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The lesser known Lavender marriages in Hollywood

We all know about present day, Travolta / Preston - and in the past, Janet Gaynor/ Adrian, Mary Martin / Richard Halliday, and (allegedly) Julie Andrews/Blake Edwards . Any others not so well known ?

by Anonymousreply 412March 13, 2021 9:53 AM

Danny Kaye/Sylvia Fine

Charles Laughton/Elsa Lanchester

Laurence Olivier/Jill Esmond

by Anonymousreply 1March 16, 2013 7:49 AM

Merchant & Ivory, the independent film makers. Claudette Colbert & her Dr. Hubby, Paul Newman / Joanne Woodward

by Anonymousreply 2March 16, 2013 7:58 AM

does lavender marriage mean both parties are gay?

by Anonymousreply 3March 16, 2013 8:20 AM

Speaking of Danny Kaye, around 40 years ago, he hit on my boyfriend while he was at Sun River.

by Anonymousreply 4March 16, 2013 8:49 AM

r4, Sun River, near Bend, OR? I could tell you stories...

by Anonymousreply 5March 16, 2013 8:55 AM

RE 3 I think Lavender marriage / relationship means one, or both are gay, but the marriage is to hide that for one, or both. I'm so confused .

by Anonymousreply 6March 16, 2013 10:23 AM

Andre Agassi/Steffi Graf

by Anonymousreply 7March 16, 2013 10:35 AM

Lawrence Olivier / Joan Plowright

Bradley Cooper / Jenifer Espisito ( though I dont think she realized she was in one)

Will Smith /Jada

by Anonymousreply 8March 16, 2013 10:57 AM

Not all Holywood but:

Rock Hudson and Phyllis Gates (duh!)

Judy Garland and Vincente Minnelli

Judy Garland and her last 2 husbands

Liza Minnelli and all 3 husbands

Alfred Lunt and Lynne Fontanne

Merle Oberon and Art Director Cedric Gibbons

Katherine Cornell and her producer husband

Loretta Young and Costume Designer Jean Louis

Joan Sutherland and her impressario husband

Michael Redgrave and Rachel Kempson (in spite of the 3 kids)

Cole Porter and his society lady wife

George and Martha Washington

by Anonymousreply 9March 16, 2013 12:00 PM

On Broadway, Katherine Cornell and Guthrie McClintic.

Theresa Hellburn and Cheryl Crawford enjoyed a "Boston Marriage."

by Anonymousreply 10March 16, 2013 1:21 PM

Danny Kaye and Nick Long, Jr were lovers in the 1930s and toured together as a comedy team. They traveled to London together and worked at the Dorchester, but Danny was a flop, they fell out and Kaye went back to the states. Nick was an incredible dancer, his parents were well-known stage actors in New York (Nick Long Sr, and Idelena Cotton) and he started in the theater when he was 6 - like Rooney. Many people know him from Broadway Melody of 1936. He died in an auto accident in 1949 when he was 43.

by Anonymousreply 11March 16, 2013 4:54 PM

My family knew George and Martha in Virginia, they actually knew Martha very well and she gave jewelry to them which we donated to a museum. The family story was that George was gay and it was a marriage of convenience - I remember hearing the story when I was a kid in the 1960's.

by Anonymousreply 12March 16, 2013 4:59 PM

Do lesbians like lavender? Wouldn't they prefer a light shade of army green (which would complement lavender nicely)?

by Anonymousreply 13March 16, 2013 5:06 PM

Tom Cruise/anyone

by Anonymousreply 14March 16, 2013 5:42 PM

Ona Munson (played the Madame in GWTW) to actor/director Edward Buzzell.

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by Anonymousreply 15March 16, 2013 8:08 PM

R9- Liza Minnelli has been married four times, not three.

by Anonymousreply 16March 16, 2013 8:19 PM

Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban both ping for me.

by Anonymousreply 17March 16, 2013 8:28 PM

Were Eva LaG and Jean Dalrymple a couple?

by Anonymousreply 18March 16, 2013 8:31 PM

Has Liza ever married a straight man?

by Anonymousreply 19March 16, 2013 8:38 PM

as far as c and b actors, don't forget marcia cross and whoever her merkin is...

by Anonymousreply 20March 16, 2013 8:41 PM

Mark Gero was straight. And hot!

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by Anonymousreply 21March 16, 2013 8:43 PM

Mark Gero

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by Anonymousreply 22March 16, 2013 8:45 PM

Hargitay and that gorgeous thing she married

by Anonymousreply 23March 16, 2013 8:56 PM

Guthrie McClintic had also been married to Estelle Winwood, who along with galpals Eva LaGallienne, Blyth Daly, and Talullah Bankhead made up "The Four Riders of the Algonquin."

Othe lavender marriages of that era:

Allah Nazimova and Charles Bryant

Beatrice Lillie and Sir Robert Peel

Laurette Taylor and J. Hartley Manners

Rudolph Valentino and Jean Ackers and Natacha Rambova

by Anonymousreply 24March 16, 2013 9:00 PM

[quote]Merle Oberon and Art Director Cedric Gibbons

Merle and Cedric were never married. Merle's husbands were Sir Alex Korda, Lucien Ballard, Bruno Pagilai and Robert Wolders.

by Anonymousreply 25March 16, 2013 9:05 PM

Is Mark Gero still among the living?

by Anonymousreply 26March 16, 2013 9:42 PM

My mistake. MGM Art Director Cedric Gibbons was married to Dolores del Rio which is even gayer.

by Anonymousreply 27March 16, 2013 9:47 PM

I believe Mark Gero is younger than Liza. He is still alive. According to the internet, it was her longest marriage. He is generally thought not to be gay.

To be fair, Garland's longest marriage was to Sid Luft who was most certainly not gay.

I believe all their other husbands were gay, except perhaps Judy Garland's first, David Rose.

by Anonymousreply 28March 16, 2013 10:25 PM

Betty White/ Allen Ludden. Worked with someone who worked for them years ago.

by Anonymousreply 29March 16, 2013 11:46 PM

I heard the same thing about Ludden, from someone who knew them. So is Betty's man hungry bit all an act ? Is she a 90 YO lezzie on the DL ?

by Anonymousreply 30March 16, 2013 11:52 PM

You know, I really don't know but I think it was that he was gay and she was fine with it and was just simply head over hils in love with him.

by Anonymousreply 31March 17, 2013 12:01 AM

I believe the Betty/Allen story.

by Anonymousreply 32March 17, 2013 12:04 AM

...and here I was so hoping to join this august company.

by Anonymousreply 33March 17, 2013 12:09 AM

So Julie's a lez, and Blake liked the peen ? Both , or one ?

by Anonymousreply 34March 17, 2013 1:14 AM

both

by Anonymousreply 35March 17, 2013 11:22 AM

Didn't Doris Roberts have a gay husband?

by Anonymousreply 36March 17, 2013 1:07 PM

Phylicia Rashad always pings a little for me....and she was married to that guy from the Village People

by Anonymousreply 37March 17, 2013 1:08 PM

"Merchant & Ivory, the independent film makers. "

Are you suggesting that every established gay relationship is a lavender marriage?

Ok. But that's not what OP is talking bout.

by Anonymousreply 38March 17, 2013 2:16 PM

No mention of me? *sulks*

by Anonymousreply 39March 17, 2013 2:31 PM

r36, you're thinking of Charlotte Rae.

by Anonymousreply 40March 17, 2013 5:12 PM

Add Jean Stapleton and Bill Putch. When they ran the Totem Pole Playhouse in Pennsylvania he favored the male apprentices.

by Anonymousreply 41March 17, 2013 5:15 PM

I don't see how Judy or Liza's gay marriages fall in the "lesser known" lavender marriages.

Here's a lavender one:

Lena Horne - Lennie Hayton

Her bio always states that they stayed married until his 1971 death. Yeah, legally. She was long gone, but they played married in public a few times in the 1960s.

by Anonymousreply 42March 18, 2013 8:40 PM

Naomi Watts abd Liev Scriber

Matt Damon and his italian waitress

by Anonymousreply 43March 18, 2013 9:26 PM

Candice Bergens first marriage

by Anonymousreply 44March 18, 2013 9:28 PM

R39 or me.

by Anonymousreply 45March 18, 2013 10:24 PM

Watch it, David Ehrenstein may come in here!

by Anonymousreply 46March 18, 2013 10:38 PM

I remember an episode of Password where guest Angie Dickinson ribs Allen Ludden for his fondness of Burt Bacharach.

by Anonymousreply 47March 18, 2013 10:41 PM

Merchant and Ivory never really played up their relationship, though.

Except for bickering like an old married couple on DVD commentary tracks.

by Anonymousreply 48March 18, 2013 10:45 PM

Blake Edwards & Julie Christie.

Mike Nichols & Diane Sawyer.

by Anonymousreply 49March 18, 2013 10:49 PM

Tammy and Nicole Kidman

by Anonymousreply 50March 19, 2013 12:55 AM

Mention Andrew Sullivan - that will do it

by Anonymousreply 51March 19, 2013 1:37 AM

"Add Jean Stapleton and Bill Putch. When they ran the Totem Pole Playhouse in Pennsylvania he favored the male apprentices"

Was she gay, too? Or just a beard?

by Anonymousreply 52March 19, 2013 1:42 AM

"Blake Edwards & Julie Christie."

WTF?

by Anonymousreply 53March 19, 2013 1:59 AM

Well obviously, R53, he meant Blake Edwards and Julie Newmar.

by Anonymousreply 54March 19, 2013 2:09 AM

Alas - we'll never add Ryan Semencrest and Julianne Hough to this list. Life can be cruel!

by Anonymousreply 55March 19, 2013 2:14 AM

Julie Andrews, not Julie Christie.

My bad.

by Anonymousreply 56March 19, 2013 2:19 AM

How can somebody forget its Julie Andrews?

by Anonymousreply 57March 19, 2013 11:50 AM

Danny Kaye was straight

Peter Allen was bisexual. I think Liza talked about how great a sex life they had in an interview a while back.

Paul was straight, as is Joanne.

by Anonymousreply 58March 19, 2013 11:59 AM

LOL, r58. If anyone on earth was totally gay it was Peter Allen. Liza was off being gay herself during that marriage. Whatever she said in public (link?) was bullshit.

by Anonymousreply 59March 19, 2013 12:10 PM

If bisexual means that Peter Allen could have sex with men and women, but totally preferred men, there may be some truth in Minnelli's comments. But, I agree that it almost certainly bullshit.

So is any believe that Garland was unaware that Peter Allen was gay from the first time she met him...long before Liza was involved.

by Anonymousreply 60March 19, 2013 5:32 PM

[quote]Danny Kaye was straight[/quote]

I wonder about that.

