Elder Dataloungers Please tell me all the dish, gossip and chat about actress and former wife of Cary Grant Dyan Cannon

I read in an interview her favorite snack is grapes that she’s put in the freezer.

I tried that, and they’re a great healthy sweet to always have on hand.

The freezer??!! r1 Sounds a bit eccentric! is she known to be an eccentric person or a bit kooky as some put it?

Eccentric but sweet.

As is often the way in life r3

Has she formally retired from acting then?

One of the best bodies I have ever seen in Hollywood. One of the best laughs too. Loved her.

Warhol hated her for some reason, though. Her and Diane Keaton.

I remember she was considered to be very intelligent, very witty, a college grad which was unusual in Hollywood back then. She was a good actress, great comedienne but not terribly interested in her career. She's Jewish but I think became a Christian fundie. She bitched a lot about Cary Grant and his use of LSD I seem to recall. They have a daughter who looks just like her.

r6 I know she was divorced from him but Did she inherit significant wealth when Cary Grant died or come into much money when she divorced him?

Her book was good. The audiobook was very enjoyable. The book was a great Hollywood autobio.

I remember her in the seventies, on Mike Douglas explaining her popcorn diet.

Her daughter Jennifer, wrote a good autobio as well.

R7 Dyan Cannon didn't inherit from Cary Grant, their daughter Jennifer and Grant's widow inherited the bulk of his estate.

She was married to a rich guy - real estate I think - after Grant. But I seem to recall she made a lot of money in real estate herself. She was big into interior design and renovating houses and there were quite a few Architectural Digest mags featuring her houses/work.

Death Trap. WOW

She's hilarious in The Last of Sheila.

Despite two Oscar nominations, she feels somewhat underrated. Young gaylings need to discover her for sure. She was a kick, especially in "Bob and Carol,,." and "Last of Sheila" (amazing). Both hold up well too.

She was so quickly typed a s a character and supporting actress (in spite of her dynamite body), she never had a chance of becoming a leading lady.

She's very tiny. Lives in the Empire West in WeHo, same building as DL fav Suzanne Pleshette (who decorated the lobby).

Tragically bad plastic surgery and hair extensions these days, and dresses like a hooker.

My aunt looked like Dyan Cannon when both were younger.

r15 Pleshette not anymore, for a long time; seemed to have a thing for older and much older men, she did play the much older girlfriend of one of the main cast's in Ally McBeal, at a time when the media was much less open and practicing about such things.

Whipper Crane R16

Dyan Cannon's chemistry with Charles Grodin in "Heaven Can Wait" is one of the best things about this film.

She converted Cary Grant to vagine!

R20 - Yes. They were very good at being the comic relief.

Al Pacino used to knock the LINING out of her asshole and vagina back in the day, off the record.

Really??!! r23

Everyone had her. How shocking!

I'm sure it wasn't quite as many people as that!! r25

Loved her in Doctor’s Wives.

R23 is probably thinking of Beverly D'Angelo.

I feel horny

Suzanne Pleshette died 11 years ago today.

Too bad. Suzanne was a riot.

She was great in Deathtrap and Heaven Can Wait. She had a sexier Goldie Hawn vibe going on. Always like her. Never read her autobiography but I don't think she ever outed Cary Grant.

I was lucky enough to see her as the female lead in "How to Succeed..." in Chicago as a kid. She was great. That was around the time she was dating Grant. They married soon afterwards. And her performance in "Heaven Can Wait" is hilarious.

I've always loved her and she her appearances on Carson were always a blast. It was pretty clear they had fucked.

One night on Letterman she was talking about her dog named Amberlinadoglatina. She could be out there sometimes.

Sandra Bernhard did her toes when she was a manicurist

Why did Cary Grant want to fuck her?

Dyan Cannon was a poor man's Goldie Hawn albeit sexier than Goldie.

Pacino and Cannon were banging in NYC during the filming of Author Author and continued for a few months after maybe even a few years. She was wayyyyyy into him, like stalker and play misty type shit.

I remember her appearances on Carson. I always got the impression she was rather ditzy with that over the top laugh. Interesting to hear she was quite intelligent. In my mind, she’s one of those people who were fun conversationalists, which gyaranteed her appearances on Carson...OR was always a quick replacement guest for those guests who were unable to show up on Carson (I know Dr. Joyce Brothers was always a dependable replacement at last minute also).

Fuck, maybe I’m just jaded by all the guests coming on late night talk shows who have a movie/book, etc. to plug these days.

She came into her stride kind of late (for Hollywood) - well into her 30s/pushing 40, which I’m sure was at least part of the reason why she got pushed more to the supporting/character (but still pretty and sexy) parts fairly quickly.

