Tyrone Power

Tyrone was said to be a champion rimnist and, of course, a homosexual!

[quote]Looking at his wiki page, I was surprised to find absolutely no mention of his bisexuality. Surely it's a foregone conclusion at this point?

Don't do this shit to us again, dude. You caused a hell of a ruckus trying to manipulate DLers into being your personal army over the Gary Cooper shit.

Enough already. Go to Wikipedia and edit yourself using a blog for a source. Leave us out of it.

[quote]Don't do this shit to us again, dude. You caused a hell of a ruckus trying to manipulate DLers into being your personal army over the Gary Cooper shit.

That wasn't me, buttercup. I was merely interested in having a discussion here about Tyrone in general and, yes, how there is still resistance to the idea of him being bisexual. I couldn't care less about wikipedia, as it's the go-to source for morons, isn't it? I was just using it as an example of the aforementioned resistance. So, no need to panic x

Someone in an old Tyrone Power thread on here said that his great gay love affair was with a technician at Fox and it lasted decades. Does anyone know who that might be?

Wow, Tyrone Power and Errol Flynn together! Smoking hot to the power of 2! The pioneering Hollywood gay power couple?

Yeah, that one is a no-brainer, r5. To be the meat in that sandwich!

Looking quite smitten with a young Jerry Adler....

I remember reading a long time ago about his relationship with the very beautiful and gay Robin Thomas, John Barrymoree's step-son, a few years before he went to Hollywood.

I'm about to watch THE RAINS CAME (1939). It has an amazing credit sequence, where the words on each title card are caught by the rain and suddenly run down the screen. I would love to know how they did that. I just watched Tired Old Queen at the Movies video on the film (love him!):

He was dating the cherubic-faced Sonja Henie, the love of Liberace's life, for a while. But apparently they were actually into each other and were fucking around the 20th Century Fox studio lot like rabbits.

[quote]Someone in an old Tyrone Power thread on here said that his great gay love affair was with a technician at Fox and it lasted decades. Does anyone know who that might be?

I will be posting about our love affair on the West Coast board next week.

I always thought Tyrone Power was the most beautiful man who ever lived. I love Dana Andrews too. Look at the both of them, is that chemistry or what ???

SAUSAGE ALERT !!!!!!

Sorry, wrong link

Most beautiful couple ever ?

In the late 1960's, my grandmother looked at me and said "Tyrone Power was such a pretty man, and you're going to be just like him when you grow up." And then she winked and smiled. I think I was about 7.

I can't even bear to look at that picture honestly, its too much

wow never heard of him being bi. Romina Power, his daughter; is a very famous Italian personality/singer who married one of the most famous singers from the 60's Albano Carrisi. Since I was a kid she was referred to as Tyrone Power's daughter, and in the past 30 years in Italian media, despite the huge buzz this family generated for decades nobody, even the most famous gay outlets; mentioned about him being bisexual. Romina has sued any publication that referred to his father being gay (bisexuality in Italy is still a metaphysical concept).

OT but his grand-daughter Ylenia went missing in the 90's in New Orleans, it's still one of the most famous unsolved mysteries in Italian crime.

Ylenia's story might be the one thing that saves this doomed thread.

His son, Tyrone Power Jr., was the spitting image of his father in "Cocoon."

I remember watching "Cocoon" with my mother years ago, and when she saw Tyrone Power Jr., she said, "That HAS to be Tyrone Power's son. He's as gorgeous as his father!" She loved Tyrone Power.

Doomed? How can you not love Ty Power ? He should be on every one 's top iconic LGBT list

I would love to know who that technician at Fox was. Or see a picture at least. His relationship with Cesar Romero seems to have been quite serious, too.

You could say that. Romero did the eulogy at the funeral. It was full of ' I love you beautiful man '. It seems Ty was so fucking gorgeous no one cared who he was fucking He didn't even bother to hide. I am half italiano. Romina is a enormous star in Italy and Europe. Was. But the italians are such Homophobic cunts, of course they would never aknowledge Ty's bisexuality. Strange for an entire nation of closeted queens.

Crew lover obviously was very good in the sack...

looking kid of feminine here

Gasp

Catching a few rays . . .