Richard Benjamin and Paula Prentiss have been married for over fifty years or something like that. Richard Benjamin always pinged a wee mite bit to me.

by Anonymousreply 61March 19, 2013 5:45 PM

R60, what comments? Has anybody got a quote? I remember Liza being quoted as saying that sex in that marriage was the pits - made during the marriage itself. If I find it I'll give the source.

by Anonymousreply 62March 19, 2013 6:35 PM

R61, Benjamin is Jewish.

by Anonymousreply 63March 19, 2013 6:36 PM

Travolta and Preston also have had kids together. Not sure if a man is getting his wife pregnant should be considered fake!

by Anonymousreply 64March 19, 2013 6:38 PM

Yeah but how did she get pregnant? I am absolutely sure Travolta has never had sex with his wife.

by Anonymousreply 65March 19, 2013 6:49 PM

R65 Oh i'm sorry the fly on the wall speaks! LOL

by Anonymousreply 66March 19, 2013 6:55 PM

Blake Edwards and Julie Brown (the black one).

by Anonymousreply 67March 19, 2013 7:07 PM

Joanne always pinged for me, even when I was a little kid. And then when people started saying Paul was gay, it was kind of easy to believe.

by Anonymousreply 68March 19, 2013 7:23 PM

Mike Nichols and Diane Sawyer

by Anonymousreply 69March 19, 2013 7:33 PM

M and her husband

by Anonymousreply 70March 19, 2013 7:35 PM

Blake Edwards and Dana Andrews

by Anonymousreply 71March 19, 2013 8:31 PM

Herbert Ross and Nora Kaye. I just had this discussion with a friend over Ross's later marriage to Lee Radziwell.

by Anonymousreply 72March 19, 2013 8:37 PM

Nora Kaye liked having sex with homosexuals.

by Anonymousreply 73March 19, 2013 11:24 PM

[quote] Travolta and Preston also have had kids together. Not sure if a man is getting his wife pregnant should be considered fake!

ah...we have such tender sweet innocents thinkers here at DL.

by Anonymousreply 74March 19, 2013 11:28 PM

Seriously. How many of us have known gay men who have fathered kids with their wives? How many? I know two men who have done this...there must be many.

by Anonymousreply 75March 19, 2013 11:59 PM

R58 is a bit declamatory, but may be right about Kaye, who told his last girlfriend that he never had a gay experience even though Joan Plowright once said (and later denied everything about it) that Kaye ruined Olivier's and Leigh's marriage. And Kaye did have other women in his life, especially after the estrangement with Fine, and they did have a daughter. But to me it all smells like the Cary Grant Syndrome, where a bisexual man stifles his history and inclinations to preserve what he thinks should be his legacy.

As for Newman, I never heard anyone in the business talk about anything tangible as far as gay relationships. However, Redford is another story, as is Charlton Heston.

by Anonymousreply 76March 20, 2013 12:00 AM

Kaye had a whole string of boyfriends

by Anonymousreply 77March 20, 2013 12:32 AM

Richard Nixon and Pat Nixon

by Anonymousreply 78March 20, 2013 12:36 AM

Bob Fosse and Glen Vernon

Oscar de la Renta and his wife. His longterm bf is that Italian guy who used to run his design business.

by Anonymousreply 79March 20, 2013 12:38 AM

[quote]Bob Fosse and Glen Vernon

Now, who is this you're referring to?

by Anonymousreply 80March 20, 2013 12:42 AM

"However, Redford is another story, as is Charlton Heston."

Details, please

by Anonymousreply 81March 20, 2013 12:46 AM

[75] You are absolutely correct. When I was just a kid living in a small town where everyone knows the color of everyone else's underwear, there was a gentleman who was married with 4 children. This was ages before IVF or even turkey baster children. He was the town's Liberace: always sporting ascots with velvet jackets and such.

At the age of 55, he and the missus divorced, and he moved to Atlanta and greener(or more lavender) pastures.

The kicker is (I am dead serious) his last name was Gaywright. Don't worry about privacy issues....he's surely long gone, and I feel safe to say his late middle aged kids don't visit DL.

by Anonymousreply 82March 20, 2013 1:08 AM

I thought Eve LeG's long time companion was actress Josephine Hutchinson

by Anonymousreply 83March 20, 2013 1:17 AM

R79, Fosse was a notorious pussyhound. Was he bearding for Gwen? Is that why she tolerated all his womanizing?

by Anonymousreply 84March 20, 2013 1:26 AM

R61, "a wee mite bit"? What is that supposed to mean?

by Anonymousreply 85March 20, 2013 1:49 AM

Richard (John Boy) Thomas and Alma Gonzalez, the mother of his triplets.

Now married to another woman and father of another child.

by Anonymousreply 86March 20, 2013 2:37 AM

Oh I'd love to marry in Lavender!!!!

by Anonymousreply 87March 20, 2013 2:47 AM

It sounds like some people want to have the family experience but were not heterosexual.

by Anonymousreply 88March 20, 2013 2:48 AM

In that "MakIng Of Boys In The Band" documentary,Lawrence Luckinbill said his female agent,Janet Roberts I think her name was,was gay and so was her husband! Anyone know more about this couple?

by Anonymousreply 89March 20, 2013 3:02 AM

Naomni and Leiv are not part of a lavendar marriage...

by Anonymousreply 90March 20, 2013 12:31 PM

I thought she was Nicole's lover? When I saw them holding hands, I believed it.

Remember when Tom and Nicole were married and someone supposedly caught them arguing like a married couple over a cell phone?

I think that was all set up so they would look like they were a normal man and wife. Probably Burt Fields had his boy Pelicano, set that up.

by Anonymousreply 91March 20, 2013 10:50 PM

Cristina Applegate and Johnathon Schaech

Diane von Furstenberg and Barry Diller

by Anonymousreply 92March 20, 2013 11:02 PM

When I grew up in Teaneck, N.J. two married couples lived a the two family house nearby. No one knew until many years later though legally married the real couples were male-male, female-female.

by Anonymousreply 93March 20, 2013 11:05 PM

r52, Jean was the beard. They had two kids, boy and girl.

by Anonymousreply 94March 20, 2013 11:07 PM

More than a few of those classic British actors were married with children whilst sucking a lot of strange cock on the side. Michael Redgrave and Alan Bates come to mind. Some suspicion of Alec Guinness and John Mills too.

by Anonymousreply 95March 20, 2013 11:12 PM

Diane von Furstenberg and Barry Diller - good choice, r92. Although is there anyone that doesn't know he's gay?

by Anonymousreply 96March 21, 2013 12:39 AM

R96 The gossip mill has indicated that Diller married Diane because he wants to leave his estate to her son, tax free.

by Anonymousreply 97March 21, 2013 12:53 AM

Jennifer Beals and her husbands (ex and current).

by Anonymousreply 98December 18, 2013 12:11 PM

Sam Mendes and Kate Winslet? There have been rumors about him on here...if true, did Kate know?

by Anonymousreply 99December 18, 2013 1:04 PM

Janet Gaynor and Adrian

Janet Gaynor and Paul Gregory

Mary Martin and Ben Hagman

Mary Martin and Richard Halliday

by Anonymousreply 100December 18, 2013 4:05 PM

I shall be snickering about r79's "Glen Vernon" for the rest of the the week.

by Anonymousreply 101December 18, 2013 5:01 PM

So, are you saying Bouncy is in a lavender marriage?

by Anonymousreply 103December 18, 2013 5:26 PM

F&F Beyonce's publicist who is infecting dozens of threads with that gibberish @ R102.

by Anonymousreply 104December 18, 2013 5:30 PM

Lilyan Tashman and Edmund Lowe.

by Anonymousreply 105December 18, 2013 5:51 PM

R58 Danny Kaye and Paul Newman were straight? No way!

by Anonymousreply 106December 18, 2013 6:00 PM

Don't you think Nicholas Sparks (love his books!) and whomever he's married to with 5 kids? He just has gay face for days.

by Anonymousreply 107December 18, 2013 6:03 PM

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by Anonymousreply 108December 18, 2013 6:07 PM

R2, Merchant and Ivory weren't married, and if they were, it would not be a lavender marriage; it would be a gay marriage; they were both men.

R9, although you are correct that Liza had three gay husbands, one can't say that "all three" of her husbands were gay, in that she had four, one of whom, Mark Gero, was apparently straight.

by Anonymousreply 109December 18, 2013 6:09 PM

[quote]Peter Allen was bisexual. I think Liza talked about how great a sex life they had in an interview a while back.

It was sizzling!

by Anonymousreply 110December 18, 2013 6:13 PM

Liza had a GREAT sex life during her marriage to Peter Allen. But he wasn't part of it.

That marriage was based on friendship and immigration laws.

by Anonymousreply 111December 18, 2013 6:18 PM

Kelly Preston and her turkey baster.

by Anonymousreply 112December 18, 2013 6:20 PM

I'm very curious about Bouncy's marriage.

by Anonymousreply 113December 18, 2013 6:22 PM

Diane von Furstenburg and Egon von Furstenburg

as for "the gossip mill [having] indicated that Diller married Diane because he wants to leave his estate to her son, tax free," this is nonsense. One cannot leave money to one's offspring, let along step-children, tax free. One can leave it to one's spouse tax free, but when it passes to the next generation, only a couple of million dollars can be left before the estate is completely taxed.

by Anonymousreply 114December 18, 2013 6:24 PM

R98, details, please!

by Anonymousreply 115December 18, 2013 6:27 PM

[quote] Don't you think Nicholas Sparks (love his books!)

You just outed yourself as a frau, R107.

by Anonymousreply 116December 18, 2013 6:29 PM

r103 Beyonce is in a lavender marriage.

by Anonymousreply 117December 18, 2013 6:31 PM

Just to set the record straight, traditionally a lavender marriage consists of a man and woman who are both gay.

So not all the couples named so far qualify.

I'll add Kate Hepburn and the man she married.

by Anonymousreply 118December 18, 2013 7:12 PM

Luddow Smith, Katherine Hepburn's husband was straight. He remarried after he and Hepburn divorced. He and Hepburn remained friends

by Anonymousreply 119December 18, 2013 8:27 PM

"Doesn't Paul Newman ping for y'all?"

NO.

by Anonymousreply 120December 18, 2013 9:05 PM

R58, Peter Allen was NOT bisexual. I asked him. In person. He told me all about Liza. He loved her, but as best friend/green card source only. I met his husband Greg later that week. He wasn't bi, either.

by Anonymousreply 121December 18, 2013 9:15 PM

Kate Jackson and Andrew Stevens. I never bought them as a couple. She also hung out with Liza M back then too. Makes me wonder if those two had a fling.

by Anonymousreply 122December 18, 2013 9:26 PM

Kate Jackson has aways been rumored to be gay. Wasn't she linked to the actress that played the wife on Welcome, Back Kotter? But I've never heard anything about Andrew Stevens. He doesn't strike me as gay.

by Anonymousreply 123December 18, 2013 9:39 PM

R57 The hills are alive with the sound of whatshername?

by Anonymousreply 124December 18, 2013 9:56 PM

I agree, r121.

Now, just remember what you wrote when we discuss gay female celebs. The DL gays will not accept anything but bi when it comes to them.

by Anonymousreply 125December 18, 2013 10:10 PM

Jared Padalecki/Genevieve Cortese Jensen Ackles/Danneel Harris

Both of their marriages are very hinky.

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by Anonymousreply 126January 3, 2014 3:00 AM

Jimmy Fallon/Nancy Juvoven

by Anonymousreply 127January 3, 2014 4:10 AM

Burt & Loni

by Anonymousreply 128January 3, 2014 5:07 AM

My sister worked for Joanne Woodward for a time and they were definitely not gay. I spent some time with both of them. When they first met they had to sneak around because he was still married. Joanne is not at all like she seems - she's very funny and blunt about things like sex and embarrassed the heck out of Paul all the time, but he was used to it. They were a wonderful couple and very devoted to one another.

Also I'm not sure why bisexuality isn't really acknowledged in this thread. Rachel Kempson and Michael Redgrave weren't a lavender marriage so far as I know. He told her up front that he was bi, and she didn't care. When he was writing his autobiography, his son was helping him, and that's when he told his son. His son said if that was the case, he needed to write about it.

by Anonymousreply 129January 3, 2014 8:23 AM

"Mary Martin and Ben Hagman"

I have never heard anyone suggest that Ben Hagman was gay. As for Martin, she was sixteen or seventeen when they married, and their son, Larry, was born before she was eighteen. And the marriage did not last long.

by Anonymousreply 130January 3, 2014 2:18 PM

Both Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne were family. From a blind item in a 1933 tabloid called Broadway Brevities:

"This little fact concerns two of the greatest stars of the legitimate theatre and who are supposed to be happily married. The pair, however, are as queer as a couple of bugs. He is a pansy who is conducting an affair with his male secretary, while she is a lesbian and has several girls acting as her lovers. Cute, eh?"

