James Garner Appreciation Thread

Beautiful, beautiful man.

The Le Jazz Hot number in Victor/Victoria is fun, but the shots of him the audience looking beautiful while watching her only make it better.

Shirtless

Can we mention that fabulous headdress Julie is sporting in that clip??? I always loved James.Rockford files was must see tv in our house and I was glad of it.

^^^ Ridiculous.

Lifelong Democrat. Civil rights activist.

Had acrush on him always like the Rockford Files saw him in a one season series Nichols with Margot Kidder. Really loved him in the movie 36 hours with Eva Marie Saint. That is a must see.

Really known as a TV star, with two big hits, Maverick and Rockford Files. His big film was The Great Escape, but I remember him partnered with Doris Day in a pretty good comedy.

He was very good with Doris Day. And not bad with Sally Field either. I guess if you got it, you got it.

Jodie Foster said he was the nicest person in Hollywood.

I've always liked him in "The Children's Hour". Of course, he was hot as hell.

His autobiography, "The Garner Files" was a good read.

That was Beverly Boyers, r8...

Bump

I'm watching Support your local sheriff again.

Bruce Dern is a hoot in it as well.

Saw him in a movie with Brando in the middle of the night a few days ago. Garner was HOT, Brando a short cubby potato by comparison.

His mother died from an illegal abortion. His stepmother was abusive to James and his brother.

Julie Andrews said in her autobiography that she was in bed with him during some movie and got turned on.

As well as acting, he was a winning race-car driver. How he managed to win the Baja 500 driving a Rambler is remarkable.

I love how he underplays. He lets the audience come to him.

Underplays???

He waited far too long to show his bare ass in a movie. At that point it could have been the ass of any old man.

James & Jodie in the Disney movie "One Little Indian" (1973).

His delivery of lines on The Rockford Files was always spot on. I thought he was sexy, smart and hilarious. Not to mention great eye candy…

The Americanization of Emily the first pairing of him and Julie is no Victor/ Victoria but it’s quite good,

Not only a WW2 vet but also served in Korea and was wounded. Kind of the real deal.

They don’t make men like him in any more. Sigh.

I own a vintage clothing store and have big framed photos of celebs on the walls, one of which is James Garner from The Great Escape. One day a woman asked if she could take a pic of it (I said of course) and she told me his daughter is her best friend. I asked about him and she said he was the kindest man she’d ever met and a good Democrat.

His autobiography is wonderful and he’s sexy as Hell in The Thrill of It All.

Great guy and handsome. And yet I never warmed to him, he never had the presence of a star for me, and I always felt he lacked sex appeal despite his good looks.

Until I saw him in an absolutely terrible movie with Debbie Reynolds recently called “How Sweet It Is,” and there was one scene where Garner was wearing a very snug, clingy pair of light gray slacks, and his ass and thighs looked mouth-watering. That was the first time I found him carnal, because mostly he just seemed too nice to be sexy, he lacked a streak of masculine ruthlessness in the sack that Sean Connery or Rod Taylor seemed to have.

I've never heard anyone who knew him with a bad word to say about him. By all accounts he was one of the nicest men in the industry.

R8, R28: He also did, "Move Over, Darling" with Doris Day. I'm sure I wasn't the only one who thought Doris Day wanted some of James Garner. James Garner was also a mystery guest on, "What's My Line", where Arlene Francis, referred to him as, "Heaven".

Did James ever appear in the legitimate theater?

Had one the fullest, biggest, beefiest asses of any male actor. Allegedly received permission from his wife to act on his attraction to men. Allegedly used to travel with Blake Edwards for M4M sex vacations.

What bullshit

He was a stoner. I can't recommend his autobiography enough

Allegedly the Biden’s the entire fucking family all have group sex together. Allegedly.

R33

Allegedly= I have not a fucking clue but I will say it anyway because well because.

r34, hey it's gossip what do you want, gay stuff Garner has been posted here in the long history of Datalounge. The site used to be about real fucking gossip/tea before it was overrun with other shit. You sound like a cleanner.

36 = cleaner or a woman or both.

He had a fling with Bacall 1979-1981.

They were in the movies “HEALTH” and “The Fan” and she guest starred on a two-part “The Rockford Files”.

“hey it’s gossip”

Making up totally stupid shit is just totally making up stupid shit. 11 year olds at recess do that every day. That is not edgy gossip. People should have at least a little pride of quality.

They don’t but they should.

R40, you fucking pearl-clutching Karen, fuck off, do you know what the Datalounge is? We gossip about gay shit. Garner was already outed on an blind item, try to keep up! GOSSIP is not shit people make up, dummy! GOSSIP IS ALLOWED AT DATALOUNGE, are you even fucking gay?

GO KAREN SOMEWHERE ELSE!

