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Farley Granger was so gorgeous

I just got done watching "They Live by Night," where he was captured beautifully—every closeup of his face just melts me. Do you think he was a top or a bottom?

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by Anonymousreply 161October 2, 2022 3:37 PM

Bottom. He was a pretty nelly queen.

by Anonymousreply 1November 26, 2020 8:21 AM

I adore Farley Granger and John Dall both in "Rope". And while I know times were very different, I wish closeted Cary Grant had taken the role of Rupert Cadell and embraced it. I'm not typically a fan of remakes, but I'd almost love to see a "Rope" remake to see what they could do with it in that regard.

by Anonymousreply 2November 26, 2020 8:33 AM

I read his autobio Include Me Out.

Very entertaining

by Anonymousreply 3November 26, 2020 9:48 AM

Robert Calhoun sucked his dick every day. Lucky!

by Anonymousreply 4November 26, 2020 9:50 AM

He's lovely. Those are blowjob lips.

by Anonymousreply 5November 26, 2020 10:26 AM

He was sexy and openly bisexual. Like Brando, he had pair of pouty dick-sucking lips.

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by Anonymousreply 6May 4, 2021 4:07 AM

r1 Big-dick bottom

by Anonymousreply 7May 4, 2021 4:09 AM

He had the Mimi Rogers funny mouth thing going on.

by Anonymousreply 8May 4, 2021 4:10 AM

He was just as pretty as Monty Clift.

Monty relied on good directors and editors to 'perform' well on screen.

by Anonymousreply 9May 4, 2021 4:26 AM

An out gay/bi man. Have a lot of respect for him.

by Anonymousreply 10May 4, 2021 4:26 AM
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by Anonymousreply 11May 4, 2021 4:34 AM

A collection of pics of Farley Granger here:

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by Anonymousreply 12May 4, 2021 4:35 AM

In Visconti's "Senso." Gorgeous.

by Anonymousreply 13May 4, 2021 4:36 AM

He had an underbite.

by Anonymousreply 14May 4, 2021 4:58 AM

Bottom

by Anonymousreply 15May 4, 2021 4:59 AM

R9, Monty Clift had a pretty good career on the New York stage.

by Anonymousreply 16May 4, 2021 5:00 AM

Monty left the New York stage as soon as he could.

Farley was Visconti's fall-back choice for 'Senso'. (I've forgotten his first choice to star opposite The Divine Ingrid who was hanging around Italy at the time)

Farley had that gorgeous bump in his aristocratic nose just like Robert Taylor and Norma Shearer.

by Anonymousreply 17May 4, 2021 5:09 AM

R17, Monty did not leave the New York stage as soon as he could. Hollywood beckoned, but he refused. It took 11 years since his stage debut in 1935 to make his first Hollywood picture in 1946, and even then he refused to sign a studio contract. He was already being branded difficult, but he didn't want to be tied down to a studio and wanted the freedom to return to the stage. He never did though, except for an off-Broadway staging of "The Seagull" in 1954 as a favor to his friend Mira Rostova.

Farley Granger was a contemporary of Clift and Brando, but Granger's film career seemed to have petered out by the mid-'50s. He did a lot of those televised theater anthology shows like Playhouse 90, Kraft Theater, and the US Steel Hour.

by Anonymousreply 18May 4, 2021 5:32 AM

I'd love to see Monty and Farley bump noses together.

by Anonymousreply 19May 4, 2021 5:34 AM

Meh.

by Anonymousreply 20May 4, 2021 5:37 AM

Didn't Visconti want Monty for 'Senso'?

Monty was in Rome appearing in that Selznick abortion—

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by Anonymousreply 21May 4, 2021 6:00 AM

R21, Visconti wanted Brando and Ingrid Bergman.

by Anonymousreply 22May 4, 2021 6:05 AM

Absolutely gorgeous. One of the most beautiful men in Hollywood history.

by Anonymousreply 23May 4, 2021 6:07 AM

[quote] Brando and Ingrid Bergman.

I'd love to see those two powerful performers IGNITE the screen !

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by Anonymousreply 24May 4, 2021 6:15 AM

Doesn't do a thing for me, but to each his own.