TCM will be showing the Lunts in "The Guardsman" this Thursday.

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by Anonymousreply 131February 23, 2014 2:59 AM

A lavender marriage is one in which both parties are gay.

So most of these entries are horse shit.

by Anonymousreply 132February 23, 2014 3:14 AM

Possibly Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy were in a lavender relationship but not marriage. As Spencer Tracy was a gay man this partnership could of been classed as a lavender relationship. Director George Cukor, was known to have given the pair a place, not known where it was, this place was where Katharine and Spencer had relationships with the same sex, so it was kept out of the public eye. Also Katharine Hepburn was in a marriage with Ludlow Ogden Smith, which it was said that he was gay too, apparently he took his male lover and her female lover on their honey moon, as their was four present. Don't take my word for this. In my eye, Spencer Tracy was a gay man and Katharine Hepburn was a lesbian, but it was very possible.

by Anonymousreply 133April 22, 2014 10:55 PM

A lavender relationship/marriage is when one or both parties are gay, and wish to conceal their sexual orientation, being from a person who has experienced this, yes I am gay and my partner was gay too, I accepted my self and so did my partner, but my parents had got on to me, my partner was not ready to come out fully, so it was to buy us time, when we was with friends and family we would kiss and hug, but behind the screen we were seeing our partners, our true partners, we were just friends and used this as a screen, we eventually came to the realisation that we could not live any lies, so we agreed that we would end this and live true, we stayed friends however, but our families were ok with it but thought that we did not need to go to that extent, we are not stereotypical gays, as one party is butch guy with loads of muscle and the other is very feminine. So it can happen, we were not married but it still worked for us, it helped us in so many was, but sometimes I would not recommend it, (note it is not a friend with benefits as there was no sex involved).

by Anonymousreply 134April 22, 2014 11:19 PM

Of course the interesting thing here is that the lavender color did not prevent people from having children - often multiple children.

There's more to it than mere cover.

by Anonymousreply 135April 23, 2014 12:29 AM

Hilary Swank and Chad Lowe were such a couple IMHO.

by Anonymousreply 136April 23, 2014 12:35 AM

Vincent Price and Coral Browne.

by Anonymousreply 137April 23, 2014 12:45 AM

There are rumors about the marriage of art director Wiard Ihnen (won Oscars for Wilson and Blood on the Sun) and costume designer Edith Head

by Anonymousreply 138April 23, 2014 12:51 AM

Loretta Young and Jean Louis - I'm sure that was just for companionship, not to cover up anything.

Laurence Olivier is bi.

Paul and Joanne were a straight couple.

And sometimes, the woman or man doesn't care that the partner is gay or bi. And it's possible to love one another while still being attracted to the opposite sex.

Cole Porter and his wife loved one another, and she knew his situation. She left him when he started being very indiscreet, but came back to him when he had that horrible accident. Did they sleep together? I'd say in his case it's doubtful, but I don't know.

Fran Drescher and her husband were married for years and had a good sex life. He thought he might be gay and told her, and he finally came out. I saw them a while ago on an interview and he said he still loves her, and he'll always love her.

It's hard to pigeonhole sexuality. It's not as black and white as some people think.

by Anonymousreply 139April 23, 2014 1:26 AM

AUNTIE MERV and any woman!

N. Sparks' books stink, but he really comes across as a friend of (who shall we say now--we used to say Dorothy.

by Anonymousreply 140April 23, 2014 2:15 AM

Gay? Us?

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by Anonymousreply 141April 23, 2014 2:20 AM

[quote]Paul and Joanne were a straight couple.

Sure, honey.

by Anonymousreply 142April 23, 2014 2:22 AM

Kay Francis and anyone.

by Anonymousreply 143April 23, 2014 2:39 AM

Andy Roddick/Brooklyn Decker.

by Anonymousreply 144April 23, 2014 2:43 AM

To the persons posting about tennis stars: I have always thought Agassi and Roddick were gay with lesbian wives. Any specific info?

by Anonymousreply 145April 23, 2014 2:54 AM

R145 Brooklyn openly "pals" around with women. Rihanna being one of them. She seems to be more open about lezzing out and about than Andy is.

I've heard rumors about Agassi but anyone you dated Barbara Streisand is either gay, an attention whore or is a downright gold digger.

by Anonymousreply 146April 23, 2014 3:12 AM

Steffi Graf isn't gay, that I know.

by Anonymousreply 147April 23, 2014 3:18 AM

[R142] Yeah, really - did you ever spend time with them? I did. My sister worked for Joanne for a long time.

by Anonymousreply 148April 23, 2014 3:20 AM

For a gay woman, Kay Francis sure had a lot of abortions.

by Anonymousreply 149April 23, 2014 3:21 AM

Mark Gero is still alive, and is now a successful businessman living in Europe. He also re-married.

Gero was incredibly good-looking. The photos linked here do not do him justice. He met Liza while he was stage manager for "The Act", and she was attracted to him from the start.

I don't know if it's true, but Gero was rumored to be very well-endowed.

by Anonymousreply 150April 23, 2014 4:52 AM

This isn't a lesser-known marriage, but neither are Cruise and Travolta, and they're on this list, so how about Timberlake and J. Biel?

by Anonymousreply 151April 23, 2014 4:56 PM

How about Robert Wolders...married Merle Oberon, then with Audrey Hepburn, Leslie Caron and Shirlee Fonda. Just sayin...

by Anonymousreply 152April 29, 2014 10:47 PM

I read this entire thread.

PAUL NEWMAN WAS NOT GAY!!! Geesh!

by Anonymousreply 153May 21, 2014 6:15 PM

"You're a queer one, Julie Jordan."

Discuss.

by Anonymousreply 154May 21, 2014 7:07 PM

A couple of months ago, I had my "innocent dreams" of the past destroyed when I read that one of Paul Newman's lovers was STEVE MCQUEEN! Oh my, my, my.

by Anonymousreply 155October 29, 2014 8:39 PM

Okay not marriage but Tim Robbins and Susan Sarandon.

by Anonymousreply 156October 29, 2014 8:56 PM

8 pages, and no mention of Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem? That seems like one of the more obvious modern lavender marriages. At least it's more convincing than Cruz/Cruise, where she simply couldn't hide her contempt for that asshole.

And no mention of one of the more famous relationships, Robert Taylor and Barbara Stanwyck?

Alec Guinness was bisexual, and his marriage was real, not lavender. He loved his wife, but fought his attraction to men and was apparently guilty about occasional lapses with guys. According to one unauthorized biography, he was arrested for a homosexual act in a public bathroom in 1946 a la George Michael, and gave a fake name to the police and courts (a somewhat obscure Dickens character, if I recall correctly) that saved his reputation and kept the arrest secret. Guinness converted to Catholicism in the 1950's, and I think he kept more on the straight and narrow, so to speak, from that point, but it's been a while since I read the book, and I can't remember the details.

by Anonymousreply 157October 29, 2014 9:35 PM

Kate Jackson and Andrew Stevens? We could be so lucky...

by Anonymousreply 158October 29, 2014 9:48 PM

There was an article back in 1987 in People magazine about Merchant and Ivory. They basically just dismissed the idea of discussing their relationship in detail -- in that old fashioned way.

This is their house in the Hudson Valley that Ivory still lives in, btw

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by Anonymousreply 159October 29, 2014 11:29 PM

That recent wedding in Venice, Italy, adds another couple to the list.

by Anonymousreply 160October 30, 2014 12:00 AM

No one mentioned my first husband? You're slipping.

by Anonymousreply 161October 30, 2014 12:07 AM

Julie Andrews/Tony Walton

Steve Allen was on the downlow but I don't know whether he was gay or bi, whether Audrey Meadows was gay, bi or straight, or whether she was even aware of his escapades. They definitely cared very much about each other, regardless. They had a child together and he had three children by his first wife.

As someone said above, sexuality is not always as simple as black or white.

And Newman was at least bi. It was well known.

by Anonymousreply 162October 30, 2014 1:22 AM

Duh, I meant Jayne Meadows, not her sister, of course.

by Anonymousreply 163October 30, 2014 1:28 AM

[quote]Steve Allen was on the downlow but I don't know whether he was gay or bi, whether Audrey Meadows was gay, bi or straight, or whether she was even aware of his escapades. They definitely cared very much about each other, regardless.

OMG, did Jayne Meadows know her sister, Audrey, was carrying on with Jayne's husband, Steve Allen? This is shocking news.

by Anonymousreply 164October 30, 2014 1:28 AM

You'll have to type quicker next time, R164.

by Anonymousreply 165October 30, 2014 1:33 AM

You people--all of you---are absolutely insane.

by Anonymousreply 166October 30, 2014 1:57 AM

Danny Kaye is an interesting case. Not exactly a guy you'd think of as such a man-whore - he was not very physically attractive (like Leslie Howard, who also seemed to "get around" but apparently only with women) - but very talented and seemed charming. He was married and acc. to the great Eve Arden(?!), was her lover as well; however, it's well-known that Laurence Olivier was smitten with him and after all, he was more of a "musical" star than anything else. Which makes me think of Nelson Eddy ... ? And too bad about Gene Kelly (being so straight and all). What a sexy Republican!

by Anonymousreply 167October 30, 2014 2:02 AM

Anybody else know the story of Olivier and Kaye in disguise as a Customs officer?

by Anonymousreply 168October 30, 2014 2:07 AM

Marlon Brando and Wally Cox

by Anonymousreply 169October 30, 2014 2:19 AM

I knew someone who claimed that Newman and Woodward used her spare room on 52nd street in Manhattan when they were both married to other people for loud, passionate sex. She knew a lot that turned out to be true about people in "show business", so that while not above exaggerating her role in affairs, I believed her. Newman was widely said to have same sex affairs on movie sets that ended when the movie did, he was ruthless about enforcing this. I heard this from a lot of people, so I assume it was true, at least now and again. I have never heard that Woodward was gay; many women "in the business" simply tolerate "flexibility" in the man they love or want/see an advantage to be with, whether they are "flexible" themselves or not.

The Lunts were very closeted, he told a young Monty Clift to hide his sexuality, butch it up and find an understanding woman (as cover if nothing else). Since Monty had just made a pass at him that was pouring cold water over things.

The story is a famous one told in various versions but is narrated in detail in The "Fabulous Lunts" by Jared Brown. Brown avoids the couple's gayness (widely known) and the number of bi or gay members of their company, which toured endlessly in between Broadway runs (Sydney Greenstreet was in the company. Though married to a woman who became schizophrenic, he was quite the queen but Brown again downplays this without entirely denying it).

Charles Laughton and Elsa Lanchester were also a gay man and a bi tending straight woman who were married, not always happily.

Many English actors married, despite conflicted sexuality. Michael Redgrave was not only strongly attracted to men but also very much into BD/SM (there's a famous, well attested story of John Gielgud greeting him with "Sir Michael Redgrave, I'll be bound!"), but appears to have loved his wife (apparently intermittently bi) and daughters. One of them, Vanessa Redgrave married Tony Richardson, who died of AIDS but evidently was bi. Natasha was their daughter.

Alec Guinness married but admitted toward the end of his life, that his devout Catholicism had caused him huge suffering, since his various homosexual affairs occasioned tremendous guilt.

Although it's likely that many of the stories about Olivier are untrue, he seems at least to have been bi throughout his life. There appears to be good reason to believe that both he and Joan Plowright, his wife at the time, had affairs with Peter Finch.