R41

CAPS lots of CAPS

You seem overly sensitive and triggered. I had no idea I would push you to use CAPS. Sorry if I upset you. But it’s just fucking yacking on a gossip forum. Don’t take it so seriously.

Sweetie take a deep breath and try to relax.

I wonder how he feels about his ex son-in-law, and his non binary grandchild.

He's dead, r43. He's not feeling anything.

In V/V, Garner's exasperated eyeroll when Squash tells him the French middleweight boxing champion he just picked a fight with is gay, cracks me up every time.

R43

“James Garner and Jennifer Garner are two well-known actors who share the same last name, but they are not related.”

[quote]I've always liked him in "The Children's Hour". Of course, he was hot as hell.

But remember as the newspaper ads said "This story contains a shocking accusation...please don't tell it anyone, especially the immature!"

[quote]Until I saw him in an absolutely terrible movie with Debbie Reynolds recently called “How Sweet It Is,” and there was one scene where Garner was wearing a very snug, clingy pair of light gray slacks, and his ass and thighs looked mouth-watering.

“How Sweet It Is,” is silly fluff but far from terrible. He was a good straight man.

R47, In her autobiography, Debbie wrote that she snuck a huge dildo into her bed scene with Garner as a prank.

That blind about Garner and his dalliances with men is on AGC somewhere. Frauen and those who are frauen adjacent, please go elsewhere with your prissy hall monitor BS.

Random blind from years ago…something….something…idiotic

Thanks for the pointer!

Sorry, but James Garner was straighter than straight. He was also a staunch liberal and continued to be one after it became “unpopular.” It’s ALL out there.

R51= Frau

^ Desperate

He was very depressive in his private life. I thought that was so sad for someone who seemingly had it all. I never knew why Mariette Hartley(who had her own litany of problems) made such an issue of the fact that she and James Garner weren’t a real couple. Their commercial pairings were delightful.

He had a big, thick cock but couldn’t live forever.

He had many injuries from doing his own stunts and had difficulty getting around in his later years.

Rockford and Mannix spent more time getting beat up and knocked out more times than any other tv detective ever.

The only guy to beat Bruce Lee in a fight.

He seemed like a great guy. He and his wife seemed to have a great relationship.

R59, They separated circa 1980, and Bacall stepped in.

R60 Well, that’s a fucking lie. He’s not gay either. And I’m a red blooded cocksucking homo so, don’t “frau” me, Mary.

R61

“Throughout their marriage, Garner and Lois weathered two periods of separation. First in 1970 for three months and later in 1979. However, their love for one another brought them back together in September 1981.”

He did fuck Bacall, but not a homo, not bi, get over yourselves.

How was he mot homo if he told his wife he had an attraction to men? Homophobe R63 and R61 you seem to act like a love for men is some kind of sin. You can masculine and homo or bi, dumbasses.

Ass for DAYS.

He never told his wife or anyone he had an attraction to men, R64.

R65 is the oh-so-subtle 😉 proof

that thang is weaponized

I wonder if he was at the 1963 March on Washington to troll for men like Brando and Lancaster did. 😈😈😈

to troll for men 😇😇😇

R66, and you would know that how?

[quote]Ass for DAYS.

"impertinent. . .even baroque."

Beautiful guy but with zero sex appeal.

He had a self deprecating humor which is great. His wife helped with that. I remember she called Space Cowboys “Space Geezers”. I don’t know why but I’ll remember that forever.

He showed his ass in Space Cowboys along with Donald Sutherland, Clint Eastwood, and Robert Duvall.

yeah...about 50 years too late.

Mamie Eisenhower was a big fan, as evidenced in R65

Great looking AND great sex appeal into older age. R73 = Helen Keller

He worked with Doris twice.

I think the blind item R49 is referring to is this one from July 2018. It was a Reader Blind, that Enty put up:

[quote] Reader Blind Item: This late A list actor who was successful in both movies, where he was mostly in light romantic comedies and action films, and TV had one of the most successful long lived maybe the most most successful long lived lavender marriage of all time. It was an arrangement that worked - He took care of his wife and her daughter from another relationship, she gave him cover and didn't mind his relationships with men. She didn't even mind when during his popular detective TV show, he moved in with a boyfriend for a couple of years. James Garner (Lois Josephine Fleischman Clark)

And Wiki notes that during one of his periods of separation from his wife, Garner did have his own house out in The Valley where that Slut Brooke Logan is from.

They were a better pair than Doris and Rock Hudson, imho, probably because Garner was a better actor. Doris loved him.

Julie was far and away better with Garner than Hudson.

My first crush on an older man, my dad always watched The Rockford Files.

^Noah Beery, Jr.?