Farley Granger rolled around with two of the biggest sluts in entertainment world; Shelly Winters and Leonard Bernstein.

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by Anonymousreply 25May 4, 2021 7:28 AM

Never heard of film Senso, will have to check it out, seems interesting.

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by Anonymousreply 26May 4, 2021 7:29 AM

Monty and Farley were both so passive. They suffered a lot in tearjerkers on screen but they were always seemed to be victims.

by Anonymousreply 27May 4, 2021 9:20 AM

R26 You must see 'Senso' on the big screen.

Farley is flaccid but there another man in the cast called Massimo who supplies a little more testosterone.

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by Anonymousreply 28May 4, 2021 9:24 AM

Shelley Winters had the smelliest snatch, ever! How could Farley lick that and then go suck Robert Calhoun’s dick????

by Anonymousreply 29May 4, 2021 9:43 AM

Shelley started those rumours herself with those two fictional autobiographies. She was never the slut she wanted to be because no guy (unless drunk) would go near her so she made it up.

by Anonymousreply 30May 4, 2021 9:55 AM

I wasn't just A slut, I was THE slut!

by Anonymousreply 31May 4, 2021 10:09 AM

Shelley’s twat stunk to high heaven.

by Anonymousreply 32May 4, 2021 10:54 AM

Farley's appeal was similar to the equally-limp Peter Lawford's.

But Farley faded into obscurity while Lawford hang out with the slimy rat pack.

by Anonymousreply 33May 4, 2021 10:57 AM

Farley was hot.

by Anonymousreply 34May 4, 2021 11:33 AM

He was gorgeous gorgeous gorgeous. Not the greatest actor, though, which is why his career never took off in a big way. I think r19 that in fact Monty and Farley *did* have a fling or hook-up at one point. I seem to recall this being hinted at in Arthur Laurents' memoir (he and Farley had a long relationship). Now Monty and Farley together - THAT is something to fantasize about - even if they were both passive bottoms. But so beautiful together, I bet. In Farley's memoir he also suggests having had a one-night-stand with Jean Marais. Another hot pairing!

by Anonymousreply 35May 4, 2021 11:48 AM

Farley was a beautiful person inside and out. You bitches talking smack about him should be ashamed.

by Anonymousreply 36May 4, 2021 3:17 PM

Farley used to cum in Bob Calhoun’s mouth.

by Anonymousreply 37May 4, 2021 3:40 PM

Any pictures of him knitting?

by Anonymousreply 38May 4, 2021 3:46 PM

I ran into him a few times on the UWS where he lived. Charming, lovely, classy man.

I still think Strangers on a Train is one of the best movies ever made; Granger was good in it but poor Robert Walker wiped the floor with everyone on screen.

by Anonymousreply 39May 4, 2021 4:09 PM

Are you really a bisexual if the only woman you are known to have fucked is Shelley Winters, to promote a minor romantic comedy about a couple and their dog?

by Anonymousreply 40May 4, 2021 4:56 PM

I saw Granger do a Q and A after a screening of Strangers on a Train at MOMA around 2008.

I never realized how tall he was. Even at his age then, he was a strapping guy. Total silver daddy.

by Anonymousreply 41May 4, 2021 5:22 PM

He was smoking hot in his day.

by Anonymousreply 42May 4, 2021 5:28 PM

R40, Granger claimed to have bedded Ava Gardner. Miss Gardner herself may have dipped her toe in the lady pond once or twice. So she may have been open so such dalliances.

by Anonymousreply 43May 4, 2021 6:25 PM

He only made 4 movies that I remember

He was terrified of displaying his navel

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by Anonymousreply 44May 4, 2021 9:08 PM

R6 I don't know how you can claim he was "openly bisexual".

by Anonymousreply 45May 4, 2021 9:25 PM

R18 You mention Monty did an off-Broadway staging of "The Seagull" in 1954.

It's not listed below but did any of you NY Eldergays see it?

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by Anonymousreply 46May 4, 2021 10:25 PM

R18, It's in the Internet Off-Broadway database (iobdb). Though Clift got good reviews, his trusted acting coach, Mira Rostova's florid acting style and unintelligible accented English got panned by the critics. This embarrassed Clift, who had been her biggest supporter, and he dropped her soon afterwards.

