"Psycho" actor Anthony Perks lived his life hidg the fact that he was a gay man. He eventually married a woman, and together they had two kids. Here's a glimpse to the life of the star who domated the 50s and 60s
Contents:
- ANTHONY PERKS LIVED DOUBLE LIFE – MARRIAGE TO BERRY BERENSON AT 41 AFTER YEARS OF GAY AFFAIRS
- TAB HUNTER: HOW HOLLYWOOD'S BOY NEXT DOOR BEME A GAY IN
- GAY CODG HCHCK FILMS
- TAB HUNTER: `I HAD A GAY ROMANCE WH ANTHONY PERKS'
- ON THIS GAY DAY: ACTOR ANTHONY PERKS WAS BORN
- TAB HUNTER’S TRIALS AND TRIBULATNS: 7 THGS WE LEARNED FROM THE LATE GAY HEARTTHROB’S NETFLIX DOCUMENTARY
- HOLLYWOOD GAYS: CONVERSATNS WH CARY GRANT, ANTHONY PERKS, LIBERACE, CEASER ROMERO AND OTHERS
ANTHONY PERKS LIVED DOUBLE LIFE – MARRIAGE TO BERRY BERENSON AT 41 AFTER YEARS OF GAY AFFAIRS
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"Psycho" actor Anthony Perks lived his life hidg the fact that he was a gay man. Anthony Perks lived a double life and married Berry Berenson at age 41 after years of gay affairs. As a gay man, Perks chose to live the closet bee he feared losg his as a homosexual man back the 50s and 60s, was not easy for gay actors to live their tth, and so Perks cid the only way he was gog to keep pursug his reer is by not disclosg that he was homosexual.
The bgraphy is also one of the first books to exame the dual life of a proment gay the book, Weff, a UCLA film-school graduate, illtrat how one unfettable movie n rult the typestg that kills a promisg Anthony Perks leav Spago rtrant 1991 Los Angel | Photo: ShutterstockFor stance, by 1981, Perks was rced to dog aftershave mercials Japan. However, the book about his life story lv eply to the clstrophobic era for gay thor tails what one of Perks’ male lovers lled “the excciatg dance of the fifti” like an anthropologist. He also not the seedy trysts Tim Square gay porno theaters and the arranged dat wh starlets for “Morn Screen.
”It also clus the fear the gay actors had that magaz like Confintial would expose them the way did wh Tab Hunter, who was allegedly one of Perks' first love Silvana Mangano (1930 - 1989) and Anthony Perks (1932 - 1992) on the movie set of 'This Angry Age' at Cectà Studs 1957 Rome | Photo: Getty ImagAnother one of Perks' early lovers, William, explaed that his relatnship wh Perks was a love affair, "but to anyone else, we were 'llege buddi. '" The Harvard scholar add:"Gay lovers who acted like gay lovers were somethg that only existed the Greek Isl… This was the fifti.
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Perks revealed how beg famo drew the attentn of several leadg women whose advanc left him “shook up and also shared he had a homosexual enunter but scribed "that kd of sex" as "unsatisfyg. Spl Image: The Life of Anthony Perks ”Of urse we’d heard he’d married, ” says Don Bachardy, a longtime gay iend of actor Tony Perks. Acrdg to Spl Image: The Life of Anthony Perks, was more important that Hollywood believe Perks, who married photographer Berenson at age 41 after years of gay affairs, was straight.
It is also one of the first books to exame the dual life of a major gay celebry.
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But Spl Image is at s most powerful as a wdow to an pecially clstrophobic era for gay actors.
He brgs to life the seedy trysts Tim Square gay porno theaters (where Perks sometim passively watched other men have sex on the stairs), the arranged dat wh starlets for Morn Screen, and the fear gay actors had that magaz like Confintial would expose them — the way did wh Tab Hunter, allegedly one of Perks’ first lovers. ”Gay lovers who acted like gay lovers were somethg that only existed the Greek Isl….
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” Needls to say, if a leadg man pped to beg gay the ’50s or ’60s he would have ep-sixed his reer. By all acunts, Perks was voted to Berenson and his boys, though his gay iends privately doubted his claims that he was fahful to her.
Unlike Marn Wik, the NPR mentator who wrote a rivetg memoir of her marriage to a gay ice skater, First Com Love, Weff is never able to nvcgly pture the odd ti that n sometim bd a homosexual man and a straight woman. Weff (who met Perks once when he sold him porn a gay bookstore) adms the preface that he has felt hnted by Perks sce adolcence and saw the actor as his ”doppelganger.
) Weff’s triumph is tailg how plex both Perks’ public and private liv were and how the homosexual closet n be more ambiguo than some gay activists might want to adm. Now that gay actors like Nathan Lane, Jim Parsons, Victor Garber, Jonathan Groff, and Neil Patrick Harris are “out of the closet” and on the rise, ’s hard to image jt how different thgs were the relatively recent past. Not only was the notn of beg openly gay and havg a viable reer unimagable, but gayns self was also a ncept pole society uldn’t untenance.
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“Homosexuals” subsisted on society’s margs, mentned only whispered gossip, fearsome psychiatric studi, and Conservative diatrib cryg perversn.
Still, spe of all, gay men managed to make their way to very top of the actg profsn the gild closets of Hollywood.
Here are five of the most noteworthy exampl of gay actors mid-Century Hollywood. Part of s all-star st, Liberace giv a marveloly wty performance as luxury ff salman who’s subtly yet obvly gay.
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” What’s most tertg about the se is that on the stand, Liberace nied that he dulged homosexual practic. The ser cril receptn given to two of the postmortem Liberace bpic for televisn Liberace: Behd the Mic (1988) wh gay Victor Garber and a screenplay by the gay Gav Lambert, and Behd the Canlabra (2011) wh the straight Michael Douglas and Matt Damon, directed by the equally straight Steven Sorbergh reflects his populary. Their producer, Ross Hunter (who was also gay) nnily st the young actor alongsi veteran star Jane Wyman both films, th wng the heart of olr female moviegoers enamored of good-lookg young men.
He wed Phyllis Gat, the secretary of his gay manager Henry Willson, 1956. It lasted only two years, but served s purpose., Still didn’t fortall a joke mor that he had married his iend, sger-actor Jim Nabors (who was also gay but not closeted) om makg the rounds.
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For s, the gay love affair between heartthrobs Tab Hunter and Anthony Perks was one of Hollywood's bt and simultaneoly worst kept secrets. Now, 's beg ma to a movie. * anthony perkins gay *
In 1950, he was arrted along wh a group of other gay men for Disorrly Conduct when the police raid a private party, which was not an unmon circumstance. Que matter-of-fact about his gayns by then, Tab told all a book and documentary movie Tab Hunter Confintial. Perks me que late to marriage (1973) havg spent the better part of his life as a closeted but a somewhat eewheelg gay man whose lovers clud (the prevly noted) Tab Hunter, actor-dancer Grover Dale, Rudolph Nureyev (who certaly got around), and Stephen Sondheim, wh whom he -scripted the edy-thriller The Last of Sheila.
Yet Perks ntued to have gay liaisons — so dangero that he ntracted HIV and died of AIDS.
Maharis had a difficult time beg his gay self, beg obliged, as all actors were at that time, to stay the closet.
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