Was farley granger gay

Even though Farley Granger was pretty male lover, he had superb chemistry with Cathy O’Donnell

R19 People will accuse you of being a bi troll for saying that. But it’s true he didn’t identify as gay.

Tell me about your life in New York right now.

I’m a vast movie fan so I go to the movies a lot or hold lunch at Café Luxembourg with ancient friends like Jimmy Mitchell. He was one of the Agnes DeMille dancers, and now he plays Palmer Cortland on All My Children. We’ll gossip about mutual acquaintances like Arthur Laurents.

Whom you had one of your first relationships with. How was he in bed?

[Long pause.] I don’t want to talk about him. I’d be too tempted to declare something mean.

Ouch! What about Lenny Bernstein as a lover?

Very passionate.

Aggressive like his conducting?

I’m not going to get specific with you. He was terrific to be with.

Of all the men and women you were with, who attracted you most?

I surmise Ava [Gardner]. First time I saw her, I consideration, Wow, that lady is something else. She was playfulness, and she wasn’t into Hollywood game. The women I’ve loved, I’ve loved completely, so I can’t rule out that side of me.

But you don’t like to notify yourself gay or even bisexual.

We’re

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Farley Earle Granger Jr.^[1] (July 1, 1925 – March 27, 2011) was an American actor, finest known 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 World War II, but later condemned for its political bias. Another war film, 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 Hope, 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

By Elisabeth Karlin

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

Years before Granger proclaimed his retain 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 doubt that Phillip and his partner in crime Brandon (John Dall) are homosexual. 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 drawn-out takes and authentic time, has Granger start off at a pitch of high 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

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 famous homosexual, he shot endorse, “(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