Gay Hollywood: Actors and Decisn-Makers to Know 2022 - Variety

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• BELDA CARLISLE AND JAM DE MASON ON FAY, SUPPORTG A GAY CHILD
• THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985
• STEWART GRANGER – A MAN’S MAN – MOSTLY. JUNE 7, 2015 ADM DID YOU KNOW? 8  IT IS DIFFICULT NOT TO ADMIRE ENGLISH ACTOR STEWART GRANGER. IN AN ERA THAT SPAWNED A GENERATN OF ACTORS AND ACTRS READY AND WILLG TO DO AND SAY WHATEVER THEIR STUDS MAND OF THEM, AND EQUALLY UNWILLG TO CROSS POWERFUL GOSSIP LUMNISTS LIKE HEDDA HOPPER AND LOUELLA PARSONS FOR FEAR OF RISKG THEIR REERS, HE STOOD OUT AS A MAN AMONG MEN. I IMAGE, LIKE ALL THE OTHERS, HE ENJOYED THE WEALTH AND FAME OF BEG A MOVIE STAR, BUT HE PLACED VALU SUCH AS LOYALTY AND IENDSHIP ABOVE THE THGS, AND THAT MA HIM UNIQUE AN DTRY WHERE SUCCS AND REER WERE EVERYTHG. IF NOT EXACTLY UNIQUE, THEN AT THE VERY LEAST PART OF A SELECT MORY.A YOUNG STEWART GRANGERHIS REAL NAME WAS, FACT, JAM STEWART, BUT THAT WAS ALREADY TAKEN AND UNIVERSALLY KNOWN, SO HE SETTLED ON STEWART GRANGER STEAD. STARTG HIS ACTG REER WH THE OLD VIC COMPANY 1939, THE YOUNG MAN WAS PROGRSG STEADILY WHEN WORLD WAR TWO TERVENED. HE JOED THE BRISH ARMY, FIRSTLY THE GORDON HIGHLANRS BEFORE TRANSFERRG TO THE BLACK WATCH, BUT HE SUFFERED BADLY OM STOMACH ULCERS AND WAS VALID OUT 1942. THE ARTH OF LEADG MEN BRA AT THE TIME LEFT THE DOOR OPEN FOR HIM TO PURSUE BIGGER AND BETTER ROL, BOTH ON STAGE AND ON THE SCREEN.ELSPETH MARCHMOSTLY, HE WAS CHOSEN TO PLAY ROMANTIC LEADG MEN, ALL THE REALLY MEATY, DRAMATIC ROL BRISH FILMS AT THE TIME GOG TO JAM MASON. MASON WAS A NSCIENT OBJECTOR AND NEVER DID TAKE PART THE WAR. WHEN HE LEFT FOR HOLLYWOOD, HOWEVER, GRANGER BEGAN TO GET HIS ROL AND EVENTUALLY SUCCS ME WH THEM. HE HAD MET ACTOR MICHAEL WILDG BACK 1933 AND THEY REMAED FIRM IENDS ALL THEIR LIV. RUMOURS PERSISTED THAT THEIR ‘IENDSHIP’ RAN MUCH EPER, THAT BOTH WERE BISEXUAL AND TIMATELY VOLVED, BUT I SHALL GET TO THAT LATER. HE ALSO MET ACTRS ELSPETH MARCH AND 1938 SHE BEME HIS FIRST WIFE. THE UNN LASTED 10 YEARS. FIGHTG MEL FERRER  SRAMOUCHEBY 1945 GRANGER WAS ONE OF BRA’S MOST POPULAR LEADG MEN. IN THAT SAME YEAR HE WORKED WH YOUNG NEWER JEAN SIMMONS ON CAAR AND CLEOPATRA. WHEN THEY STARRED TOGETHER ADAM AND EVELYNE 1949 THEY FELL LOVE. A YEAR LATER ECCENTRIC BILLNAIRE HOWARD HUGH FLEW THEM TO TUCSON, ARIZONA HIS PRIVATE AIRCRAFT, AND THEY WERE MARRIED. MICHAEL WILDG WAS BT MAN. MGM OFFERED GRANGER THE LEAD KG SOLOMON’S M (AFTER ERROL FLYNN HAD TURNED DOWN), HE SIGNED ON, AND THE PICTURE WAS A HUGE H. HE WAS ON HIS WAY HOLLYWOOD. TWO YEARS LATER HE STARRED POSSIBLY HIS BT FILM, SRAMOUCHE. THE PICTURE SIMPLY HAS THE BT SWORD-FIGHTG SEQUENC MOVIE HISTORY, DUE MALY TO GRANGER’S BRILLIANCE WH A BLA. HE WORKED SO HARD ON HIS FENCG THAT HE BEME, UNDOUBTEDLY, THE SEND BT SWORDSMAN HOLLYWOOD. ONLY FORMER OLYMPIAN BASIL RATHBONE WAS MORE PROFICIENT.JEAN SIMMONSIN THAT SAME YEAR, 1952, HE AND JEAN BEME VOLVED A NNG BATTLE WH THEIR FORMER BENEFACTOR HUGH. JEAN AWOKE ONE MORNG TO LEARN THAT HER NTRACT WH J ARTHUR RANK HAD BEEN PURCHASED BY HIM OVERNIGHT, AND THAT HE NOW WANTED HER TO SIGN A SEVEN-YEAR EXCLIVE NTRACT WH HIM AT RKO. EVERYONE, CLUDG THE GRANGERS, KNEW THAT HIS OBJECTIVE WAS TO GET HER HIS BED. HE HAD ALREADY TRIED, BUT SHE HAD STEADFASTLY REFED HIS