Gigolos of Hollywood

Robert Wolders: married to much older Merle Oberon. After her death hooked up with Audrey Hepburn who was wise enough not to marry him. After she died he hooked up with Hank Fonda's widow, Shirley with whom he still lives in Beverly Hills.

Quite a comfortable run.

Does Jack Wrangler count?

Handsome Jacques with old Ginger

How much did Merle pay her boy?

I was surprised to see Robert Wolders was a regular cast member of the western series "Laredo".

There's no fool like an old fool.

Greg Bautzer, an attorney who was engaged to actresses Barbara Payton, Dorothy Lamour and Lana Turner (they started dating when she was only 16!), and romanced Ginger Rogers, Rosemary Clooney, Joan Fontaine, and most famously, Joan Crawford. Among his wives were actresses Buff Cobb and Dana Wynter.

I don't think so R2 because the dynamics were so odd. Maggie was definitely the pursuer and nobody's fool. Wrangler actually resisted. Yes, Maggie had the money, but she and Jack had some sort of inexplicable connection, and it went beyond financial.

Don't bring me into this.

Porfirio Rubirosa is a gigolo legend. He married a number of his conquests and had flings with American and French actresses and singers.

He was nicknamed The Pepper Mill for the size of his dick.

Zsa Zsa may have his astonishing appendage as her own existent memory.

Rich bitches were forming international queues for decades to get at this.

so when is a gigolo considered a playboy, and a playboy a gigolo?

I walk along the street of sorrow -

The boulevard of broken dreams -

Where Gigolo and Gigolette -

Can take a kiss without regret -

and so forget their broken dreams.

You laugh today and cry tomorrow -

When you behold your shattered schemes -

And Gigolo and Gigolette wake up to find

their eyes are wet with tears that tell of broken dreams.

I'm just a gigolo and everywhere I go

People know the part I'm playing

Pay for every dance, selling each romance

r7 doesn't know the definition of a gigolo.

Gigolos don't work - not really - and they're broke. They live off the fortunes of their conquests and most of them are gay.

r10, I think there is plenty of overlap. A Venn Diagram could illustrate this more clearly than words. I would argue that while a playboy likes the high life and pussy (or maybe dick), a gigolo's prime aim is financial: to become a regular escort, exchanging company and dick for subtly delivered cash, or more likely, for a lush lifestyle.

Rubirosa was a playboy, but his money came from ladies, the richest of whom he married: Barbara Hutton and Doris Duke in particular.

Yes, Robert Wolders was on Laredo, in the second season only. He made an odd companion to the three Texas Rangers, especially sizzling muscleman William Smith.

Also, Wolders had an accent. Was he Danish or something?

Isn't this the story of James Brolin?

And while on the topic of gigolos with dicks so huge and renowned that they earned themselves widely recognized nicknames, we must give due acknowledgement to Johnny Stompanato, whose penis was known in Hollywood as "Oscar" because of its size similarity to the golden statuette.

He was fucking Lana Turner with it for a while, but he was physically abusive, and in one of the great Hollywood scandals, ended up knifed to death in Lana' bedroom. Her teenage lesbian daughter Cheryl Crane took the rap, but there have always been rumors that Lana did the stabbing.

After reading the pretty stupendous book, Detour, written by Cheryl Crane, I am fairly certain that Lana did not do it and her daughter did. Gigolos, be it Oscars or Rubis, often come to sad but probably deserved ends.

Also, both Rubirosa and Stompanato merit their own gigolo miniseries.

I always thought Sharon Stone would have made an incredible Lana Turner, but now she's aged out of the role and might be better as Lana's mother. Not sure who would be a good fit for the massively hung Italian mobster Stompanato. Christopher Meloni is also a bit old. Ten or fifteen years ago, Stone and Meloni would have been perfect.

Sex in deathly repose.

Big-dicked gigolo Johnny Stompanato lying dead in the plush carpet of the lurid glamour of Lana Turner's bedroom.

From Merle Oberon to Audrey Hepburn to this. Oh well, if it pays the bills.

Hilarious imagined first-person retellings of the Stompanato scandal - with even better illustrations.

You know this cop is trying to gauge the accuracy of the Oscar nickname.

More of a player than a gigolo, meet Steve Cochran. His donkey dick got around...

Love is a wonderful thing

Bad link, R26.

R17 Dutch, I think.

R15, I think Greg Bautzer most certainly qualifies as a gigolo. He relied on the kindness of rich and famous ladies of Hollywood to land him connections in the business, and once he was firmly established as an entertainment lawyer, he continued to squire La Crawford around town and abide by her strict rules on escorting.

r29 No dear. He had a profession. Not only that he was quite successful.