No one above mentioned Tony Perkins, as big a queen as ever queened, marrying Berry Berenson. They had two sons; he died of AIDS, she died on 9/11.

Also, no one mentioned Moss Hart, who married Kitty Carlisle. I knew Steven Bach who wrote the compendious bio of Hart called DAZZLER and he showed me some of his research. Bach got Kitty to cooperate by promising to keep Hart's homosexuality out of the book as much as possible. One of the elderly ladies, still alive who had known Hart well is quoted in his notes as saying, "WE ALL wanted to marry Moss, he was the most fun of any man ever. He had to be married for his career. But he picked her. We all had only one word when we heard, "WHY??" Kitty did try to rein in Moss' gay life, and couldn't (she spent a year in a "facility" to try and come to terms with that). He did stop cruising the subway johns, getting arrested and beaten up, and eventually she put a stop to his all male/bathing attire discouraged pool parties. But he continued to have sex with men, though they had two children, an idiot, and a brilliant daughter who was a distinguished AIDS researcher in the early days of the epidemic.

No one mentioned Hal Prince who is gay and his straight very sweet wife, Judy Chaplin. They had two children, also a threesome with John Guare, bi -- at least -- but known in his youth and mid years for making passes at male cuties. Nor did anyone mention Bernie Gersten or his monster wife (three daughters). He and Guare were finally thrown out by Joe Papp for queening it up too much but of course landed at Lincoln Center.

by Anonymousreply 170October 30, 2014 3:23 AM

I love R170.

by Anonymousreply 171October 30, 2014 3:44 AM

The idea of anyone, male or female, doing it with Danny Kaye is just awful by itself--his silly mannerisms and capering around.

Newman apparently messed around in the Navy or so Gore Vidal claimed to have been told by him. I rather doubt Newman was gay and I have known people acquainted with him going back to his high school and college days.

by Anonymousreply 172October 30, 2014 3:48 AM

Hey R170, a little odd, don't you think, that none of these alleged "trysts" with Paul Newman during his films ever came to light to the media nor expose books written nor slag mags exposing this.

I think most of what you have written is total bullshit by a bullshit writing queen who wants attention.

by Anonymousreply 173October 30, 2014 3:59 AM

R173 - I don't think Paul Newman was gay - just my opinion from my partner who knew Paul, Joanne and the family.

However, there are other true Hollywood gay stories that are true that no one seems to get excited about or be interested in. They get posted and then vanish.

I have posted the story about Spencer Tracey and Hepburn being gay or bi and not being involved sexually. Our friend was a former BF of Cukor and Cukor told him about the two of them several times. He has been telling us this story - and others - for 30-40 years. I actually don't know if he's still alive.

I don't remember if he ever met Hepburn or Tracey himself. it's possible - he knew everyone in Hollywood at the time and was very popular. He went on to be a Billy Haines type - successful in his field and used by many of the stars. He went out of fashion and lost everything. It was really sad. He should have written a book.

by Anonymousreply 174October 30, 2014 4:10 AM

They're all queer!!! (It's in my book, available on Amazon.)

by Anonymousreply 175October 30, 2014 4:16 AM

It's strange. I never thought about Allen Ludden being gay while he was alive. But now, when I watch him on old episodes of Password, my gaydar starts pinging.

by Anonymousreply 176October 30, 2014 6:50 AM

Chris Martin and JLaw (although not married)

by Anonymousreply 177October 30, 2014 9:44 AM

I agree R173. And it's the same with Liberace. There are no photos or films of him having sex with a male so it can't be true. It was just Scott Thorson after his money.

by Anonymousreply 178October 30, 2014 12:59 PM

Paul Newman and Liberace ... now those are pictures I`d like to see!!!

by Anonymousreply 179October 30, 2014 1:06 PM

I finger corpses.

by Anonymousreply 180October 30, 2014 1:09 PM

So many of these are incorrect it's not even funny.

First off, I'm sure Loretta Young and Jean Louis didn't get marry to hide anything, I think it was for companionship. I mean, at his age, who cared.

Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward, though everyone would like it to be a lavender marriage, wasn't.

Laurence Olivier and Jill Esmond - incorrect. Olivier said in his autobiography that he was bi.

I don't know about Andre, but Steffi Graf is straight.

Michael Redgrave didn't marry Rachel Kempson to cover anything up. She knew he was bi and didn't care. He told his son when he was working on his bio that he was bisexual, and his son said, then you should address in your book.

by Anonymousreply 181October 30, 2014 1:18 PM

[R170] and [R173] seem to have some sense, though I disagree about Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward and I always will. I, too, know people who were close to the family. I met Steve Allen and Jayne Meadows, and I never thought either one of them was gay.

by Anonymousreply 182October 30, 2014 1:24 PM

please, Bob Fosse was not gay.

by Anonymousreply 183October 30, 2014 1:29 PM

I remember on All My Children, Peter White and Francesca James were married, and they are both gay.

I do think it's not always the case that the marriage is completely lavender. I think some people like both sexes, at least some of the people I know. Someone I've known for years had all kinds of gay affairs but was in love with two women I know well; he married one and they had two kids, and after she died, he married again. Some guys couldn't have sex with a woman if they wanted to, and most of them don't want to. I think these marriages, as someone else said, can be more complicated than is being presented here.

by Anonymousreply 184October 30, 2014 1:33 PM

wynonna Judd is gay, not sure about her husband.

by Anonymousreply 185October 30, 2014 1:53 PM

Margaret Whiting and Jack Wagner Coral Brown and Vincent Price

by Anonymousreply 186October 30, 2014 1:59 PM

Jack Wagner likes women as well as men.

by Anonymousreply 187October 30, 2014 3:01 PM

Jack Wagner is dead, r187. He liked women, but didn't have sex with them.

by Anonymousreply 188October 30, 2014 3:16 PM

Judging from [R173] one now needs to be super clear in English on Datalounge and there's no point in using the public record (that means it was universally reported in published news sources); if you do, you are "meaking things up" to "get attention" (on Datalounge, which has become the dumbest board of its kind and is anonymous?) Tony Perkins and Tony Richardson died of AIDS, Berry Berenson died on 9/11, I was MAKING THAT UP, scumbag?? There is no protection here from moronic trolls, which is why there is so little gossip or god help us, information.

[R170] I never said nor did I imply that Newman was gay. I mentioned a frequently stated rumor that came from people who worked with him. If you can read you'll notice I am on the fence about it. It's possible he played around a bit, and "a bit" in English means just that, had a way of getting off that was quick and efficient for him without involving him in the messy scandals and gossip that affairs with female stars risk. However, that I think it's "possible" and he MIGHT have done it "a bit" is not a way of saying he was gay or seriously bi or that it's true beyond a doubt.

The Moss Hart and Lunt stories are attested in the best documented books about those people, by writers who had total access to private papers and survivors, and foot note everything they say. Kitty Hart would not cooperate at first, but when she agreed if Bach kept Moss' (widely known and well documented) homosexuality on the downlow, it was too great a coup for him to pass up. In the Lunt book, in many ways one of the best books about the vanished American legitimate theater, the writer likewise seems to have felt uneasy about a well attested and widely known fact of their lives. There is no question that Hart, Lunt and Fontanne were gay, just as there is no doubt that Hart's daughter was a very distinguished early researcher into AIDS who did much valuable and brave work (DOCUMENTED, you grotesque fool at [R173].

Michael Redgrave did not cover anything up in his private life, though he didn't talk about his sexuality or predilections for publication until he wrote his autobiography. Everyone who knew him, knew the score; his wife certainly did. Like Hart, Hal Prince, Bernie Gersten and others, he enjoyed being married and loved his children. Redgrave's daughters, and Hart's daughter were remarkable, their other children less so. I hated Gersten and despised Guare, who is married but not a father, but both were very good at what they did with Guare being one of the few important American playwrights of that generation.

I wrote that I doubted most of the Olivier stories but the affair with Finch was something I know about from close friends and associates of his (his affair and Joan Plowright's affair with Finch when they were in fact married) and he was known to have been bi his entire life (some of that might have been strategic, such as his affair with Noel Coward when Coward helped him become a theater star, but in others cases probably not). I've heard conflicting stories about Danny Kaye but none have been totally convincing (to me).

Oh, fuck Datalounge.

by Anonymousreply 189October 30, 2014 6:40 PM

[quote] on Datalounge, which has become the dumbest board of its kind

The very interesting and articulate R189 is correct. DL has been dumbed down beyond recognition and now seems to only attract the most moronic of trolls.

I wish it were not so.

by Anonymousreply 190October 30, 2014 6:52 PM

My God, the damned have spoken!

The only troll around here is R189 who spends an inordinate amount of time typing up bullshit rumors in order to feel important and garner attention. This old Queen needs to turn in his caftan and earrings and just go away.

by Anonymousreply 191October 30, 2014 6:58 PM

Didn't Vivien Leigh also have an affair with Peter Finch? Or am I mistaking him for someone else?

by Anonymousreply 192October 30, 2014 7:17 PM

R176 just a hunch but I think it was the open shirts and the gold chains. Come to think of it, every man in the 70s pretty much pinged, didn't they?

That said, I wouldn't be surprised if he were bi. Something about that marriage doesn't quite add up, although I do thing they truly loved each other, even if more in a companion sense. I think Betty's straight, though. Believe it or not, back when they married, she actually benefitted more career wise.

by Anonymousreply 193October 30, 2014 7:25 PM

R192 well she was a nympho (excuse me, sex addict) so just about anyone is a possibility.

by Anonymousreply 194October 30, 2014 8:16 PM

[R192] Vivien Leigh did have an affair with Peter Finch; that's what the film "The VIPs" was based on, they were in fact running away together. A lot of her behavior had its basis in her illness.

by Anonymousreply 195October 30, 2014 8:35 PM

[R187] I was talking about Jack Wagner - did you mean Jack Wrangler?

by Anonymousreply 196October 30, 2014 8:38 PM

r193

The hair. The glasses. The leisure suit!

On Password, Allen Ludden looked like the love child of Charles Nelson Reilly and Liberace.

by Anonymousreply 197October 30, 2014 8:58 PM

r193

The hair. The glasses. The leisure suit!

On Password, Allen Ludden looked like the love child of Charles Nelson Reilly and Liberace.

by Anonymousreply 198October 30, 2014 8:58 PM

Yes, 196, Jack the porn star

by Anonymousreply 199October 30, 2014 9:11 PM

Jack Wagner from Melrose Place and daytime soaps is dead?

by Anonymousreply 200October 30, 2014 9:29 PM

(Announcer whispers) The password is... "closet".

by Anonymousreply 201October 30, 2014 9:30 PM

R170, Judy Prince knows all about Hal's long affair with Farley Granger, and keeps Hal in line by threatening to go public. I do not know that anyone other than Hal would care.

by Anonymousreply 202October 30, 2014 9:39 PM

r170 and r r189 I love you.

People mocking you are just silly, jealous assholes.

Keep it coming.

Thanks again.

by Anonymousreply 203October 30, 2014 10:09 PM

[R157] Robert Taylor and Barbara Stanwyck was not a lavender marriage - here's part of an interview by the author of her bio:

"... Each marriage was complex and came about because of complex reasons – and stayed in tact because of equally complicated reasons; neither marriage came about because of homosexuality. I asked many people who would have a somewhat informed inkling about Robert Taylor’s sexuality, people who knew him at the time, or would have heard about the (then, of necessity) underground truth of his sexuality and nowhere did I come across any hint of his being gay, including interviewing Harry Hay, founder in 1950 of the Mattachine Society. If anyone would have known, or heard about the truth of Taylor’s sexuality over the years, it would have been Harry Hay. . ."