ADVANC. IN RETALIATN HE TOOK HER TO URT, CHARGG HER WH BREACH OF NTRACT. GRANGER, AWARE OF THE OFT-REPEATED OBSERVATN THAT HUGH HAD PERSONALLY FLOWERED EXCS OF 200 VIRGS HIS LIFETIME ALREADY, HAD NO TENTN OF SEEG HIS WIFE EXPOSED TO THIS NOTOR SEXUAL PREDATOR, SO HE TOOK HIM ON. YEARS LATER, HE WOULD WRE THAT HE AND JEAN DISCSED PAYG SOMEONE TO KILL HUGH, BUT OPTED AGAST . HOWARD HUGHTHE TRIAL WAS A BIG MEDIA EVENT. THE GRANGERS QUICKLY REACHED THE NCLN THAT THE JUDGE WAS HUGH’ POCKET. THE MAN LED THE BILLNAIRE’S FAVOUR ON EVERY POT. FOR TWO WEEKS HUGH HAD HIS MNS BADGER JEAN TO GIVE AND SIGN THE NTRACT, BUT SHE STUBBORNLY REFED. GRANGER WAS EXTREMELY ANGRY – AND HE WAS NO FOOL. HE MA VERY CLEAR THAT WHEN ME TIME FOR HUGH HIMSELF TO TAKE THE STAND, HE WOULD BE H WH A VERABLE BARRAGE OF QUTNS OF THE MOST PERSONAL AND PRIVATE NATURE. SUCH A PUBLIC SPECTACLE WAS ANATHEMA TO THIS MOST SECRETIVE MAN. HE SUDNLY PULATED AND JEAN WAS EE TO PURSUE HER REER PENNTLY, BUT THE LAY ED BY THE LEGAL PROCEEDGS HAD ST HER THE LEAD ROMAN HOLIDAY. SHE HAD BEEN WILLIAM WYLER’S FIRST CHOICE, BUT HUGH REFED TO RELEASE HER OM HER RKO NTRACT, SO THE PLUM ROLE WENT TO NEWER AUDREY HEPBURN STEAD, AND MA HER A STAR. SIMMONS WAS PELLED TO PLETE FOUR MOVI FOR RKO BEE OF THE AL MA BEHD HER BACK WH RANK. NEVER AGA WOULD SHE SIGN A STUD NTRACT.BURTON & SIMMONS  THE ROBEGRANGER NSIRED RICHARD BURTON TO BE A GOOD IEND, BUT THAT END WHEN HE REALIZED THE RRIGIBLE WELSHMAN HAD SCED JEAN WHILE HE WAS A GUT THEIR HOME. SO, HE ONTED BURTON AND MAND AN EXPLANATN. ‘WHY DO YOU FUCK THE WIFE OF ONE OF YOUR BT IENDS?’ HE SISTED ON KNOWG. ALL BURTON ULD OFFER WAS SOME FEEBLE EXCE ABOUT ‘BEG DNK AT THE TIME’. ‘LET’S FACE ’, SAID GRANGER LATER. ‘BURTON WAS A PRICK. HE WAS A CLEVER ACTOR, BUT A SH, AN ABSOLUTE SH’. YEARS LATER, BURTON WOULD OWN UP TO HAVG AN AFFAIR WH JEAN, BUT CLAIMED HAPPENED WHEN THEY MA THE ROBE TOGETHER 1952. EHER WAY, SHE WAS STILL MARRIED TO GRANGER AT THE TIME.DEBORAH KERRTHE GRANGERS’ LAST FILM TOGETHER WAS FOOTSTEPS THE FOG (1955). HE TURNED DOWN THE ROLE OF MSALA BEN-HUR, SEEMGLY BEE HE DID NOT WISH TO TAKE SEND BILLG BEHD CHARLTON HTON. THE ROLE WENT TO STEPHEN BOYD WHO WAS WONRFUL . THEN HE MA THE POPULAR WTERN EDY, NORTH TO ALASKA, WH JOHN WAYNE 1960. IN THE SAME YEAR HIS MARRIAGE TO JEAN END AND HE LEFT HOLLYWOOD TO LIVE SPA. IN HIS 1981 TOBGRAPHY, SPARKS FLY UPWARDS, HE WROTE OF DEBORAH KERR PROPOSNG HIM THE BACK OF HIS CHFFR-DRIVEN R WHILE HE WAS MAKG CAAR AND CLEOPATRA 1945 AND STILL MARRIED TO ELSPETH. HE STATED THAT HE AND MISS KERR HAD A SIX MONTHS AFFAIR. HER RPONSE TO THIS REVELATN WAS TYPIL OF THE LADY: ‘WHAT A GALLANT MAN HE IS,’ SHE SAID. AND NOTHG MORE. HEDY LAMARRHE ALSO WROTE ABOUT HIS FIRST MEETG WH SCREEN BETY HEDY LAMARR AT A SMALL GET TOGETHER HER APARTMENT. AFTER LOOKG THE YOUNG ACTOR OVER SHE DISMISSED EVERYONE ELSE AND OPENLY PROPOSNED HIM. ‘MY GOD, I DON’T BELIEVE YOU WANT TO!’ SHE EXCLAIMED, AWARE OF NSIRABLE RELUCTANCE ON HIS PART. AND WAS TE. ALTHOUGH TAKEN BY HER BETY (SHE WAS ABOUT 36 THEN), GRANGER WROTE THAT HE WAS PUT OFF BY HER EXTREMELY BOSSY MANNER WHICH HE FOUND TO BE ANYTHG BUT FEME. ‘KGS WANT TO. HEADS OF STUDS WANT TO. PRINTS WANT TO. WHY DON’T YOU WANT TO?’ SHE MAND OF HIM. HE QUICKLY ASSURED HER THAT HE DID, FACT, ‘WANT TO’. ‘THEN GO AND GET YOUR CLOTH OFF!’ SHE ORRED. HE DULY DID SO AND ON HIS RETURN FOUND THE STUNNG BETY AWAG HIM, QUE NAKED ON THE BED. ‘NOW DON’T E TOO FAST, WILL YOU!’ WAS HER FAL STCTN. EVINTLY, THAT TORE . HE DRSED AND LEFT.MICHAEL WILDGELIZABETH TAYLOR MARRIED MICHAEL WILDG FEBARY 1952, EVEN THOUGH HE WAS 20 YEARS HER SENR, AND SPE A STERN WARNG OM TERFERG GOSSIP LUMNIST HEDDA HOPPER. IN FACT, HOPPER WENT SO FAR AS TO PUBLISH HER LUMN THAT WILDG WAS A HOMOSEXUAL AND LIZ SHOULD DROP HIM AT ONCE. WHEN GRANGER HEARD ABOUT HE IMMEDIATELY RANG HOPPER DIRECT AND GAVE HER THE FOLLOWG LEGENDARY BLAST: ‘I THK YOU’RE A MONUMENTAL BCH’, BEGAN. ‘HOW BLOODY DARE YOU ACCE A IEND OF ME OF BEG QUEER, YOU RADDLED, DRIED UP, TRATED OLD CUNT!’ MOST PEOPLE THOUGHT HE HAD STROYED HIS REER WH THAT LL, BUT HOPPER WAS NEVER ABLE TO GET EVEN, ALTHOUGH SHE CERTALY TRIED. FOR THE RERD, WILDG SUED HER AND HER PAPER FOR $3 LN DOLLARS. IT WAS SETTLED OUT OF URT FOR A SUBSTANTIAL SUM.HEDDA HOPPERIRONILLY, HAD HEDDA LIVED UNTIL 1981 (SHE DIED 1966), SHE WOULD SURELY HAVE READ GRANGER’S TOBGRAPHY. IN HE WROTE THAT HE AND WILDG WERE TIMATE ONE EVENG LONDON DURG AN AIR-RAID AT THE HEIGHT OF THE BLZ. ‘PEOPLE WOULD SAY WE WERE BOTH QUEERS’, HE WROTE. ‘BUT THAT ISN’T SO. IT WAS JT THE KD OF THG THAT HAPPENED DURG THE WAR.’ WELL, NOT TO EVERYBODY. BOZE HADLEIGH, THE THOR OF HOLLYWOOD GAYS (1996), SISTS THAT GRANGER WAS ED BISEXUAL. POSSIBLY, THAT EXPLAS WHY HIS NAME WAS NEVER NNECTED WH A GREAT MANY ACTRS. CONSIRG HIS APPEAL TO THE OPPOSE SEX, NOT TO MENTN THE TRACK RERD OF MOST OF HOLLYWOOD’S LEADG MEN, THAT SELF IS UNUAL.BY ALL ACUNTS, HE WAS A TEMPTUO MAN AND DIFFICULT TO LIVE WH. PERHAPS, THAT DROVE JEAN TO THE ARMS OF BURTON, WHO KNOWS? SHE AND GRANGER DIVORCED 1960 AND SHE REMARRIED THAT SAME YEAR TO DIRECTOR RICHARD BROOKS. SEVENTEEN YEARS LATER THAT ALSO END. BY 1986 SHE HAD AN ALHOL PROBLEM AND CHECKED HERSELF TO THE BETTY FORD CLIC AT THE AGE OF 57. GRANGER PASSED AWAY 1993 OM PROSTATE NCER AT THE AGE OF 80. HE HAD BEEN SGLE SCE HIS THIRD MARRIAGE END 1969. JEAN WOULD LIVE A FURTHER 17 YEARS BEFORE DYG OF LUNG NCER 2010. SHE, TOO, WAS 80. BETWEEN THEM THEY MA SOME TLY FE FILMS, THE BT OF WHICH ( MY OPN) WERE SRAMOUCHE AND NORTH TO ALASKA FOR GRANGER, SPARTAC AND ELMER GANTRY FOR JEAN – AND FOOTSTEPS THE FOG DREY HEPBURNBASIL RATHBONEBORAH KERRELMER GANTRYELSPETH MARCHFOOTSTEPS THE FOGHEDDA HOPPERHEDY LAMARRHOWARD HUGHJ ARTHUR RANKJEAN SIMMONSMICHAEL WILDGNORTH TO ALASKARICHARD BURTONRKOROMAN HOLIDAYSRAMOUCHPARTACSTEWART GRANGER PREVTRAGIC HOLLYWOOD – ACCINTAL DEATHS ( PT 7 ) NEXTROSE ‘FATTY’ ARBUCKLE – AN NOCENT VICTIM? 8 COMMENTS CAROLE HEATH NOVEMBER 26, 2022 AT 10:04 PM I THK STEWART GRANGER WAS A GOOD ACTOR. ALL THE STORI ABOUT SOME OF THE FAMO ACTORS HAVE THEY ANY FOUNDATN OR ARE THEY JT HYPOTHIS. LRENCE OLIVIER FOR YEARS HAS BEEN SUGGTED HE WAS BISEXUAL AND I ALSO READ SOMEWHERE VIVIEN LEIGH HAD LBIAN AFFAIRS SOME PEOPLE WHO WRE BOOKS ABOUT FAMO PEOPLE ONLY WANT TO DIG THE DIRT AS IS LLED. NOT LOOK AT THAT PERSON’S ATTRIBUT THEIR CHOOSEN FIELD. I READ DAMN YOU SRLET AWHILE BACK ABOUT VIVIEN LEIGH I FOUND QUE BORG ALL DID WAS NSENTRATEON HER SO LLED AFFAIRS ETC. SHE WAS A GOOD ACTRS WHO UNFORTUNATELY SUFFERED OM BIPOLAR DISORR WHICH WAS VERY SAD.REPLY ALAN ROYLE NOVEMBER 29, 2022 AT 12:56 PM FOR THE UMPTEENTH TIME, CAROLE, I REERATE – FANS GENERALLY STILL BELIEVE THE