Farley Granger has to be the most underrated Old Hollywood male beauty

You may find this thread of interest. There have also been seven more recent threads about him, primarily about his sexuality.

Please OP!

Skinny as a skink.

Pendulous lower lip (like a loon's)

Tubercular chest.

An utterly passive demeanour.

Gee, OP, what a non scoop. Farley Granger is a DL glamour guy fav.

Why do people come up with such preposterous trolling headlines to start a thread? To provoke slapback like mine?

Maureen O' Hara was twice as butch.

She put Farley across her knee to slap some sense into his flat buttocks.

Farley was passive.

He was absolutely sex on a stick in Hans Christian Anderson as the ballerinas husband.

^ He has no meat on his buttocks!

He's kinda like the Rob Lowe, Ryan Phillipe and Keanu Reeves of his day. Very beautiful but not much there. Not at all a great actor but the camera loved him. Hitchcock and Nicholas Ray got good performances out of him. Rope and Strangers on a Train are important gay-coded films. They Live By Night was the prototype to Rebel Without A Cause and one of the earliest modern teen films. I liked Side Street and Edge of Doom too, great film noirs.

I find it interesting he was born rich but his family lost their wealth and his mom put him into the entertainment industry hoping to get something.

I recently watched that movie Farley and Shelley did together called Behave Yourself. That was the 1950s equivalent of generic, lukewarm romcoms just created to cash in on a celebrity PR pairing. Neither Farley and Shelley were very funny in it either. The cute little dog was the most talented actor there.

For a Mexican, he is just average. Desi Arnaz was a way sexier Mexican.

I saw him play Dracula at the Westport Playhouse in1978, as an 8 yo I was very impressed. Super handsome, would he have been in his 40s?

Like Monty Clift, Farley had a subtle not quite straight presence, even when trying to butch it up. He wasn’t comparable to Newman, Brando and other stars of that era who were more traditionally masculine and sexual seeming.

Farley was perfect in They Live By Night, Strangers on a Train and Rope. I agree he didn't pass for straight and he lacked the masculinity and aggression of Brando. He's more passive and has this androgynous energy. Similar to Monty actually. Farley should have worked with Nicholas Ray and Hitchcock more because they tapped into strengths.

Anyone who can pretend he enjoyed fucking Arthur Laurents is a great actor.

His memoir is great. Read it now.

But he aged into such a milquetoast.

I wonder if Harry Belafonte let Farley suck him off under the influence.

Hottie

Op, just no. You've been bumping this thread for 3 months and there are no FG takers.

I'll take Farley.

It's good Farley settled down early and was in liberal circles to explore his bisexuality back in 1940s/50s and leaving Hollywood early improved his confidence. If he was still a fucked up closet case, he may have ended up an AIDS casualty. Thank goodness he found a man and discovered the joys of sexual exclusivity.

He looked pretty Mediterranean. But apparently he's just English and Dutch. Must be that ancient Celtic DNA.

Who has read his autobiography?

He was great in film noirs. He sucked in comedies though as he's not funny.

We randomly started watching a 1981 slasher called The Prowler. I had to look up the movie on IMDb to confirm it really was Farley Granger playing the sheriff. Funny seeing him slumming in something like that. It’s a pretty bad film. Spoiler: Farley’s character is the killer.

OP, quit trying to make fetch (and Farley) happen!

SPOILER!

Farley was the killer on Murrder, She wrote.

When I first saw Strangers On a Train, when I first saw Farley’s first scene, there was just something about him that seemed so coquettish with the other actor, I thought, “Is he gay?”

I had the same experience last night watching The Magnificent Seven. Young Horst Buchholz was just OGLING Yul Brynner, I wondered if he was gay, and yes, a it turns out, he was bisexual, just like Farley.

Pouted his way thru "Rope." But indeed pretty...

Oh, the Underrated Troll is back, we see.

R29 He's come across as even more gayer in "Behave Yourself" with Shelley Winters. That was a clear PR movie to convince the public they were really a couple. LMFAO at the title card portraying Shelley as some type of sexy vamp.

Farley had a similar androgynous quality to Louis Jourdan, who was actually straight, unlike Farley.

R32 I gave up watching after the first painful ten minutes.

He talks about why he felt his career didn't take off the way Goodwyn wanted and getting typecast as dark, brooding antiheroes or bland love interests didn't help either. Shelley is such a fag hag.

Makes my midwestern Oakdale heart proud that he and Calhoun shared a (seemingly) nice life.

MARY!

Granger was too gentle and passive to fit the all-American movie lead at the time. I think he was best in those psychological films he did.