R38, are u sure u don't mean Beverly D'Angelo? They even had a kid together and I read she stalked him! Plus, isn't Al supposed to be gay?? I guess he's bi..

R19 she played court judge Jennifer "Whipper" Cone on Ally McBeal. Richard Fish used to tickle her wattle!

Here's a pic of her nude scene on the show in 1999 when she's trying to seduce her former lover away from none other than Ling "Lucy Liu" Woo! Gosh, that show was great in its first 2 years.

She's the star of, and very good in, "Such Good Friends," directed by Preminger and screenplay, under a pseudonym, by Elaine May. It's funny, sad, bitchy, really captures NYC at a certain time. Many years ago I was walking on W. 57 and make a lingering eye contact with a woman, who might have been she.

Was she deemed to be a success in Ally McBeal?

Her daughter, Jennifer Grant, does look just like her... except the dark hair. Very pretty.

Yes she was good on Ally McBeal but only in a handful of episodes.

She turned into a wacko right-wing Chrisssstian about 15 years ago after her career tanked.

No doubt another attempt to hide the fact that she was married to a homo.

She was in a terrible/adorable romantic comedy a while back set in a Florida retirement community called Boynton Beach Club. Her costars were Brenda Vaccaro, Joe Bologna, Sally Kellerman, and Renee Taylor. It will probably become a DL cult classic.

There's a line in some Christopher Durang play that goes something like:

"When Cary Grant was married to Dyan Cannon, he took L.S.D. Although, maybe ANYONE married to Dyan Cannon would have to take L.S.D."

Dyan was in a great tv movie about Sally Stanford, the former San Francisco madam who became Mayor of Sausalito.

I remember reading that Grant first saw her when she appeared on a TV show. I actually remember seeing the episode from "The Argonauts" where she played a selfish rich girl whose friend became trapped and would drown from the incoming tide unless she swam to get help. I remember being surprised when I read that that had been the show where Grant had first seen her.

I loved "The Last of Sheila" from 1973.

Very clever script written by Stephen Sondheim and Anthony Perkins(!!!!!)

Cast: James Coburn, James Mason, Dyan Cannon, Richard Benjamin, Joan Hackett, Raquel Welch, Ian McShane.

I think it's a case of bad timing with her. She obviously had talent, but was a little older when she broke through, and there were a lot of other actresses who could play those tough, hardened blondes in 70s Americana cinema. The year she was nominated for 'Bob + Carol + Ted + Alice', some of her co-nominees were Goldie Hawn, Susannah York and Sylvia Miles. I can actually picture her in several of their roles, especially some of Goldie's like The Sugarland Express and Shampoo.

She was also a good poster girl for the eccentricity of that period, more subtle than say Barbara Hershey/Seagull (who somehow still managed to have longevity in her career that Dyan didn't). I wish she'd been given more vehicles to show off her talent, but she had a good run. Aside from the two Oscar noms she has Doctor's Wives, The Last of Sheila, Such Good Friends, Honeysuckle Rose (with Willie Nelson!), and the enormously popular French caper The Burglars. Apparently they shot two versions, one in English and one in French (with the same cast) but i've only seen the English version.

By the time she became known for her trashy looks and her fried curly hair extensions, she had gone too long without a significant movie. Rock & Roll Mom was embarrassing for her.

R48 Boynton Beach Club is SUCH a DL movie. I wonder why nobody seems to have seen it. From memory Sally Kellerman also had a (very) nude scene?

I may have blocked that out, R51, as I don't remember that!

R50, Sheila is a treat. Remember when she shows up at Coburn's cabin for a tryst and when she opens the door and looks in, she says, "oh, you started without me." I think that character was said to be based on Sue Mengers.

She was excellent in that Sally Stanford movie--"Lady of the House"? I think Michael Nouri--with whom she had a fling?-- was in that.

She had great comedic timing and seemed not to take herself too seriously. Loved her in "Sheila" and "Heaven Can Wait".

As noted by several posters up thread, she is a born again christian who has done TBN, the 700 club & other religious right shows.

She has appeared on them so often she might be their reigning Hollywood queen.

Many programs had "gay conversion", "gays want too many things politically" & "gays are going to Hell" segments & she acted like they were no big deal at the time.

Fuck this bigoted cunt.

R5 Warhol hated her for her actions in R55.

"He was never gay with me, honey." - Dyan on Cary Grant

I'm surprised she didn't say "And I'm the dame that can prove it!"

I find that with these film actors who go wacko, I can still enjoy the work that they did before their "conversion." I tell myself they were different people then. So I don't feel bad about lusting for the pre-Cheryl-Crane-rape Lex Barker.