WHE-WASHG LE DISHED OUT BY STUDS ABOUT THEIR STARS, THEIR MONEY-MAKERS. ONLY NOW IS THE TTH EMERGG THROUGH MEMOIRS, BGRAPHI AND EXPOS. I WAS UNAWARE THAT VIVIEN LEIGH WAS SUPPOSED TO HAVE HAD LBIAN AFFAIRS AND, ANKLY, I DOUBT . I GUS I HAVE YOU TO THANK FOR THAT SNIPPET. YOU TEND TO PICK AND CHOOSE WHO TO BELIEVE AND WHO NOT TO. I BASE MY ASSSMENTS ON MULTIPLE SOURC THAT I NSIR TO BE RELIABLE.REPLY ANA JANUARY 13, 2022 AT 5:55 AM I READ A BGRAPHY OF MARLON BRANDO THAT HE HAD AN AFFAIR WH RY GRANT AND THAT RY HAD AN AFFAIR WH STEWART. AFTER ANALYSIS ON SEVERAL S, I FOUND OUT THAT THE TWO WERE REALLY BISEXUAL AND THAT THEY HAD TO HI BEE OF THEIR FAME AND ALSO BEE WAS DANGERO TIM. THANKS FOR THE ARTICLEREPLY ALAN ROYLE JANUARY 13, 2022 AT 7:11 PM TO BE PERFECTLY HONT, ANA, SORTG OUT WHO IS TELLG THE TTH AND WHO IS NOT N BE A NIGHTMARE. THE STUDS TOLD SO MANY LI FOR SUCH A LONG TIME, ONE HAS TO VIRTUALLY RATE STORI ON ‘PROBABLE VERACY’ AND THEN TAKE A PUNT BASED ON ONE’S OWN JUDGMENT. NOT A VERY SATISFACTORY METHOD OF ANALYZG HISTORY, I HAVE TO SAY.REPLY ROBERT H OCTOBER 5, 2021 AT 11:19 PM AM NOT SURPRISED AT ALL BY THE REVELATN THAT STEWART GRANGER WAS PURPORTEDLY BISEXUAL. I HAVE OBSERVED THAT THERE WAS AN ORDATE AMOUNT OF BISEXUALY BOTH HOLLYWOOD AND THE UNED KGDOM DURG THE POST WWII YEARS (ORDATE AS TO THE GENERAL POPULATN OF THE U.S. FOR EXAMPLE) AND RELL ONCE READG THAT THE E OF THAT THE U.K. WAS THE PROPENSY TO PLACE YOUNG MEN SEXUALLY SERROGATED HOM (I.E. BOY’S SCHOOLS) AND I N ONLY SPECULATE THAT THE REASON WAS ALSO ORDATELY HIGH HOLLYWOOD WAS THE ATTRACTN OF GLAMOUR AND FAME AND GREAT WEALTH; HOWEVER, EHER SE, I WOULD NOT FD DIFFICULT TO BELIEVE THAT PRACTILLY ANYONE ASSOCIATED WH HOLLYWOOD OR THE U.K. (PECIALLY FOLLOWG WORLD WAR TWO) WOULD BE BISEXUAL OR GAY.REPLY ALAN ROYLE OCTOBER 6, 2021 AT 11:47 AM THANKYOU FOR YOUR MENT, ROBERT. THE ACTG PROFSN HAS ALWAYS HAD S SHARE OF BISEXUAL AND GAY PLAYERS (OM BOTH GENRS) ALTHOUGH, PERSONALLY, I DO NOT RE ABOUT THE SEXUAL PREFERENC OF DIVIDUALS ONE WAY OR THE OTHER. I ONLY ALLU TO BEE THE SUBJECT SEEMS TO FASCATE CEMA-GOERS, PARTICULAR. PERHAPS, IF THE STUDS HAD BEEN OPEN ABOUT SUCH THGS OM THE BEGNG THERE WOULD BE LTLE OR NO TERT THE ISSUE TODAY.REPLY S. ALLEN JUNE 7, 2015 AT 1:17 PM I READ A FUNNY STORY ABOUT AVA GARDNER AND GRANGER. I N’T RELL FILM THEY MA TOGETHER, BUT ONE EVE., SHE WALKED TO HIS ROOM, FOUND HIM BED, TRIED TO SCE HIM. HE SAID HE FOUND HER VERY BETIFUL, BUT REMD HER THAT HE WAS MARRIED. HER RPONSE, “FUCK JEAN”, TO WHICH HE ANSWERED, “I’D LIKE TO BUT SHE’S NOT HERE.BOGART, ALSO A “MANS MAN”, ALWAYS WRANGLED W/ J. WARNER ABOUT BAD SCRIPTS, AND WAS FALLY ABLE TO BREAK AWAY, ’49, I THK, AND FORM SANTANA PRO.REPLY ALAN ROYLE JUNE 11, 2015 AT 1:19 PM I THK THE MOVIE YOU ARE PROBABLY REFERRG TO IS ‘THE LTLE HUT'(1957). YOU MAY WELL BE RIGHT ABOUT BOGART. HE MA BOTH ‘THE AIN QUEEN’ AND ‘THE CAE MUTY’ AFTER 1949.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? 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BELDA CARLISLE AND JAM DE MASON ON FAY, SUPPORTG A GAY CHILD

For our Love issue, we spoke wh Go-Go's sger Belda Carlisle, a stnch LGBTQ+ ally, and her gay son, wrer and activist Jam De Mason, about the bond between parent and would you fe faial love? I only have one son, who's gay, and I wouldn't have any other way.