I can't even..

Jerry Adler? The guy who played 'Hesh' in The Sopranos?

Oup's sorry. That was not the one. There is a pic on pinterest of Tyrone and Cary fully suited, eye-licking each other, I don't know how to get a direct link

Power's looks are enormously overrated. He was good looking but in no way in the league of Rock Hudson..Cary Grant...Tab Hunter...Guy Madison. ..Joel Mcrea etc

Lol R32

Tyrone Power is about 100 times hotter than Hudson, Hunter, Madison, these guys are beefecake pin-ups, zero class. R32. Zero class.

Why did this old white dude appropriate the black name Tyrone?

his father was also called tyrone power.

We used to have a wonderful poster here on DL called Susie Lee who had all kinds of gossip about Tyrone Power and his family. She grew up in Hollywood, the daughter of character actor and MGM contract player Kurt Kasznar.

I miss her and her informed posts.

Where is the inevitable WML appearance??

I guess the technician would be Ty's best friend, Watty Webb. I've never heard if they were lovers or not.

There's no doubt that Ty was bi, but we need to stop crediting such disreputable sources as Mr Blackwell and Charles Higham when talking about the history of gay Hollywood.

Tyrone was the prettiest and so adorable but Joel McCrea is THE SEX.

I never got his appeal. Was pretty good in Nightmare Alley, but too pretty for me, and aged badly. Always felt he was "acting," unlike Dana Andrews or Richard Widmark, also at Fox.

Power was at his best and handsomest in his youngest years playing opposite Alice Faye in Fox musicals. His prettiness and lack of depth was well-employed there.

He's also watchable as Jesse James in the 1937 film of the same name. Seeing him in early hyper-real Technicolor opposite the equally gorgeous young Henry Fonda is a sight to behold.

Tyrone looked his best as the Swedish count in Marie Antoinette opposite Norma Shearer. The 18th century costumes with the lace and bows really suited him.

BTW, Tyrone is an Irish name, from an ancient Gaelic kingdom. It became popular among American blacks in the mid-20th century because of Power's handsome "dark" looks.

R43, I think you're right about MA. That was made at MGM, not his home studio, and so different techs. I think Shearer was infatuated with him and had just been widowed. Rooney claimed that he had a fling with NS during the filming.

It always seemed very odd to me that MGM borrowed Power for that role in Marie Antoinette when they had Bob Taylor right there on the lot.

Shearer had the hots for him and demanded him.

R45, good point. Possibly there was an MGM player "exchanged" to Fox, for Power. I guess everyone here knows that Olivia dH was responsible for a big change in Hollywood contracts, after filing a suit against Warners. Studios could no longer add on to 7 year contracts the number of months that an actor had gone on suspension, rather than take a part s/he deemed inferior. I think the court actually termed that as "peonage," thus illegal.

Marie Antoinette was produced in 1938, 2 years after Taylor successfully played Armand to Garbo's Margeurite Gautier in Camille.

Olivia's case against the studios was won in the early 1940s. Bette Davis tried the same thing in the late 1930s, even deserted Warners and Hollywood for a film in London, but was unsuccessful and forced contractually to come home. Jack Warner gave her Jezebel as a consolation prize.

As badly as Tyrone Power may have aged, he looked a hell of lot better than Robert Taylor when they both hit middle age in the 1950s.

I guess the only one of those male superstars of the 1930s who aged handsomely and elegantly was Cary Grant. And Cesar Romero if you're into that type (which I am!!).

I think it was something in Cesar's diet...

Semen. Semen kept Cesar happy and healthy.

Tyrone. Another child star who never had a chance to mature and developp. Sad.

You will never find gay or bisexual stuff on Wikipedia about any stars of the golden era (except for some severely qualified stuff about Cary Grant) for the simple reason such pages are patrolled by a pack of old homophobic geezers who immediately revert any insinuation, despite the fact movie luvvies are still luvvies who would whore themselves for a single closeup.

Power used to hang round with Big Girl’s Blouse Cesar Romero. There’s an old actress on YouTube who talked about them. If you hung with Romero you took the cock.

Romero describes their lifelong affair in his memoir, with juicy sex details. Couldn't find the link. Anyone ?