Hollywood legend Dyan Cannon was denied access to the White House for a tour because she falsified her age on a government document.
The 88-year-old was briefly married to Cary Grant before becoming a star in her own right and getting an Oscar nod for the 1969 sex comedy Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice.
She earned another Academy Award nomination for featuring in the 1978 movie Heaven Can Wait, led by Warren Beatty and Julie Christie.
In the 1973 whodunit The Last of Sheila – the inspiration for Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery – Dyan stole the show as a scenery-chewing character based on the acerbic Hollywood super-agent of the day, Sue Mengers.
Now she has revealed she was so determined to retain her glamour and mystique that she once provided a fake age for her passport.
Dyan posted an Instagram video of herself giggling with three of her girlfriends outside a White House checkpoint, where they were held up because the lie on her official papers had caused a problem with her security screening.
Hollywood legend Dyan Cannon was denied access to the White House for a tour because she falsified her age on a government document; pictured this April
The gal pals in question were soap stars Tracey Bregman, 62, and Kym Douglas-Robertson, 66, plus cookbook author Christine Avanti-Fischer, 54, a group of women with whom Dyan hosts the podcast God’s Table.
Kym filmed the quartet outside the White House, saying: ‘We can’t get in because someone lied about her age,’ as Dyan dissolved into laughter.
‘All right, girls, listen, years ago I lied about my age on my passport,’ Dyan confided. ‘Listen, it doesn’t matter. Keep lying about your age.’
In her caption, Dyan wrote: ‘And I’d do it again… it’s nobody’s business what the number is they’ve pinned on me ….right girls? Right guys?’
She insisted that ‘it’s just a blinkin number… no matter what number they put next to me there’s one thing that never changes …I WUV WU !!.’
Dyan, whose movie credits include Such Good Friends and Revenge of the Pink Panther, added: ‘Ps those securitvguards were so handsome!!!’
Her effervescent new post comes months after she dished that she was ‘of course,’ still dating, sharing that she had ‘several special’ people in her life, via People.
‘I have friends with benefits, yes,’ said Dyan, whose romantic history includes Johnny Carson, comic Mort Sahl, director and choreographer Bob Fosse, filmmaker Hal Ashby and actors Michael Nouri and Armand Assante.
The 88-year-old was briefly married to Cary Grant from 1965 to 1968, and was the only one of his five wives with whom he had a child; he and Dyan are pictured in 1966
Dyan (right) became a movie star and earned an Oscar nod in the seminal 1969 sex comedy Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, alongside (from left) Elliott Gould, Natalie Wood and Robert Culp
Dyan (second from right) is pictured with (from left) James Mason, Raquel Welch, James Coburn, Joan Hackett and Richard Benjamin in the 1973 whodunit The Last of Sheila
Dyan was also nominated for an Oscar for the 1978 film Heaven Can Wait, in which she is pictured with Charles Grodin and which was led by Warren Beatty and Julie Christie
A couple of years ago as she neared her 87th birthday, she offered a glimpse into the physical regimen that has helped her retain her still impressively willowy figure.
‘I’ve come to a place in my life where I can eat anything but I do work out,’ she told Page Six. ‘I try and do something at least three or four times a week.’
Although she was married to Cary for just three years – from 1965 to 1968 – she was the only one of his five wives with whom he had a child, their daughter Jennifer, 59.
In 2011 Dyan published a bestselling memoir called Dear Cary: My Life with Cary Grant and laid bare the darker side of their marriage, including the way he swung between controlling her and becoming emotionally distant.
‘Slowly, he changed the way I dress, my choice of things, the way I wrote thank-you notes. He became my Svengali,’ wrote Dyan, who was 33 years his junior.
Dyan was the only one of Cary’s five wives with whom he had a child, their daughter Jennifer, 59; Dyan, Cary and Jennifer are pictured together in 1966
Dyan tried to visit the White House with her podcast hosts (from left) Christine Avanti-Fischer, Kym Douglas Robertson and Tracey Bregman, whom she is pictured with this Wednesday
‘He truly became my everything. But that’s very dangerous, because it’s like standing on a rug that anybody can pull out from under you at any moment.’
When their marriage was on the rocks, she was so determined to hold onto Cary that she succumbed to pressure from him to experiment with LSD.
He himself tripped on LSD 100 times as a form of therapy in order to deal with his turbulent childhood, in which he was told at the age of 10 that his mother had died, only to discover decades later that she had actually been institutionalized.
Cary and Dyan’s rancorous divorce and custody battle drove Dyan into a drug-fueled breakdown and landed her in a mental hospital as well – but shortly after she emerged, she rocketed to movie stardom in Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice.
Dyan’s book was adapted into a miniseries two years ago called Archie – from Cary Grant’s real name Archibald Leach – in which she was played by Laura Aikman and he was portrayed by Harry Potter alumnus Jason Isaacs.
While promoting the show, which she helped produce, Dyan described herself as ‘a big God girl,’ explaining: ‘After some of the things I’ve been through, I couldn’t make sense out of the world, so I had to go to something that did make sense.’