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by Anonymousreply 47May 4, 2021 11:01 PM

That cast list includes Kevin McCarthy!

by Anonymousreply 48May 4, 2021 11:04 PM
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by Anonymousreply 49May 4, 2021 11:44 PM

R39, I also saw Granger once on Columbus Avenue, walking with an aide, not too long before he died. Even as an elderly man, he had a striking presence, very handsome, and yes, he was quite tall. He and Arthur Laurents must have looked like Mutt and Jeff.

by Anonymousreply 50May 4, 2021 11:49 PM

Allegedly tried to seduce Harry Belafonte...oh, what a pair that would have been, but Harry is hetero.

by Anonymousreply 51May 4, 2021 11:50 PM

Please. He was 100% gay.

What was it about post-war Hollywood that it suddenly seemed to embrace prettier leading men like Farley, Monty, Guy Madison, Rock Hudson and Tab Hunter? I'm sure superagent Henry Willson had a lot to do with it but why were audiences suddenly so into prettyboy beefcake?

by Anonymousreply 52May 4, 2021 11:58 PM

Read Arthur Laurents' two memoirs. (Laurents wrote the book for Gypsy and West Side Story).

Laurents had a long-time affair with FG. It is superb dish about Broadway and Hollywood in the '40s through the 90s. Laurents is a superb writer. More should know about him. And yes, FG was 100% gay.

by Anonymousreply 53May 5, 2021 12:04 AM

R52 These 5 five men were all pretty much eye-candy for females.

Four of them had weak, almost hairless chests. No beefcake at all.

by Anonymousreply 54May 5, 2021 12:13 AM

I recall seeing Farley Granger for the first time when I rented the Alfred Hitchcock film Rope from my video store. I was blown away by how beautiful he was. Then shortly after I happened to see him in the film noir, Strangers On A Train, when I went to see a double bill at a revival house. I've been a big fan ever since.

by Anonymousreply 55May 5, 2021 12:26 AM

R52, Tyrone Power, Errol Flynn, and Robert Taylor were pre-war and pretty. Although they aged quickly due to their penchant for booze and cigarettes. Prettyboys were always around.

by Anonymousreply 56May 5, 2021 12:38 AM

r56, those 3 were pretty only for the first 2 or 3 years of their careers but you could say that about a lot of stars, John Wayne, Gary Cooper, Gregory Peck just to name a few. The ones I mentioned had a decided softer side, posed for shirtless beefcake photos, and it was really part of their appeal.

And Granger and Madison had lovely hairy chests.

by Anonymousreply 57May 5, 2021 1:09 AM

Jane might as well be invisible.

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by Anonymousreply 58May 5, 2021 1:47 AM

R25, are you serious!? Farley Granger was involved with Ma Gogan from Pete’s Dragon!? Ew!!

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by Anonymousreply 59May 5, 2021 2:07 AM

John Gavin was another gorgeous hunk from the 1950s.

by Anonymousreply 60May 5, 2021 6:20 AM

R52 Women wanted prettier and passive men like Anthony Perkins, Farley and Monty.

Roy Scherer/Rock Hudson was handsome but Doris Day just used him as a toy and a nincompoop eunuch.

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by Anonymousreply 61May 5, 2021 10:28 PM

What is it about the film quality of ROPE that gives it such a shallow and flat look? Is it the camera work or the lighting or the actual film stock?

It almost looks like a 1960s TV soap. Was the harshness intentional on Hitchcock's part?

by Anonymousreply 62May 6, 2021 3:23 AM

Hitchcock's Rope was a disastrous, silly experiment which failed.

Hitchcock gained fame when the talkies came in the 1920s by cutting dialogue to a minimum, quick takes and his use of a mobile camera. He reached the top of his profession in the 40s and tried some weird experiments. First, he did 'Lifeboat' which was contained in a tiny space. Then he did 'Rope' which was equally bizarre using something called 'The Ten-minute Take'.

Go to Google and look for The Ten-minute Take. It was a stupid decision and makes 'Rope' tedious to watch.

by Anonymousreply 63May 6, 2021 3:42 AM

This article is from 1949 and I'm sceptical about the claims.