I know Robert Wolders personally, he's not gay. There was a 7 year difference between him and Audrey and 4 years between him and Shirlee.

by Anonymousreply 204October 30, 2014 10:32 PM

Van Johnson and Evie Wynn

by Anonymousreply 205October 31, 2014 5:32 AM

[R205] Right, MGM wanted Johnson to be married, and he said the only woman he would marry was Evie Wynn. They were all friends, and lived in the same neighborhood. So MGM had Evie come in and told her if she didn't divorce Wynn, his contract wouldn't be renewed.

Wynn married twice more.

by Anonymousreply 206October 31, 2014 2:45 PM

[R170], Arthur Laurents is the one who had and wrote (tactlessly) about his fling with Farley Grainger, no doubt exaggerating his attraction to Laurents, as vicious piece of scum as existed in his time, short and homely to boot. Prince, like Gersten, tended in his active days to meet men at the baths, sometimes continuing brief affairs. Of course Prince's wife (Judy) knows (or more likely knew) the score and had some flings of her own (with males).

by Anonymousreply 207November 11, 2014 7:32 AM

I was replying to [R202] above.

by Anonymousreply 208November 11, 2014 7:48 AM

R58, you're deluded. Everyone knows about Olivier's long affair with Danny Kaye. In fact, Olivier had it in the first draft of his autobiography, but Plowright begged him to leave the homo stuff out.

by Anonymousreply 209November 11, 2014 7:56 AM

Good parody post r211

by Anonymousreply 212November 11, 2014 10:51 PM

Popeye and Olive Oyl

by Anonymousreply 213November 11, 2014 11:13 PM

I can't type with only one hand it seems!

by Anonymousreply 214November 11, 2014 11:15 PM

Vivien Leigh had a long-term affair with Peter Finch. They did not hide it from Olivier but carried on pretty much non-stop including during Finch's visits to the Oliviers' home at the time, Notley. Olivier could not manage Vivien's behavior and Finch seemed to be able to keep her on a relatively even keel. This was during a particularly grim phase of Vivien's illness which caused Olivier and everyone else concerned a great deal of suffering. It seems unlikely that Olivier or Joan Plowright had an affair with Finch-- while Olivier managed a peculiar sort of detente with Finch as long as he was involved with his then-wife Vivien, Finch had nothing but unhappy associations for Olivier and after he died Olivier reportedly said "I'm glad he's dead."

by Anonymousreply 215November 12, 2014 12:13 AM

R210/R211 are the best argument for the systematic extermination of heterosexuals that ever was. You "people" have destroyed the earth with your uncontrolled breeding, and very little you have created is of value. Do us all a favor and drop dead.

by Anonymousreply 216November 12, 2014 12:22 AM

To 149, who wrote "For a gay woman, Kay Francis sure had a lot of abortions" -- she was bi and had many, many partners, as a recent book based on her diaries indicates.

by Anonymousreply 217December 26, 2014 9:54 AM

What about Tony Curtis? I always got a vibe from him.

by Anonymousreply 218December 26, 2014 9:57 AM

[R167] "Danny Kaye is an interesting case. ... he was not very physically attractive (like Leslie Howard, who also seemed to "get around" but apparently only with women) - but very talented and seemed charming. ...

First of all, talent and charm are INCREDIBLY sexy. Second of all, beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and I -- like many people I know -- find both DK and LH very attractive. Yes, their features, not just their inner appeal shining out, tho that's considerable, too. Sheesh.

by Anonymousreply 219December 26, 2014 10:04 AM

[R170], I think you'll find that Peter Finch had an affair with the *second* Mrs Olivier (Vivian Leigh), not the third (Joan Plowright).

by Anonymousreply 220December 26, 2014 10:15 AM

R213 Every one knows that Popeye loved only Bluto and vice versa. Olive Oyl was madly in love with Wimpy, who only had eyes for Betty Boop.

by Anonymousreply 221December 26, 2014 10:19 AM

if all of these are the "lesser know" marriages what are the well known marriages?

by Anonymousreply 222December 26, 2014 10:37 AM

Zsa Zsa supposedly begged the gay dept store heir Charles Lloyd Jones to marry her.

by Anonymousreply 223December 26, 2014 1:04 PM

In the old days, a lot of times women didn't know they were marrying gay men. Someone told me a story of Rosemary Harris, a wonderful actress if you don't know who she is, married to director Ellis Raab. One day she came into the dressing room for the show she was doing and asked the women in the dressing room how often couples have sex. Was once a month normal?

Eventually they divorced and she remarried.

by Anonymousreply 224December 26, 2014 7:07 PM

What about Richard Gere and Cindy Crawford? Wondered about that union.

by Anonymousreply 225January 2, 2015 2:04 AM

R219 is easily staggered, isn't she?

But then anyone who would find the preening, devious, smug and egocentric Miss Danny Fucking Kaye sexy is capable of anything.

Including stupid hyperbole.

by Anonymousreply 226January 2, 2015 2:41 AM

[post redacted because linking to dailymail.co.uk clearly indicates that the poster is either a troll or an idiot (probably both, honestly.) Our advice is that you just ignore this poster but whatever you do, don't click on any link to this putrid rag.]

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by Anonymousreply 227January 2, 2015 4:11 AM

To any one who has problems believing Paul Newman was bi, read Cloris Leachman's book. She outed Newman, Brando and her late ex-husband George Englund.

by Anonymousreply 228February 16, 2015 10:20 AM

R228, that is interesting but how can anyone believe Cloris Leachman when she was thee most hated person in Hollywood because she was completely vile. Also, she claims Newman hit on her and she turned him down? really? He was attracted to women with snakes in their hair?

She hated fat people and put them down a lot. I remember I watched an interview with Cloris and her then very fat daughter. Her mother kept jabbing remarks about her daughter's weight, and her daughter at the time looked like she was deeply hurt with low self esteem. Her daughter at that time was around 15.

by Anonymousreply 229February 16, 2015 10:38 AM

Liar, wasn't on your list, though.

If this is true I feel for her daughter.

She strikes me as a little bit bonkers and she brings that edge to her performances. No fear whatsoever.

by Anonymousreply 230February 16, 2015 11:03 AM

R218, I agree about Tony Curtis. When he got older he act like a major queen. Yet he claimed he was straight? Someone said he wrote one autobiography claiming he was bisexual and then he wrote a second autobiography claiming he was straight? Tony was interviewed about his second autobiography and the interviewer asked him if he lived with roommates when he was younger something like that ,and Tony snapped at the poor guy saying, I stayed at the Playboy mansion! What?! you think I don't like girls! then later on in his life he said he had an affair with Marylin Monroe which he never claimed before, I don't believe that claim because it sounded like complete BS. I think everyone wanted to make the claim they had an affair with Marylin. He was weird. T The same goes for Marlon Brando. He once said he was bisexual ,and then later on in his life he said he wasn't. I don't get it?

by Anonymousreply 231February 16, 2015 11:22 AM

I just watched Around The World in 80 Days. That Mexican actor, Cantinflas is in that movie,and I was wondering if anyone knows anything about him? He was just adorable on screen. I know that he was married to the same woman for years and after her death he never remarried. They never had any children together. Was this little guy a little homo any info?

by Anonymousreply 232February 16, 2015 11:27 AM

Cantinflas was a major queen. Columbia tried to make a star out of him with a film called "Pepe", but it bombed at the box office.

by Anonymousreply 233February 16, 2015 5:21 PM

r228-229 - Our only course must be impeachment - An interview with Cloris Leachman!

by Anonymousreply 234February 16, 2015 8:15 PM

Tony Curtis was a womanizer. In laster life he had a horrendous wig, doesn't qualify for gayness.

by Anonymousreply 235February 16, 2015 8:28 PM

R233, he was gay?!I'm not denying what you are saying is true.I'm just curious. Where did you get that info? because there is very little out there on him. I think he was really cute.

by Anonymousreply 236February 17, 2015 6:58 AM

[quote]Peter Allen was NOT bisexual.

…but he [italic]was[/italic] "bi-coastal"!

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by Anonymousreply 237February 17, 2015 9:10 PM

How long do Timberlake & Biel have to last to qualify?

by Anonymousreply 238February 17, 2015 9:24 PM

Plenty of gay men walk around with horrendous wigs.

by Anonymousreply 239February 17, 2015 9:33 PM

Maxwell Caulfield and Juliet Mills

by Anonymousreply 240February 17, 2015 9:47 PM

[R241] I knew Tony Curtis and he was a notorious pussyhound and a major breast man. One of his assistants, Nahlani, sued him for sexual harassment. He used to leave her love poems.

It's possible he experimented when he first came to Hollywood but I know for a fact that he loves women and the bigger the breasts, the better.

by Anonymousreply 241February 17, 2015 10:29 PM

These "marriages" are ones of convenience, or in some cases it's because the man is very wealthy and the woman is young and hot.

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by Anonymousreply 242May 20, 2015 5:50 PM

Clint Black and Lisa Hartman.

by Anonymousreply 243May 20, 2015 6:00 PM

Barbara Stanwick was rumored to be lesbian or bi, and she wsa married to a closeted gay male actor, Robert Taylor. Rock Hudson was set up with a woman who was lesbian and worked for his gay agent, though she did the talk show rounds saying that Rock and her had a great sex life, and she had no clue he was gay. Vincent Price's daughter said her dad might have been gay or bi, and Cary Grant was, perhaps more famous than Rock Hudson, to be gay, and lived with gay Randolph Scott for a decade. I have to say this, and though it sounds far fetched and wishfully reaching, the out gay ALLY Paul Newman was said to have hooked up with the gay celebs, and though i like her as well, Joann Woodward's gayness oozes off the screen as well. Will Smith, might be gay or bi, but O remember seeing his wife, Jada, and she set off my reliable gay dar long before Will and her got together. It's significantly more easy for a woman, esp when she's over 40, to be known and accepted as lesbian, and still work, since the sex appeal angle of her career is essentially over at that age, unfairly. But a gay man isn't going to be embraced by female swooners or guys admiring and wanting to be like a male star, to emulate him and appreciate him, when he is rejecting male privilege, and being like a woman in their perception, the very opposite of who men are brought up to be as.

by Anonymousreply 244June 12, 2016 4:28 AM

Julianna Margulies and her lawyer husband.

For some reason Rob Lowe, Cate Blanchett, Andrew McCarthy, and Judi Dench ping for me.

by Anonymousreply 245June 12, 2016 5:13 AM

Am I the only one who thinks Toni Collette is a lez?

by Anonymousreply 246June 13, 2016 4:50 AM

I'm surprised nobody said Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie! You people say everyone's gay. They say gossip is currency...and the amounted of unfounded gossip carelessly printed here creates a sort of gossip inflation...wherein all the gossip is rendered useless! Can we please have legit sources here please? Thanks much!

by Anonymousreply 247July 1, 2016 4:15 AM

Blake Edwards and the Andrew Sisters.

by Anonymousreply 248March 6, 2017 4:36 AM

Blake Edwards and Julie Nixon Eisenhower.

by Anonymousreply 249March 6, 2017 4:45 AM

It disappoints me that a gay gossip site attracts so many fraus, trolls and PR people. Certainly not a surprise and you can get a good idea of what's likely true by the amount of heat a particular thread generates. When you look through this particular thread it's clear to see the agendas at play.

The naysayers on the Newman/Woodward threads are particularly active. Wonder why?

