George Chakiris Looks Embalmed!!

He’ll be 90 in September

His memoir is coming out soon.

I can’t remember — is he gay? Wikipedia doesn’t say…

Yeah, he's hitting 90. Give 'im a break.

Jesus - those choppers look vicious!

Lol that’s the Alamy logo

R4, LMAO!!!!!!!

He was in that charming film Les Demoiselles de Rochefort.

Yes, he's gay. From Norwood, OH (a few miles from me). That ALAMY photo is horrible.

Yes, he's gay. Has been quietly out for years. I'm not sure wasn't always out to friends.

Have no idea who he is-

[quote] Lol that’s the Alamy logo

I had to enlarge the photo to realize that. At first I too thought they were weird teeth

Perfect placement for that logo

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Sorry

I Like To Be In A Nursing Home

Is that his wax likeness? It’s a museum.

That hair dye is inexcusable, I don't care how old you are.

Could have sworn he passed a few years back.

Passed what?

The logo ….

George Chakiris & Grover Dale in Les Demoiselles de Rochefort (1967)

Yeah, that Alamy logo makes him look like one of the Walking Dead.

He used to be so handsome.

Perhaps some press powder? He looks like a large oozing sore.

R19 Yeah, they aren’t quite Marlboro Men in that clip, but I do admire the physicality of that style of dance. They must have been very fit to move like that.

R19 What cute butts!

My West Side Story: a memoir

George's worst film. With Lana Turner and LSD!

He doesn't look all bad in his wikipedia pic.

[quote]Passed what?

The bar exam, Rose.

Gorge also cut an album. He could sort of sing. Broadway Show tunes. I had a crush on him after seeing WSS. Of course I sw it for the first time 20 years ago and was distressed that he had aged.

Tucker Smith and a few of the other dancers died of AIDS. Chakiris wasvery lucky to reach old age. Bless.

He doesn't look embalmed. He looks like he died during the summer anf the AC and refrigeration units stopped working at the funeral home.

Those Alamy teeth are terrifying!!

If he let his hair go totally silver white it would be very softening. Also get rid of the stubble which lookd dyed too.

[quote]Have no idea who he is-

My dear, you must try watching "West Side Story" one of these days, the 1961 version.

At least I wasn't in the Empty Nest pilot!

He was great on his Fantasy Island guest spots!

[quote]George's worst film. With Lana Turner and LSD!

In GOWNS BY TRAVILLA.

Que horror

We should all look so good at his age. He's still active, still designing jewelry. He's very gracious to his fans. He recently wrote and published a book.

He had a hot ass, but he won't live forever.

He must be the most successful Greek in Hollywood — after Billy Zane and Telly Savalas.

Amazing he never went gray and still has dark hair.

George is one of the dancers in Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend in GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES. Talk about legendary, and he's still alive. He can be seen in the below shot, his hair greyed on the temples. You have to click on the link as he is on the far right and it's cropped on the thumbnail. But damn, he worked with Marilyn in what is possibly her most iconic musical number. Holy shit.

I like the picture, R41, but I don't know if it deserves a—

[quote]Holy shit.

He should be cast in a remake of Hannibal

George can clearly be seen starting at :21 throughout the first time she sings the lyrics "But Diamonds are a girl's best friend", on her right, and clearly again at :47 when she sings "Men grow cold as girls grow old, and we all lose are charms in the end". That's some holy shit moments. Sharing the screen with Monroe. WOW.

Not sure if George Chakiris is in Jane Russell's big number from Gentlemen Prefer Blondes film; but he did become close to MM during filming and they remained friends until her death.

Seem recall a story that George Chakiris was caught cottaging in some NJ department store restroom (Bamberger's?) many years ago.

In any event it's widely known in Hollywood and musical theatre circles GC is gay. He won't confirm nor deny it, but there you are.

Can understand why GC wouldn't come out publicly years ago, but at this stage of his life and career can't see what harm it would do. The man is nearly 90; get shot of wearing and coloring (what's left) of his hair, lay off plastic surgery/fillers and just come out already.

It's not like George Chakiris was Tab Hunter, Andy Perkins, or Rock Hudson. He barely was a "B" grade actor known mostly as a dancer who got lucky with roles after WSS.

[quote] Seem recall a story that George Chakiris was caught cottaging

Are you thinking of George Maharis?

In VistaVision in White Christmas.

How many other "B-grade actors" who "got lucky" won an Oscar?

You never hear a bad word about him from anyone who worked with him. So he dyes his hair -big deal.

I don’t know who cut those gloves in that White Christmas scene, but they’re awful. They look like barbecue gloves!

Somebody at Alamy had so much fun placing that watermark.

R46

Yes, that's the fella.

George Maharis recently...

He looks pretty good.

His hole has had a lifetime of dicks, totaling nearly a mile long .

So he's an average DLer.

His book has the potential to blow Old Hollywood stars out of the water. I'm not putting money on it.

Am betting if anyone knows the "T" on George Chakiris it's Grover Dale. Oh the stories that man must be able to tell, but alas won't.

Why don't these dying queens bite the bullet and tell it like it really was in Homowood? Nothing to worry about at this point.