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by Anonymousreply 64May 6, 2021 11:49 PM

MGM had two Grangers on their backlot at the same time.

by Anonymousreply 65May 6, 2021 11:52 PM

Wasn't Farley actually the property of Sam Goldwyn, not MGM?

I'm kind of surprised nobody made him change his first name.

by Anonymousreply 66May 7, 2021 12:19 AM

I don't know, R66.

I wish we did know who owned who because then we'd understand why so many movie performers were so badly miscast.

by Anonymousreply 67May 7, 2021 12:25 AM

I guess since Farley didn't die young, he's not seen as a gay icon like James Dean despite actually being openly gay and having an excellent filmography in his youth. Nicholas Ray used Farley for his first film, the noir road movie, [italic] They Live By Night [/italic].

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by Anonymousreply 68May 7, 2021 4:12 AM

^ What do you mean Farley was openly gay?

by Anonymousreply 69May 7, 2021 4:16 AM

Interesting when you read some Farley Granger obits there is totally no mention of his life partner or even that he was gay. So much for being "out".

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by Anonymousreply 70May 7, 2021 4:33 AM

Others however set things right.

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by Anonymousreply 71May 7, 2021 4:33 AM

He exuded zero masculine energy and had no chemistry with the ladies. But he played immoral guys really well.

by Anonymousreply 72May 7, 2021 4:46 AM

He got canned from One Life To Live because he couldn’t remember his lines.

by Anonymousreply 73May 7, 2021 10:07 AM

His "love scenes" with beefy, butch Ruth Roman in STRANGERS ON A TRAIN are pretty laughable.

Bruno (Robert Walker) knew a homo when he saw one.

by Anonymousreply 74May 7, 2021 12:31 PM

After Farely Granger threw him over bit later Arthur Laurents took up with Tom Hatcher, the two became life partners for next fifty or so years.

Gore Vidal suggested AL look up TH at a Beverly Hills clothing store where the young actor was working at the time. What was lust at first sight soon developed into something far more. The couple's NYC home was a beautiful townhouse located on Saint Luke's Place in West Village.

Tom Hatcher would go onto a successful real estate career largely in Quogue , Long Island. Arthur Laurents had small home out there that became the couple's place in the country so to speak. This was back when much of Southhampton like rest of Long Island was still farmland (mostly potato fields), and land was cheap. Far cry from what things have been for past few decades.

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by Anonymousreply 75May 7, 2021 6:59 PM

More:

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by Anonymousreply 76May 7, 2021 7:01 PM

Tom Hatcher's obit in NYT.

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by Anonymousreply 77May 7, 2021 7:02 PM

He was hot

by Anonymousreply 78May 7, 2021 7:07 PM

Farley (No-Navel) Granger

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by Anonymousreply 79May 7, 2021 10:31 PM

I just recently watched ROPE on TCM and had NO inkling that the James Stewart character was gay. What's there in the film that would make one think that?

by Anonymousreply 80May 7, 2021 10:39 PM

[quote] had NO inkling that the James Stewart character was gay

No, his two students were homosexual (and killers)

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by Anonymousreply 81May 7, 2021 10:57 PM

Well, r81, according to Hitchcock experts and screenwriter Arthur Laurents, the James Stewart character is also gay and, I believe, sort of a mentor to the young men. I wonder about the play ROPE and how latent the homosexuality is there (if at all).

I think the only connection ROPE has to the Leopold/Loeb case is that of the two murdering young men, Leopold and Loeb, one was the top and one was the bottom. In the Hitchcock film, Farley is clearly the bottom. It's amazing his agents and his studio allowed him to make the film.

by Anonymousreply 82May 8, 2021 12:04 AM

I bet that 99.9% of the audience in 1948 were utterly oblivious to any sodomy in this story.

by Anonymousreply 83May 8, 2021 12:10 AM

Even for gay audiences, r83? Did gaydar not exist in mid-century America?

As a child watching Farley Granger, Tab Hunter and Rock Hudson in movies on TV, something just piqued my interest and told me they were homosexuals (this was in the late1950s) before I really grasped what that even meant.

