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- HOLLYWOOD: WERE HATTIE MCDANIEL AND TALLULAH BANKHEAD REALLY AN ITEM?RYAN MURPHY’S REVISNIST NETFLIX SERI LEANS ON AN OLD GOLN AGE MOR. BUT IS TE?BY YOHANA DTAMAY 1, 2020LEFT, OM GETTY IMAG; RIGHT, OM THE EVERETT COLLECTN.SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVETHIS POST NTAS SPOILERS FOR HOLLYWOOD.THE SECRET LIV OF HOLLYWOOD’S CLOSETED MOVIE STARS SERV AS THE MA ENGE OF HOLLYWOOD, RYAN MURPHY’S SPLASHY REIMAGG OF CEMA’S GOLN AGE. THE NETFLIX MISERI TAK HEAVY SPIRATN OM THE LIFE OF STTY BOWERS, THE LATE HOLLYWOOD PIMP WHO WORKED AT A GAS STATN THAT DOUBLED AS A SEX WORK OPERATN. REPORTEDLY, BOWERS SET UP QUEER TRYSTS FOR EVERYONE OM KATHARE HEPBURN TO CARY GRANT. WHILE THOSE TWO STARS DON’T GET THE -PTH TREATMENT HOLLYWOOD, THE SERI DO TAKE A LOOK AT THE MORED AFFAIR BETWEEN HATTIE MCDANIEL (PLAYED BY QUEEN LATIFAH) AND TALLULAH BANKHEAD (PAGET BREWSTER), PORTRAYG THE PAIR AS LOVERS EPISO FIVE.IN THE EPISO, THE DUO ARE ZIED UP AT MCDANIEL’S HOE, CHATTG AMIABLY ABOUT THEIR ALL-NIGHT FLG WH ONE OF BOWERS’S EMPLOYE. THE SHOW TREATS THE RELATNSHIP AS A FACT, PRENTG MCDANIEL AND BANKHEAD AS AN TABLISHED UPLE. IN REAL LIFE, MORS PERSISTED FOR YEARS ABOUT THE PAIR—BUT ’S HARD TO P DOWN WHEN AND WHERE THOSE MBLGS FIRST BEGAN.LIKE MANY STARS WHO MAY HAVE BEEN CLOSETED THAT ERA, NEHER WOMAN EVER NFIRMED THE WHISPERS, THOUGH THE MCDANIEL–BANKHEAD AFFAIR HAS BEEN REPEATED NONFICTN BOOKS LIKE THE GIRLS: SAPPHO GO TO HOLLYWOOD AND THE SEWG CIRCLE, A NTTED ACUNT OF LBIAN AND BISEXUAL WOMEN HOLLYWOOD. IN 2000, THERE WAS EVEN A MIL ABOUT THE PAIR, TLED TALLULAH AND HATTIE: DEAD AT THE PEARLY GAT CAFE. THE AFFAIR, SEEMS, HAS BEE AN ACCEPTED PART OF EACH ACTOR’S RPECTIVE TSELTOWN LORE.BEYOND THE AFFAIR, THOUGH, BOTH WOMEN HAD ACTIVE ROMANTIC LIV. MCDANIEL, THE GONE WH THE WD STAR WHO MA HISTORY AS THE FIRST BLACK ACTOR TO W AN AMY AWARD, MARRIED FOUR TIM OVER THE URSE OF HER REER. SHE HAD TWO BRIEF MARRIAG EARLY ON HER REER, THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER NOT, LONG BEFORE STARRG GONE WH THE WD.IN 1941, SHE MARRIED LOS ANGEL REAL TATE AGENT JAM LLOYD CRAWFORD; FOUR YEARS LATER, THEY GOT DIVORCED. MCDANIELS MARRIED A FOURTH, AND FAL, TIME 1949, TO TERR RATOR LARRY WILLIAMS; THEY DIVORCED THE FOLLOWG YEAR. MCDANIEL NEVER HAD CHILDREN, ENTSTG HER LEGACY TO HER SISTER ETTA, WHOSE CHILDREN MATA TO THIS DAY, PER THR.BANKHEAD, MEANWHILE, VELOPED A REPUTATN OVER THE URSE OF HER REER AS A SEXUAL PROVOTR, OFTEN REMEMBERED MORE FOR HER LARGER-THAN-LIFE PERSONALY THAN HER ONSCREEN PURSUS. “I WAS OBSSED WH TALLULAH BANKHEAD, BEE SHE WAS SO BALLSY AND OUT THERE, AND ALSO FELT NEVER SEEN AND NEVER APPRECIATED,” MURPHY TOLD VANY FAIR. “A BIG BROADWAY ACTRS, ME TO HOLLYWOOD, DIDN’T HAVE THE SUCCS THAT SHE WANTED.”STILL, BANKHEAD WAS WELL KNOWN A-LIST HOLLYWOOD CIRCL. “WE ALL ADORED HER,” JOAN CRAWFORD ONCE SAID, ACRDG TO THE NEW YORKER. “WE WERE FASCATED BY HER, BUT WE WERE SRED TO ATH OF HER TOO…. SHE HAD SUCH THORY, AS IF SHE LED THE EARTH, AS IF SHE WAS THE FIRST WOMAN ON THE MOON.”AS THE NEW YORKER NOT, BANKHEAD CLAIMED TO HAVE SLEPT WH 500 PEOPLE, AND WAS MORED TO HAVE HAD AFFAIRS WH A SLEW OF STARS—CLUDG ACTOR EVA LE GALLIENNE AND ACTOR JOHN EMERY, WHOM SHE MARRIED 1937, THEN DIVORCED FOUR YEARS LATER. DURG THEIR MARRIAGE, SHE REPORTEDLY VELOPED A HAB FOR SNEAKG GUTS TO THEIR BEDROOM WHILE EMERY SLEPT, THEN PULLG BACK THE VERS ON HIM. “DID YOU EVER SEE A PRICK AS BIG AS THAT BEFORE?” SHE WOULD SAY, ACRDG TO THE NEW YORKER. SOON SHE SANG A DIFFERENT TUNE: “WELL, DARLG, THE WEAPON MAY BE OF ADMIRABLE PROPORTNS, BUT THE SHOT IS SCRIBABLY WEAK.”BANKHEAD ALSO DIDN’T MD TALKG ABOUT HER OWN SEXUAL INTY. “I’M A LBIAN,” SHE ONCE SAID BY WAY OF TRODUCTN TO SOMEONE AT A PARTY, PER THE NEW YORKER. “WHAT DO YOU DO?” BUT SHE ALSO LATER JOKED THAT SHE “ULD NEVER BEE A LBIAN, BEE THEY HAVE NO SENSE OF HUMOR!”FOR MURPHY, EXPLORG THE LIV OF CLOSETED STARS WAS SENTIAL TO HOLLYWOOD, EVEN THOUGH FEW STARS OF THE ERA WERE NDID ABOUT THEIR SEXUALY.“IT ALWAYS [MATTERED] TO ME…WHERE ARE THE GAY PEOPLE?” HE SAID. “WHY ARE NO GAY PEOPLE OUT AND BEG ABLE TO BE SEEN AND BE REWARD? IT’S JT A VERY EMOTNAL THG TO BE NSTANTLY OTHER AND TO NSTANTLY NOT GET THAT BRASS RG. BUT IF YOU DO AND OTHER PEOPLE WHO ARE LIKE YOU SEE , IS A PATH FORWARD TO THEM. THEY FEEL THAT THEY N DO SOMETHG, THAT THEY ALSO HAVE A WAY FORWARD…MAYBE THEY N BE SEEN FOR EVERYTHG THAT THEY ARE, NOT JT BY THEIR SEXUALY.”ADDNAL REPORTG BY JULIE MILLER.MORE GREAT STORI FROM VANY FAIR— BEHOLD DUNE: AN EXCLIVE LOOK AT TIMOTHéE CHALAMET, ZENDAYA, OSR ISAAC, AND MORE— HOW TO WATCH EVERY MARVEL MOVIE ORR— DAVID SIMON ON THE WIRE AND HIS EQUALLY PISSED-OFF NEW SHOW, THE PLOT AGAST AMERI— BEYOND TIGER