Angela Lansbury Wed a Gay Actor before Fdg Te Love wh Hband of 53 Years Peter Shaw

It won’t e as too much of a surprise to anyone who watched Angela Lansbury’s reer that she was close wh her fair share of gay men throughout her life. Early her reer, when she first moved to Los Angel to pursue a film reer, Lansbury beme iends wh a group of gay men, and beme volved the cy’s unrground gay scene. It was the 1940s and public attus to gay people were not kd – but Lansbury didn’t re.

In 1945, she followed what is sentially a re of passage of every gay in – she married a gay man. Sadly, that was the only time the two gay ins appeared on screen together – both of their reers at MGM, unr Hollywood’s stud system, were relatively short lived.

She starred Gypsy and Sweeney Todd, but there was one role particular that tly cemented her stat as both a gay in and as a legend of the stage.

SEVEN TIM ANGELA LANSBURY PROVED HERSELF A FIERCE GAY ALLY AND IN

It was also wh Mame that Lansbury beme a much-loved gay in. The character had already been popular the gay muny bee of the non-mil film Auntie Mame, which meant that queer folk flocked to see Lansbury the role. To this day, Mame remas hugely popular wh gay dienc.

“I’m very proud of the fact that I am a gay in, ” Lansbury clared at the age of 88. Her fictnal tective character immediately beme one of televisn’s most wily loved figur, and helped her amass an even bigger gay followg.

The late Angela Lansbury said she had no regrets about marryg a man she later realised was gay. Speakg to Rad Tim 2017, the Murr, She Wrote star nfirmed that her first hband had been gay.

ANGELA LANSBURY HAD NO REGRETS ABOUT MARRYG A GAY MAN

“I had no ia that I was marryg a gay man, ” she said. Although wasn't revealed at the time why they broke up, later beme known that Cromwell happened to be gay.

ANGELA LANSBURY WAS 'SHOCKED' WHEN HER MARRIAGE TO HER GAY HBAND END

The pair didn't discs why their unn hadn't worked at the time, but years later Angela revealed that wasn't only their age gap that was an obstacle, but the fact that Cromwell was gay.

ANGELA LANSBURY'S MARRIAG: HEARTBREAK AFTER GAY HBAND LEFT TO FDG HER TE LOVE

"I had no ia that I was marryg a gay man... She told Terry Gross’ Frh Air rad show: "I had known so many gay people Hollywood.

She add: “When turned out that he was (gay), I never blamed him for any way. The proud gay in leav behd a legacy of rich performanc that will ntue to enterta for s to e. By this time, Disney films were about as gay as a piic basket.

I did not know at the time but would soon learn that Lansbury and the gays had been engaged a love ft for years.

ANGELA LANSBURY WAS VASTATED AFTER BEG ABANDONED BY GAY HBAND

From her but and Osr-nomated role as Nancy 1944’s “Gaslight, ” directed by Gee Cor, whose homosexualy was well known Hollywood circl, Lansbury thrilled gay dienc. The early rol all took place the 1940s, but 26 years later, 1966, Lansbury would take on the role that would solidify her place as a gay in.

The gays ran to the theater drov. And gay men ate up. Jsi was not particularly glamoro — que the oppose — but the gay dience intified wh the feisty senr cizen who was so often st asi and unrtimated.

5 on Playbill’s list of Defive Divas Who Are Gay Ins. “I am very proud of the fact that I am a gay in, ” Lansbury, as reported by The Advote, said an terview while she was appearg Blythe Spir London.

HOW ANGELA LANSBURY’S DEATH IS A REMR THAT OUR BELOVED GAY INS LIVE ON THEIR LEGACI

She creded her stat the gay muny to her role as Mame. As a man of a certa age (50), I ntue to watch as the gay ins I grew up wh make their ex one by one.

#BORNTHISDAY: GAY IN, ANGELA LANSBURY

That’s the thg about gay ins. She was Osr nomated aga the next year, wng a Goln Globe Award for The Picture Of Dorian Gray based on the story by the ultimate gay man, Osr Wil, who also has a birthday today. Even wh her inic role Murr, She Wrote, Lansbury’s te legacy is her work on stage, begng wh the gay themed A Taste Of Honey (1961) and then Stephen Sondheim‘s licly tuneful, but troubled mil Anyone Can Whistle (1964).

WHO WERE ANGELA LANSBURY'S HBANDS? INSI ACTRS' LIFE WH GAY PARTNER AND 'THE PERFECT RELATNSHIP'

The marriage only lasted a few months when they both disvered that he was gay.

The met at a party hosted by Lansbury’s Picture Of Dorian Gray gay star Hurd Hatfield. Lansbury’s reer is often associated wh the works of many noted gay artists: Sondheim, Arthur Lrents, Coward, Herman, Vidal, Cor, and Stephen Rutledge. Bee of her giant talent, glamour and awomens, she is easily named a Top Gay In.

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ANGELA LANSBURY, GAY IN & STAR OF MURR SHE WROTE, DI AT 96

ANGELA LANSBURY, GAY IN & STAR OF MURR SHE WROTE, DI AT 96

ANGELA LANSBURY, GAY IN & STAR OF MURR SHE WROTE, DI AT 96

‘I’M PROUD TO BE A GAY IN!’: ANGELA LANSBURY OPENS UP IN NEW INTERVIEW