Gaydar, most of us were born with it. An entire DL thread could be composed on this.

by Anonymousreply 84May 8, 2021 12:18 AM

Tab Hunter and Rock Hudson don't ping for me in their movies.....but Farley does.

by Anonymousreply 85May 8, 2021 12:54 AM

That Gore Vidal put Arthur Laurents onto Tom Hatcher begs the question if the former got there first.

On another note don't know if Farley Granger lived his life as totally out, but Arthur Laurents certainly did, and didn't give a fuck.

But then again AL was "theater people", and even in 1950's, 1950's or even 1970's America people tended to make allowances if I understand correctly.

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by Anonymousreply 86May 8, 2021 4:51 AM

Eileen Fulton didn’t want to work with ‘a gay’ but then she found out he was the EP’s lover. Oops!

by Anonymousreply 87May 8, 2021 10:01 AM

What is the deal with the navel thing, any theories?

In Rope i think it is made clear they share a bedroom. There is a whole theory about their sex life based on the opening of a champagne bottle by John Dall.

by Anonymousreply 88May 8, 2021 10:25 AM

A friend of mine interviewed Farley when he was in Milwaukee on his book tour.

Calhoun was there, as well, answering most of my friend's questions when Farley often went blank.

by Anonymousreply 89May 8, 2021 11:00 AM

I remember witnessing a sad audition for a play in NY the mid 1980s in which a befuddled Farley came a cropper, blowing the lines and looking generally ineffectual. He was not in bad shape physically but there was nothing hot about him. He did not get the role. Maybe this was during the time he was appearing soap operas?

Who is Calhoun, r89?

by Anonymousreply 90May 8, 2021 1:49 PM

R90

Robert Calhoun was Farley Granger's life partner, see R71.

Please keep up!

by Anonymousreply 91May 8, 2021 9:26 PM

[quote] …befuddled Farley came a cropper, blowing the lines and looking generally ineffectual…

That's the difference between a genuine actor and someone who stands in front of a movie camera.

by Anonymousreply 92May 9, 2021 12:35 AM

Hitchcock said he used his performers as 'cattle'. He used Farley twice.

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by Anonymousreply 93May 9, 2021 12:38 AM

I know we mostly see Farley Granger in black and white.

But he reminds me little of this guy we only see in color.

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by Anonymousreply 94May 15, 2021 12:45 AM

R94 he looks nothing like Farley. At all...

by Anonymousreply 95May 15, 2021 4:47 PM

Farley had a similar prominent nose.

by Anonymousreply 96May 16, 2021 12:51 AM

Eileen Fulton was plugging up toilets and lusting after Bob Calhoun’s cum dump!

by Anonymousreply 97May 17, 2021 6:57 AM

Well, since he was an intelligent artist, he was probably versatile like most intelligent artistic types who refuse to subscribe to lazy and boring homosexual archetypes.

by Anonymousreply 98May 17, 2021 7:42 AM

R63, R64 Hitchcock also used the annoying The Ten-minute Take in his next movie after Rope.

Hitchcock may have thought the moving camera was artistic (like Max Ophuls' artfully moving camera) but it make this interesting movie 30 minutes longer than it needs to be.

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by Anonymousreply 99May 21, 2021 12:22 PM

UGH to Under Capricorn...one of his worst...up until Torn Curtain.

by Anonymousreply 100May 23, 2021 11:57 PM

I just re-watched it.

Joseph Cotten looks comatose in a role which was meant for Burt Lancaster.

Poor Ingrid can't do anything with her one-dimensional role. I just wished she could do what she did to Lana Turner 8 years previously. If she swapped roles with Margaret Leighton the film would have generated a stronger class dynamic with 2 interesting women instead of two pallid ones.

I also wish Hitchcock hired a film editor instead of the four men paid to push that damned camera back and forth.

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by Anonymousreply 101May 24, 2021 5:03 AM

[italic]The Edge of Doom[/italic] (1950) is included with Amazon Prime. It stars Dana Andrews as a priest who remembers Martin Lynn (Granger) and his troubles.

by Anonymousreply 102May 25, 2021 10:35 PM

WTF kind of a name is Farley? Were his parents playing a joke on him?