KG: 8 TE-CRIME DOCUMENTARI THAT SPARKED A SEND LOOK FROM THE LAW— DOWNTON ABBEY’S JULIAN FELLOW ON HIS NEW SERI AND THE BETY OF A SCHEMG WOMAN— ALL THE NEW 2020 MOVI STREAMG EARLY BEE OF CORONAVIS— FROM THE ARCHIVE: THE NOTOR RIVALRY OF HEDDA HOPPER AND LOUELLA PARSONS, HOLLYWOOD’S DUELG GOSSIP COLUMNISTSMOST POPULAR25 PERFECT TV EPISOS FROM THE LAST 25 YEARSBY HILLARY BISFIRST LOOK: ANTE BENG SWIMS TOWARD THE ROLE OF A LIFETIME NYADBY DAVID CANFIELDCHARLIZE THERON DENI PLASTIC SURGERY RUMORS: “BCH, I’M JT AGG!”BY SAVANNAH WALSHLOOKG FOR MORE? SIGN UP FOR OUR DAILY HOLLYWOOD NEWSLETTER AND NEVER MISS A STORY.16 BETIFUL MOVI THAT CELEBRATE THE GLORY OF NATURE1 / 16CHEVRONCHEVRONFROM 20TH CENTURY FOX/KOBAL/SHUTTERSTOCK.THE SOUND OF MICTHOUGH MANY SCEN THIS 1965 MIL WERE SHOT A STUD, THOSE MAJTIC EXTERRS OF JULIE ANDREWS TWIRLG ABOUT AND SGG “THE SOUND OF MIC” SELF WERE FILMED ON LOTN SALZBURG, ATRIA—JT ONE OF MANY MOMENTS THAT MAKE THE FILM A VIRTUAL BREATH OF H, MOUNTA AIR.YOHANA DTA
- GAY HOLLYWOOD THE STUD DAYS. DECEMBER 16, 2015 ADM UNTEGORIZED 2 I READ RECENTLY THAT ‘GAY-GOSSIP IS THE NEWT AND MOST CLEVER FORM OF HOMOPHOBIA’. NICE TRY, BUT I’M NOT BUYG . I AM NEHER HOMOSEXUAL NOR HOMOPHOBIC, BUT I AM TERTED SUBTERFUGE AND EXPOSG OLD-TIME MOVIE STUDS THAT MA AN ART FORM OUT OF GULLG THE PUBLIC. FOR FIFTY OR SO YEARS THEIR PUBLICY MACH CHURNED OUT PHONY, SANIZED IMAG OF THEIR STARS AND THEIR LIFTYL, AND THE PUBLIC SWALLOWED EVERY WORD OF THEM. TODAY, WE KNOW BETTER. HUNDREDS, IF NOT THOANDS, OF BGRAPHI HAVE BEEN PUBLISHED OVER THE LAST FORTY OR SO YEARS, THAT DISPUTE THE FANTASY CREATED BY STUD MOGULS WHOSE ONLY AIM WAS TO MAKE MORE MONEY AND STILL MORE MONEY. THE DAYS WE N READ ACUNTS OF LIFE AMONG THE STARS BY FORMER EMPLOYE OF THE STUDS, EVEN THEIR CHILDREN, ACUNTS THAT ARE EE OF THE THREAT OF DISMISSAL OR LIGATN NOW THAT THE ALL-POWERFUL STUD BOSS ARE GONE. NOT ALL OF THE ACUNTS N BE TSTED, OF URSE, BUT THERE ARE MORE THAN ENOUGH TO ENABLE TO SEEK (AND FD) VERIFITN WHERE NEED. SO, FOR THE RERD, I HAVE NO TERT WHAT NSENTG ADULTS DO BEHD CLOSED DOORS. IT IS THEIR BS AND NO-ONE ELSE’S. BUT I DO HAVE AN TERT HISTORY, GENUE HISTORY THAT IS, NOT SOME ‘SMOKE AND MIRRORS’ EXERCISE DREAMT UP BY SOME CIGAR-CHOMPG STUD EXECUTIVE WH TOO MUCH POWER AND TOO FEW MORALS.HOMOSEXUALY AND BISEXUALY WERE AGAST THE LAW BACK THE DAYS WHEN THE STUDS RAN HOLLYWOOD (APPROXIMATELY 1905 – 1958). THE MOVIE LONY WAS LERALLY RIDDLED WH PEOPLE WHOSE SEXUAL PERSUASN WAS ANYTHG OTHER THAN HETEROSEXUAL. THE STUD BOSS KNEW WHO WAS WHAT, OF URSE, AND THEY KEPT A CLOSE WATCH ON THE TABLOIDS, MAGAZ AND TRA PAPERS TO MAKE SURE THE SEXUALY OF THEIR MEAL-TICKETS REMAED, AT LEAST PUBLICLY, HETEROSEXUAL AND NOTHG BUT HETEROSEXUAL. WHAT STARTED OUT AS A SAFEGUARD QUICKLY EVOLVED TO A FULL-TIME POLICY SIGNED TO HOODWK THE PAYG PUBLIC TO BELIEVG WHATEVER THE STUDS WANTED THEM TO BELIEVE.STRANGE AS MIGHT SEEM, MOST FANS TEND NOT TO BELIEVE STORI THAT THEIR IDOLS ARE GAY. PROBABLY BEE THEY SIMPLY DON’T WANT TO. ANY REPORT OF SLEAZY HETEROSEXUAL SHENANIGANS IS UALLY ACCEPTED WHOUT QUTN, BUT MENTN OF A STAR BEG GAY OR BISEXUAL IS GENERALLY MET WH ACCATNS OF ‘MUCK-RAKG’ AND/OR PEDDLG SENSATNALISM. WHY IS THAT? NAYSAYERS THROW UP THE UAL ARGUMENTS – ‘BUT HE’S MARRIED’ OR ‘THEY HAVE KIDS’. BUT THE FACT IS THAT HOLLYWOOD IS (AND ALWAYS HAS BEEN) CHOCK FULL OF MALE AND FEMALE STARS PLAYG THE HETEROSEXUAL GAME FOR ALL THEY ARE WORTH. AND, OF URSE, HAS ALWAYS BEEN THE STUDS’ TERTS TO HAVE ALL THEIR MATEE IDOLS AS ‘STRAIGHT’ AS ARROWS, HENCE LAVENR MARRIAG EVERYWHERE, ‘BEARDS’ WORKG FULL TIME, AND ‘VER-UPS’ ORCHTRATED BY THE STUD ‘FIXERS’. THE FACT THAT THE ‘BIGGI’ HAVE ALWAYS ED ‘FIXERS’ IS ILLUMATG SELF.LAVENR MARRIAG WERE ARRANGED BY STUDS TO FLECT TABLOIDS OM LVG TO THE SEXUAL PERSUASN OF STARS THEY SPECTED OF BEG HOMOSEXUAL. TY AND SWEET JA GAYNOR LIVED HER LIFE LAVENR MARRIAG, THE SEND OF WHICH WAS FOR TWENTY YEARS TO GAY SIGNER ADRIAN, AND PRODUCED A CHILD. LILYAN TASHMAN WAS A LAVENR ARRANGEMENT WH GAY ACTOR EDMUND LOWE WHILE DULGG A FOUR-YEAR AFFAIR WH GARBO. CLTTE COLBERT WAS ANOTHER OF HER LBIAN LOVERS. OTHER STARS, SUCH AS JEAN ARTHUR, HAD THEIR LBIAN LIAISONS OUT ON THE AST, FAR OM HOLLYWOOD AND THE GOSSIP LUMNISTS.JA GAYNOR AND ADRIAN – A LAVENR MARRIAGEJEAN ARTHURCARY GRANT WOULD MARRY FIVE TIM ATTEMPTS TO MASK HIS HOMOSEXUALY AND HIS LIFELONG LOVE AFFAIR WH RANDOLPH STT (SEE PICTURE AT TOP). GAY DIRECTOR GEE COR WOULD HOLD THE BIGGT GAY AND LBIAN PARTI HIS HOME, HIS HOMOSEXUALY AN OPEN SECRET THROUGHOUT THE MOVIE MUNY. MEN OFTEN WORE PURPLE NECKTI AS A KD OF FOR ATTRACTG OTHER GAY MEN AT CLUBS AND PARTI. LBIAN FANS OFTEN WROTE THEIR LETTERS ON LAVENR OR MVE PAPER. I LOVE THE STORY TOLD ABOUT COR WHEN HE WAS NONTED ABOUT HIS HOMOSEXUALY BY THE HEAD OF MGM, LOUIS B MAYER, A DYED THE WOOL HOMOPHOBIC IF THERE EVER WAS ONE. ‘ER…GEE, ARE YOU REALLY A…HOM…HOMOSEXUAL? MAYER ASKED. COR LOOKED HIM STRAIGHT THE EYE AND GAVE HIM A ONE-WORD ANSWER. ‘DEDITED!’ MAYER NEVER BROUGHT THE SUBJECT UP WH HIM AGA.DIRECTOR GEE CORAND THERE WERE MANY GAY TABLISHMENTS THROUGHOUT HOLLYWOOD, PECIALLY THE THIRTI AND FORTI. THE VERY FIRST WAS JIMMY’S BACK YARD, WHICH OPENED 1929. PROHIBN WAS FULL SWG THEN, BUT BOOTLEGGERS AND E ALERS KEPT PATRONS WELL SUPPLIED NEVERTHELS. A SPEAKEASY NAMED BBB’S CELLAR WAS EXTREMELY POPULAR WHEN OPENED DOWN THE ROAD OM JIMMY’S, ALTHOUGH THERE WERE NO SIGNS DITG WAS A RENZVO FOR GAY PATRONS. TRADNALLY, PATRONS WERE GIVEN A HAMMER AS THEY ARRIVED, WHICH THEY WOULD BANG ON THE TABLE WHENEVER SOMEONE ENTERED THE PREMIS. REGULARS CLUD TALLULAH BANKHEAD, JOAN CRAWFORD, CONSTANCE BENT, NORMA TALMADGE, LILYAN TASHMAN, RAMON NOVARRO, CARY GRANT AND HOWARD HUGH, JT TO NAME A FEW. IT WAS MARLENE DIETRICH’S FAVOURE CLUB.TALLULAH BANKHEADCONSTANCE BENTLILYAN TASHMANTHE POLICE TEND TO CRACK DOWN ON WHAT THEY REFERRED TO AS THE ‘PANSY CLUBS’, THE ON THAT OFFERED FLOORSHOWS WHICH ‘WOMEN MASQUERAD AS MEN, AND MEN AS WOMEN’. THE HOLLYWOOD VICE SQUAD REGULARLY POUNCED ON THE TABLISHMENTS. FEMALE IMPERSONATORS AT JIMMY’S BACK YARD WERE DRAGGED OFF TO JAIL AFTER ONE RAID AND GIVEN 6 MONTH’S IMPRISONMENT! ONE NIGHT, SO THE STORY GO, THE BISEXUAL ACTRS LILI DAMA HAD SEX WH A WAER FULL VIEW OF TWENTY OR SO SPECTATORS. LTLE WONR HER FORMER LOVER HUMPHREY BOGART NICKNAMED HER ‘TIGER LIL’. HER LOVERS, MALE AND FEMALE, NUMBERED THE HUNDREDS. FANS HAD NO IA SHE SWUNG BOTH WAYS. HER HBAND ERROL FLYNN KNEW, OF URSE, NOT THAT OVERLY BOTHERED HIM. LILI DAMA AND HER HBAND ERROL FLYNNCAFé GALA WAS OPENED 1939 ON SUNSET BOULEVARD. IT NEVER ADVERTISED SELF AS A GAY BAR, NOR WAS EXCLIVELY GAY, BUT WAS SENTIALLY SO, NOHELS. THE BAR AREA TERED TO GAY MEN, BUT THERE WERE STRICT L, PECIALLY REGARDG NTACT BETWEEN PATRONS. NOTHG BEYOND A HANDSHAKE WAS TOLERATED ON THE PREMIS. OPENED BY THE BARONS CATHERE D’ERLANGER, FEATURED GAY SGER JOHNNY WALSH, AND WAS THE FAVOURE GAY BAR OF JUDY GARLAND. COLE PORTER ULD BE OBSERVED THERE, AS WELL AS GRETA GARBO ON THE RARE OCSNS SHE VENTURED OUT WH HER NUTRNIST RT GAYLORD HSER. IT WAS ONE PLACE WHERE GAY AND LBIAN STARS AND OTHER NOTABL ULD DROP WHOUT NNG THE RISK OF BEG RAID. IT CLOSED 1948.THE GREAT COLE PORTERTHE ALMOST AS GREAT JUDY GARLANDTHE FLAMGO WAS AN UPSLE LBIAN NIGHTCLUB, VERY POPULAR THE 1940S, THAT WAS N BY A WOMAN NAMED BEVERLY SHAW, WHO WOULD GREET PATRONS WEARG A MAN’S JACKET AND BOW TIE ON HER TOP HALF, A SHORT SKIRT AND HIGH HEELS BELOW THE WAIST. THE CANYON CLUB WAS A GAY AND LBIAN SPOT THROUGHOUT THE 40S AND 50S, SUATED THE TOPANGA CANYON AREA. IT HAD AN EARLY WARNG SYSTEM WHICH LIGHTS WOULD FLASH WHEN THE VICE SQUAD WAS SPIED APPROACHG. THIS WAS THE SIGNAL FOR PATRONS TO SWCH DANCE PARTNERS TO SOMEONE OF THE OPPOSE SEX.BEVERLY SHAW OF THE FLAMGOSMTY’S, THE GAY INN AND THE GAYWAY CAFé WERE THREE GAY VENU WELL KNOWN TO THE ARY. WHEREVER THEY SPECTED GAY CROWDS TO NGREGATE, THE ARMY WOULD POST SIGNS AT THOSE PLAC, ‘OUT OF BOUNDS TO ARY PERSONNEL’. NOT ALL GAY MEETG PLAC WERE CLUBS, OF URSE. PERSHG SQUARE WAS A PARK DOWNTOWN LOS ANGEL. A TRAVEL SE LLED ‘DISVER LOS ANGEL’ NAMED PERSHG SQUARE AS ONE OF ‘TEN GAY LANDMARKS’ WORTH VISG. DURG WW2 THE ARMY WOULD PUT UP RMATN AREAS THE SQUARE FOR SOLDIERS, EVEN THOUGH WAS A POPULAR NGREGATG AREA FOR GAYS. AND THE NOTOR BILTMORE HOTEL WAS JT ACROSS THE STREET.PERSHG SQUARE, L.A. CIR 1945THE BILTMORE HOTEL BALLROOM CIR 1930THE BILTMORE OPENED S DOORS 1923. ITS BAR WAS ONE OF THE FEW PLAC LOS ANGEL WHERE GAYS ULD MEET OPENLY. THE HOTEL HAS WELED PRINTS, DIGNARI AND CLOSETED MALE CELEBRI FOR S. EIGHT OSRS BANQUETS HAVE BEEN HELD THERE, AND MOVI AND TELEVISN PROGRAMS FILMED THERE. DURG THE WAR UNIFORMED SOLDIERS WOULD BE PACKED THREE EP AT THE BAR SEARCH OF GAY LOVE. THE BILTMORE IS ALSO HISTORILLY KNOWN TO BE THE LAST PLACE THE FAMO BLACK DAHLIA WAS SEEN PRR TO HER GRISLY RPSE TURNG UP TWO HALV 1946. TODAY, (TO S EVERLASTG SHAME), THE BAR SERV A ‘BLACK DAHLIA COCKTAIL’. WELL, WHATEVER BRGS A BUCK, I GUS.ELIZABETH SHORT – ‘THE BLACK DAHLIA’OTHER VENU OF THE 30S AND 40S CLUD SPEAK 39, JOHNNY FRENCHMAN’S, THE GYPSY ROOM, THE TROPIL VILLAGE AND SANTS CLUB. A JOT LLED M & M WAS A LBIAN BAR THAT TERED PRIMARILY FOR LATAS. BROTHERS WAS A GAY BAR FOR AIN-AMERINS. IN THE 50S AND 60S THERE EXISTED THE CHEROKEE CLUB, HOE OF IVY, LAFAYETTE, CHEE-CHEE’S, OPEN DOOR, THE PARTY PAD AND THE CAROEL VENICE. THERE WERE SR MORE. UNR-AGE GAYS WERE TERED FOR AS WELL. THOSE WHO LACKED THE NECSARY ID TO GET TO BARS ULD ADJOURN TO PLAC SUCH AS COFFEE DAN’S, THE GOLD CUP AND MARL INN ON HOLLYWOOD