It is no surprise the posters who have real contributions to make get fed up by the constant harrassment and leave. Magdalena for instance. For those of us who actually like gay gossip and content to treat it as such this place is a shadow of its former self. There will always be the deluded and outright liars but they are now overwhelmed by the numbers of posters who seem hellbent on destroying the very reason for this place existing.

by Anonymousreply 250March 6, 2017 10:01 AM

In her recent autobiography, Barbara Cook comes very close to writing that Mary Martin was interesting in her. Mary sent her little gifts and a note saying Peter Pan loves you. It ended when Barbara's mom was visiting her dressing room after a performance when suddenly Mary Martin & her husband Richard Halliday also appeared.. Barbara claims that she just could not remember Halliday's name and had to say so in order to introduce the couple to her mom.

Barbara claimed that Mary Martin never spoke to her again.

by Anonymousreply 251March 6, 2017 7:45 PM

Cloris was bitter because Joan Collins stole her husband.

Was Tony Randall gay?

by Anonymousreply 252March 6, 2017 9:11 PM

R252, apparently not. He was married to a much younger woman when he died and they had a young child. He dated women all through his career.

He certainly did ping though. Bi maybe?

by Anonymousreply 253March 6, 2017 9:30 PM

r58, you have got be fucking kidding me. Allen was bisexual? Because LIza was bragging about what a good sex life they had so she cold live her illusion that she wasn't a desperate sexless puppy dog looking for affection and acceptance? Grow up, my friend.

Danny Kaye was gay.

And there is no fucking way Mark Gero was straight. Bi, maybe, but not straight.

by Anonymousreply 254March 6, 2017 9:37 PM

I've always wondered about Michael Emerson and Carrie Preston. If he's straight, that is THE. GAYEST. STRAIGHT. MAN. IN. THE. BIZ.

by Anonymousreply 255March 6, 2017 9:40 PM

Alexis Smith and Craig Stevens

by Anonymousreply 256March 6, 2017 9:45 PM

Fred and Wilma Flintstone

by Anonymousreply 257March 6, 2017 9:59 PM

I'm convinced that Tracy and Hepburn were more compatriots and buddies than lovers. There was a deep love between them but it wasn't sexual. I think she saw her brother in him and wanted to save him/protect him.

by Anonymousreply 258March 6, 2017 10:04 PM

I still say Tony Curtis was closeted and his womanizing was that frenzied attempt to prove to himself he wasn't. He was also so misogynistic it doesn't seem believable.

by Anonymousreply 259March 6, 2017 10:21 PM

I'm straight and I would say all Hollywood stars are in gay marriages. Rob Lowe dated Melissa Gilbert who has been a beard in several marriages. Rob Lowe was in Porn movie where he watched guy have sex with girl. John waynes three marriages. Lance Armstrongs marriages. Try to name a real couple. I can't. Pitt, obviously. McEnroe and Tatum O'Neal. Ryan O'Neal and fawcett. Fawcett and six million dollar man. These gay marriages seem to produce gay kids. Clint eastwood is one I'm not sure about. Sandra lock was beard to her husband. Went back to her gay husband after clint dumped her. Clint hung out with gay actors like reynolds and newman.

by Anonymousreply 260April 17, 2017 11:10 PM

Mickey Rooney and Francis the Talking Mule.

by Anonymousreply 261April 17, 2017 11:13 PM

r242, Amal is not "hot." She is simply a long-haired brunette wraith, typical last wife of old rich men.

by Anonymousreply 262April 18, 2017 12:06 AM

I heard Rooney and Francis used to have three-ways with Trigger R61

by Anonymousreply 263April 18, 2017 3:14 AM

Sometimes I was there. Rooney sure knew how to throw a pool party!

by Anonymousreply 264April 18, 2017 5:32 AM

I knew Kitty Carlisle, and my impression was that she never cooperated with Steven Bach on his book. In fact, it was understood in Kitty's circle that one never mentioned the book in her presence.

As I heard it, Bach was seated next to Kitty at a dinner party, and brought up the book and asked for her cooperation. That seems reasonable, but she was taken aback, and that was that. It didn't stop Bach from doing all the required research, because it's a fine book, filled with theatrical atmosphere.

But if I remember correctly--the book isn't handy just now--Kitty isn't in any of the many photographs, and she surely would have been had she and Bach been in cahoots.

by Anonymousreply 265April 18, 2017 8:33 AM

Jennifer Beals and both husbands, yes. First husband was 10 year contract. Second husband lives and works in Vancouver as a hockey coach. She lives in their second home in LA.

by Anonymousreply 266October 1, 2017 1:43 PM

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie

by Anonymousreply 267October 3, 2017 12:04 PM

Newman and Woodward

by Anonymousreply 268October 3, 2017 12:05 PM

Marcia Cross and husband Marisa Hargitay and husband Judy Holliday and husband(s) Karen Carpenter and husband Donna Mills and husband

by Anonymousreply 269October 3, 2017 3:38 PM

One needs only to watch the screen test with Paul Newman and James Dean to see that Paul could/did have trysts with men....

by Anonymousreply 270October 3, 2017 4:33 PM

I had a female friend who had an affair with Joanne so, yes, she's bi, as was her husband, who I heard about from some very good sources for years.

by Anonymousreply 271October 3, 2017 5:18 PM

Vivian Vance and John Dodds. When she returned from her honeymoon, Viv told Lucy, "Girl, I've used muscles in my mouth I didn't even know I had."

by Anonymousreply 272October 3, 2017 5:23 PM

Yes, Bach's book is pretty up front about Moss Hart's bisexuality, discussing his affair with actor-turned-writer Gordon Merrick and maybe a couple of others. There's also an anecdote where he brings his baby out to the audience after he is born (Moss may have been appearing in The Man who Came to Dinner, playing the Alexander Woolcott-inspired Sheridan Whiteside) and whispers to another costar, "Now they won't be able to say I'm gay anymore." The book mentions that there were a plethora of "Moss's girls" before Kitty who were either his regular companions or lovers in some form, as well. I don't think Kitty cooperated with Bach. Bach made a point of saying the diaries Moss kept during his international cruise with Cole Porter to write Jubilee were sealed for as long as she was alive. After she died, they were opened but I think it turned out they were sealed because he said rude things about many of the friends who loved him. No dish about any possible affair with Porter, which I'm sure Bach assumed had happened.

There is at least one picture of Kitty in the book in her younger days. Can't remember offhand if there are any of her with Moss, but I'm pretty sure there was no cooperation with the family, even though the book is exhaustingly researched.

by Anonymousreply 273October 3, 2017 6:04 PM

Also, recent biographies of the Lunts and Mary Martin are fairly clear on their (and especially Martin's husband Richard Halliday)'s sexual inclinations and Martin's relationships with Janet Gaynor and her Hollywood look-alike Jean Arthur. The Martin biography by David Kaufman stops short of actually saying they were lovers, while still making it clear, but Kaufman flat out admitted he believed it was true in a Theater Talk interview that was briefly taken offline. I wonder if the Hagman grandkids and Mary's daughter Heller had something to say about that statement. I don't think they discuss it in the book, though there are quotes from them on other aspects of Martin's life.

by Anonymousreply 274October 3, 2017 6:10 PM

Homosexualist director Joshua Logan and Barbara "Ellen O'Hara" O'Neil

by Anonymousreply 275October 3, 2017 6:18 PM

Donna Mills is gay?

by Anonymousreply 276October 16, 2017 4:43 PM

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie

Brad Pitt and Aniston

by Anonymousreply 277October 16, 2017 4:45 PM

Newman-Woodward example is a good one bc it's in the past, and because it was whispered about but never revealed over 50+ years of being icons. It's insane to think parallels don't exist today.

by Anonymousreply 278December 31, 2017 10:26 PM

John Legend and his wife

Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel

by Anonymousreply 279December 31, 2017 10:31 PM

r260, Rob ain't gay. Maybe bi. But DEFINITELY into pussy.

by Anonymousreply 280December 31, 2017 10:33 PM

Uh who are Jennifer Beals' contract marriages supposed to be benefitting? She's completely under the radar and no one knows who the fuck she's ever been married to so why would she or they want an arranged marriage for appearances when no one is fucking looking at them?

by Anonymousreply 281December 31, 2017 10:34 PM

Did Cloris Leachman should do ads for Chloraseptic.

by Anonymousreply 282December 31, 2017 10:36 PM

David & Victoria Beckham

by Anonymousreply 283December 31, 2017 10:40 PM

Mitch & Elaine

by Anonymousreply 284December 31, 2017 10:52 PM

I wondered about Alan Rickman and Rima Horton. It always seemed a little odd that they were together since the 1960s.

by Anonymousreply 285December 31, 2017 10:57 PM

Blake Lively & Ryan Reynolds . Chrissy Teigen & John Legend . Will Smith & Jada Pinkett

Beyoncé & Jay-Z . Sarah Jessica Parker & Matthew Broderick . Anna Kournikova & Enrique Iglesias

Bono & Alison Hewson . Oprah Winfrey & Stedman Graham . Hugh Jackman & Deborra-Lee Furness

Jennifer Aniston & Justin Theroux . Jennifer Aniston & Brad Pitt . Angelina Jolie & Brad Pitt

Angelina Jolie & Billy Bob Thornton . Angelina Jolie & Jonny Lee Miller . Billy Bob Thornton & Cynda Williams

Viola Davis & Julius Tennon . Whitney Houston & Bobby Brown . Jessica Chastain and her husband

Sean Penn & Madonna. Sean Penn & Robin Wright . Robin Wright & Dane Witherspoon . Cindy Crawford & Rande Gerber

David & Victoria Beckham . Gwyneth Paltrow & Chris Martin . Jennifer Lopez & Marc Anthony . Eddie Murphy & Nicole Mitchell

Aronofski & Rachel Weisz . Rachel Weisz & Daniel Craig . Kate Winslet & Sam Mendes . Kanye & Kim . Clooney & Amal

by Anonymousreply 286December 31, 2017 11:06 PM

DeNiro and Grace Hightower

by Anonymousreply 287December 31, 2017 11:07 PM

David Bowie - Iman

by Anonymousreply 288December 31, 2017 11:07 PM

Denzel Washington & Pauletta Pearson

by Anonymousreply 289December 31, 2017 11:08 PM

David Bacon &Greta Keller.

by Anonymousreply 290December 31, 2017 11:32 PM

Lavender Marriage means both are gay so most listed above don't fit the bill. An Arrangement Marriage is when only one is gay.

by Anonymousreply 291January 1, 2018 2:47 AM

Sean Penn, Viola Davis, and Robert DeNiro are gay?

by Anonymousreply 292January 2, 2018 5:16 AM

Edmund Lowe and Lilyan Tashman

Paul Lynde and Alice Ghostly

Tyrone Power and Annabella

Vincent Price and Coral Bowne

Agnes Moorhead and Robert Gist

by Anonymousreply 293January 2, 2018 8:46 AM

What or who were the male relationships of Charleton Heston and Robert Redford?

by Anonymousreply 294January 7, 2018 5:54 PM

R52, Jean was straight.

by Anonymousreply 295January 14, 2018 2:48 PM

R260 McEnroe & Tatum I can believe because I know one of Tatum's girlfriends.

by Anonymousreply 296January 14, 2018 2:59 PM

[quote] Vincent Price and Coral Browne.

