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

Contents:

• FARLEY GRANGER DI — WAS GAY – NOT BISEXUAL.
• GAY CODG HCHCK FILMS
• FARLEY GRANGER ON GAY SUBTEXT ‘ROPE’: ‘IT WAS NEVER DISCSED’
• HOW BARBRA STREISAND AND ROBERT REDFORD’S ‘THE WAY WE WERE’ WAS INSPIRED BY A REAL-LIFE GAY ROMANCE (BOOK EXCERPT)
• “SLAUGHTER AND BE GAY”: HCHCK AND FARLEY GRANGER
• MOVIE STARS: GRANGER, FARLEY–GAY/BISEXUAL ACTOR (STRANGERS ON A TRA) (LGBTQ0

FARLEY GRANGER DI — WAS GAY – NOT BISEXUAL.

Oddly, even though he was gay (he says bisexual) he did not live Long Valley, New Jersey USA — the bisexual pal of the world. He lied about Ava Garner and Shelley Wters bee he was a total gay and he had to say that to make look like he was a lite artist.

In typil Hchck-ian fashn, the "Master of Spense" often employed his films subtle referenc to gay culture, fyg nservative attus of the late '50s. Did Mart Land play a homosexual North by Northwt?

GAY CODG HCHCK FILMS

Did Aled Hchck really show gay sex on-screen Rope, albe an unual way? And, most surprisgly, did Hchck pict a gay marriage way back 1938’s The Lady Vanish? If he wanted to refer to homosexualy, as he did at least 10 of his movi, Hchck would e what are now lled “gay s.

” The are subtle referenc that gay people and their alli would regnize but uld pass by most of the dience unnoticed.

FARLEY GRANGER ON GAY SUBTEXT ‘ROPE’: ‘IT WAS NEVER DISCSED’

Hchck was exposed to vibrant gay muni both England and Hollywood, and he worked wh many gay and bisexual profsnals var aspects of film productn, cludg wrers and actors. He knew their subculture well, and the gay s his movi were not an accint or an oversight. The director was not prejudiced agast gay people but stead fascated by them.

Hchck worked wh too many of them to be anti-gay. In late 1920s England, Aled and Alma Hchck socialized and were good iends wh Ivor Novello and his partner, Robert “Bobbie” Andrews, who had lavish parti that were notorly gay. Hchck’s iendships and close profsnal relatnships wh gay people ntued for his entire reer.

Wh his film Rope, screenplay wrer Arthur Lrents and both young leads, John Dall and Farley Granger, were gay or bisexual, and Hchck knew . Also, Anthony Perks, who played Norman Bat Psycho, was a nflicted homosexual or perhaps a bisexual. His gay dg undoubtedly rerced those toxic attus among straight dienc sometim.

HOW BARBRA STREISAND AND ROBERT REDFORD’S ‘THE WAY WE WERE’ WAS INSPIRED BY A REAL-LIFE GAY ROMANCE (BOOK EXCERPT)

However, Hchck’s thorough and thoughtful velopment of so many gay characters reveal his humany and acceptance of homosexualy. The implied homosexualy North by Northwt has only a few subtle but unniable referenc. Leonard is a man terted fashn, the 1950s a cue for homosexualy.

“SLAUGHTER AND BE GAY”: HCHCK AND FARLEY GRANGER

Hchck giv the motive: homosexual jealoy. Hchck sets up the possibily of Leonard’s homosexualy by givg him the le “Call my woman’s tun, ” playg on a feme stereotype. ” Vandamm is genuely moved, totally acceptg and even flattered — the exact oppose of homosexual panic.

MOVIE STARS: GRANGER, FARLEY–GAY/BISEXUAL ACTOR (STRANGERS ON A TRA) (LGBTQ0

Much later, Land acknowledged that he played Leonard as a homosexual, albe subtly. The ambiguo nature of gay dg is well illtrated Strangers on a Tra. Many crics today read the character Bno (Robert Walker) as gay.

S., tong down the implied homosexualy the Amerin versn — proof posive that he was fully aware of the gay implitns his movi. There are two scen wh gay dg and possibly a third.

It n be read as a gay pick-up, or uld simply be a scene about a stalker wh a plan. The send scene has Hchck’s strongt gay s the movie. He is obvly a mama’s boy and is drsed flamboyant cloth, both cu of homosexualy at the time.