Classic movie stars who ping for you

Garbo wore armor and other man attire a lot.

Don't quote me on this but I'm getting a sneaky feeling that this guy Rock Hudson might be into men. Shhhh!

Eddie Murphy.

R2, Despite Rock being gay he doesn't ping for me in his movies

On the other hand Farley Granger pongs....

Katherine Hepburn! What a lez!

Rock never pinged for me. I totally bought him as straight in all the Doris Day movies, especially "Pillow Talk" (my favorite).

Marjorie Mains?

R7. Is that anything like Spring Byingtons?

Marjorie Main

Katharine Hepburn pinged so hard.

Cary Grant does too

R11, was it in Bringing Up Baby where he goes "yes, I'm GAY GAY GAY!"?

Tony Curtis

Marjorie Main

Hope Emerson

Douglass Montgomery

Joseph Schildkraut. Married three times, but I'm pretty sure he had a Schwanz go up his Popo on more than one occasion.

Laurence Olivier

Barbara Stanwyck

James Dean and Sal Mineo

Monty

Franklin Pangborn and Clifton Webb have destroyed the tubes of the television!

More covertly, there's Robert Taylor, John Wayne, and Cary Grant.

Basil Rathbone

Isn't that funny R21? Despite the marriages, the machismo, the ruby red conservatism, the many children, I always get a vibe from John Wayne in his younger days.

Gary Cooper.

Van Heflin especially in his Oscar winner Johnny Eager.

He was hot.

Julie Andrews - she wails like a cruise ship horn.

Myrna Loy.

David Niven.

Dirk Bogarde, obviously. Not all gay actors ping but he PONGED, as someone upthread said. Ditto for Alan Bates.

Ah, yes. Both Glenda Jackson and Meryl Streep have ponged to me for years. Any gossip about that? My gaydar's never wrong when it's that loud.

Oh, and Cate Blanchett, of course!!! What a closet case!

^ Julie Andrews pongs

Julie Andrews just seems asexual to me, as if even lesbian sex would be too messy and too much of a bother for her.

Vincent Price is my favorite actor. Anyone have the tea on him? I find him so handsome even in his campy films.

Julie Andrews is absolutely homo and I don't understand how there can be any doubt about it. She was married to an openly gay man, ffs. Happily!

Jean Arthur always pinged for me. On screen, she reminded me of Mary Martin, who was also lesbionic. Both of them played Peter Pan on Broadway, just a few years apart.

Van Heflin, R25? Very under-rated actor who was outstanding in every role he played, but I never got a gay vibe. He was married twice and had 3 kids (which I realize is not dispositive). His sister Fran played Erica Kane's mother Mona forever.

So, anything on Meryl?

Raymond Burr was gay but didn't ping in his roles

I have never been able to decide who was better looking Dean or Monty. Both had hard times even though they were big stars and both died way too young. Dean’s appeal in his movies was stronger so maybe him... but it doesn’t matter. Both made excellent movies.

Joan Fucking Crawford!

Agree about Katherine Hepburn and Cary Grant and David Niven. I'd also add Agnes Moorehead, James Mason, Alan Bates, George Chakiris. Rock Hudson never seemed gay to me in his films but some of his later publicity photos when he wears a mustache, he seemed kind of cloney.

R36, you'd be wrong about David Niven and James Mason -- not gay, just British. Both such good actors, among my favorites.

I know he is not a movie star but Howard Hawks films always have a homo undercurrent.

Chakiris flames for sure

Niven lived with Errol Flynn for a while.

Niven also lived with ping-y character Robert Coote for a while, which he played down....

Niven also admitted that he was sexually molested by other boys while at boarding school.

Occasionally, after Mother's evening pills and brandy, she will comment while we're watching a classic on TCM together. Whenever Katherine Hepburn or Barbara Stanwyck appear onscreen, she'll fan herself and say loudly, "Crack the window, junior, cause I smell DIESEL!"

I find it upsetting.

Lizabeth Scott

She wasn't gay so I guess you could say it's a false ping, but Mary Astor always seemed kinda butch to me

r12

This Marlon Brando "early screen test" came up on my YouTube feed. He looks gorgeous and gay.

Vincent was no stranger to the homo sex, neither was his wife "Vera Charles " Coral Brown.

Or, as we know her here on DL, "the actress Coral Browne."

Eve Arden = Uber dyke

Vincent Price spent a lot of time in London, and was a regular at the City Of Quebec pub in Marble Arch. It has been a gay venue since the 40s, and it is popular with older men and their admirers.

Kissing

More kissing

Zachary Scott pings high for me. Was he really straight?

R35 Weren't they a couple at one point? Clift had said Dean's death effected him deeply.

R39, This whole scene from Howard Hawks 'Red River' where Cherry and Matt are "comparing each other's guns" lol it's so blatantly obvious!

Zachary Scott pings for me too but I never heard any rumors about him

Joel McCrea.

Danny Kaye.

