PROFILES - Gish & Gaynor. ⋆ Historian Alan Royle

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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. VALENTINE’S DAY MASSACRE’ (1967) SEPTEMBER 13, 2022 4 RANDOM QUOTES – PT64 SEPTEMBER 10, 2022 0 TV WESTERNS – PT35 SEPTEMBER 7, 2022 7ARCHIV ARCHIV SELECT MONTH OCTOBER 2022  (7) SEPTEMBER 2022  (10) AUGT 2022  (11) JULY 2022  (10) JUNE 2022  (10) MAY 2022  (10) APRIL 2022  (9) MARCH 2022  (11) FEBARY 2022  (9) JANUARY 2022  (10) DECEMBER 2021  (10) NOVEMBER 2021  (10) OCTOBER 2021  (10) SEPTEMBER 2021  (10) AUGT 2021  (10) JULY 2021  (11) JUNE 2021  (9) MAY 2021  (9) APRIL 2021  (11) MARCH 2021  (10) FEBARY 2021  (9) JANUARY 2021  (12) DECEMBER 2020  (10) NOVEMBER 2020  (10) OCTOBER 2020  (9) SEPTEMBER 2020  (10) AUGT 2020  (12) JULY 2020  (10) JUNE 2020  (11) MAY 2020  (10) APRIL 2020  (10) MARCH 2020  (11) FEBARY 2020  (9) JANUARY 2020  (10) DECEMBER 2019  (11) NOVEMBER 2019  (10) OCTOBER 2019  (10) SEPTEMBER 2019  (10) AUGT 2019  (11) JULY 2019  (11) JUNE 2019  (10) MAY 2019  (10) APRIL 2019  (11) MARCH 2019  (15) FEBARY 2019  (14) JANUARY 2019  (15) DECEMBER 2018  (15) NOVEMBER 2018  (15) OCTOBER 2018  (16) SEPTEMBER 2018  (15) AUGT 2018  (15) JULY 2018  (16) JUNE 2018  (16) MAY 2018  (15) APRIL 2018  (15) MARCH 2018  (16) FEBARY 2018  (14) JANUARY 2018  (13) DECEMBER 2017  (16) NOVEMBER 2017  (15) OCTOBER 2017  (15) SEPTEMBER 2017  (15) AUGT 2017  (16) JULY 2017  (15) JUNE 2017  (15) MAY 2017  (16) APRIL 2017  (15) MARCH 2017  (15) FEBARY 2017  (15) JANUARY 2017  (16) DECEMBER 2016  (15) NOVEMBER 2016  (16) OCTOBER 2016  (17) SEPTEMBER 2016  (16) AUGT 2016  (16) JULY 2016  (17) JUNE 2016  (16) MAY 2016  (15) APRIL 2016  (15) MARCH 2016  (15) FEBARY 2016  (13) JANUARY 2016  (17) DECEMBER 2015  (16) NOVEMBER 2015  (15) OCTOBER 2015  (15) SEPTEMBER 2015  (16) AUGT 2015  (15) JULY 2015  (13) JUNE 2015  (14) MAY 2015  (16) APRIL 2015  (23) MARCH 2015  (31) FEBARY 2015  (40) RSS FEEDSCHARACTER ACTORS (9)DID YOU KNOW? (607)GREAT MOVIE QUOT (21)HOLLYWOOD & WW2 (73)MISC (68)MOVI (392)MY BOOKS (9)SOCIAL ISSU (7)STOLEN OSRS? (4)TRAGIC HOLLYWOOD (45)TV SHOWS (85)UNTEGORIZED (110)WESTERN WOMEN (1)WHAT HAPPENED TO? (1) ALL TOPICSTAGSDREY HEPBURN (32) AVA GARDNER (35) BARBARA STANWYCK (27) BETTE DAVIS (42) BG CROSBY (28) BURT LANSTER (32) RY GRANT (44) CHARLTON HTON (27) CLARK GABLE (61) ELIZABETH TAYLOR (33) ELVIS PRLEY (33) ERROL FLYNN (45) ANK SATRA (56) GARY OPER (43) GONE WH THE WD (28) GRACE KELLY (38) GREGORY PECK (30) HOWARD HUGH (33) HUMPHREY BOGART (28) GRID BERGMAN (30) JAM STEWART (40) JOAN CRAWFORD (47) JOHN WAYNE (47) JUDY GARLAND (31) LANA TURNER (38) LRENCE OLIVIER (30) MARILYN MONROE (64) MARLON BRANDO (40) MICHAEL E (27) MICKEY ROONEY (32) NATALIE WOOD (27) PL NEWMAN (29) PETER LAWFORD (26) RICHARD BURTON (29) RA HAYWORTH (25) ROBERT MCHUM (40) ROBERT TAYLOR (26) ROCK HUDSON (32) RONALD REAGAN (30) SEAN NNERY (40) SHIRLEY TEMPLE (31) SPENCER TRACY (39) TONY CURTIS (29) TYRONE POWER (26) WILLIAM HOLN (28)RECENT COMMENTSALAN ROYLE ON TV WESTERNS – PT 38MIKE POWERS ON TV WESTERNS – PT 38ALAN ROYLE ON WILLIAM HOLN – HIS LIFE AND HIS LOVAISHA ON THE MANY LOV OF RA HAYWORTHMARTHA CLARK ON MOVIE TRIVIA – PT203.MARTHA CLARK ON WILLIAM HOLN – HIS LIFE AND HIS LOVALAN ROYLE ON TV WESTERNS – PT37ALAN ROYLE ON MOVIE TRIVIA – PT204MIKE POWERS ON RANDOM QUOTES – PT66MIKE POWERS ON MOVIE TRIVIA – PT204MIKE POWERS ON TV WESTERNS – PT37ALAN ROYLE ON MOVIE TRIVIA – PT204ALAN ROYLE ON LET’S GO TO THE MOVIES – ‘PETER PAN’, ‘MEDICINE MAN’.CATMAC ON MOVIE TRIVIA – PT204CRAIG ON LET’S GO TO THE MOVIES – ‘PETER PAN’, ‘MEDICINE MAN’.REVISG THE SERI “APPALACHIANS MOVG PICTUR” – APPALACHIA BARE ON WAMPAS BABY STARS OF 1929ALAN ROYLE ON LET’S GO TO THE MOVIES – ‘PETER PAN’, ‘MEDICINE MAN’.CATMAC ON LET’S GO TO THE MOVIES – ‘PETER PAN’, ‘MEDICINE MAN’.ALAN ROYLE ON LET’S GO TO THE MOVIES – ‘PETER PAN’, ‘MEDICINE MAN’.CATMAC ON LET’S GO TO THE MOVIES – ‘PETER PAN’, ‘MEDICINE MAN’.COPYRIGHT &PY; 2022 | WORDPRS THEME BY MH THEM INSERT/ED LK

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.