Did Johnnie Ray Get Dorothy Kilgallen Hooked On Booze And Pills?

Wasn't Johnny Ray a queer?

Johnnie Ray was the best man at Judy Garland's wedding to Mickey Deans in 1969. So, yes, gay.

Ray was arrested twice, in separate incidents years apart, for soliciting an undercover police officer.

Straight enough to post on DL then.

He was the kind of trashy bad boy some women found thrilling--like the Duchess of Windsor and Jimmy Donahue. Especially women married to men of doubtful or wavering sexuality.....They wanted to have some FUN, degrading as it often proved to be.

He was so gay that at the end of "There's No Business Like Show Business" they turn him into a priest.

Here he is with Dorothy, they're first meeting. Lovers or booze buds?

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Poor old Johnny Ray | Sounded sad upon the radio. | But he moved a million hearts in mono. | Our mothers cried, sang along, who'd blame them

She was an adult, she chose booze and pills.

From "New Faces of 1952," Robert Clary, later of "Hogan's Heroes," parodies the overwrought singing style of Johnnie Ray with "It's Raining Memories," starting around 1:30. Clary is still around at 93.

All of this seems like a 100 years ago.

Here's Johnnie...……...singing distraught as usual.

[quote]All of this seems like a 100 years ago.

Pretty damn close, R14.

R14 Not really. He died in 1990 at age 63.

Johnnie when very young.

[quote]He was so gay that at the end of "There's No Business Like Show Business" they turn him into a priest.

Watching that movie today, it's difficult not to read his character as gay, and not simply because Johnnie Ray is playing him. In explaining why he decided to become a priest, Ray's character talks about always feeling "different" and never quite "fitting in."

I meant the whole scene. The clothing, the music, what's my line. It's rapidly disconnecting from present day culture.

Johnnie Ray seems so sweet and endearing on that show. He was so handsome and vulnerable.

[quote]I meant the whole scene. The clothing, the music, what's my line. It's rapidly disconnecting from present day culture.

True. But present day culture sort of sucks.

[quote]She was an adult, she chose booze and pills.

Dumb broad shoulda known better.

She was murdered because she knew too much.

If his penis was like a day, let's just say there would be a midnight sun.

I'm pretty sure that's a bible quote.

RE: There's No Business Like Show Business

Fox was expecting a profit of $2 million, but ran a loss of almost $950,000. It is also significant that Johnnie Ray never worked again for 20th Century Fox or appeared in another motion picture made by any major movie studio in the United States or another country,

Johnnie was only "decent" looking from one tiny angle and that went away when he was 26..

Johnnie Ray is one of the first negative memories i have of gays / reading about his arrests...not even knowing his music, circa late 60s... just equating homos with getting arrested.

[quote]It is also significant that Johnnie Ray never worked again for 20th Century Fox or appeared in another motion picture made by any major movie studio in the United States or another country,

So I guess Ray was just as successful as Liberace was in his dramatic motion picture debut, "Sincerely Yours."

[quote]Johnnie Ray is one of the first negative memories i have of gays / reading about his arrests...not even knowing his music, circa late 60s... just equating homos with getting arrested.

You're making too much of something that was really no big deal.

R28, thank you for your enlightened post from the Fox News vault.

I always wanted to eat Dorothy’s cunt.

Strange that Arlene flirted with him but he left with Dorothy.