Charles Farrell

There are lots that ping, not necessarily gay. Ping is the point.

Charles Farrell AND his onscreen partner Janet Gaynor pinged

Charles Farrell never pinged more than when he played Gale Storm's father on "My Little Margie." Gayvoice for days. Obviously that wasn't a problem when he starred in silent films.

Are you children IDIOTS? KNOW-NOTHINGS? Evidently.

And will you PLEASE learn to spell Katharine Hepburn's name correctly? TWO A's. Got that?????

Robert Cummings. Raymond Burr pinged in certain roles - at least for me. Tony Perkins. Tyrone Power. Robert Walker. Burt Lancaster.

Stanwyck, majorly. Margaret Lindsay (I think she was gay)? Deep voice. Katharine Hepburn, depends on the role. Not really.

Henry Fonda, for some reason, especially early roles. Alan Ladd. Patsy Kelly, obviously.

Helen Walker. Eve Arden. Noel Coward. Claudette Colbert. Anton Walbrook. Alec Guinness.

Tyrone Power

Robert Taylor

Helen Highwater, Vivienne Vixen and Magdalena Montezuma.

Phillips Holmes

R61 Just a happy family - Charles Farrell with Johnny Mack Brown (who also pings)

^ Cute pic!

Robert Montgomery

Hoagy Carmichael

Lew Ayres

Lizabeth Scott

David Manners.

Lucille Ball on Manners: "David wasn't in the one scene I did in Roman Scandals, but he watched every scene shot. He was tremendously enthusiastic, and he...invited me to supper...He was mobbed everywhere. All the time he kept telling me I had style and personality. He said if I persevered I'd get somewhere in Hollywood. Not once did he ever hint that he'd like to take me home to his boudoir...He was so utterly charming."

He didn't want to take Lucy home, but he did spend 30 years with his male partner.

James Ellison

This guy is gayer than an Ungaro spring frock.

Who is this, R79?

R79, was that the guy from Our Betters?

Tyrell Davis

Yes, R81. Tyrell Davis is the sissy dance instructor in "Our Betters," a pre-Code movie directed by George Cukor.

^^ Named Ernest in the movie. ^^

He was so camp

John Wayne, off the set, pings loudly for me in some old photos.

Here he is in his sassy espadrilles, man-purse, and rather ill-fitting swimsuit.

Oh GURL.

^ If I saw that pic without knowing who John Wayne was, I'd be like "Who's that old queen?"

Gilbert Roland

Tony Randall

Tallulah Bankhead

Tony Curtis Greta Garbo

Agnes Moorehead

Robert Cummings. I know he was married and had kids, but still pinged to me.

Gene Raymond

Supposedly, while on his honeymoon with Jeanette McDonald, Jeanette caught him in bed with Buddy Rogers. Gene also was arrested three times, having been caught having sex with men.

^ Charles "Buddy" Rogers

Basil Rathbone

Erik Rhodes

R96, WOW, Basil is a flamer!!

[quote]Classic movie stars who ping for you

Just the cute ones.

I'm sure Buddy Rogers was some guy's "buddy"

Buddy Rogers and Richard Arlen lock lips in "Wings."

James Cagney

R94 Gene Raymond had a great ass.

[quote]Gene Raymond had a great ass.

I initially read this as "Gene Rayburn had a great ass."

Lena Horne...not much in movies, but later MARY!

Lena always had a striking soft-butch quality to her, even all glammed up.

Johnny "Scat" Davis

Bert Lahr

Clifton Webb

George Sanders

^^ and his brother Tom Conway

R110 Does marrying two of the Gabor sisters make you less gay or more gay?

[quote]Does marrying two of the Gabor sisters make you less gay or more gay?

More insane, anyway.

Jerry Lewis

Louis Jourdan

Ross Hunter when he was an actor.

Nancy Walker. Ann B Davis. Gale Gordon. Bob Fosse. Carleton Carpenter. Ramon Novarro.

^ Ross Hunter was cute when he was young

Yeah, he changed so much. He was never bad looking I guess but u know what I mean chile

John Payne

John Payne looking butch.

Robert Stack

Rumored to have had affairs with Gene Raymond, Paul Newman and Rock Hudson.

R116 Gale Gordon never pinged to me!!!

R122Me either!

R121, you don't understand the question. It's not about "who was rumored to have done..." it's about who simply PINGED. They don't have to have history of homosexuality or rumors to that effect.

Hans Conried

^ Cookies!!!!

James Garner

Buster Keaton

Buster Keaton had a hot little body.

ALAN MARSHAL - Handsome Dennis Parker look-a-like who starred in MGM "B" flicks throughout the 1930's. Very sensitive in personality. He even sported the cumguzzler's mustache before that was a thing.

ZACHARY SCOTT - A favorite of mine. Same urbane, slightly gay personality as Alan Marshal.

FRED ASTAIRE - I've never believed him as a hetero onscreen.

GENE KELLY - A gay smugness about him.