BOULEVARD, ALL OF WHICH TERED EXCLIVELY FOR HOMOSEXUALS. IN THE FIFTI MONTGOMERY CLIFT WAS OFTEN SEEN AT COFFEE DAN’S. BY THE 60S TRANSVT HAD TAKEN OVER THE TABLISHMENT. THERE WERE SEVERAL COFFEE DAN’S LOS ANGEL. THE GAY ONE WAS ON HOLLYWOOD BOULEVARD.MONTGOMERY CLIFTIT WAS ALLA NAZIMOVA WHO ED THE PHEMISM ‘THE SEWG CIRCLE’ FOR HOLLYWOOD’S LBIAN ATERNY. TALLULAH BANKHEAD MAY OR MAY NOT HAVE BEEN VOLVED WH THE GROUP, BUT SHE HAD MANY FEMALE LOVERS. HATTIE MCDANIEL AND PATSY KELLY WERE TWO OF THEM. HATTIE WON AN OSR PLAYG MAMMY GONE WH THE WD 1939. SGER BILLIE HOLIDAY WAS ANOTHER OF TALLULAH’S NQUTS. THE CIRCLE WOULD MEET REGULARLY, SOMETIM AT THE HOME OF DELOR DEL R, AND NSISTED OF LBIANS, BISEXUALS AND THE OCSNAL ‘EXPERIMENTER’. THEY WOULD MEET AT ONE ANOTHER’S HOM FOR LUNCH, A CHAT AND WHATEVER ELSE EVENTUATED. THE AGENDA WAS FLEXIBLE. HATTIE MCDANIELMEMBERS ME AND WENT, BUT STARS SUCH AS JOAN CRAWFORD, GARBO, BARBARA STANWYCK, MYRNA LOY, AGN MOOREHEAD, DANCER ISADORA DUNN, WRER MERCES ASTA AND DIETRICH WERE ALL SAID TO BE PART OF THE SAPPHIC SEWG CIRCLE. OTHERS CLUD KATE HEPBURN, KAY FRANCIS, JUDH ANRSON, EVELYN BRENT AND MARJORIE MA (MA KETTLE). GARBO AND DIETRICH ALWAYS MATAED THEY NEVER KNEW EACH OTHER, BUT SIRS DISAGREE, PECIALLY LIGHT OF THE FACT THAT BOTH WOMEN APPEARED A MOVIE BERL 1925 LLED THE JOYLS STREET. PERSONALLY, I DOUBT IF THEY WERE LOVERS. IF THEY WERE, THEN WHY WOULD DIETRICH NY ? GARBO WAS RIDICULOLY SECRETIVE, BUT MARLENE CERTALY WAS NOT.AGN MOOREHEADMYRNA LOYKAY FRANCISMA KETTLECRAWFORD HAD MANY LOVERS OF BOTH SEX. SHE EVEN TOOK A CRACK AT THE HETEROSEXUAL MARILYN MONROE DURG ONE OF MM’S WEAKER MOMENTS. IT WAS MON KNOWLEDGE HOLLYWOOD THAT THE BETTE DAVIS-JOAN CRAWFORD FD ME ABOUT BEE JOAN MA A PASS AT BETTE AND WAS TURNED DOWN. CRAWFORD WAS NOTOR FOR HOLDG GDG AGAST ANYONE (MALE OR FEMALE) THAT REFED TO SLEEP WH HER.OTHER THAN LILYAN TASHMAN, GARBO HAD RELATNSHIPS WH LOUISE BROOKS AND MERCES ASTA, YET HER GREAT LOVE WAS A MARRIED SWEDISH ACTRS NAMED MIMI POLLAK. UNLIKE DIETRICH, GARBO NEVER MARRIED AND NEVER HAD CHILDREN. OF URSE, JT LIKE MARLENE, SHE TOOK LOVERS OF BOTH GENRS. EVA LE GALLIENNE SHARED HER FAVOURS WH TALLULAH, ESTELLE WWOOD, ALLA NAZIMOVA AND ASTA, TO NAME BUT A FEW.MIMI AND GARBOA YOUTHFUL ESTELLE WWOODESTELLE MURR BY DEATH (1976)DURG THE SEND WORLD WAR LOS ANGEL WAS OFFICIALLY KNOWN AS A GAY MUNY, ALTHOUGH IF YOU WERE TO TAKE THE STUDS’ WORD FOR EVERY ACTOR AND ACTRS ON THEIR BOOKS WAS AS HETEROSEXUAL AS CAPTA AMERI! SIGNIFINTLY, THE FEAR OF EXPOSURE AS A GAY PERSON WAS TANGIBLE AND POTENTIALLY REER-STROYG, WHILE THE SEXUAL EXPLOATN OF YOUNG HOPEFULS (OF BOTH SEX) WENT ON UNCHECKED, DAY AND DAY OUT AT EVERY STUD, LARGE OR SMALL.ADRIANAGN MOOREHEADBARBARA STANWYCKBBB'S CELLARBETTE DAVIS JOAN CRAWFORDBEVERLY SHAWRY GRANTTHERE D'ERLANGERCLTTE LBERTFFEE DAN'SLE PORTERNSTANCE BENTELIZABETH SHORTERROL FLYNNTELLE WWOODGAYLORD HSERGEE CRETA GARBOHATTIE MCDANIELJA GAYNORJEAN ARTHURJIMMY'S BACK YARDJOAN CRAWFORDJUDY GARLANDKAY ANCISLILI DAMALILYAN TASHMANMA KETTLEMARJORIE MAMIMI POLLAKMONTGOMERY CLIFTMURR BY ATHMYRNA LOYPERSHG SQUARERANDOLPH STTTALLULAH BANKHEADTHE BILTMORE HOTELTHE BLACK DAHLIA PREVHOLLYWOOD – TAL OM THE DARK SI. NEXTTRAGIC HOLLYWOOD – WHO KILLED FUNNYMAN TED HEALY? 2 COMMENTS TS BALLOS DECEMBER 31, 2022 AT 4:01 PM THE RMATN ABOUT GRANT AND STT IS MOR. STT’S BGRAPHER STATED THAT THERE WAS NO EVINCE TO BACK THIS CLAIM, AS DID GRANT’S DGHTER. THERE IS NO CREDIBLE EVINCE DITG THE ACTORS WERE MORE THAN JT GOOD IENDS. IT’S SAD THAT PEOPLE ARE MORE TERTED POTLS GOSSIP THAN TTH.REPLY ALAN ROYLE JANUARY 1, 2023 AT 3:27 PM IT IS NOT POTLS GOSSIP AT ALL, TS. CARY WAS BISEXUAL, SPE WHAT HIS DGHTER BELIEV.REPLYLEAVE A REPLY CANCEL REPLYYOUR EMAIL ADDRS WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED.COMMENTNAME *EMAIL *WEBSESAVE MY NAME, EMAIL, AND WEBSE THIS BROWSER FOR THE NEXT TIME I MENT. IF A NEW COMMENT IS POSTED:DO NOT SEND EMAIL NOTIFITNS.SEND EMAIL NOTIFITN ONLY IF SOMEONE REPLI TO MY COMMENT(S).SEND EMAIL NOTIFITN WHENEVER A NEW COMMENT IS POSTED.ΔTHIS SE AKISMET TO RCE SPAM. LEARN HOW YOUR MENT DATA IS PROCSED.LOOKG FOR SOMETHG? SEARCH FOR: RECENT POSTS PROFILES – ELIZABETH MONTGOMERY & JODIE FOSTER DECEMBER 1, 2022 0 MOVIES – ‘HIDN FIGUR’ & ‘THE LTLE MERMAID’. NOVEMBER 30, 2022 0 GRACE KELLY & HER PRIVATE LIFE NOVEMBER 27, 2022 0 RANDOM QUOTES – PT69. NOVEMBER 24, 2022 4 TV WESTERNS – PT40. 