Were they ever considered for the leads in [italic]Bedknobs and Broomsticks[/italic].

by Anonymousreply 297January 14, 2018 4:46 PM

. = ?

by Anonymousreply 298January 14, 2018 4:47 PM

[bold]A lavender marriage is a male-female marriage in which one or both of the partners was homosexual or bisexual.[/bold]

by Anonymousreply 299January 14, 2018 4:49 PM

Google lavender marriage and first google result is this picture lol

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by Anonymousreply 300January 14, 2018 4:51 PM

A Brief History Of (Suspected) Lavender Marriages

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by Anonymousreply 301January 14, 2018 4:52 PM

R297, they were considered for the Eisner-era sequel, [italic] Doorknobs and Toilet Seats[/italic].

by Anonymousreply 302January 14, 2018 7:41 PM

Minerva Urecal and Doro Merande

by Anonymousreply 303January 15, 2018 2:39 AM

Edward Everett Horton and Laura Hope Crews

by Anonymousreply 304January 15, 2018 8:10 AM

would be more efficient to try to identify someone who is straight in Hollywood. Woody allen is the only one I'm sure is straight. Not sure about mel gibson, clint eastwood, and John wayne. When 95% are gay, u have to wonder why someone straight would go into acting.

by Anonymousreply 305February 14, 2018 6:26 PM

John wayne socialized with gays. Sinatra is only straight I've seen him with. I can't imagine a straight jock like going on long yacht rides with if he was straight.

by Anonymousreply 306February 14, 2018 6:28 PM

Cecil Beaton and Greta Garbo..

Gloria Vanderbilt & Bobby Short

Gloria Vanderbilt & Wyatt Cooper

Vincent Manelli and Judy Garland

by Anonymousreply 307February 14, 2018 6:42 PM

Hugh 'n' Deb

by Anonymousreply 308February 14, 2018 6:44 PM

All four of mine were!

by Anonymousreply 309February 14, 2018 6:50 PM

[quote]R41 Add Jean Stapleton and Bill Putch. When they ran [italic]The Totem Pole Playhouse[/italic] in Pennsylvania he favored the male apprentices.

Well, the name itself is practically a FLASHING BEACON!

by Anonymousreply 310February 14, 2018 11:22 PM

[quote R41 Add Jean Stapleton and [bold]Bill Putch[/bold]. When they ran The Totem Pole Playhouse in Pennsylvania he favored the male apprentices.

Oh god...does he ever have predator face.....!

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by Anonymousreply 311February 14, 2018 11:24 PM

Agnes Moorhead and Robert Gist?

by Anonymousreply 312February 14, 2018 11:56 PM

Bill and Hillary Clinton

by Anonymousreply 313February 15, 2018 12:36 AM

Charlton Heston was supposed to be involved with James Franciscus.

by Anonymousreply 314February 15, 2018 2:04 AM

Never have heard anything about Vincente Minnelli’s relationships with men. Is he even listed in that book by Scotty Bowers?

by Anonymousreply 315February 15, 2018 6:34 PM

Gustav von Seyferitz and Louise Closser Hale (they met on the set of "Shanghai Express").

by Anonymousreply 316February 15, 2018 7:07 PM

So were Prince and Sondheim lovers early in their careers--like before Hal and Judy married?

by Anonymousreply 317February 15, 2018 10:23 PM

R314 - THAT would have been a hot pairing!

by Anonymousreply 318February 16, 2018 6:32 AM

R189 is correct.

I can’t believe how stupid some of you are.

by Anonymousreply 319February 16, 2018 7:28 AM

Olive Newman Joan and Mort Lapanzi

by Anonymousreply 320February 16, 2018 7:36 AM

Charlton Heston with James Franciscus? Mmmm.

by Anonymousreply 321February 16, 2018 7:37 AM

Leonard and Felicia Bernstein, despite their three children.

by Anonymousreply 322February 16, 2018 3:06 PM

And Mrs. B supposedly had made her peace with it until the early 70s when Lenny was basically fucking young men in the next room

by Anonymousreply 323February 16, 2018 4:47 PM

I don't get what's in it for the straight partner in a lavender marriage (i,e.,Felicia Bernstein or Judy Prince).

by Anonymousreply 324February 17, 2018 3:04 AM

Mel Brooks and Anne Bancroft.

by Anonymousreply 325February 17, 2018 3:23 AM

Cary Grant and any of his 5 wives, altho No. 4 Dyan Cannon gave him a child.

Cary Grant and wife real wife, Randolph Scott.

by Anonymousreply 326February 17, 2018 3:25 AM

R322, Melissa Gilbert got to date rob Lowe and Tom Cruise. Maybe u missed the disparity in looks.

How about Olivia Newton John? Is she straight?

How about the rolling Stones? I think they r all gay. Mick,keith, and Wyman quite feminine. Even drummer. Wyman very effeminate.

by Anonymousreply 327February 17, 2018 6:12 AM

Olivia Newton John and Didi Cohn way back when.

by Anonymousreply 328February 18, 2018 7:19 PM

Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward

by Anonymousreply 329March 8, 2018 10:56 AM

Prince / Mayte Garcia

Prince / Manuela Testolini

by Anonymousreply 330March 8, 2018 10:57 AM

Bowie and Iman

by Anonymousreply 331March 8, 2018 10:58 AM

Billy Bob Thornton and Angelina Jolie

Billy Bob and Cynda Williams

by Anonymousreply 332March 8, 2018 11:04 AM

a 1982 Time magazine cover story says Newman "wandered into a gay bar" at an indeterminate time after "The Hustler" played theaters.

by Anonymousreply 333March 8, 2018 11:05 AM

[quote] I don't get what's in it for the straight partner in a lavender marriage (i,e.,Felicia Bernstein or Judy Prince).

I can't speak to Hollywood marriages, but, in my 20s I went on a date with a charming man in his mid 50s. I was on a business trip and met him in one of our branch offices and he asked me to join him for dinner.

He was very open about his situation. He was gay, always had been, and he and his wife had an agreement. They both came from 'good families'. Marrying him would give her respectability, a family, someone to accompany her to charity events, the symphony and the theater. Marrying her gave him the requisite wife and children which would help him advance in his career. She wasn't much interested is sex, he was allowed his dalliances, but had to be discreet (he discreetly accompanied me to my hotel room later that night).

He said they truly loved each other, but it made me a little sad that this lovely man never was able to live openly with a same-sex partner, but this was the 80s and they'd been together 25 years, no no way could he have been open back in the late 1950s

by Anonymousreply 334March 8, 2018 1:41 PM

Princess beatrice and her boyfriend double dated with mila and Kutcher. Would a bearded couple be close friends with royalty.

by Anonymousreply 335March 18, 2018 3:51 PM

Clooney and Amal

by Anonymousreply 336March 25, 2018 2:26 PM

Earlier, it was stated that Mark Gero must be gay or at least bi. Is there any evidence of this? Is it just presumed because he was married to Liza? He didn't seem at all gay.

by Anonymousreply 337March 25, 2018 2:38 PM

On three separate occasions, I met men who said they’d had sex with Paul Newman. Two of them said Newman had paid for their apartments, one in L.A., the other in San Diego. Curiously, they each resembled Newman’s late son.

The third was a man I met in New York in the early 80’s, who told me about his history as an escort. At one point, he showed up for a call, and his assignment was to fuck Newman while Woodward watched, which he did.

Interestingly, years later, I read an interview with the Newmans, in which they mentioned being interviewed by a woman from one of those women’s magazines, like Redbook. So they decided to play a joke on her, and with serious expressions, informed her that what they enjoyed was to hire male escorts to fuck Paul while Joanne watched.

Just about exactly what that guy I met had told me, years before...

Fancy that.

by Anonymousreply 338March 25, 2018 5:13 PM

John Wayne was straight, preferred Latinas and spoke fluent Spanish. Used to love chess (and drinking). Extreme right-winger but socially liberal. Interesting anecdote: Used to play chess with Rock Hudson. Once overheard a couple people bashing Rock's sexuality and angrily jumped to his defense -- "The man may be queer or whatever but he plays a damn fine game of chess!"

by Anonymousreply 339March 25, 2018 5:58 PM

Not only was Elsa Lanchester onto Charles Laughton's homosexuality, she looked away from his fondness for very young boys and scat.

by Anonymousreply 340April 4, 2018 9:30 PM

How on earth could Merchant-Ivory be considered a lavender marriage?

by Anonymousreply 341April 4, 2018 9:40 PM

Hugh Jackman & Deborah Lee-Furness

by Anonymousreply 342April 4, 2018 10:24 PM

R341, well their wedding dresses were lavender, so...

by Anonymousreply 343April 4, 2018 11:31 PM

Jayne Mansfield and Mickey Hargitay

by Anonymousreply 344April 4, 2018 11:33 PM

Tom Selleck and Jillie Mack

by Anonymousreply 345April 5, 2018 1:48 AM

Neil Sedaka and his wife.

by Anonymousreply 346April 5, 2018 4:08 AM

346 replies and no meantion of Jeanette MacDonald and Gene Raymond???

by Anonymousreply 347April 5, 2018 4:31 AM

*Mention

by Anonymousreply 348April 5, 2018 4:32 AM

Ike and Mamie

by Anonymousreply 349April 6, 2018 1:27 AM

Laura Hope Crews and Carl Benton Reid

by Anonymousreply 350April 6, 2018 4:09 AM

Neely O'Hara and Ted Casablanca

by Anonymousreply 351April 6, 2018 4:23 AM

Jennifer Beals...really? She was pretty hot in "The L-Word" and did have good chemistry with the woman who played Tina. I think she was good friends with Jodie Foster in her college days, but still though...

Also, just my pet theory, but if you squint a bit, Keith Urban and Naomi Watts kind of look alike. I've always wondered about Kidman and Watts, but they are more than likely just really close friends.

by Anonymousreply 352April 6, 2018 6:01 AM

R324 it probably depends if they're honest about it right from the start. Status, money, a family, a home, companionship, friendship, perhaps the partner also has someone on the side. Not all marriages are based on a romantic or sexual relationship. Some people might want some of the above without having sex.

by Anonymousreply 353April 6, 2018 6:22 AM

Well, R352, Naomi was pretty damn convincing as a lesbo in Mulholland Drive. Where there's smoke, there's fire, I always say...

by Anonymousreply 354April 6, 2018 6:39 AM

The marriage of Robert Taylor and Barbara Stanwyck supposedly disguised her putative bisexuality and has been characterized as lavender for that reason, but it was prompted by the need to protect both their reputations after a Photoplay magazine article reported they had been living together for years while unmarried.

by Anonymousreply 355August 2, 2018 12:08 AM

Elizabeth Taylor and Conrad Hilton

by Anonymousreply 356August 2, 2018 12:10 AM

Drew Barrymore and Tom Greent

Drew Barrymore and Jeremy Thomast

by Anonymousreply 357August 2, 2018 12:13 AM

Elizabeth Taylor and any of her gay husbands

by Anonymousreply 358August 2, 2018 12:22 AM

Newman and Woodward were not lavender. Friend knew one of their sons in law really well and had the opportunity to visit the Conn home a few times in the late 90s. Those two apparently loved each other like teenagers in their 70s. Really disgustingly happy and good family.

by Anonymousreply 359August 2, 2018 12:31 AM

Newman and his wife were both gay stop making up stories

by Anonymousreply 360August 2, 2018 12:39 AM

I dont think Donna Mills was ever married. I saw a photo of her recently at 77 and she looks 25 years younger and incredible..... and it doesnt look like plastic surgery. Stanwyk and Taylor. Taylor came to Hollywood with his mother and they lived together for many years. He was into hunting and guy things and hung out with his male friends and didnt seem too interested in women...... I would say somewhat asexual..... suspect he never acted on whatever impulses he had on the gay side. He told Stanwyk after they were divorced.................at least he could get it up with his second wife (and he had a couple of kids with her). His second wife was a looker and a former model. So who knows? He smoked 3 packs of cigs a day his whole *short) life, so I couldnt imagine anybody really wanting to do the deed with him.

by Anonymousreply 361August 2, 2018 1:10 AM

The story is that he had a fling with Lana Turner when they made "Johnny Eager," and Stanwyck never forgave Turner. Also, that he had a fling with Ava Gardner when they made "The Bribe." So, two babes that even a gay guy might make an exception for. Lana and Ava were said to have their own fling, which Scotty Bowers claims to have joined.