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THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985

Jam De Mason: It was an tertg experience bee I had grown around gay people for most of my childhood. Nety percent of my mom's iends are gay and lbian.

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STEWART GRANGER – A MAN’S MAN – MOSTLY. JUNE 7, 2015 ADM DID YOU KNOW? 8  IT IS DIFFICULT NOT TO ADMIRE ENGLISH ACTOR STEWART GRANGER. IN AN ERA THAT SPAWNED A GENERATN OF ACTORS AND ACTRS READY AND WILLG TO DO AND SAY WHATEVER THEIR STUDS MAND OF THEM, AND EQUALLY UNWILLG TO CROSS POWERFUL GOSSIP LUMNISTS LIKE HEDDA HOPPER AND LOUELLA PARSONS FOR FEAR OF RISKG THEIR REERS, HE STOOD OUT AS A MAN AMONG MEN. I IMAGE, LIKE ALL THE OTHERS, HE ENJOYED THE WEALTH AND FAME OF BEG A MOVIE STAR, BUT HE PLACED VALU SUCH AS LOYALTY AND IENDSHIP ABOVE THE THGS, AND THAT MA HIM UNIQUE AN DTRY WHERE SUCCS AND REER WERE EVERYTHG. IF NOT EXACTLY UNIQUE, THEN AT THE VERY LEAST PART OF A SELECT MORY.A YOUNG STEWART GRANGERHIS REAL NAME WAS, FACT, JAM STEWART, BUT THAT WAS ALREADY TAKEN AND UNIVERSALLY KNOWN, SO HE SETTLED ON STEWART GRANGER STEAD. STARTG HIS ACTG REER WH THE OLD VIC COMPANY 1939, THE YOUNG MAN WAS PROGRSG STEADILY WHEN WORLD WAR TWO TERVENED. HE JOED THE BRISH ARMY, FIRSTLY THE GORDON HIGHLANRS BEFORE TRANSFERRG TO THE BLACK WATCH, BUT HE SUFFERED BADLY OM STOMACH ULCERS AND WAS VALID OUT 1942. THE ARTH OF LEADG MEN BRA AT THE TIME LEFT THE DOOR OPEN FOR HIM TO PURSUE BIGGER AND BETTER ROL, BOTH ON STAGE AND ON THE SCREEN.ELSPETH MARCHMOSTLY, HE WAS CHOSEN TO PLAY ROMANTIC LEADG MEN, ALL THE REALLY MEATY, DRAMATIC ROL BRISH FILMS AT THE TIME GOG TO JAM MASON. MASON WAS A NSCIENT OBJECTOR AND NEVER DID TAKE PART THE WAR. WHEN HE LEFT FOR HOLLYWOOD, HOWEVER, GRANGER BEGAN TO GET HIS ROL AND EVENTUALLY SUCCS ME WH THEM. HE HAD MET ACTOR MICHAEL WILDG BACK 1933 AND THEY REMAED FIRM IENDS ALL THEIR LIV. RUMOURS PERSISTED THAT THEIR ‘IENDSHIP’ RAN MUCH EPER, THAT BOTH WERE BISEXUAL AND TIMATELY VOLVED, BUT I SHALL GET TO THAT LATER. HE ALSO MET ACTRS ELSPETH MARCH AND 1938 SHE BEME HIS FIRST WIFE. THE UNN LASTED 10 YEARS. FIGHTG MEL FERRER  SRAMOUCHEBY 1945 GRANGER WAS ONE OF BRA’S MOST POPULAR LEADG MEN. IN THAT SAME YEAR HE WORKED WH YOUNG NEWER JEAN SIMMONS ON CAAR AND CLEOPATRA. WHEN THEY STARRED TOGETHER ADAM AND EVELYNE 1949 THEY FELL LOVE. A YEAR LATER ECCENTRIC BILLNAIRE HOWARD HUGH FLEW THEM TO TUCSON, ARIZONA HIS PRIVATE AIRCRAFT, AND THEY WERE MARRIED. MICHAEL WILDG WAS BT MAN. MGM OFFERED GRANGER THE LEAD KG SOLOMON’S M (AFTER ERROL FLYNN HAD TURNED DOWN), HE SIGNED ON, AND THE PICTURE WAS A HUGE H. HE WAS ON HIS WAY HOLLYWOOD. TWO YEARS LATER HE STARRED POSSIBLY HIS BT FILM, SRAMOUCHE. THE PICTURE SIMPLY HAS THE BT SWORD-FIGHTG SEQUENC MOVIE HISTORY, DUE MALY TO GRANGER’S BRILLIANCE WH A BLA. HE WORKED SO HARD ON HIS FENCG THAT HE BEME, UNDOUBTEDLY, THE SEND BT SWORDSMAN HOLLYWOOD. ONLY FORMER OLYMPIAN BASIL RATHBONE WAS MORE PROFICIENT.JEAN SIMMONSIN THAT SAME YEAR, 1952, HE AND JEAN BEME VOLVED A NNG BATTLE WH THEIR FORMER BENEFACTOR HUGH. JEAN AWOKE ONE MORNG TO LEARN THAT HER NTRACT WH J ARTHUR RANK HAD BEEN PURCHASED BY HIM OVERNIGHT, AND THAT HE NOW WANTED HER TO SIGN A SEVEN-YEAR EXCLIVE NTRACT WH HIM AT RKO. EVERYONE, CLUDG THE