Eldergays, tell me about Farley Granger

Well, it's sure as hell not Ben Affleck.

Boy, that goes back forever and a day. The only thing I recall, and I'm very old, is besides being and actor, he was a friend of my first gay boss at Underwater Foods Corp. Bob Trollop. I think the old bird is still alive (Bob Trollop) in Henderson NV. It was so many years ago, like 55 years ago, I can't remember anything else. I couldn't have been more than a minus 18 years old at the time. Wonderful, algebraically that makes me 37 again and almost again.

Farley Granger's great aunt was found dead of asphyxiation while he was filming "Rope". When Hitchcock asked him if she had left the gas on, Granger replied, "No, she thought it was her comb."

Granger = gorgeous!

I don't get r3.

Only thing one knows about the guy (and that is mostly from DL) is it seems he slept/had a relationship with every gay man in Hollywood.

I don't get R3, either. Did you have a stroke mid-thought, R3?

He lived in Rome for a while and had a boyfriend there.

FG

I don't think he was that much of an actor but he was in some very good movies. My favorite one is probably Senso, where he co-starred with Alida Valli. He had to wear ridiculously tight pants throughout the whole movie which showcased his hot body (the director, Luchinto Visconti, was gay of course). Valli gave a great peformance in that movie which made Granger's woodiness stand out even more.

Matt Bomer in "The Farley Granger Story!"

He couldn't hack soaps because of the pages he had to memorize on a daily basis.

He was lucky that his husband was producing the Soap he was appearing in

I love Senso too! One minute of Alida Valli in that movie is worth all of Meryl Streep's career.

I just remembered that I saw him in Deathtrap on a school field trip.

He kissed a guy in that.

Was that his way of coming out? Did he discuss anything about gayness back then?

As for this Farley Granger person, I've never heard of him but I'm only 24. I don't feel like googling him because if I've not heard of him him yet he doesn't matter....like all those old dead actresses you elders never shut up about. NO.ONE.CARES. Y'all do realize when you are dead that no one will talk about them again? I guess I'm learning that getting old and being gay means getting boring and living in the past. I reallllllly don't want that to happen to me when I'm 55. I never heard a person in my life talk about that Judy lady who sang until I read it on data lounge. Not even my Grams. I asked her about her and she said she was alrite but nothing but a drunk pill popper.

One day me and my friend Tory were reading DL and laughing about all the old lady's you talk about. Y'all must not have much to do. Are y'all retired or on disability because I never heated of people wasting so much time so y'all must be old or sick. Gotta go 2nite is hip hop nite at Parliament house and hot boisssss! Plus darcell drag show at 12. Bye.

Thank god I'll be dead and buried when all the future elder gays will be reminiscing about what wonderful artistes Kristin Stewart, Drake, and Justin Bieber were back in the day.

R15, I'm 22 and I care. Young people like classic Hollywood too. Sounds to me you (at the very least) care a little yourself considering the length of your post. It's nothing to upset about. Lot's of good movies and hot guys back then. Hell Iv'e even watch silent films. Love them.

r15 is a troll. He posts the same crap everywhere. I doubt he is 24. Probably a self-hating older person.

I'm 22 and I am not a troll.

[R15] I'm glad to find out there are people like you around.

…but some say I [italic]look[/italic] like one.

[R14] He never discussed his gayness. He claimed in his book he was bisexual but I highly doubt that. Shelley Winters was one of her best friends and she said they were "some time lovers" which I think was her way of covering for him.

Who would his equivalent be today? I can't think of anyone at the moment. It would have to be someone who was a matinee idol, in very good movies, and then became an actor who got a cheap independent movie or a TV part here and there.

Sweetie, even most of us older folk are not old enough to have seen most of the movies in the theater. You'd have to be in late seventies to have seen stuff from say, 1955 and before.

According to his memoirs, Granger loved Ava Gardner, was engaged to Shelley Winters, and bedded both Arthur Laurents and Leonard Bernstein. He claimed he was never closeted about it, that everyone in Hollywood knew he slept with men and women. Slut.

He sure was purdy.

Wow, R25, you are either a troll, or plainly stupid.

Farley and Roddy McDowell:

*R15 is a troll, or plainly stupid (R25 is cool, sorry for the typo)

By the way, I think Farley was absolutely great, especially in Senso.

Farley was my first boss's boyfriend. When I was very young, in fact only 20, I worked for a corp named Underwater Food Corp. This corp owned gay bars. The primary owner was a retired Air Force guy and his boyfriend was Farley Granger. Their relationship lasted until about 1963 or 4. I didn't know Farley personally, I thought the two guys were terribly old, maybe 40's. He always looked nice and gave me an autograph and some memorabilia from his TV program. Bob told me in confidence that Farley wanted to hook up with me. This didn't sit well with either of us and I quit hanging out with the boss immediately. I think Farley had a wife in Hollywood, but he was always in San Francisco and near my parents house in Sleepy Hollow, that's in Marin County CA. I only saw him naked once in the pool and I was turned off with gray hair in his pubes.

He was adorable wearing tennis shorts in the (supergay) Strangers on a Train.

Shelley called him "Farfels". He was beautiful and while he never discussed being gay he also didn't date starlets a la Rock Hudson.

Today, Efron.

Today, Jake Gyllenhall.

R33, I can see the resemblance.

I met FG in the mid1990s, as he was invited by professor to attend our film seminar. He still looked fantastic and was disgusted by all the explosions so prevalent in films, a trend which has, of course, continued. My aunt had been in love with him so I couldn't wait to tell her!

To the person who asked why we should care about retired or deceased actors, do you feel the same about artists and authors? Do you only learn about living painters or read books by current authors only?

[quote]Shelley called him "Farfels."

Farfel was the puppet spokesdog for Nestle's Quik. "N-E-S-T-L-E-S, Nestle's makes the very best chocolate."

He's no shirt lifter.

R15 Go back to your video games and your cell phone, you fucking retard.

[Quote] I don't feel like googling him because if I've not heard of him

R15 It's the convention here not to Google if you come across something you don't know on DL. You ask in here. You get bitched at. So you're doing ok kiddo.

The rest of your post is tldr but I skimmed enough to see you're well on your way to eldergay bitch. Keep at it. Get a caftan.

They grow up so quickly these days....

Miley Cyrus

"Strangers on a Train," with a murderous homosexual.

He did Deathtrap on Broadway as did Robert Reed. Funny how such closeted men agreed to play gay at that time.