Farley granger gay

Bisexual actor Farley Granger (1925-2011) made his mark in the Alfred Hitchcock psychological thrillers Rope(1948) and Strangers on a Train(1951), both movies with gay subtexts. Although he carried on a number of scandalous affairs with both men and women, unlike most other actors who were gay or bisexual, Granger refused to marry to keep his fans and studios off the scent of his male relationships. When studio bosses berated him for being seen having dinner with composer Aaron Copland, a acknowledged homosexual, he shot assist, “(Copland is) one of the most important composers in America, a gentleman I met at this studio when you hired him to write the score for The North Star,” which was Granger’s debut film (1943). “I’m not going to be told...who I can or cannot see in my private life.” Granger turned on his heels and walked out of Sam Goldwyn’s office.

Granger had been scouted at age 17 by a studio rep for Goldwyn and had featured roles in the The North Star and The Purple Heart(1944) before going into the Navy a few days after he turned 18. Still a virgin at age 20, he found himself stationed in Honolulu. Determined to

By Elisabeth Karlin

Beautiful Farley Granger died on Parade 27 in New York City. He was 85. As his obituaries own noted, Granger is optimal known for the two films he made with Alfred Hitchcock. Often dismissed as a kind of Montgomery Clift-Lite, Farley Granger was much more than a pretty face in the way he approached his work and how he lived his life.

Years before Granger proclaimed his own bi-sexuality, Hitchcock cast him in two roles that boldly crossed the lines of conventional sexuality. In 1948's Rope, Granger plays Phillip, the jumpier one of the murderous Leopold and Loeb-like couple. There is no suspect that Phillip and his partner in crime Brandon (John Dall) are lgbtq+. Along with, as screenwriter Arthur Laurents has confirmed, their mentor Ruper Cadell (James Stewart.)

Seemingly dominated by the glib and guilt-free Brandon, it is Phillip who bears the weight of their deadly deed. Granger's Phillip is haunted and high strung. Rope, told in long takes and real time, has Granger start off at a pitch of steep anxiety that he deftly portrays without sending the character over the scenery-chewing top. He even manages to inject the story with welcome humor as he

I watched Old Hollywood movie star Farley Granger in Alfred Hitchcock's classic film Rope on TV last night and I thought, “My God, this guy is hot.”

Then I googled him and discovered Farley died (of natural causes) at his home in Manhattan this past March 27 at the age of 85.

I met Mr. Granger once, back in 2007, when St-Martin’s Urge published his memoirs Include Me Out. And I asked him then about Rope, which was loosely based on real-life, early-20th-century gay killers Leopold and Loeb, who committed a “thrill kill” to impress their mentor who, in Rope, is played by James Stewart.

Granger and his co-star, the late John Dall, played the gay killers. Coincidentally, in real life, Granger was bisexual and Dall was gay.

“John and I did argue the [gay] relationship between our characters,” Granger told me in New York City. “But we never discussed our own confidential lives. We discussed [sexuality] in terms of our characters, not our personal lives. You got to realize this was 1947. No one discussed those things openly then. People forget that. The pos ‘gay’ wasn’t even appropriated yet.̶

Partner Arthur Laurents, James Mitchell, Robert Calhoun

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Farley Earle Granger Jr.^[1] (July 1, 1925 – Parade 27, 2011) was an American actor, best established for his two collaborations with director Alfred Hitchcock: Rope in 1948 and Strangers on a Train in 1951.

Granger was first noticed in a small stage production in Hollywood by a Goldwyn casting director, and given a significant role in The North Star (1943), a controversial film praising the Soviet Union at the height of Earth War II, but later condemned for its political bias. Another war motion picture, The Purple Heart, followed, before Granger's naval service in Honolulu, in a unit that arranged troop entertainment in the Pacific. Here he made useful contacts, including Bob Expectation, Betty Grable and Rita Hayworth. It was also where he began exploring his bisexuality, which he said he never felt any need to conceal.

In a September 1944 Photoplay article depicting Granger in uniform, there's a quote from his mother insisting that her son was "a normal boy" who had lots of gir