"Hey! Chuck U. Farley!"

by Anonymousreply 103May 25, 2021 10:38 PM

Farley is effeminate.

by Anonymousreply 104May 25, 2021 10:40 PM

Farley tried seducing Jameson Parker during their OLTL days.

by Anonymousreply 105May 25, 2021 11:04 PM

[quote] Farley tried seducing Jameson Parker during their OLTL days.

I don't blame him and Parker was a fool for not taking advantage of the hit.

by Anonymousreply 106May 26, 2021 1:07 AM

R103, he was named after his father, Farley Earle Granger, Sr.

by Anonymousreply 107May 26, 2021 1:12 AM

R102 I watched that recently in my film noir binge. I was kind of impressed by the fact that movie called out the problematic aspects of organized religions. Farley's character being a son of a struggling devout mother who dies and his character pleading with the priest of the local parrish to give his mom an extravagant funeral. Arguing to the priest it would be a reward for her devotion to the Church and weekly tithing. I don't know if it was intentional but it was very hard to side with the Catholic priests who were moralizing and condescending to Farley's tortured character who was rightfully angry and pointed out their hypocrisy.

by Anonymousreply 108May 26, 2021 3:23 AM

[quote] Farley's tortured character

Most of Farley's characters were tortured. He was passive.

by Anonymousreply 109May 26, 2021 3:27 AM

What exactly happened on the set of OLTL that resulted in his firing? It had something to do with a man...

by Anonymousreply 110May 26, 2021 1:17 PM

Today is John Dall's birthday (5/26)! I can't believe he was only fifty when he died.

And I think his hair in "Rope" is fucking flawless, and almost a character on its own. And Dall's own character of Brandon Shaw was ABSOLUTELY a datalounger.

Happy Birthday to the late, great John Dall!

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by Anonymousreply 111May 26, 2021 4:35 PM

It seems John Dall was also homosexual.

He was the gay murderer in 'Rope' and he played in that adolescent kid's movie called 'Spartacus'.

He played the sneering Marcus Glabrus who, I guess, we're supposed to assume is a bum-chum to the evil Crassus (played by Larry).

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by Anonymousreply 112May 26, 2021 9:13 PM

Cannot believe this thread is still active.

by Anonymousreply 113May 30, 2021 3:10 AM

R72 It’s funny you say that because when I watched They Live by Night for the first time, I remember being surprised to learn about Granger’s sexuality. He had such amazing chemistry with Cathy O’Donnell. I also liked them together in the Anthony Mann film noir Side Street. It’s too bad neither of them had great film careers.

by Anonymousreply 114August 26, 2021 6:42 AM

Because of the nature of story of Rope Hitchcock deliberately cast two gay actors (Dall & Granger) in those roles. Nobody could have pulled those roles off as well as those two did back then.

by Anonymousreply 115August 26, 2021 6:57 AM

[quote] Nobody could have pulled those roles off as well as those two did back then.

I thought John Dall was insufficiently pretty (despite R111's opinion of his 'fornicatingly flawless hair').

Montgomery Clift, of course, would have been a prettier and more effective guilt-ridden homosexual.

by Anonymousreply 116August 26, 2021 8:09 AM

R4

Yes. but Arthur Laurents got there first.

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by Anonymousreply 117August 26, 2021 9:49 AM

Great thread.

by Anonymousreply 118August 26, 2021 10:44 AM

[quote]Do you think he was a top or a bottom?

Does it matter? With those lips, he was definitely a cocksucker.

by Anonymousreply 119August 26, 2021 10:46 AM

Is there really any indication in the film of ROPE that the James Stewart character is gay? Is there anything in the screenplay that enforces his sexuality? Apparently, Hitchcock first offered the role to Cary Grant and then Montgomery Clift, and perhaps with either of those actors, the role might have had a much different effect. But I don't really get why the character was conceived as gay when there doesn't even appear to be any subtext of homosexuality.

by Anonymousreply 120August 26, 2021 1:47 PM

Jimmy Stewart sucked the air out of every scene that he was in. And not just in ROPE.

