Anyone interested in some 60s gay gossip?

Tell us who these people are.

Keep posting op!

#2 sounds like Aldo Ray.

1. James Garner?

Garner fits none of the clues for #1. Assuming it wasn't made up, that one should be relatively easy to crack given the details provided and that it happened prior to 1966, which rules out quite a few failed action shows and actors who hadn't divorced by then.

3. "Fred (pseudonym) was a barroom brawler who lost more fights than he won. Once he received a broken nose which held up production for days. He spent several different nights in the drunk-tank, and was given to mysterious disappearances...it turns out Fred would not or could not accept his homosexual streak...his drinks coincided with his homosexual urges..." It also says Fred was reduced to low-budget Poverty Row films at some point in his career

Service in Korea was fairly standard for that generation of actors (as was football), so it's the cruelty, career timeline and possibly tennis that are key. Ty Hardin, who had a very messy life, fits most of the clues: football, Korea, career didn't pan out as intended and he was starring in spaghetti westerns by the time of the book's publication. His first divorce was on the grounds of emotional cruelty and he played tennis. But he went to high school in Texas.

4. "Jay is a big star on both TV and in the movies. He has been arrested several times as a common drunk and once for drunk driving. This last conviction sent him to a county Honor Camp for thirty days...Early in his Hollywood career, Jay had indulged in active homosexuality with an agent, the man who got him his first role. It was repulsive to him at the time, and he began to drink heavily out of guilt...Jay had always been a ladies' man and had once been a top football player. He could not face the fact that he might have been inclined toward homosexuality..." He was on location in a small Utah town and came on to his stand-in, then had the stand-in fired for knowing too much.

Fred at R6 sounds like Robert Blake.

R7, interesting. Allan Nixon guest-starred on Bronco, so he probably knew Hardin

This thread is why I come to DL. Keep em coming, OP!

R3 (clue #2) sounds hot.

5. "A tragic case is that of Richard (pseudonym)...Richard would neither give in to his desires, nor could he reject them , thus setting up an unbearable conflict...His drinking cost him the lead in a top-rated TV drama. He was replaced, according to the trade papers, for reasons of health. But insiders knew it was alcoholism that caused him professional demise. The poor fellow even had D.T.'s on the set, and was carried off under restraint. Today, he has cirrhosis of the liver..."

6. One gay Lothario, who specializes in two-fisted Western portrayals, ran into another hunk of fluff who looks like a real man, in the studio commissary recently. "I hear your wife's pregnant, Queenie" he said. "That's right," said the other in a masculine growl. "Thank God I won't have to go THAT route again!"

#3 also sounds like Aldo Ray!

#2 sounds like maybe Jack Palance to me because of the broken nose.

Could #3 be Robert Mitchum?

THEY'RE ALL ALDO RAY!

[quote] Tell us who these people are.

You assume a book from 1966 was gonna name names?!

#3

Lawrence Tierney

7. "Lee (pseudonym)...had made three movies and was the idol of the teenagers. His fan mail was coming in at the rate of 1500 letters a week..." He gets drafted but worries he might get sent to Vietnam, so he tells the draft board about how he was arrested at an all-male orgy before he was famous. He was excused from military duty and continues to "fool the girls". He was married early in his career and when his wife found out the truth about him she divorced him on grounds of cruelty. He puts up a front of dating "the top sex-machines in the business"

8. "Marty is...rich and famous...his forte is playing juvenile boys. In his early twenties, he looks sixteen, pink-cheeked, beardless. Hollywood High and Fairfax High were his favorite haunts. He hung around the malt shops, contacted impressionable boys there...Many of his sexual aberrations were practiced in the restrooms of gas stations, contiguous to the schools"...

Initially he went unrecognized due to the "thick, corrective glasses he wears off-screen"...but he hit on an undercover cop. He was arrested for lewd vagrancy but studio pressure got the charges dropped. "It was publicly announced that Marty had suffered a nervous collapse, triggered by his wife's decision to divorce him..." After six months in a sanitarium, Marty emerged as "cured".

9. "Danny is the hottest young star on the Hollywood horizon today. He is worth a million at twenty-six, and his potential would indicate several more millions before he was through"

He gets caught performing oral sex on an underage boy in a parked car and is arrested. The studio pays off the cops and the boy and the charges are dropped. Danny's career continues.

I'd prefer some current juicy gossip.

Yeah, these are all so random they could be anybody. And more likely, nobody.

10. This one is about the male star of an action series shooting on the lot of a major tv/movie studio. "The husky six-footer is built like a Greek god, refined in his mannerisms, but extremely masculine. He has sensitive hands and thin-sculptured features somewhat at variance with his muscular physique" His wife was divorcing him and was going to claim in the divorce suit that he was cheating on her with her own brother. The suits convinced her not to go through with it, because they didn't want to throw away all the $$$ they had spent on the show

11. "Annie the Agent" is a famous agent whose name became prominent "when he started the practice of tagging his...clients with absurd but colorful names"

Many of Annie's boys have become top stars, and he expects them to perform for him in exchange for furthering their careers.

One of Annie's boys came to Hollywood from Louisiana and struggled to make it at first. He is picked up at the beach by an older actor known to be gay by insiders, but not the general public (despite having been married several times). The older actor is still considered a heart-throb despite being in his sixties. The older actor fucks him and then passes him on to "Annie"...the young actor gets a tv show, which turns out to be a hit, then becomes a top movie actor.

Okay, the agent is clearly Henry Willson, but who are the actors?

