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PROFILES – GISH & GAYNOR. JANUARY 27, 2020 ALAN ROYLE UNTEGORIZED 2 LILLIAN GISHLILLIAN GISH MIGHT VERY WELL HAVE DIED HER TWENTI WHEN SHE WAS H BY THE FLUENZA PANMIC OF 1918. SHE MIRACULOLY SURVIVED WHEN A GREAT MANY PEOPLE DID NOT. IN THE 1920S, THERE WAS SOMETHG OF A SNDAL WHEN PRODUCER CHARL DUELL MA PUBLIC TAILS OF HIS RELATNSHIP WH THE YOUNG BETY DURG A LAWSU HE FILED AGAST HER FOR BREACH OF HER ACTG NTRACT. AS FAR AS WE KNOW, DUELL WAS THE OTHER HALF OF THE ONLY TIMATE RELATNSHIP SHE MAY HAVE HAD HER ENTIRE LIFE. IT HAS BEEN SUGGTED THAT LILLIAN PRSURED HER IENDS TO IMPLY THAT SHE AND DUELL WERE NEVER LOVERS, BUT THE GENERAL NSENS IS THAT SHE WAS PROBABLY TIMATE WH HIM. HE WAS A MARRIED MAN AT THE TIME AND WAS SAID HE DIVORCED HIS WIFE TO BEE BRIEFLY ENGAGED TO LILLIAN BEFORE SHE LLED OFF. DRAMA CRIC AND EDOR GEE JEAN NATHAN WAS ANOTHER POSSIBLE TIMATE THE 1920S, BUT JT HOW FAR THEIR RELATNSHIP PROGRSED IS PROBLEMATIL.LILLIAN WH JOHN GILBERT – PUBLICY SHOTSCREEN SUPERSTAR JOHN GILBERT WAS OBSSED BY HER BETY AND LIBERATELY ED TAKE AFTER TAKE ONE OF THEIR MOVI, JT SO HE ULD KEEP KISSG HER. BUT LILLIAN WAS NOT TERTED HIM. HER DIRECTOR AND MENTOR D. W. GRIFFH, TOO, WAS CLEARLY OBSSED WH HER AGILE BETY. SEVERAL OF HER ASSOCIAT CLAIMED SHE AND GRIFFH WERE BRIEFLY TIMATE THE EARLY DAYS, BUT LILLIAN NEVER NFIRMED THE MOURS SO ONCE AGA WE ARE LEFT WH NJECTURE, NOTHG MORE. PERHAPS, GRIFFH FIRST NOTICED THERE WAS MORE TO HER DURG ONE REHEARSAL HE DIRECTED FOR BIRTH OF A NATN (1915). SHE WAS STANDG FOR BLANCHE SWEET WHEN SHE CUNNGLY LOOSENED HER WAIST-LENGTH BLON HAIR DURG THE EVABLE NEAR-RAPE SCENE AND THE SE LAND HER THE STARRG ROLE.L TO R – DOROTHY & LILLIAN GISH WH D W GRIFFHRUMOURS PERSISTED FOR MUCH OF HER LIFE THAT LILLIAN WAS QUE POSSIBLY A LBIAN. THE FACT THAT SHE NEVER MARRIED ADD FUEL TO THE FIRE STOKED BY THOSE WHO TOMATILLY WHO EMED SPSTERHOOD TO BE EVINCE OF HOMOSEXUALY. DES LATER THE MOURS WERE HELPED FURTHER ALONG WHEN BETTE DAVIS ASKED A NFIDANTE OF LILLIAN’S, LDSAY ANRSON, IF THEY WERE TE. ‘DON’T ASK ME, BETTE’, SHE REPLIED. ‘ASK HER LONG-TIME GIRLIEND.’ THE LADY DID NOT PROFFER A NAME, HOWEVER, SO WE ARE NONE THE WISER.LILLIAN (L) & HELEN HAY – ARSENIC & OLD LACE (1969)ON HER ATH, LILLIAN LEFT HER ENTIRE TATE TO ACTRS HELEN HAY WHO DIED LS THAN A MONTH LATER. IT IS NO SECRET THAT LILLIAN WAS CLOSE IENDS WH MARY PICKFORD AND MISS HAY ALL HER LIFE, BUT ANY SUGGTN THAT EHER OF THE TWO LADI WAS EVER TIMATE WH HER IS ENTIRELY NJECTURE. INED, LILLIAN SEEMED ENTIRELY VOTED TO HER REER AND NOT MUCH TERTED EMBARKG UPON TIMATE RELATNSHIPS WH MAL OR FEMAL. SHE WOULD LIVE ON UNTIL 1993 BEFORE DYG AT 99, STILL