by Anonymousreply 121August 26, 2021 2:11 PM

^^ James Stewart plays a good-looking, well-groomed, well-spoken, middle-aged single man in Rope. Even then that was more than enough to signal his homosexuality. Stewart was miscast in the role, which would've been better served with someone with a more sophisticated image. Joseph Cotten would've been perfect and probably would've taken the role if offered, but it was too close to home for Grant, and Monty wasn't mature-looking enough to play a mentor.

by Anonymousreply 122August 26, 2021 2:13 PM

^^r122 Lawrence Olivier would have been perfect. If Hitchcock could have toned down his overacting.

by Anonymousreply 123August 26, 2021 2:28 PM

R122 Joseph Cotten was homophobic - it would have been a very unpleasant set.

by Anonymousreply 124August 26, 2021 2:38 PM

R124 where’d you hear that? Anecdotes please!

by Anonymousreply 125August 26, 2021 2:41 PM

From the documentary Chris & Don: A Love Story (2007) about the love term relationship of Christoper Isherwood & Don Bachardy. Don Bachardy mentions Cotten's attitudes in the film. I have no reason to doubt him.

by Anonymousreply 126August 26, 2021 3:15 PM

For my money George Nader was much more attractive than Farley Granger. But to each his own...

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by Anonymousreply 127August 26, 2021 5:09 PM

Bringing this all home actor Michael Nader (of Dynasty fame) who recently passed away was the nephew of George Nader.

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by Anonymousreply 128August 26, 2021 5:19 PM

R126

There was a thread mentioning Joseph Cotten being homophonic.

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by Anonymousreply 129August 26, 2021 6:16 PM

But there is also plenty more on record elsewhere...

"The three-and-a-half-decade relationship of the British writer Christopher Isherwood and the American portrait artist Don Bachardy is one of the ultimate true stories of a proto-gay-marriage succeeding in a forbidding climate.

Defying social conventions of the 1950s and ’60s, the two men navigated Hollywood society as an openly gay couple, withstanding the slings and arrows of homophobes like the actor Joseph Cotten, who during a dinner party at David O. Selznick’s house made loud, derisive remarks about “half-men.”

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by Anonymousreply 130August 26, 2021 6:17 PM

See also....

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by Anonymousreply 131August 26, 2021 6:19 PM

[quote] What is the deal with the navel thing, any theories?

The Hays Code said navels equal penises and vaginas.

by Anonymousreply 132August 26, 2021 9:59 PM

John Gavin puts every other actor mentioned in the shade.......

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by Anonymousreply 133August 26, 2021 10:21 PM

r132 It was the same modesty rule that kept Barbara Eden from showing her navel on I Dream of Jeannie. (Although Eden got away with it on occasion.)

by Anonymousreply 134August 27, 2021 12:58 AM

Lucky Jeanne Crain..

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by Anonymousreply 135August 27, 2021 1:15 AM

I saw Granger onstage in Lanford Wilson’s “Talley & Son” at Circle Rep in 1985. He was quite good and even won an Obie.

by Anonymousreply 136August 27, 2021 2:40 AM

R136 Another Datalounger at R90 I remembers Granger auditioning for a play in NY in the mid 1980s.

by Anonymousreply 137August 27, 2021 2:55 AM

Too bad he never showed dick or ass. He was delicious in his 20s and 30s. I wonder if he ever fucked Brando or others.

by Anonymousreply 138August 30, 2021 12:53 PM

I swear I remember reading that Fraley Granger had a fling with Rue McClanahan. Did I imagine this? Someone on DL will know.

by Anonymousreply 139August 30, 2021 1:00 PM

Appears to have been a dick-loving bisexual like James Dean and Sal Mineo. Fucked women when he was young and horny and less discriminatory. But preferred men romantically and sexually and identified more and more with gayness as he aged.

by Anonymousreply 140August 30, 2021 1:08 PM

According to tittle-tattle on DL Jameson Parker got "one of the fathers" on OLTL fired for being a bit too friendly.