MAUREEN O'HARA - There's something very butch about her mannerisms IMO. Gorgeous lady with delicate features but butch. She could have married practically any man she wanted in her heyday but ended up with a with a fat, unattractive, Gay closet case. I may be on to something.

Mary Astor had canevoice and came across as butch in a lot of her movies, she was actually straight though

I second DANNY KAYE.

DAN DAILEY

Danny Kaye and his bf Laurence Olivier

OP, I just found this gem about Vincent Price's wife Coral Browne on an old DL topic from years ago.

"My mother was a model in the St Louis and Chicago area in the 1950s and 1960s. Apparently, at a gallery event, Coral Browne hit on her. My mother confessed this to me in the 1990s and said, bless her heart, "I don't think Vincent Price KNEW the kind of woman he married!""

Sounds as if (not surprisingly) Price's marriage was as lavender as a Macy's perfume counter.

Cute story, R134.

People close to the couple knew that Price and Browne adored each other. Devoted best friends. And yes, each of them knew exactly the kind of person they were marrying: gay gay gay.

Nelson Eddy - One of the most flamboyant singers at MGM and a constant source of irritation to MGM's L.B. Mayer.

After Eddy bedded Tyrone Power in 1938 (Power was on loan from 20th Century Fox for the MGM pic, "Marie Antoinette"), Mayer arranged a marriage for Eddy with the slightly older, Ann Franklin, former wife of Sidney Franklin, one of Metro's prolific directors. Eddy was almost outed by Louella Parsons after she saw him at Musso and Frank (a celebrity restaurant) making out with one of MGM's male supporting players.

Eddy loved having oral sex performed on him but refused to reciprocate, fearing it would damage his throat and ability to sing.

^ There's a group of fangirls who want to believe Nelson Eddy and Jeannette MacDonald were a couple for real. Imagine having a life that revolves around "shipping" two people who died 50 years ago....

Long before Donald Trump created an alternate reality that bears no resemblance to the real world and lies for a living, these "fan ghouls" created this alternate universe where Jeanette and Nelson were lovers. Apparently it fulfilled some need they had. However, it was easy enough to prick the surface and get the real facts. No columnist of note in those days (the 70's and 80's) whether Jim Bacon, Bob Thomas, or even Rona Barrett, fell for it. The truth was that Nelson Eddy was a gay man and Jeanette MacDonald had no interest in him as a lover.

These same desperately pathetic "fanatics", although in greatly diminished numbers, continue to attempt to perpetuate their myth. In truth, you cannot believe a word they say, even if they notarized their tongues.

R89 - wow, I never knew Tony Randall ever had a body like that - too bad about the face!

R18 What's gay about her. She just looks like a regular woman

Jack Haley. The Tinman may not have had a heart, but he had a hard-on for the burly lion.

R132 Danny Kaye was indeed bisexual, if not actually gay. His affair with Laurence Olivier was an open secret.

So many comments, I think, are because of what we now know, rather than what we perceived pre-knowledge.

Tyrone Power? Wherein? Oh, when his character Diego is deliberately playing the fop in "Zorro"? Don't try that with "Witness For the Prosecution."

John Wayne? Yep, don't believe those "insights," either.

There is nothing "gay" about James Mason in his movies, either.

As for Montgomery Clift: He certainly had "sensitive" perfected, but does he "ping" in "A Place in the Sun"? "From Here to Eternity"? "The Heiress"? "Indiscretion of an American Wife"? IDTS.

David Niven is a star I never understood. Granted, I’ve never seen him in a full movie, but when I do watch him I think, “That’s it?”

I get the sense he really worked on the social side of Hollywood, and his personal popularity kept getting him hired.

[quote]R131 Mary Astor had canevoice and came across as butch in a lot of her movies, she was actually straight though

Not only straight, but a thoroughgoing WHORE!

(Not really, I just felt like shrieking a bit.)

David Niven can be enjoyable in the right role. I'd recommend, "Please Don't Eat the Daisies" where he is very acerbic and funny as a NY Theater critic opposite Doris Day. It's not an annoying domestic comedy but has a edge to it and a great supporting cast. I'd also recommend "The Bishop's Wife" with Cary Grant and Loretta Young. A very well-made holiday classic without the syrupiness of some similar films.

Beyond those titles, I sometimes find him unbearable to watch and wonder how he was able to sustain such a long and successful career.

R144, I liked David Niven very much in a few Late 30s comedies; Bachelor Mother with Ginger Rogers and Eternally Yours with Loretta Young. He played Debonair Society Playboy roles to perfection.

[quote]R146 David Niven can be enjoyable in the right role. I'd recommend, "Please Don't Eat the Daisies" where he is very acerbic and funny as a NY Theater critic opposite Doris Day.

I’ve just seen parts of that. I love the built-ins in their kitchen in the opening scenes, though. As a New Yorker, I was like, “Why are they looking for more space? Their kitchen’s HUGE, by city standards!”

Lots of screen caps of that movie’s style (if you like it) HERE: