Actor still getting used to attention

Press, 30 December 1985, Page 19

Actor still getting used to attention

NZPA-AP New York Gary Grant says he is used to being well known, but he is still embarrassed sometimes at the attention it brings. After so many years as America’s heartthrob, Grant says: “I don’t feel awed by it a bit because it has always been a part of my life. I honestly don’t know what life is like without it.” “I’m not embarrassed at being well known, I am only embarrassed at being recognised.” Grant, who was born in

1904 in Bristol, England, said in an interview in January ’s “Gentleman’s Quarterly” magazine that he did not always want to be an actor. Growing up in a port city, Grant said, he hung about the wharves hoping to get a job as a cabin boy so that he could fulfil a fantasy of becoming a world traveller. He was too young for a cabin boy’s job, too young to join the Army, and too young to become a travelling salesman. But he was; not too young for vaudeville; !