Barbara and Ava were in a film in which B's husband has an affair with A. Life imitating art.

by Anonymousreply 362August 2, 2018 3:09 AM

I'm not sure you can really be too upset your spouse had affairs with Ava Gardner and Lana Turner.

If he sleeps with his frowsy secretary, sure.

But those two...be realistic.

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by Anonymousreply 363August 2, 2018 5:31 AM

Laurence Olivier/ Vivien Leigh

by Anonymousreply 364December 5, 2018 8:31 PM

R292 Sean Penn is definitely gay I don't know about De Niro and Viola

by Anonymousreply 365December 5, 2018 8:42 PM

Kate Winslet/Sam Mendes

by Anonymousreply 366December 5, 2018 8:43 PM

Most of these aren't "lesser known". They've been talked about for decades.

by Anonymousreply 367December 5, 2018 9:12 PM

A few questions:

What's the evidence for Mel Brooks and Anne Bancroft? I've never heard rumors about either one of them in a gay relationship. Their son definitely looks like Mel is his dad, FWIW.

Is listing Ashton Kutcher just wishful thinking? Has anyone come forward?

Also, I don't understand what reason Hepburn and Tracy would have to fake an illicit, scandalous extramarital relationship with each other. I admit Kate pings to high heaven, but Tracy was already married and a father. Just staying with that wife would have been a fine cover for a gay Hollywood star. Hepburn had been married as well, so why court a "home-wrecker" reputation?

by Anonymousreply 368December 22, 2018 8:06 PM

they werent major stars but Alexis Smith and Craig Stevens........ Both gay, had a 50 year marriage, no kids. They never gave interveiws and never signed autographs.........in other words they did what was necessary to slam the lid on any rumors wrecking their careers. They got married at the strong suggestion of Stevens agent at the time the notorious henry willson.

cary grant and all of his wives/

by Anonymousreply 369December 22, 2018 8:37 PM

to the person that says sean penn is gay.............pretty sure that is dead wrong. When Madonna was married to him and madonna s gay brother was around Penn, Penn was openly hostile and homophobic to the max and the brother loathed Penn. Men on the downlow in an arranged marriage dont get so pissed off at their wives they tie them up and the cops are called and the lapd is hovering over their house as happened in the madonna penn marriage. Madonna would have never stood for a fake marriage for a second, for one thing there was no upside for her.

by Anonymousreply 370December 22, 2018 8:42 PM

R362, Taylor had serious mommy issues. He and Stanwyck eloped and when his mother heard the news on the radio, she became inconsolable. She was so upset, Taylor spent his wedding night in his mother's bed consoling her until she fell asleep.

by Anonymousreply 371December 23, 2018 10:09 AM

R368, back then being gay was worse than being a homewrecker. BTW, I don't think Spencer was family, just Kate

by Anonymousreply 372December 23, 2018 9:38 PM

Both Olivia Newton-John and Matt Lattanzi prefer the same sex.

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by Anonymousreply 374July 21, 2020 9:30 AM

r136 I don't think so.

Hillary had recently taken up with a tennis pro/gigolo. She does give a false ping but isn't a lesbian.

Chad I don't think so either. They were just an odd couple and he had a lot of drug issues.

by Anonymousreply 375July 21, 2020 10:23 AM

Craig Stevens (TV's Peter Gunn) and Alexis Smith were both gay and were married for 50 years, until her death.

The arrangement seems to have worked for both of them. She had a not-so-secret affair with author Rita Mae Brown for a number of years, and he apparently stayed well under the radar with his liaisons.

by Anonymousreply 376July 21, 2020 10:32 AM

Mel Brooks / Anne Bancroft

by Anonymousreply 377July 21, 2020 10:34 AM

R376 Craig Stevens was also one of Henry Willson's "boys."

by Anonymousreply 378July 21, 2020 10:35 AM

George Clooney & Anal

by Anonymousreply 379July 21, 2020 10:46 AM

Mel Brooks practically screams "I'm gay" when you look at all the references, blatant and subconscious, to homos in his movies, starting with Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder in the original The Producers and going to Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick in the musical remake. Both times they pranced around like a gay couple.

Brooks' gay jokes were often crude and outrageous, such as "Make It Gay" in the Producers musical. Many times you can't tell if his jokes were accepting gays or bashing them, usually the latter. But they were always included in his movies: Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, Silent Movie (in which the word fags is used) and the bad ones late in his career.

Anne Bancroft looked and sounded more like a theatrical lesbian as she aged. But why would she marry such a physically unappealing schnook like Brooks? "He makes me laugh" is what the wife always says in a lavender marriage.

by Anonymousreply 380July 21, 2020 11:03 AM

Why were there so many lesbians in old Hollywood and barely any today?

by Anonymousreply 381July 21, 2020 11:59 AM

Paul Newman was said to have had a relationship with a porn star.

Redford reportedly rebuffed Newman, telling Butch he's straight.

by Anonymousreply 382July 21, 2020 12:38 PM

R52 Jean was straight.

by Anonymousreply 383July 21, 2020 1:25 PM

R359, Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman had three daughters, no sons.

"Elizabeth Taylor and Conrad Hilton"

Elizabeth was not married to Conrad Hilton, she was married to NICKY Hilton (Conrad Jr). Nicky was a violent alcoholic fuck-up, why she married him is a mystery to me.

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by Anonymousreply 384July 21, 2020 3:30 PM

R359 said "sons in law," not "sons," R384.

by Anonymousreply 385July 21, 2020 4:40 PM

Bill and Hillary Clinton (Bill rumoured to be gay and Hillary to be lesbian) George W and Laura Bush (Dubya rumoured to be gay or bisexual, Laura rumoured to be lesbian or bisexual) Barack and Michelle Obama (only Obama rumoured to be gay or bisexual; Michelle is straight)

by Anonymousreply 386March 9, 2021 4:31 PM

[quote](allegedly) Julie Andrews/Blake Edwards

Blake was bi and Julie put up with it because she had a young daughter.

by Anonymousreply 387March 9, 2021 4:32 PM

Chastain

by Anonymousreply 388March 9, 2021 5:10 PM

So Ryan O'Neal was gay? And in a lavender marriage with Farrah? Did I read that right?

by Anonymousreply 389March 9, 2021 9:04 PM

And what the scoop on Robert Redford?

by Anonymousreply 390March 10, 2021 6:56 AM

Neely O'Hara and Ted Casablancas.

by Anonymousreply 391March 10, 2021 7:03 AM

[quote]Nicky was a violent alcoholic fuck-up, why she married him is a mystery to me.

$$$$$$$$

by Anonymousreply 392March 10, 2021 7:05 AM

YA THINK BRADLY COOPER WILL EVER CUM OUT

by Anonymousreply 393March 10, 2021 7:32 AM

r386, those couples have nothing to do with Hollywood.

by Anonymousreply 394March 10, 2021 7:49 AM

think diane f joins in when barry d hires his boys????

by Anonymousreply 395March 10, 2021 8:20 AM

Rumor has it Gore Vidal was close chums with Pauly sweetheart Newman.....

by Anonymousreply 396March 10, 2021 8:22 AM

This is based on nothing, but I wonder about Kit Harington and his wife. Both bi?

by Anonymousreply 397March 10, 2021 9:51 AM

R205 already mentioned it but Evie Wynn said after Van Johnson died that the studio made her divorce her husband Keenan Wynn and marry Van.

There's some suggestion that Van, who was a good friend and neighbor to the Wynns, was having an affair with Keenan, but the studios planted suggestions that Van's affair was actually with Evie. At some point in the 1940s, the gay rumors about Van got so bad that the studio forced Keenan and Evie to divorce and have her marry Van.

I'll link to the article in the next post because it's the Independent, and DL deletes your reply when you link to the Independent, but it's a juicy article. Van apparently got caught in the restrooms one too many times and Louis B. insisted on the Wynn divorce and Evie marriage to save his star. But Eddie Bracken lived across the street from the Wynns and it sounds like the couple AND Van Johnson would have terrible fights amongst themselves, which sounds a bit like a throuple to me.

So does this:

[quote]Keenan's famous father, the comic actor Ed Wynn, commented in 1946, "I can't keep them straight. Evie loved Keenan. Keenan loves Evie. Van loves Evie. Evie loves Van. Van loves Keenan. Keenan loves Van." In January 1947 Evie and Wynn were finally divorced, and the following day she and Johnson were wed.

by Anonymousreply 398March 10, 2021 10:05 AM

[post redacted because independent.co.uk thinks that links to their ridiculous rag are a bad thing. Somebody might want to tell them how the internet works. Or not. We don't really care. They do suck though. Our advice is that you should not click on the link and whatever you do, don't read their truly terrible articles.]

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by Anonymousreply 399March 10, 2021 10:05 AM

Van Johnson, Keenan Wynn, and the totally heterosexual Peter Lawford

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by Anonymousreply 400March 10, 2021 10:07 AM

Diana Barrie and the antiques dealer Sidney Cochran.

by Anonymousreply 401March 10, 2021 4:39 PM

R397 I've heard Kit is bi but never heard anything to suggest that about his wife.

by Anonymousreply 402March 13, 2021 2:15 AM

Margaret Leighton and Laurence Harvey

Larry did have a child by his third wife, but his eye roved and Leighton said he married her because they wore the same size.

by Anonymousreply 403March 13, 2021 3:22 AM

King James I and his queen.

by Anonymousreply 404March 13, 2021 4:39 AM

Alexis Smith and Craig Stevens

by Anonymousreply 405March 13, 2021 4:45 AM

I just want to say that 'Guthrie McClintick' is an odd name.

by Anonymousreply 406March 13, 2021 5:22 AM

[quote] Rosemary Harris, a wonderful actress if you don't know who she is

I am also a wonderful actress if you don't know who I am.

by Anonymousreply 407March 13, 2021 5:53 AM

R11

Nick Long, Jr. is buried it seems with most of his family at Cypress Hills in Brooklyn. No flowers or anything on his Find a Grave Page. In fact his name isn't even on the grave marker.

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by Anonymousreply 408March 13, 2021 6:15 AM

"Hepburn had been married as well, so why court a "home-wrecker" reputation?"

You realize this image was cultivated after Tracy's death. And it was defined in such a way that they would have been a happily married couple if it hadn't been for outmoded Catholic ideas about divorce. Which was not controversial as even Catholics in the U.S. were divorcing already.

This was all about Hepburn maintaining her "heterosexual" image. She made sure the first biography written after her death reinforced the idea that she pined for decades after a man, when she was in fact in relationships with women. She picked the writer to tell the tale and gave him access to whatever he needed to tell her version.

How many months after her death did the truer William Mann biography come out?

Too many straight people on this thread pretend that homophobia isn't the hegemonic paradigm that continues to this day. But then, they're part of the problem. Homophobes refuse to take responsibility for their own personal bigotry.

Homophobes, like racists, do NOT want to re-evaluate history because they have to own up to their own culpability.

That's why there has always been an insistence by straight people to deny and erase LGBTQ history.

It's why the old white queens (complaining about their covid vaccinations) double down on the idea that there's a trans conspiracy and nobody trans or non-white was at the Stonewall riots.

Because anybody with privilege can be a bigot.

by Anonymousreply 409March 13, 2021 6:27 AM

Everything you wanted to know, and then some about Nick Long, Jr.

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by Anonymousreply 410March 13, 2021 7:27 AM

There is a trans conspiracy. You're own community has been subjugated to it.

by Anonymousreply 411March 13, 2021 9:53 AM
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