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HOLLYWOOD: WERE HATTIE MCDANIEL AND TALLULAH BANKHEAD REALLY AN ITEM?RYAN MURPHY’S REVISNIST NETFLIX SERI LEANS ON AN OLD GOLN AGE MOR. BUT IS TE?BY YOHANA DTAMAY 1, 2020LEFT, OM GETTY IMAG; RIGHT, OM THE EVERETT COLLECTN.SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVETHIS POST NTAS SPOILERS FOR HOLLYWOOD.THE SECRET LIV OF HOLLYWOOD’S CLOSETED MOVIE STARS SERV AS THE MA ENGE OF HOLLYWOOD, RYAN MURPHY’S SPLASHY REIMAGG OF CEMA’S GOLN AGE. THE NETFLIX MISERI TAK HEAVY SPIRATN OM THE LIFE OF STTY BOWERS, THE LATE HOLLYWOOD PIMP WHO WORKED AT A GAS STATN THAT DOUBLED AS A SEX WORK OPERATN. REPORTEDLY, BOWERS SET UP QUEER TRYSTS FOR EVERYONE OM KATHARE HEPBURN TO CARY GRANT. WHILE THOSE TWO STARS DON’T GET THE -PTH TREATMENT HOLLYWOOD, THE SERI DO TAKE A LOOK AT THE MORED AFFAIR BETWEEN HATTIE MCDANIEL (PLAYED BY QUEEN LATIFAH) AND TALLULAH BANKHEAD (PAGET BREWSTER), PORTRAYG THE PAIR AS LOVERS EPISO FIVE.IN THE EPISO, THE DUO ARE ZIED UP AT MCDANIEL’S HOE, CHATTG AMIABLY ABOUT THEIR ALL-NIGHT FLG WH ONE OF BOWERS’S EMPLOYE. THE SHOW TREATS THE RELATNSHIP AS A FACT, PRENTG MCDANIEL AND BANKHEAD AS AN TABLISHED UPLE. IN REAL LIFE, MORS PERSISTED FOR YEARS ABOUT THE PAIR—BUT ’S HARD TO P DOWN WHEN AND WHERE THOSE MBLGS FIRST BEGAN.LIKE MANY STARS WHO MAY HAVE BEEN CLOSETED THAT ERA, NEHER WOMAN EVER NFIRMED THE WHISPERS, THOUGH THE MCDANIEL–BANKHEAD AFFAIR HAS BEEN REPEATED NONFICTN BOOKS LIKE THE GIRLS: SAPPHO GO TO HOLLYWOOD AND THE SEWG CIRCLE, A NTTED ACUNT OF LBIAN AND BISEXUAL WOMEN HOLLYWOOD. IN 2000, THERE WAS EVEN A MIL ABOUT THE PAIR, TLED TALLULAH AND HATTIE: DEAD AT THE PEARLY GAT CAFE. THE AFFAIR, SEEMS, HAS BEE AN ACCEPTED PART OF EACH ACTOR’S RPECTIVE TSELTOWN LORE.BEYOND THE AFFAIR, THOUGH, BOTH WOMEN HAD ACTIVE ROMANTIC LIV. MCDANIEL, THE GONE WH THE WD STAR WHO MA HISTORY AS THE FIRST BLACK ACTOR TO W AN AMY AWARD, MARRIED FOUR TIM OVER THE URSE OF HER REER. SHE HAD TWO BRIEF MARRIAG EARLY ON HER REER, THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER NOT, LONG BEFORE STARRG GONE WH THE WD.IN 1941, SHE MARRIED LOS ANGEL REAL TATE AGENT JAM LLOYD CRAWFORD; FOUR YEARS LATER, THEY GOT DIVORCED. MCDANIELS MARRIED A FOURTH, AND FAL, TIME 1949, TO TERR RATOR LARRY WILLIAMS; THEY DIVORCED THE FOLLOWG YEAR. MCDANIEL NEVER HAD CHILDREN, ENTSTG HER LEGACY TO HER SISTER ETTA, WHOSE CHILDREN MATA TO THIS DAY, PER THR.BANKHEAD, MEANWHILE, VELOPED A REPUTATN OVER THE URSE OF HER REER AS A SEXUAL PROVOTR, OFTEN REMEMBERED MORE FOR HER LARGER-THAN-LIFE PERSONALY THAN HER ONSCREEN PURSUS. “I WAS OBSSED WH TALLULAH BANKHEAD, BEE SHE WAS SO BALLSY AND OUT THERE, AND ALSO FELT NEVER SEEN AND NEVER APPRECIATED,” MURPHY TOLD VANY FAIR. “A BIG BROADWAY ACTRS, ME TO HOLLYWOOD, DIDN’T HAVE THE SUCCS THAT SHE WANTED.”STILL, BANKHEAD WAS WELL KNOWN A-LIST HOLLYWOOD CIRCL. “WE ALL ADORED HER,” JOAN CRAWFORD ONCE SAID, ACRDG TO THE NEW YORKER. “WE WERE FASCATED BY HER, BUT WE WERE SRED TO ATH OF HER TOO…. SHE HAD SUCH THORY, AS IF SHE LED THE EARTH, AS IF SHE WAS THE FIRST WOMAN ON THE MOON.”AS THE NEW YORKER NOT, BANKHEAD CLAIMED TO HAVE SLEPT WH 500 PEOPLE, AND WAS MORED TO HAVE HAD AFFAIRS WH A SLEW OF STARS—CLUDG ACTOR EVA LE GALLIENNE AND ACTOR JOHN EMERY, WHOM SHE MARRIED 1937, THEN DIVORCED FOUR YEARS LATER. DURG THEIR MARRIAGE, SHE REPORTEDLY VELOPED A HAB FOR SNEAKG GUTS TO THEIR BEDROOM WHILE EMERY SLEPT, THEN PULLG BACK THE VERS ON HIM. “DID YOU EVER SEE A PRICK AS BIG AS THAT BEFORE?” SHE WOULD SAY, ACRDG TO THE NEW YORKER. SOON SHE SANG A DIFFERENT TUNE: “WELL, DARLG, THE WEAPON MAY BE OF ADMIRABLE PROPORTNS, BUT THE SHOT IS SCRIBABLY WEAK.”BANKHEAD ALSO DIDN’T MD TALKG ABOUT HER OWN SEXUAL INTY. “I’M A LBIAN,” SHE ONCE SAID BY WAY OF TRODUCTN TO SOMEONE AT A PARTY, PER THE NEW YORKER. “WHAT DO YOU DO?” BUT SHE ALSO LATER JOKED THAT SHE “ULD NEVER BEE A LBIAN, BEE THEY HAVE NO SENSE OF HUMOR!”FOR MURPHY, EXPLORG THE LIV OF CLOSETED STARS WAS SENTIAL TO HOLLYWOOD, EVEN THOUGH FEW STARS OF THE ERA WERE NDID ABOUT THEIR SEXUALY.“IT ALWAYS [MATTERED] TO ME…WHERE ARE THE GAY PEOPLE?” HE SAID. “WHY ARE NO GAY PEOPLE OUT AND BEG ABLE TO BE SEEN AND BE REWARD? IT’S JT A VERY EMOTNAL THG TO BE NSTANTLY OTHER AND TO NSTANTLY NOT GET THAT BRASS RG. BUT IF YOU DO AND OTHER PEOPLE WHO ARE LIKE YOU SEE , IS A PATH FORWARD TO THEM. THEY FEEL THAT THEY N DO SOMETHG, THAT THEY ALSO HAVE A WAY FORWARD…MAYBE THEY N BE SEEN FOR EVERYTHG THAT THEY ARE, NOT JT BY THEIR SEXUALY.”ADDNAL REPORTG BY JULIE MILLER.MORE GREAT STORI FROM VANY FAIR— BEHOLD DUNE: AN EXCLIVE LOOK AT TIMOTHéE CHALAMET, ZENDAYA, OSR ISAAC, AND MORE— HOW TO WATCH EVERY MARVEL MOVIE ORR— DAVID SIMON ON THE WIRE AND HIS EQUALLY PISSED-OFF NEW SHOW, THE PLOT AGAST AMERI— BEYOND TIGER KG: 8 TE-CRIME DOCUMENTARI THAT SPARKED A SEND LOOK FROM THE LAW— DOWNTON ABBEY’S JULIAN FELLOW ON HIS NEW SERI AND THE BETY OF A SCHEMG WOMAN— ALL THE NEW 2020 MOVI STREAMG EARLY BEE OF CORONAVIS— FROM THE ARCHIVE: THE NOTOR RIVALRY OF HEDDA HOPPER AND LOUELLA PARSONS, HOLLYWOOD’S DUELG GOSSIP COLUMNISTSMOST POPULAR25 PERFECT TV EPISOS FROM THE LAST 25 YEARSBY HILLARY BISFIRST LOOK: ANTE BENG SWIMS TOWARD THE ROLE OF A LIFETIME NYADBY DAVID CANFIELDCHARLIZE THERON DENI PLASTIC SURGERY RUMORS: “BCH, I’M JT AGG!”BY SAVANNAH WALSHLOOKG FOR MORE? SIGN UP FOR OUR DAILY HOLLYWOOD NEWSLETTER AND NEVER MISS A STORY.16 BETIFUL MOVI THAT CELEBRATE THE GLORY OF NATURE1 / 16CHEVRONCHEVRONFROM 20TH CENTURY FOX/KOBAL/SHUTTERSTOCK.THE SOUND OF MICTHOUGH MANY SCEN THIS 1965 MIL WERE SHOT A STUD, THOSE MAJTIC EXTERRS OF JULIE ANDREWS TWIRLG ABOUT AND SGG “THE SOUND OF MIC” SELF WERE FILMED ON LOTN SALZBURG, ATRIA—JT ONE OF MANY MOMENTS THAT MAKE THE FILM A VIRTUAL BREATH OF H, MOUNTA AIR.YOHANA DTA