GRANGERS, KNEW THAT HIS OBJECTIVE WAS TO GET HER HIS BED. HE HAD ALREADY TRIED, BUT SHE HAD STEADFASTLY REFED HIS ADVANC. IN RETALIATN HE TOOK HER TO URT, CHARGG HER WH BREACH OF NTRACT. GRANGER, AWARE OF THE OFT-REPEATED OBSERVATN THAT HUGH HAD PERSONALLY FLOWERED EXCS OF 200 VIRGS HIS LIFETIME ALREADY, HAD NO TENTN OF SEEG HIS WIFE EXPOSED TO THIS NOTOR SEXUAL PREDATOR, SO HE TOOK HIM ON. YEARS LATER, HE WOULD WRE THAT HE AND JEAN DISCSED PAYG SOMEONE TO KILL HUGH, BUT OPTED AGAST . HOWARD HUGHTHE TRIAL WAS A BIG MEDIA EVENT. THE GRANGERS QUICKLY REACHED THE NCLN THAT THE JUDGE WAS HUGH’ POCKET. THE MAN LED THE BILLNAIRE’S FAVOUR ON EVERY POT. FOR TWO WEEKS HUGH HAD HIS MNS BADGER JEAN TO GIVE AND SIGN THE NTRACT, BUT SHE STUBBORNLY REFED. GRANGER WAS EXTREMELY ANGRY – AND HE WAS NO FOOL. HE MA VERY CLEAR THAT WHEN ME TIME FOR HUGH HIMSELF TO TAKE THE STAND, HE WOULD BE H WH A VERABLE BARRAGE OF QUTNS OF THE MOST PERSONAL AND PRIVATE NATURE. SUCH A PUBLIC SPECTACLE WAS ANATHEMA TO THIS MOST SECRETIVE MAN. HE SUDNLY PULATED AND JEAN WAS EE TO PURSUE HER REER PENNTLY, BUT THE LAY ED BY THE LEGAL PROCEEDGS HAD ST HER THE LEAD ROMAN HOLIDAY. SHE HAD BEEN WILLIAM WYLER’S FIRST CHOICE, BUT HUGH REFED TO RELEASE HER OM HER RKO NTRACT, SO THE PLUM ROLE WENT TO NEWER AUDREY HEPBURN STEAD, AND MA HER A STAR. SIMMONS WAS PELLED TO PLETE FOUR MOVI FOR RKO BEE OF THE AL MA BEHD HER BACK WH RANK. NEVER AGA WOULD SHE SIGN A STUD NTRACT.BURTON & SIMMONS  THE ROBEGRANGER NSIRED RICHARD BURTON TO BE A GOOD IEND, BUT THAT END WHEN HE REALIZED THE RRIGIBLE WELSHMAN HAD SCED JEAN WHILE HE WAS A GUT THEIR HOME. SO, HE ONTED BURTON AND MAND AN EXPLANATN. ‘WHY DO YOU FUCK THE WIFE OF ONE OF YOUR BT IENDS?’ HE SISTED ON KNOWG. ALL BURTON ULD OFFER WAS SOME FEEBLE EXCE ABOUT ‘BEG DNK AT THE TIME’. ‘LET’S FACE ’, SAID GRANGER LATER. ‘BURTON WAS A PRICK. HE WAS A CLEVER ACTOR, BUT A SH, AN ABSOLUTE SH’. YEARS LATER, BURTON WOULD OWN UP TO HAVG AN AFFAIR WH JEAN, BUT CLAIMED HAPPENED WHEN THEY MA THE ROBE TOGETHER 1952. EHER WAY, SHE WAS STILL MARRIED TO GRANGER AT THE TIME.DEBORAH KERRTHE GRANGERS’ LAST FILM TOGETHER WAS FOOTSTEPS THE FOG (1955). HE TURNED DOWN THE ROLE OF MSALA BEN-HUR, SEEMGLY BEE HE DID NOT WISH TO TAKE SEND BILLG BEHD CHARLTON HTON. THE ROLE WENT TO STEPHEN BOYD WHO WAS WONRFUL . THEN HE MA THE POPULAR WTERN EDY, NORTH TO ALASKA, WH JOHN WAYNE 1960. IN THE SAME YEAR HIS MARRIAGE TO JEAN END AND HE LEFT HOLLYWOOD TO LIVE SPA. IN HIS 1981 TOBGRAPHY, SPARKS FLY UPWARDS, HE WROTE OF DEBORAH KERR PROPOSNG HIM THE BACK OF HIS CHFFR-DRIVEN R WHILE HE WAS MAKG CAAR AND CLEOPATRA 1945 AND STILL MARRIED TO ELSPETH. HE STATED THAT HE AND MISS KERR HAD A SIX MONTHS AFFAIR. HER RPONSE TO THIS REVELATN WAS TYPIL OF THE LADY: ‘WHAT A GALLANT MAN HE IS,’ SHE SAID. AND NOTHG MORE. HEDY LAMARRHE ALSO WROTE ABOUT HIS FIRST MEETG WH SCREEN BETY HEDY LAMARR AT A SMALL GET TOGETHER HER APARTMENT. AFTER LOOKG THE YOUNG ACTOR OVER SHE DISMISSED EVERYONE ELSE AND OPENLY PROPOSNED HIM. ‘MY GOD, I DON’T BELIEVE YOU WANT TO!’ SHE EXCLAIMED, AWARE OF NSIRABLE RELUCTANCE ON HIS PART. AND WAS TE. ALTHOUGH TAKEN BY HER BETY (SHE WAS ABOUT 36 THEN), GRANGER WROTE THAT HE WAS PUT OFF BY HER EXTREMELY BOSSY MANNER WHICH HE FOUND TO BE ANYTHG BUT FEME. ‘KGS WANT TO. HEADS OF STUDS WANT TO. PRINTS WANT TO. WHY DON’T YOU WANT TO?’ SHE MAND OF HIM. HE QUICKLY ASSURED HER THAT HE DID, FACT, ‘WANT TO’. ‘THEN GO AND GET YOUR CLOTH OFF!’ SHE ORRED. HE DULY DID SO AND ON HIS RETURN FOUND THE STUNNG BETY AWAG HIM, QUE NAKED ON THE BED. ‘NOW DON’T E TOO FAST, WILL YOU!’ WAS HER FAL STCTN. EVINTLY, THAT TORE . HE DRSED AND LEFT.MICHAEL WILDGELIZABETH TAYLOR MARRIED MICHAEL WILDG FEBARY 1952, EVEN THOUGH HE WAS 20 YEARS HER SENR, AND SPE A STERN WARNG OM TERFERG GOSSIP LUMNIST HEDDA HOPPER. IN FACT, HOPPER WENT SO FAR AS TO PUBLISH HER LUMN THAT WILDG WAS A HOMOSEXUAL AND LIZ SHOULD DROP HIM AT ONCE. WHEN GRANGER HEARD ABOUT HE IMMEDIATELY RANG HOPPER DIRECT AND GAVE HER THE FOLLOWG LEGENDARY BLAST: ‘I THK YOU’RE A MONUMENTAL BCH’, BEGAN. ‘HOW BLOODY DARE YOU ACCE A IEND OF ME OF BEG QUEER, YOU RADDLED, DRIED UP, TRATED OLD CUNT!’ MOST PEOPLE THOUGHT HE HAD STROYED HIS REER WH THAT LL, BUT HOPPER WAS NEVER ABLE TO GET EVEN, ALTHOUGH SHE CERTALY TRIED. FOR THE RERD, WILDG SUED HER AND HER PAPER FOR $3 LN DOLLARS. IT WAS SETTLED OUT OF URT FOR A SUBSTANTIAL SUM.HEDDA HOPPERIRONILLY, HAD HEDDA LIVED UNTIL 1981 (SHE DIED 1966), SHE WOULD SURELY HAVE READ GRANGER’S TOBGRAPHY. IN HE WROTE THAT HE AND WILDG WERE TIMATE ONE EVENG LONDON DURG AN AIR-RAID AT THE HEIGHT OF THE BLZ. ‘PEOPLE WOULD SAY WE WERE BOTH QUEERS’, HE WROTE. ‘BUT THAT ISN’T SO. IT WAS JT THE KD OF THG THAT HAPPENED DURG THE WAR.’ WELL, NOT TO EVERYBODY. BOZE HADLEIGH, THE THOR OF HOLLYWOOD GAYS (1996), SISTS THAT GRANGER WAS ED BISEXUAL. POSSIBLY, THAT EXPLAS WHY HIS NAME WAS NEVER NNECTED WH A GREAT MANY ACTRS. CONSIRG HIS APPEAL TO THE OPPOSE SEX, NOT TO MENTN THE TRACK RERD OF MOST OF HOLLYWOOD’S LEADG MEN, THAT SELF IS UNUAL.BY ALL ACUNTS, HE WAS A TEMPTUO MAN AND DIFFICULT TO LIVE WH. PERHAPS, THAT DROVE JEAN TO THE ARMS OF BURTON, WHO KNOWS? SHE AND GRANGER DIVORCED 1960 AND SHE REMARRIED THAT SAME YEAR TO DIRECTOR RICHARD BROOKS. SEVENTEEN YEARS LATER THAT ALSO END. BY 1986 SHE HAD AN ALHOL PROBLEM AND CHECKED HERSELF TO THE BETTY FORD CLIC AT THE AGE OF 57. GRANGER PASSED AWAY 1993 OM PROSTATE NCER AT THE AGE OF 80. HE HAD BEEN SGLE SCE HIS THIRD MARRIAGE END 1969. JEAN WOULD LIVE A FURTHER 17 YEARS BEFORE DYG OF LUNG NCER 2010. SHE, TOO, WAS 80. BETWEEN THEM THEY MA SOME TLY FE FILMS, THE BT OF WHICH ( MY OPN) WERE SRAMOUCHE AND NORTH TO ALASKA FOR GRANGER, SPARTAC AND ELMER GANTRY FOR JEAN – AND FOOTSTEPS THE FOG DREY HEPBURNBASIL RATHBONEBORAH KERRELMER GANTRYELSPETH MARCHFOOTSTEPS THE FOGHEDDA HOPPERHEDY LAMARRHOWARD HUGHJ ARTHUR RANKJEAN SIMMONSMICHAEL WILDGNORTH TO ALASKARICHARD BURTONRKOROMAN HOLIDAYSRAMOUCHPARTACSTEWART GRANGER PREVTRAGIC HOLLYWOOD – ACCINTAL DEATHS ( PT 7 ) NEXTROSE ‘FATTY’ ARBUCKLE – AN NOCENT VICTIM? 8 COMMENTS CAROLE HEATH NOVEMBER 26, 2022 AT 10:04 PM I THK STEWART GRANGER WAS A GOOD ACTOR. ALL THE STORI ABOUT SOME OF THE FAMO ACTORS HAVE THEY ANY FOUNDATN OR ARE THEY JT HYPOTHIS. LRENCE OLIVIER FOR YEARS HAS BEEN SUGGTED HE WAS BISEXUAL AND I ALSO READ SOMEWHERE VIVIEN LEIGH HAD LBIAN AFFAIRS SOME PEOPLE WHO WRE BOOKS ABOUT FAMO PEOPLE ONLY WANT TO DIG THE DIRT AS IS LLED. NOT LOOK AT THAT PERSON’S ATTRIBUT THEIR CHOOSEN FIELD. I READ DAMN YOU SRLET AWHILE BACK ABOUT VIVIEN LEIGH I FOUND QUE BORG ALL DID WAS NSENTRATEON HER SO LLED AFFAIRS ETC. SHE WAS A GOOD