# On Cary Grant's legendary stinginess

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [July 27, 2005, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-cary-grants-legendary-stinginess/314413 "2005-07-27T15:24:26Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 28, 2005, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-cary-grants-legendary-stinginess/314413/21 "2005-07-28T15:56:42Z")

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[QUOTE=The Controvert]  
A little google fu turned up [this article](http://mgv.mim.edu.my/Articles/00270/96020207.Htm) :

I have an excellent biography of Barbara Hutton (name escapes me now - maybe “Poor Little Rich Girl”?) She was notorious for having people take advantage of her - particularly the “hired help”. Grant noticed this when he was married to her, and set about to curtail the staff abuse. I think that’s where a lot of this came from. I’m sure his parsimony also had roots in his very poor childhood, and the fact that a lot of actors are scared spitless that the last movie they made actually _will_ be their last movie.  
VCNJ~

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**Author:** ![Lisa-go-Blind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7c8e57/32.png) [@Lisa-go-Blind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lisa-go-Blind)\
**Post date:** [July 28, 2005, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-cary-grants-legendary-stinginess/314413/22 "2005-07-28T19:51:02Z")

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> [@The Controvert](#):
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> On preview, I see the other answers… but at least Mr. Grant didn’t resort to using the tampon trick with his milk. 😉

The what now huh?

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**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\
**Post date:** [July 28, 2005, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-cary-grants-legendary-stinginess/314413/23 "2005-07-28T20:23:59Z")

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> [@Eve](#):
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> You make a grease-pencil mark on the level of the milk, to see if anyone else is drinking it. Of course, smart servants have a duplicate grease-pencil . . .

Okay, that makes sense. I was picturing him marking the milk bottles to make sure the milkman brought the same ones back.

And I don’t mark my liquor bottles. I use a ruler.

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