A wise guy r84 eh? ;) I was 12 when The Rockford Files went off the air.

In his prime he was one of the sexiest men on the planet IMO. That smile was legend. Under the listing of "masculine" Websters should have put a picture of James Garner there.

R80 no one cares what you think about idiotic blind itms from a decade ago.

Catch a clue.

He was a 1/4 Cherokee.

WHITE COLONIZER!!!!

Great nice guy image. Played the every man great. Truth is he was a belligerent cunt on nearly ever set he worked on. Especially The Rockford Files Pains me to say it, I love him, but that's the truth.

Many on set belligerent cunts on films sets were called that because they were consummate pros who did not suffer those around them who were lesser than pros.

Polaroid hired the right guy to sell their cameras.

It should be noted that he found out Mariette Hartley would be paid less than him and let know how much less so she could get a better deal in negotiating her contract.

Polaroids were very popular with gay guys back in the day. They were like a predecessor to trading selfies. Guys would snap private Polaroid pics and retain them as fond memories of their hook ups.

Polaroid was the original snap chat, tok tok, and other social media.

R92, Laurence Olivier preceded him.

He WASH Jamesh Garner!

r87, I care very much, nobody asked you so shove it.

Also was a coke snorter courtesy of John Belushi in the eighties.

[quote]he’s sexy as Hell in The Thrill of It All.

Especially with being married to that pig, Beverly Boyer.

His marriage was similiar to Tom Jones, although don't know if his wife was as accomodating.

Wait, Tom Jones dated men on the side too r100?

Of course, R101. This is the Datalounge.

R100, Robert Mitchum’s wife had to be one of the most tolerant Hollywood wives.

He was non-binary!

I moved to LA in the 90's and when I went on my first job interview, exiting the office building was James Garner. Having grown up watching him on Maverick and later, the Rockford Files, he took my breath away. Still handsome as hell. I'm guessing my noticing him with a smile on my face garnered (see what I did there) a handsome smile from him. He smiled and nodded.

That's all I've got, guys.

So Robert Mitchum had dalliances with guys?

R106, Mainly with women, but he was known to allow himself to be blown by men.

Veteran Hollywood columnist Jim Bacon told the story of Mitchum being interviewed by two gay magazine writers and they were practically drooling during the interview.

At one point, Mitchum leaned back and said, “Which one of you guys wants to go first?”.

I cannot believe there are posters here saying Jim Garner lacked sex appeal.

I remember as a kid watching him on Maverick with my parents. There was a scene where he put his big bare feet up on a table that burned into my eyes )and elsewhere) and is still there. If anyone can find a clip of it I'll be ever so grateful.

Garner was absolutely sexy and hot. To each their own I guess…

NO, R109.

[quote]There was a scene where he put his big bare feet up on a table that burned into my eyes )and elsewhere) and is still there. If anyone can find a clip of it I'll be ever so grateful.

Lick ‘em…

Smell ‘em

OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thank you.

He was the fucking sex. Effortlessly masculine and so damn easy breezy hot. He had the most compassionate eyes too. I guess owing to the pain of losing his mom and having an evil stepfather and useless dad. A good liberal.

Macho race car driver....

Which films show off his ass the best?

He really was beautiful and he aged as well as just about anyone ever has. He just wasn't sexy. That's OK thought. He was hot enough where I would have enjoyed it enough for both of us. He's just one of those people I can't imagine having sex with anyone. Whether it was beating up a pussy or slobbing some knob.

What's My Line

He was so likeable.

[quote]He just wasn't sexy.

Thank you for your input, Helen Keller.

The first 2 older men I was attracted to were James Garner and Burt Reynolds. I thought JG was damn sexy on Rockford Files.

R120 see R78

I bet you like the feel of stubble, r121. I know I do.

Yes I do r121. I like the more natural body hair from the 1970's.

^^^ that was meant for r123

Hot…. I think I would ride it…

I would love to be smothered by that man's ass.

[quote] How he managed to win the Baja 500 driving a Rambler is remarkable.

Back in the day everybody understood Ramblers were speed demons

Re the post claiming Rockford was belligerent on the set of Rockford files, Stuart Margolin who actually worked with him would disagree. Also the studio was putting tremendous pressure on Garner, cancelled the show when his doctor ordered rest, and was sued by Garner, charging Universal with "breach of contract; failure to deal in good faith and fairly; and fraud and deceit"

Stuart Margolin (who played Angel Martin in The Rockford Files) said that despite Garner's health problems in the later years of The Rockford Files, he would often work long shifts, unusual for a starring actor, staying to do off-camera lines with other actors, doing his own stunts despite his knee problems.[57] When Garner later made The Rockford Files television movies, he said that 22 people (with the exception of series co-star Beery, who died late in 1994) came out of retirement to participate.