The actrs’ rponse to allegatns of homosexualy was “I uld never bee a lbian, bee they have no sense of humor! “It always [mattered] to me…where are the gay people?
“Why are no gay people out and beg able to be seen and be reward? I read recently that ‘gay-gossip is the newt and most clever form of homophobia’.
I am neher homosexual nor homophobic, but I am terted subterfuge and exposg old-time movie studs that ma an art form out of gullg the public. Homosexualy and bisexualy were agast the law back the days when the studs ran Hollywood (approximately 1905 – 1958). Strange as might seem, most fans tend not to believe stori that their idols are gay.
GAY HOLLYWOOD THE STUD DAYS. DECEMBER 16, 2015 ADM UNTEGORIZED 2 I READ RECENTLY THAT ‘GAY-GOSSIP IS THE NEWT AND MOST CLEVER FORM OF HOMOPHOBIA’. NICE TRY, BUT I’M NOT BUYG . I AM NEHER HOMOSEXUAL NOR HOMOPHOBIC, BUT I AM TERTED SUBTERFUGE AND EXPOSG OLD-TIME MOVIE STUDS THAT MA AN ART FORM OUT OF GULLG THE PUBLIC. FOR FIFTY OR SO YEARS THEIR PUBLICY MACH CHURNED OUT PHONY, SANIZED IMAG OF THEIR STARS AND THEIR LIFTYL, AND THE PUBLIC SWALLOWED EVERY WORD OF THEM. TODAY, WE KNOW BETTER. HUNDREDS, IF NOT THOANDS, OF BGRAPHI HAVE BEEN PUBLISHED OVER THE LAST FORTY OR SO YEARS, THAT DISPUTE THE FANTASY CREATED BY STUD MOGULS WHOSE ONLY AIM WAS TO MAKE MORE MONEY AND STILL MORE MONEY. THE DAYS WE N READ ACUNTS OF LIFE AMONG THE STARS BY FORMER EMPLOYE OF THE STUDS, EVEN THEIR CHILDREN, ACUNTS THAT ARE EE OF THE THREAT OF DISMISSAL OR LIGATN NOW THAT THE ALL-POWERFUL STUD BOSS ARE GONE. NOT ALL OF THE ACUNTS N BE TSTED, OF URSE, BUT THERE ARE MORE THAN ENOUGH TO ENABLE TO SEEK (AND FD) VERIFITN WHERE NEED. SO, FOR THE RERD, I HAVE NO TERT WHAT NSENTG ADULTS DO BEHD CLOSED DOORS. IT IS THEIR BS AND NO-ONE ELSE’S. BUT I DO HAVE AN TERT HISTORY, GENUE HISTORY THAT IS, NOT SOME ‘SMOKE AND MIRRORS’ EXERCISE DREAMT UP BY SOME CIGAR-CHOMPG STUD EXECUTIVE WH TOO MUCH POWER AND TOO FEW MORALS.HOMOSEXUALY AND BISEXUALY WERE AGAST THE LAW BACK THE DAYS WHEN THE STUDS RAN HOLLYWOOD (APPROXIMATELY 1905 – 1958). THE MOVIE LONY WAS LERALLY RIDDLED WH PEOPLE WHOSE SEXUAL PERSUASN WAS ANYTHG OTHER THAN HETEROSEXUAL. THE STUD BOSS KNEW WHO WAS WHAT, OF URSE, AND THEY KEPT A CLOSE WATCH ON THE TABLOIDS, MAGAZ AND TRA PAPERS TO MAKE SURE THE SEXUALY OF THEIR MEAL-TICKETS REMAED, AT LEAST PUBLICLY, HETEROSEXUAL AND NOTHG BUT HETEROSEXUAL. WHAT STARTED OUT AS A SAFEGUARD QUICKLY EVOLVED TO A FULL-TIME POLICY SIGNED TO HOODWK THE PAYG PUBLIC TO BELIEVG WHATEVER THE STUDS WANTED THEM TO BELIEVE.STRANGE AS MIGHT SEEM, MOST FANS TEND NOT TO BELIEVE STORI THAT THEIR IDOLS ARE GAY. PROBABLY BEE THEY SIMPLY DON’T WANT TO. ANY REPORT OF SLEAZY HETEROSEXUAL SHENANIGANS IS UALLY ACCEPTED WHOUT QUTN, BUT MENTN OF A STAR BEG GAY OR BISEXUAL IS GENERALLY MET WH ACCATNS OF ‘MUCK-RAKG’ AND/OR PEDDLG SENSATNALISM. WHY IS THAT? NAYSAYERS THROW UP THE UAL ARGUMENTS – ‘BUT HE’S MARRIED’ OR ‘THEY HAVE KIDS’. BUT THE FACT IS THAT HOLLYWOOD IS (AND ALWAYS HAS BEEN) CHOCK FULL OF MALE AND FEMALE STARS PLAYG THE HETEROSEXUAL GAME FOR ALL THEY ARE WORTH. AND, OF URSE, HAS ALWAYS BEEN THE STUDS’ TERTS TO HAVE ALL THEIR MATEE IDOLS AS ‘STRAIGHT’ AS ARROWS, HENCE LAVENR MARRIAG EVERYWHERE, ‘BEARDS’ WORKG FULL TIME, AND ‘VER-UPS’ ORCHTRATED BY THE STUD ‘FIXERS’. THE FACT THAT THE ‘BIGGI’ HAVE ALWAYS ED ‘FIXERS’ IS ILLUMATG SELF.LAVENR MARRIAG WERE ARRANGED BY STUDS TO FLECT TABLOIDS OM LVG TO THE SEXUAL PERSUASN OF STARS THEY SPECTED OF BEG HOMOSEXUAL. TY AND SWEET JA GAYNOR LIVED HER LIFE LAVENR MARRIAG, THE SEND OF WHICH WAS FOR TWENTY YEARS TO GAY SIGNER ADRIAN, AND PRODUCED A CHILD. LILYAN TASHMAN WAS A LAVENR ARRANGEMENT WH GAY ACTOR EDMUND LOWE WHILE DULGG A FOUR-YEAR AFFAIR WH GARBO. CLTTE COLBERT WAS ANOTHER OF HER LBIAN LOVERS. OTHER STARS, SUCH AS JEAN ARTHUR, HAD THEIR LBIAN LIAISONS OUT ON THE AST, FAR OM HOLLYWOOD AND THE GOSSIP LUMNISTS.JA GAYNOR AND ADRIAN – A LAVENR MARRIAGEJEAN ARTHURCARY GRANT WOULD MARRY FIVE TIM ATTEMPTS TO MASK HIS HOMOSEXUALY AND HIS LIFELONG LOVE AFFAIR WH RANDOLPH STT (SEE PICTURE AT TOP). GAY DIRECTOR GEE COR WOULD HOLD THE BIGGT GAY AND LBIAN PARTI HIS HOME, HIS HOMOSEXUALY AN OPEN SECRET THROUGHOUT THE MOVIE MUNY. MEN OFTEN WORE PURPLE NECKTI AS A KD OF FOR ATTRACTG OTHER GAY MEN AT CLUBS AND PARTI. LBIAN FANS OFTEN WROTE THEIR LETTERS ON LAVENR OR MVE PAPER. I LOVE THE STORY TOLD ABOUT COR WHEN HE WAS NONTED ABOUT HIS HOMOSEXUALY BY THE HEAD OF MGM, LOUIS B MAYER, A DYED THE WOOL HOMOPHOBIC IF THERE EVER WAS ONE. ‘ER…GEE, ARE YOU REALLY A…HOM…HOMOSEXUAL? MAYER ASKED. COR LOOKED HIM STRAIGHT THE EYE AND GAVE HIM A ONE-WORD ANSWER. ‘DEDITED!’ MAYER NEVER BROUGHT THE SUBJECT UP WH HIM AGA.DIRECTOR GEE CORAND THERE WERE MANY GAY TABLISHMENTS THROUGHOUT HOLLYWOOD, PECIALLY THE THIRTI AND FORTI. THE VERY FIRST WAS JIMMY’S BACK YARD, WHICH OPENED 1929. PROHIBN WAS FULL SWG THEN, BUT BOOTLEGGERS AND E ALERS KEPT PATRONS WELL SUPPLIED NEVERTHELS. A SPEAKEASY NAMED BBB’S CELLAR WAS EXTREMELY POPULAR WHEN OPENED DOWN THE ROAD OM JIMMY’S, ALTHOUGH THERE WERE NO SIGNS DITG WAS A RENZVO FOR GAY PATRONS. TRADNALLY, PATRONS WERE GIVEN A HAMMER AS THEY ARRIVED, WHICH THEY WOULD BANG ON THE TABLE WHENEVER SOMEONE ENTERED THE PREMIS. REGULARS CLUD TALLULAH BANKHEAD, JOAN CRAWFORD, CONSTANCE BENT, NORMA TALMADGE, LILYAN TASHMAN, RAMON NOVARRO, CARY GRANT AND HOWARD HUGH, JT TO NAME A FEW. IT WAS MARLENE DIETRICH’S FAVOURE CLUB.TALLULAH BANKHEADCONSTANCE BENTLILYAN TASHMANTHE POLICE TEND TO CRACK DOWN ON WHAT THEY REFERRED TO AS THE ‘PANSY CLUBS’, THE ON THAT OFFERED FLOORSHOWS WHICH ‘WOMEN MASQUERAD AS MEN, AND MEN AS WOMEN’. THE HOLLYWOOD VICE SQUAD REGULARLY POUNCED ON THE TABLISHMENTS. FEMALE IMPERSONATORS AT JIMMY’S BACK YARD WERE DRAGGED OFF TO JAIL AFTER ONE RAID AND GIVEN 6 MONTH’S IMPRISONMENT! ONE NIGHT, SO THE STORY GO, THE BISEXUAL ACTRS LILI DAMA HAD SEX WH A WAER FULL VIEW OF TWENTY OR SO SPECTATORS. LTLE WONR HER FORMER LOVER HUMPHREY BOGART NICKNAMED HER ‘TIGER LIL’. HER LOVERS, MALE AND FEMALE, NUMBERED THE HUNDREDS. FANS HAD NO IA SHE SWUNG BOTH WAYS. HER HBAND ERROL FLYNN KNEW, OF URSE, NOT THAT OVERLY BOTHERED HIM. LILI DAMA AND HER HBAND ERROL FLYNNCAFé GALA WAS OPENED 1939 ON SUNSET BOULEVARD. IT NEVER ADVERTISED SELF AS A GAY BAR, NOR WAS EXCLIVELY GAY, BUT WAS SENTIALLY SO, NOHELS. THE BAR AREA TERED TO GAY MEN, BUT THERE WERE STRICT L, PECIALLY REGARDG NTACT BETWEEN PATRONS. NOTHG BEYOND A HANDSHAKE WAS TOLERATED ON THE PREMIS. OPENED BY THE BARONS CATHERE D’ERLANGER, FEATURED GAY SGER JOHNNY WALSH, AND WAS THE FAVOURE GAY BAR OF JUDY GARLAND. COLE PORTER ULD BE OBSERVED THERE, AS WELL AS GRETA GARBO ON THE RARE OCSNS SHE VENTURED OUT WH HER NUTRNIST RT GAYLORD HSER. IT WAS ONE PLACE WHERE GAY AND LBIAN STARS AND OTHER NOTABL ULD DROP WHOUT NNG THE RISK OF BEG RAID. IT CLOSED 1948.THE GREAT COLE PORTERTHE ALMOST AS GREAT JUDY GARLANDTHE FLAMGO WAS AN UPSLE LBIAN NIGHTCLUB, VERY POPULAR THE 1940S, THAT WAS N BY A WOMAN NAMED BEVERLY SHAW, WHO WOULD GREET PATRONS WEARG A MAN’S JACKET AND BOW TIE ON HER TOP HALF, A SHORT SKIRT AND HIGH HEELS BELOW THE WAIST. THE CANYON CLUB WAS A GAY AND LBIAN SPOT THROUGHOUT THE 40S AND 50S, SUATED THE TOPANGA CANYON AREA. IT HAD AN EARLY WARNG SYSTEM WHICH LIGHTS WOULD FLASH WHEN THE VICE SQUAD WAS SPIED APPROACHG. THIS WAS THE SIGNAL FOR PATRONS TO SWCH DANCE PARTNERS TO SOMEONE OF THE OPPOSE SEX.BEVERLY SHAW OF THE FLAMGOSMTY’S, THE GAY INN AND THE GAYWAY CAFé WERE THREE GAY VENU WELL KNOWN TO THE ARY. WHEREVER THEY SPECTED GAY CROWDS TO NGREGATE, THE ARMY WOULD POST SIGNS AT THOSE PLAC, ‘OUT OF BOUNDS TO ARY PERSONNEL’. NOT ALL GAY MEETG PLAC WERE CLUBS, OF URSE. PERSHG SQUARE WAS A PARK DOWNTOWN LOS ANGEL. A TRAVEL SE LLED ‘DISVER LOS ANGEL’ NAMED PERSHG SQUARE AS ONE OF ‘TEN GAY LANDMARKS’ WORTH VISG. DURG WW2 THE ARMY WOULD PUT UP RMATN AREAS THE SQUARE FOR SOLDIERS, EVEN THOUGH WAS A POPULAR NGREGATG AREA FOR GAYS. AND THE NOTOR BILTMORE HOTEL WAS JT ACROSS THE STREET.PERSHG SQUARE, L.A. CIR 1945THE BILTMORE HOTEL BALLROOM CIR 1930THE BILTMORE OPENED S DOORS 1923. ITS BAR WAS ONE OF THE FEW PLAC LOS ANGEL WHERE GAYS ULD MEET OPENLY. THE HOTEL HAS WELED PRINTS, DIGNARI AND CLOSETED MALE CELEBRI FOR S. EIGHT OSRS BANQUETS HAVE BEEN HELD THERE, AND MOVI AND TELEVISN PROGRAMS FILMED THERE. DURG THE WAR UNIFORMED SOLDIERS WOULD BE PACKED THREE EP AT THE BAR SEARCH OF GAY LOVE. THE BILTMORE IS ALSO HISTORILLY KNOWN TO BE THE LAST PLACE THE FAMO BLACK DAHLIA WAS SEEN PRR TO HER GRISLY RPSE TURNG UP TWO HALV 1946. TODAY, (TO S EVERLASTG SHAME), THE BAR SERV A ‘BLACK DAHLIA COCKTAIL’. WELL, WHATEVER BRGS A BUCK, I GUS.ELIZABETH SHORT – ‘THE BLACK DAHLIA’OTHER VENU OF THE 30S AND 40S CLUD SPEAK 39, JOHNNY FRENCHMAN’S, THE GYPSY ROOM, THE TROPIL VILLAGE AND SANTS CLUB. A JOT LLED M & M WAS A LBIAN BAR THAT TERED PRIMARILY FOR LATAS. BROTHERS WAS A GAY BAR FOR AIN-AMERINS. IN THE 50S AND 60S