UNMARRIED. HER ASTONISHG REER HAD SPANNED AN CREDIBLE 86 YEARS OM 1902 UNTIL 1988! JA GAYNORTHERE HAS ALWAYS BEEN A LOT OF SPECULATN ABOUT LOVELY JA GAYNOR’S SEXUAL PREFERENC. SOME SAY SHE WAS HETEROSEXUAL, OTHERS THAT SHE WAS A LBIAN; OTHERS THAT SHE WAS BISEXUAL. ACRDG TO HER IEND, ACTOR DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS JR, JA WAS ROMANTILLY VOLVED WH HER -STAR OF SEVERAL FILMS, CHARL FARRELL, FOR SEVERAL YEARS AND THAT HE (FAIRBANKS) WOULD REGULARLY ASSIST THEM KEEPG THE RELATNSHIP OUT OF THE PUBLIC EYE. ‘WE THREE WERE SO CHUMMY THAT I BEME THEIR ‘BEARD’, HE RELLED, ‘THE VER-UP FOR THEIR SECRET ROMANCE. I WOULD DRIVE THEM OUT TO A LTLE, N-DOWN, WOON HOE; WELL SOUTH OF LOS ANGEL, NEAR THE SEA. I’D LEAVE THEM THERE AND GO SAILG OR SWIMMG UNTIL [ WAS] TIME TO LLECT THEM AND THEN WE’D ALL HAVE A B OF DNER.’JA & CHARL FARRELLJA’S BGRAPHER, SARAH BAKER, WROTE THAT FARRELL EVEN PROPOSED TO HER DURG THE FILMG OF LUCKY STAR (1929), BUT THEY NEVER WENT THROUGH WH . YEARS LATER, JA WOULD ARGUE THAT THEY BROKE UP BEE OF THEIR DIFFERENT PERSONALI. IN SEPTEMBER 1929 SHE MARRIED LAWYER JSE PECK, BUT THEY SEPARATED DECEMBER 1932 AND OFFICIALLY LLED A DAY APRIL THE FOLLOWG YEAR. THERE WERE NO CHILDREN.JA & HER FIRST HBAND JSE PECKIN THE TERIM BETWEEN HER DIVORCE OM PECK AND MARRIAGE TO HER SEND HBAND SIX YEARS LATER, JA WAS SEEN WH SOME VERY HIGH PROFILE ACTORS AT VAR RTRANTS AND OTHER NIGHT SPOTS. SHE WAS PHOTOGRAPHED DG WH TYRONE POWER, JIMMY STEWART, LEW AYR, ROBERT TAYLOR, RICHARD CARLSON AND CAR ROMERO. JT HOW MANY (IF ANY) OF THE GENTLEMEN BEME HER LOVERS IS ANYONE’S GUS, ALTHOUGH THE PRO-LBIAN SET WOULD PROBABLY SUGGT THEY WERE ALL BOG DAT TO THROW OFF THE MEDIA.WH TY POWER THE 30STHOSE REARCHERS WHO VOW THAT JA WAS A LBIAN FIRMLY BELIEVE THAT INIC ACTRS HELEN HAY WAS ONE OF HER EARLY LOVERS, WHILE IENDS OF MISS GAYNOR STATE THAT ACTRS MARGARET LDSAY (INDIA GONE WH THE WD) WAS THE ‘LOVE OF HER LIFE’. IT HAS BEEN STRONGLY ARGUED THAT HER STUD, 20TH CENTURY FOX, PRSURED HER TO MARRYG ADRIAN, THE NOTORLY GAY STUME SIGNER AT MGM, 1939, WHEN SHE BEME DANGER OF BEG EXPOSED AS A GAY WOMAN. ‘LAVENR MARRIAG’ HAVE ALWAYS EXISTED HOLLYWOOD AND HER UNN WH ADRIAN LASTED UNTIL HIS ATH 1959. THE QUTN IS – WAS THIS MARRIAGE ‘LAVENR’ TO MOUFLAGE ADRIAN’S SEXUALY OR BOTH HIS AND JA’S? NOBODY SEEMS TO KNOW FOR SURE.MARGARET LDSAY (L) & JA AT THE DERT INN, PALM SPRGS 1934 WH HBAND GILBERT ADRIAN AT HIS TOLU LAKE HOMETHE UPLE HAD A CHILD 1940, SPE THE FILM MUNY BEG FIRMLY AWARE OF ADRIAN’S HOMOSEXUALY AND JA’S SPECTED LBIANISM. DURG THEIR MARRIAGE JA BEME VERY CLOSE TO SGER MARY MART, THE MOTHER OF LARRY HAGMAN OF DALLAS FAME. ACTOR BOB CUMMGS CLAIMED HE KNEW ALL ABOUT JA’S LOVE AFFAIR WH MARY. ‘ADRIAN MAY HAVE BEEN HER HBAND’, HE SUPPOSEDLY SAID, ‘BUT HER WIFE WAS MARY MART.’ MARY AND JA OWNED ADJOG RANCH BRAZIL FOR A WHILE, BUT DO THAT PROVE THEY WERE LOVERS” NOT MY BOOK. IN DECEMBER 1964, JA TOOK HER THIRD TRIP DOWN THE AISLE, THIS TIME WH HER LONG-TIME IEND, STAGE PRODUCER PL GREGORY, TO WHOM SHE REMAED MARRIED UNTIL HER ATH 1984.JA WH MARY MART FEBARY 1980ONE EVENG SEPTEMBER 1982, JA, PL, MARY AND MARY’S MANAGER BEN WASHER WERE VOLVED A HORRENDO R CRASH SAN FRANCIS WHEN A VAN RAN A RED LIGHT. WASHER WAS KILLED, MARY SUFFERED BROKEN RIBS AND A BROKEN PELVIS, PL HAD BOTH LEGS BROKEN, AND JA STAED ELEVEN BROKEN RIBS, A BROKEN LLARBONE, PELVIC ACTUR, A PUNCTURED LUNG AND JURI TO HER BLADR AND KIDNEYS. SHE WAS HOSPALISED FOR FOUR MONTHS AND HER JURI REQUIRED FURTHER BOUTS OF HOSPALISATN OVER THE NEXT YEAR AND A HALF. SHE PASSED AWAY HOSPAL PALM SPRGS AT THE AGE OF 77, HAVG NEVER FULLY REVERED OM HER JURI.ADRIANARSENIC AND OLD LACECHARL FARRELLD W GRIFFHDOROTHY GISHHELEN HAYJA GAYNORJSE PECKJOHN GILBERTLILLIAN GISHMARGARET LDSAYMARY MARTTYRONE POWER PREVWORLD WAR TWO – THE STARS & THEIR STORI – PT16. NEXTRANDOM QUOTES – PT18. 2 COMMENTS RAFE JUNE 25, 2022 AT 1:08 PM TWO GLARG ERRORS: LDSAY ANRSON, WHO DIRECTED GISH AND DAVIS “THE WHAL OF AUGT,” WAS A MAN, NOT A WOMAN. MARGARET LDSAY DID NOT APPEAR “GONE WH THE WD”. INDIA WILK WAS PLAYED BY ACTRS ALICIA RHETT.REPLY ALAN ROYLE JUNE 27, 2022 AT 5:13 PM I STAND RRECTED. THANK YOU, RAFE.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 MOVIE TRIVIA – PT202 SEPTEMBER 19, 2022 0 KAY KENDALL, SUZY KENDALL, PATSY KENSIT SEPTEMBER 16, 2022 2 ‘THE ST. 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The fact that she never married add fuel to the fire stoked by those who tomatilly who emed spsterhood to be evince of homosexualy. Ja GaynorThere has always been a lot of speculatn about lovely Ja Gaynor’s sexual preferenc. Jt how many (if any) of the gentlemen beme her lovers is anyone’s gus, although the pro-lbian set would probably suggt they were all bog dat to throw off the Ty Power the 30sThose rearchers who vow that Ja was a lbian firmly believe that inic actrs Helen Hay was one of her early lovers, while iends of Miss Gaynor state that actrs Margaret Ldsay (India Gone wh the Wd) was the ‘love of her life’.
It has been strongly argued that her stud, 20th Century Fox, prsured her to marryg Adrian, the notorly gay stume signer at MGM, 1939, when she beme danger of beg exposed as a gay woman. Margaret Ldsay (L) & Ja at the Dert Inn, Palm Sprgs 1934 Wh hband Gilbert Adrian at his Tolu Lake homeThe uple had a child 1940, spe the film muny beg firmly aware of Adrian’s homosexualy and Ja’s spected lbianism.