R16 one or Rubitrosa's long-term fucks (I think her father may have been Trujillo) said he was boring in bed in his later years because it took him so long to cum. She said it just went on and on and on ...

I thought Rubrirosa was with Trujillo's daughter early on, rather than later.

It must be a real drag to be known solely as a lothario and then feel your potency gradually degraded by age. I wonder if he ran his car into a tree on purpose after the pepper grinder went flaccid during sex.

We cannot leave out the Mdivani's.

Thanks, R23, really enjoyed that.

John Mayer.

Rubirosa and Zsa Zsa Gabor.

To match the r19 airplane debarking photo of Lana Turner with killer daughter and gigolo Johnny Stompanato making their aircraft exit.

Blonde actresses, hung gigolos, and airports. That should be a coffee table book.

r36 It doesn't get anymore glamorous that this era. Today, it would be Kim Kardashian in some slutty barely there outfit with one of her ghetto thugs in tow.

R18 Everyone else thought so even before getting hitched. Except I think he's probably too sub to really count.

R16 originally, playboys were those that had money, but no discernible skills or means of employment... whether this was a self made fluke (the equivalent of a one hit wonder) or the more common inheritance -- a trust fund baby. Usually lacking a direct title and prestige, instead they made their own courts and lived the high life. They frequently crossed over with confirmed bachelors. Namely for the lack of settling down.

While gigolos overlap with other kept men and prostitutes... though some roots place them in as the equivalent of concubines, like the traditional houseboy, typically more working class (or pansy classed; many a great artist with a patron) elevated through pygmalion like schemes -- a non disclosure agreement as a trade-in for the lifestyle. A lot easier to take in an unknown than inherit well known baggage in a circle of widowing incest (by marriages). of course, as women are generally viewed as the fairer sex, lacking sexual desire except in pure, true love... gigolos don't get a pretty woman story... even when they're used as fashion accessories, so again, not uncommon for them to be acquired by faghags and to be fags themselves... especially in eras and locations where homosexuality may have been a crime. also, a good tactic to acquire a young narcissus to gain entry into the gay mafias that form around the arts and entertainment.

All the books on Rubirosa call him the world's greatest playboy...so technically he shouldn't be listed here

'PORFIRIO RUBIROSA | LAST OF THE FAMOUS INTERNATIONAL PLAYBOYS'

Merv Griffin moved into Lana's old mansion and often talked about it on his old talk show. He rather sadly noted that there were no ghostly activities. I'm sure Merv would have loved for Johnny to have slipped him a little ghost sausage in the middle of the night.

Wolters played Mary's ski instructor on one of the early MTM. He was cast as a guy so incredibly handsome that no woman could resist him. The writers later said that because his character and Mary had nothing in common, he must have been amazing in bed. Typecasting?

[quote] Big-dicked gigolo Johnny Stompanato lying dead in the plush carpet of the lurid glamour of Lana Turner's bedroom.

Fame... ain't it a bitch?

Bergerac was a recurring character on Batman called French Freddy the Fence.

Bergerac on The Lucy Show

The lion taming scene is funny

But Jacques wasn't an actor

Bergerac had a really funny role in an early Dick Van Dyke show with Jacques playing a guy who maybe had his marriage to Yvette broken up by either Rob or Laura. Confusion and hilarity ensued. He really was a striking looking man with a very charming accent.

There were also male for male gigolos who were passed from rich man to rich man. One of Rock Hudson's first live-ins was living with an older rich man when they met.

Gary Morton owns this thread.

James Brolin a gigolo? LOL.

Some guys just like older women. My brother always has.

Does your brother have his own income, dear?

A playboy has plenty of his own money.

A gigolo gets paid by wealthy women (a husband gets paid by one wealthy woman).

A walker hangs out with wealthy fag hags, and is not paid. Well, maybe he gets freebies.

Yes, R49 but that italian gigolo is called a playboy even though he had no obvious means to support himself in such wealthy circles aside from payments from wealthy women he married

Was Jacques related to Cyrano?

R50 What Italian playboy?

Benna Fleck who hooked up but did not marry Ma Tadamon

Serge Lifar posing for Isabelle Mdivani, 1930s. LIfar was a gorgeous talented dancer from Ukraine who was Ballanchine and Diaghilev's muse and became a choreographer himself. Everyone in the beau monde would line up for a crack.

With Josephine Baker. My aren't they glamorous and attractive!

Why are gay men so stuck in the past ?

R61, we’re not all stuck in the past. I actually live in the future, and you might be interested to know that tomorrow you’ll be hit by a bus.

All I know is, that Jacques Bergerac was mighty dreamy.

What you bitches don’t understand is that a lot of straight men like substantially older women. The biggest Google searches for self identified straight men are older women, followed very closely by fat women.

Can I please get stuck in a past where R61 doesn't exist?