THERE EXISTED THE CHEROKEE CLUB, HOE OF IVY, LAFAYETTE, CHEE-CHEE’S, OPEN DOOR, THE PARTY PAD AND THE CAROEL VENICE. THERE WERE SR MORE. UNR-AGE GAYS WERE TERED FOR AS WELL. THOSE WHO LACKED THE NECSARY ID TO GET TO BARS ULD ADJOURN TO PLAC SUCH AS COFFEE DAN’S, THE GOLD CUP AND MARL INN ON HOLLYWOOD BOULEVARD, ALL OF WHICH TERED EXCLIVELY FOR HOMOSEXUALS. IN THE FIFTI MONTGOMERY CLIFT WAS OFTEN SEEN AT COFFEE DAN’S. BY THE 60S TRANSVT HAD TAKEN OVER THE TABLISHMENT. THERE WERE SEVERAL COFFEE DAN’S LOS ANGEL. THE GAY ONE WAS ON HOLLYWOOD BOULEVARD.MONTGOMERY CLIFTIT WAS ALLA NAZIMOVA WHO ED THE PHEMISM ‘THE SEWG CIRCLE’ FOR HOLLYWOOD’S LBIAN ATERNY. TALLULAH BANKHEAD MAY OR MAY NOT HAVE BEEN VOLVED WH THE GROUP, BUT SHE HAD MANY FEMALE LOVERS. HATTIE MCDANIEL AND PATSY KELLY WERE TWO OF THEM. HATTIE WON AN OSR PLAYG MAMMY GONE WH THE WD 1939. SGER BILLIE HOLIDAY WAS ANOTHER OF TALLULAH’S NQUTS. THE CIRCLE WOULD MEET REGULARLY, SOMETIM AT THE HOME OF DELOR DEL R, AND NSISTED OF LBIANS, BISEXUALS AND THE OCSNAL ‘EXPERIMENTER’. THEY WOULD MEET AT ONE ANOTHER’S HOM FOR LUNCH, A CHAT AND WHATEVER ELSE EVENTUATED. THE AGENDA WAS FLEXIBLE. HATTIE MCDANIELMEMBERS ME AND WENT, BUT STARS SUCH AS JOAN CRAWFORD, GARBO, BARBARA STANWYCK, MYRNA LOY, AGN MOOREHEAD, DANCER ISADORA DUNN, WRER MERCES ASTA AND DIETRICH WERE ALL SAID TO BE PART OF THE SAPPHIC SEWG CIRCLE. OTHERS CLUD KATE HEPBURN, KAY FRANCIS, JUDH ANRSON, EVELYN BRENT AND MARJORIE MA (MA KETTLE). GARBO AND DIETRICH ALWAYS MATAED THEY NEVER KNEW EACH OTHER, BUT SIRS DISAGREE, PECIALLY LIGHT OF THE FACT THAT BOTH WOMEN APPEARED A MOVIE BERL 1925 LLED THE JOYLS STREET. PERSONALLY, I DOUBT IF THEY WERE LOVERS. IF THEY WERE, THEN WHY WOULD DIETRICH NY ? GARBO WAS RIDICULOLY SECRETIVE, BUT MARLENE CERTALY WAS NOT.AGN MOOREHEADMYRNA LOYKAY FRANCISMA KETTLECRAWFORD HAD MANY LOVERS OF BOTH SEX. SHE EVEN TOOK A CRACK AT THE HETEROSEXUAL MARILYN MONROE DURG ONE OF MM’S WEAKER MOMENTS. IT WAS MON KNOWLEDGE HOLLYWOOD THAT THE BETTE DAVIS-JOAN CRAWFORD FD ME ABOUT BEE JOAN MA A PASS AT BETTE AND WAS TURNED DOWN. CRAWFORD WAS NOTOR FOR HOLDG GDG AGAST ANYONE (MALE OR FEMALE) THAT REFED TO SLEEP WH HER.OTHER THAN LILYAN TASHMAN, GARBO HAD RELATNSHIPS WH LOUISE BROOKS AND MERCES ASTA, YET HER GREAT LOVE WAS A MARRIED SWEDISH ACTRS NAMED MIMI POLLAK. UNLIKE DIETRICH, GARBO NEVER MARRIED AND NEVER HAD CHILDREN. OF URSE, JT LIKE MARLENE, SHE TOOK LOVERS OF BOTH GENRS. EVA LE GALLIENNE SHARED HER FAVOURS WH TALLULAH, ESTELLE WWOOD, ALLA NAZIMOVA AND ASTA, TO NAME BUT A FEW.MIMI AND GARBOA YOUTHFUL ESTELLE WWOODESTELLE MURR BY DEATH (1976)DURG THE SEND WORLD WAR LOS ANGEL WAS OFFICIALLY KNOWN AS A GAY MUNY, ALTHOUGH IF YOU WERE TO TAKE THE STUDS’ WORD FOR EVERY ACTOR AND ACTRS ON THEIR BOOKS WAS AS HETEROSEXUAL AS CAPTA AMERI! SIGNIFINTLY, THE FEAR OF EXPOSURE AS A GAY PERSON WAS TANGIBLE AND POTENTIALLY REER-STROYG, WHILE THE SEXUAL EXPLOATN OF YOUNG HOPEFULS (OF BOTH SEX) WENT ON UNCHECKED, DAY AND DAY OUT AT EVERY STUD, LARGE OR SMALL.ADRIANAGN MOOREHEADBARBARA STANWYCKBBB'S CELLARBETTE DAVIS JOAN CRAWFORDBEVERLY SHAWRY GRANTTHERE D'ERLANGERCLTTE LBERTFFEE DAN'SLE PORTERNSTANCE BENTELIZABETH SHORTERROL FLYNNTELLE WWOODGAYLORD HSERGEE CRETA GARBOHATTIE MCDANIELJA GAYNORJEAN ARTHURJIMMY'S BACK YARDJOAN CRAWFORDJUDY GARLANDKAY ANCISLILI DAMALILYAN TASHMANMA KETTLEMARJORIE MAMIMI POLLAKMONTGOMERY CLIFTMURR BY ATHMYRNA LOYPERSHG SQUARERANDOLPH STTTALLULAH BANKHEADTHE BILTMORE HOTELTHE BLACK DAHLIA PREVHOLLYWOOD – TAL OM THE DARK SI. NEXTTRAGIC HOLLYWOOD – WHO KILLED FUNNYMAN TED HEALY? 2 COMMENTS TS BALLOS DECEMBER 31, 2022 AT 4:01 PM THE RMATN ABOUT GRANT AND STT IS MOR. STT’S BGRAPHER STATED THAT THERE WAS NO EVINCE TO BACK THIS CLAIM, AS DID GRANT’S DGHTER. THERE IS NO CREDIBLE EVINCE DITG THE ACTORS WERE MORE THAN JT GOOD IENDS. IT’S SAD THAT PEOPLE ARE MORE TERTED POTLS GOSSIP THAN TTH.REPLY ALAN ROYLE JANUARY 1, 2023 AT 3:27 PM IT IS NOT POTLS GOSSIP AT ALL, TS. CARY WAS BISEXUAL, SPE WHAT HIS DGHTER BELIEV.REPLYLEAVE A REPLY CANCEL REPLYYOUR EMAIL ADDRS WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED.COMMENTNAME *EMAIL *WEBSESAVE MY NAME, EMAIL, AND WEBSE THIS BROWSER FOR THE NEXT TIME I MENT. IF A NEW COMMENT IS POSTED:DO NOT SEND EMAIL NOTIFITNS.SEND EMAIL NOTIFITN ONLY IF SOMEONE REPLI TO MY COMMENT(S).SEND EMAIL NOTIFITN WHENEVER A NEW COMMENT IS POSTED.ΔTHIS SE AKISMET TO RCE SPAM. LEARN HOW YOUR MENT DATA IS PROCSED.LOOKG FOR SOMETHG? SEARCH FOR: RECENT POSTS PROFILES – ELIZABETH MONTGOMERY & JODIE FOSTER DECEMBER 1, 2022 0 MOVIES – ‘HIDN FIGUR’ & ‘THE LTLE MERMAID’. NOVEMBER 30, 2022 0 GRACE KELLY & HER PRIVATE LIFE NOVEMBER 27, 2022 0 RANDOM QUOTES – PT69. NOVEMBER 24, 2022 4 TV WESTERNS – PT40. 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