ACTRS WHO UNFORTUNATELY SUFFERED OM BIPOLAR DISORR WHICH WAS VERY SAD.REPLY ALAN ROYLE NOVEMBER 29, 2022 AT 12:56 PM FOR THE UMPTEENTH TIME, CAROLE, I REERATE – FANS GENERALLY STILL BELIEVE THE WHE-WASHG LE DISHED OUT BY STUDS ABOUT THEIR STARS, THEIR MONEY-MAKERS. ONLY NOW IS THE TTH EMERGG THROUGH MEMOIRS, BGRAPHI AND EXPOS. I WAS UNAWARE THAT VIVIEN LEIGH WAS SUPPOSED TO HAVE HAD LBIAN AFFAIRS AND, ANKLY, I DOUBT . I GUS I HAVE YOU TO THANK FOR THAT SNIPPET. YOU TEND TO PICK AND CHOOSE WHO TO BELIEVE AND WHO NOT TO. I BASE MY ASSSMENTS ON MULTIPLE SOURC THAT I NSIR TO BE RELIABLE.REPLY ANA JANUARY 13, 2022 AT 5:55 AM I READ A BGRAPHY OF MARLON BRANDO THAT HE HAD AN AFFAIR WH RY GRANT AND THAT RY HAD AN AFFAIR WH STEWART. AFTER ANALYSIS ON SEVERAL S, I FOUND OUT THAT THE TWO WERE REALLY BISEXUAL AND THAT THEY HAD TO HI BEE OF THEIR FAME AND ALSO BEE WAS DANGERO TIM. THANKS FOR THE ARTICLEREPLY ALAN ROYLE JANUARY 13, 2022 AT 7:11 PM TO BE PERFECTLY HONT, ANA, SORTG OUT WHO IS TELLG THE TTH AND WHO IS NOT N BE A NIGHTMARE. THE STUDS TOLD SO MANY LI FOR SUCH A LONG TIME, ONE HAS TO VIRTUALLY RATE STORI ON ‘PROBABLE VERACY’ AND THEN TAKE A PUNT BASED ON ONE’S OWN JUDGMENT. NOT A VERY SATISFACTORY METHOD OF ANALYZG HISTORY, I HAVE TO SAY.REPLY ROBERT H OCTOBER 5, 2021 AT 11:19 PM AM NOT SURPRISED AT ALL BY THE REVELATN THAT STEWART GRANGER WAS PURPORTEDLY BISEXUAL. I HAVE OBSERVED THAT THERE WAS AN ORDATE AMOUNT OF BISEXUALY BOTH HOLLYWOOD AND THE UNED KGDOM DURG THE POST WWII YEARS (ORDATE AS TO THE GENERAL POPULATN OF THE U.S. FOR EXAMPLE) AND RELL ONCE READG THAT THE E OF THAT THE U.K. WAS THE PROPENSY TO PLACE YOUNG MEN SEXUALLY SERROGATED HOM (I.E. BOY’S SCHOOLS) AND I N ONLY SPECULATE THAT THE REASON WAS ALSO ORDATELY HIGH HOLLYWOOD WAS THE ATTRACTN OF GLAMOUR AND FAME AND GREAT WEALTH; HOWEVER, EHER SE, I WOULD NOT FD DIFFICULT TO BELIEVE THAT PRACTILLY ANYONE ASSOCIATED WH HOLLYWOOD OR THE U.K. (PECIALLY FOLLOWG WORLD WAR TWO) WOULD BE BISEXUAL OR GAY.REPLY ALAN ROYLE OCTOBER 6, 2021 AT 11:47 AM THANKYOU FOR YOUR MENT, ROBERT. THE ACTG PROFSN HAS ALWAYS HAD S SHARE OF BISEXUAL AND GAY PLAYERS (OM BOTH GENRS) ALTHOUGH, PERSONALLY, I DO NOT RE ABOUT THE SEXUAL PREFERENC OF DIVIDUALS ONE WAY OR THE OTHER. I ONLY ALLU TO BEE THE SUBJECT SEEMS TO FASCATE CEMA-GOERS, PARTICULAR. PERHAPS, IF THE STUDS HAD BEEN OPEN ABOUT SUCH THGS OM THE BEGNG THERE WOULD BE LTLE OR NO TERT THE ISSUE TODAY.REPLY S. ALLEN JUNE 7, 2015 AT 1:17 PM I READ A FUNNY STORY ABOUT AVA GARDNER AND GRANGER. I N’T RELL FILM THEY MA TOGETHER, BUT ONE EVE., SHE WALKED TO HIS ROOM, FOUND HIM BED, TRIED TO SCE HIM. 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My father wasn't vehemently homophobic eher but, at the same time, even if you grow up a gay-iendly environment you are never que sure how people will react.

I happen to be at my parent's hoe and was watchg a gay pennt movie lled The Trip and wh two hours my life had changed. I thk her ma ncern was, although she has always been pro-gay and gay iendly, what do this mean for my son as a person and his life? WCT: Speakg of lips beg unsealed, did take her a while to e out and talk about you beg gay publicly?

I got her to do a public service announcement for the Equaly mpaign when the referendum on gay marriage was happeng back 2009.