12. A star "noted for his portrayals of a two-fisted private eye" likes prowling movie theaters to jerk off guys in the dark. The actor has a very straight image and "is considered a bedroom athlete supreme with women"

13. Two actors who hit it big on Broadway but not in the movies:

Mark was the star of a long-running Broadway drama. Tons of studios wanted to sign him and he was so in demand that one studio signed him without a test. "On the screen...he emerged as a simpering, obvious homo." The studio released him. He left Hollywood with no picture credit.

Bill was in a hit Broadway musical. Women loved him, and he had a fantastic singing voice. When he was brought out to Hollywood to do a screen test, he came across as too obviously gay to make it. "His picture demise cost a fortune, and his career was buried swiftly and quietly without a service"

14. Rick was a very handsome guy who first came to the notice of talent scouts when he appeared in a shaving commercial. Rick relied on men to help him pay the bills in his early days. One was "Jackie" a costume designer "who had won an Academy Award for dressing the star that won the Oscar that year". Jackie liked to pick up men while dressed in drag. Jackie got tired of Rick and passed him along to "Henri" a famous dance director. Henri was wealthy and older and didn't mind supporting Rick. Through Henri, Rick met "a reigning movie queen - a voluptuous, chesty girl of thirty-five, whom we shall call Ellen." Ellen fell for him and pulled strings to help him in his career. Rick left Henri for Ellen and Rick became a big star. Rick and Ellen were married and were hyped as a golden couple. Rick soon surpassed Ellen in popularity. Henri died bitter and alone. Rick avoided his funeral, trying to forget his gay past.

Cary Grant for older actor #11?

We need the accompanying audiobook sung by Lou Reed.

James Coburn for #14 (R30)?

I never thought of James Coburn was handsome.

Lee Marvin and Robert Conrad

Isn't #14 Cary Grant, along with Orry-Kelly?

Pre-stardom, "Jim" Coburn's Remington commercial.

[quote] I never thought of James Coburn was handsome.

He had his appeal.

By Nick Allen, 1966

I always thought James Coburn was incredibly sexy. A pansexual devilish vibe that suggested he'd happily fuck anyone.

Are we talking James "Go with God, Crispy" Coburn?

I'll throw John Smith in for #10.

Allan Nixon has quite a lurid story (if not a gay one). Apparently he was a reporter/informant for Confidential magazine.

I'd be curious about the two guys in r29. Did they go crawling back to Broadway, which apparently DOES go for simpering, obvious homos?

The clues are interesting but I am sure the answer to 3/4 are guys we’ve barely ever heard of.

I wondered if #6 was Robert Conrad, he would have been on the Wild Wild West at the time

#10 does sound like John Smith. He was on the popular show Laramie and had a short-lived marriage

15. "A fine actor whose stage roles have won him wide acclaim as well as many movie heavies, Matt (pseudonym) had but one heterosexual affair in his life. And it proved costly. Out of the one-shot union, a son was born. To this day, Matt supports the boy and will continue to do so until he is twenty-one - a few years hence...At the time, Matt was living with a baritone. They're still sweethearts." Matt married the woman but they didn't live together

R48 Bea Arthur was a baritone so maybe Matt wasn't necessarily a gay

Coburn *does* have BDF.

Tedious bullshit of the high school variety.

"Girls! You'll never GUESS who I SAW with X!" "Well I won't name names BUUUUUTTTT..."

Tony Curtis has to be in one of these blinds.

Burt Reynolds

R47 Sensitive hands for #10? How the fuck would we know that?

[quote]3. "Fred (pseudonym) was a barroom brawler who lost more fights than he won. Once he received a broken nose which held up production for days. He spent several different nights in the drunk-tank, and was given to mysterious disappearances...it turns out Fred would not or could not accept his homosexual streak...his drinks coincided with his homosexual urges..." It also says Fred was reduced to low-budget Poverty Row films at some point in his career

This screams Lawrence Tierney. Arrested many, many times for "drunk & disorderly"; Poverty Row-heavy filmography (can one be "reduced" to doing low-budget films if that's what makes up their entire resume?). And oh, look at this Wikipedia entry:

[quote]With much of his career and personal life repeatedly embroiled in legal problems and hampered by chronic alcoholism, Tierney elected to never marry despite having several short-term relationships with a number of women in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s. He did, however, father a daughter named Elizabeth who was born in 1961.

I think Tierney was a constant "bar brawler" because he felt he needed to "prove something".

R33 Coburn was never married to a "reigning movie queen."

Lawrence Tierney.....yum!

So who were the reigning movie queens of the, likely, ‘50s?

Cesar Romero

Lawrence Tierney, Lawrence Tierney

Men have named you

Love this, OP! I haven't read through all the blind items posted but I'm going to guess that one of the answers is definitely going to be John Wayne.

Lawrence Tierney was a true psychopath. For about a decade he was always on the cusp of becoming A list but his mental shit would always put an end to that. Then some TV show, I think Seinfeld, was giving him a little resurgence and he stabbed someone on the set and put an end to everything again. He's was a total nutcase though.

[quote]Rick relied on men to help him pay the bills in his early days. One was "Jackie" a costume designer "who had won an Academy Award for dressing the star that won the Oscar that year".

I have way too much time on my hands today, and so I worked out that Cecil Beaton won the 1964 Costume Design Oscar for My Fair Lady, the year Rex Harrison won Best Actor for the film. Now to find out what older dance director would've crossed paths with Beaton...

R63, Robert Alton as the dance director?

Alton is a good guess

R8 sounds like Tommy Kirk

Was Tommy Kirk a top football player, r66?

They wanted Lucy to be #3 but Gary talked her out of it.

Wow, the Entertainment Lawyer is stealing the stuff I posted

OP, I like the Mickey Rooney guesses there. Mickey ... Marty. Pretty close.

Cool OP!

You've arrived.

yeah...it's been obvious for years that Enty or one of his minions lurks here and swipes stuff.