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by Anonymousreply 141August 30, 2021 1:23 PM

Farley Granger on Gay Subtext in ‘Rope’: ‘It Was Never Discussed’

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by Anonymousreply 142August 30, 2021 1:28 PM

I thought that he was canned for bringing barely legal hustlers to the set of OLTL.

by Anonymousreply 143August 30, 2021 1:34 PM

Wouldn't you just love on be an an orgy with Farley Grainger, John Gavin, Tyrone Power, Rock Hudson, Tab Hunter, Anthony Perkins, Montgomery Clift, Marlon Brando, James Dean (minus the cigarette breath) Cary Grant, etc at the peak of their individual beauty that went on forever.

by Anonymousreply 144August 30, 2021 2:43 PM

r144, they all had cigarette breath,darling!

by Anonymousreply 145August 30, 2021 2:52 PM

But those were the days of Sen-sen…no one had cigarette breath for long….

by Anonymousreply 146August 30, 2021 4:14 PM

Farley much preferred dick over pussy.

by Anonymousreply 147August 30, 2021 5:10 PM

Read something about how Farley Granger was invited to dine at some Hollywood mogul or producer's home. Once there wife of said person sat Mr. Granger down and basically said his dalliances with men weren't really a huge issue, what he did in his private life wasn't anyone's business. But carrying on in public with Shelly Winters was another matter....

Said wife went on that Ms. Winters was basically a slut and that being seen in public or worse perceived as being romantically involved with the woman could harm Farley Granger's career.

by Anonymousreply 148August 31, 2021 7:29 PM

Speaking of the slut, Debbie Reynolds said in her last book that she was at a Hollywood party where Shelley was openly serviced by men under her flowing gown.

Deb never forgave Shelley for being a bitch on wheels during the filming of What's the Matter with Helen? It cost her a load of money since she was the main producer (but not credited).

by Anonymousreply 149August 31, 2021 7:59 PM

"Shelley Winters figures strongly in Granger’s own memoir, but not the fact that Granger and Calhoun had helped her get an apartment downstairs in this very building.

“She was really startlingly smart, and original, and articulate. She was terrific, you know, when in a good mood, but when not in a good mood was totally impossible. She’d been freezing in her big old apartment on Riverside Drive, so when she got into this building she not only kept the curtains closed tight but put mattresses against all the windows and turned the place into a sauna.”

Granger and she had been in one movie together, “Behave Yourself,” a 1951 comedy. “She walked off the set one day. She said: ‘Jimmy Wong Howe [the cinematographer] is favoring Farley.’ And she once said to her housekeeper: ‘Don’t serve the wine in the good glasses. I think Farley is stealing the good glasses.’ ”

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by Anonymousreply 150August 31, 2021 8:12 PM

Can you imagine eating Shelley Winters’ pussy??? Yuck!!!!!!

by Anonymousreply 151August 31, 2021 8:14 PM

He was a bit wooden as an actor but he was beautiful to look at.

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by Anonymousreply 152August 31, 2021 11:12 PM

Shelley Winters called him Farfel.

by Anonymousreply 153August 31, 2021 11:35 PM

R44, R132 The British were also squeamish about their men displaying their navel

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by Anonymousreply 154September 30, 2022 1:47 AM

Farley took over the role of the gay playwright in "Deathtrap" on Broadway and played it from March 17, 1981, to June 13, 1982.

by Anonymousreply 155September 30, 2022 2:12 AM

He was so hot in Hans Christian Anderson....

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by Anonymousreply 156October 1, 2022 12:19 AM

^ He has no meat on his buttocks!

by Anonymousreply 157October 1, 2022 12:20 AM

Granger was the weak link in "Strangers On A Train". Not enough to derail this great movie, but he just pales in comparison to the rest of the cast (kind of like Robert Cummings in "Dial M For Murder")

Weirdly, he was wonderful in his soap role on "As The World Turns" and had great chemistry with Eileen Fulton and Margaret Reed.

by Anonymousreply 158October 1, 2022 1:13 AM

I think Hitchcock wrote his characters in Strangers on a Train and Rope as closeted gays so the uptight, subdued persona worked in that favor. Moreso in Rope as being tortured by a secret that's killing him inside was an allegory for the closet.

by Anonymousreply 159October 2, 2022 3:32 PM

A bit rodenty. Nick Jonas with bigger eyes.

by Anonymousreply 160October 2, 2022 3:35 PM

R160 Farley's white passing?

by Anonymousreply 161October 2, 2022 3:37 PM
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