Cary Grant’s third wife dead at 92

Betsy Drake, the third of movie icon Cary Grant’s four wives, has died, aged 92.
The actress appeared opposite her husband in the comedies Every Girl Should Be Married and Room for One More, and famously introduced him to LSD.
She died on 27 October (15) at her home in London, where she had lived since retiring from showbusiness in the early 1960s, shortly after her divorce from Grant.
Drake and Grant met aboard the Queen Mary on a cruise from England to the U.S. The movie star was 20 years older than the young actress, who he has seen onstage in London.
They were married on Christmas Day, 1949. The ceremony was arranged by Grant’s best man, millionaire Howard Hughes.
Drake was also a celebrated screenwriter, and penned the screenplay for Grant’s 1958 film Houseboat, in which she was supposed to star. Sophia Loren replaced her after Grant started romancing the Italian screen siren.
The couple split in 1958 but remained good friends until Grant’s death in November, 1986.
Drake also appeared in the films Dancing in the Dark, Pretty Baby and Clarence, the Cross-Eyed Lion, among other titles.
She was also one of the passengers rescued from the sinking Italian ocean liner Andrea Doria in 1956. More than 50 others perished in the waters off the coast of Massachusetts.