me has always felt that my parents came together to make me. Vanity? Perhaps.’<\/p>\n

She added that ultimately the pair were too headstrong to stay together, but said they loved each other dearly.<\/p>\n

The memoir will be published by Alfred A. Knopf on May 3.<\/p>\n

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