We didn’t hook up.

(We’re both bottoms).

R58

Others know and likely could write or have written quite juicy books, but it would be playing with fire IMHO.

Scores of rent boys, hustlers and others adjacent to Hollywood or maybe part of scene know exactly who was doing who (or is that whom?), going back decades. Depending upon who you wish to believe for example late Scotty Bowers was full of shit, or told the truth many didn't want known.

Roddy McDowall likely took so many secrets of gay Hollywood with him to the grave.

For a skinny young (then later older) man by all accounts Roddy was packing serious trade. That alone would have made him popular with size queens of power gay Hollywood set.

Not sure if The Big Cube which is fun is his worst film. Here's one that may rival it

(^.^) or. The summary makes It sound ridiculous

Two of the hottest Greeks in Hollywood.....

[quote] late Scotty Bowers was full of shit

In other words, a liar.

[quote] His book has the potential to blow Old Hollywood stars out of the water.

Yes, out of the water and into the frying pan.

It seems like Chakiris did a lot of B movies that back in the day played on the bottom half of a double bill. One exception would be 1966s Is Burning? an all-star 3-hour bore.

The NY Times Nov. 11, 1966 the urgent question is not Is Paris Burning which is the foregone inquiry made in the title of the new motion picture that opened at the Criterion last night. The question is whether the customers who shell out good money to see this film will be burning after sitting for almost three hours trying to get with it

The opening scene of The Big Cube (1969) in which Chakiris plays a Med student who dabbles in LSD and plots to drive his girlfriend's stepmother played by Lana Turner crazy by injecting her sedatives with LSD! Gaslight meets Wild in the Streets. Though distributed by Warner Brothers it feels like an American International release.

[quote] "If he let his hair go totally silver white it would be very softening. Also get rid of the stubble which lookd dyed too."

I agree, R32. The shoe polish dye job look is never a good thing. I like the guy, but it's ridiculous.

I’m watching him right now in Brigadoon on TCM.

I'm looking at the OP's picture and he has those four of those awful "strings" in his neck.

Can anything be done to avoid that condition when I get into my senior years?

George is a lovely man.

I dropped my wallet in a parking structure in the early nineties and he found it and tracked down my identity through my mother (before the internet!) and mailed my wallet to my mother! She then made sure I signed a "Thank You Note" to this stranger, and mailed it to him with a 10 dollar bill to cover his expenses for mailing the wallet to her!

YEEEEEARS LATER, watching E! Entertainment TV, i recognized the name of the man, as the man that found my wallet, (and mailed it to us!) I was profoundly embarrassed that I didn't recognize his name, at the time (in the Nineties)

He deserves respect and I wish I could've repaid him somehow for his kindness.

Although Hollywood usually dubbed him, he had a fine natural singing voice of his own and got great reviews as Bobby in the First National Tour of the original production of Company.

[quote] "Are you thinking of George Maharis?"

He was definitely the more physically attractive of the two, R46. His features weren't as sharp & feminine. I don't really know what he looks like today, at age 93.

Since his memoir is most likely about his time making West Side Story, I doubt he’ll be blowing the lid off gay Hollywood

His book--as surmised above--told no gossip. It was more about his trajectory to 'WSS' and then what happened afterwards. The main people he name-dropped were fellow dancers.

Those Alamy teeth are alarming! Get it? Alamy/ alarming?

Thank you, thank you. I’ll be here all week…

Wow.

His head seems too large for his body…

Damn, there is a lot of anxiety and horror at old age in this thread.

George Maharis showed dick in Playgirl. We haven't seen George Chakiris's (although there's still time!)

George Maharis was ok I suppose...

[quote]Not sure if George Chakiris is in Jane Russell's big number from Gentlemen Prefer Blondes film; but he did become close to MM during filming and they remained friends until her death.

I don't know him.

I actually worked with George on a small ill-fated project about 8 years ago. He was incredibly shy and reserved but sweet. Stuck to himself. Because he was so quiet, actually inarticulate, he sort of came off as not very bright. But he was very sweet! He joked about letting his hair go natural for the role as he was supposed to be his real age, but he just kept on with the black shoe polish. He seemed to be using it on his scruff as well.

Sal Mineo the coolest hottest gay from the golden era of Hollywood topped him several times. He also tried to steal his Oscar.

R45 What on earth is your point?

R86 You will find R45's point by reading the sentences again and parsing them.

R87 Not worth it, but thanks

"Sal Mineo the coolest hottest gay from the golden era of Hollywood..."

What a cup! Who wouldn't have wanted a bit of that themselves?

He must have to dye daily

Think crown hair is a piece with hairline perhaps helped along with transplants.

There are a host of brush, spray and comb on "root" hair colors that will blend grey or white hair.

Either way George Chakiris must take same amount of time as a trans or some fraus to get himself ready to go out doors. It takes some work to camouflaged what must be by now significant amount of white hair.

He's shaved off, plucked out or done something with eyebrows. You truly know you've hit old age when your eyebrows start going white. Much of the good stuff like Roux lash and brow tint has been taken off market.

ngl, I recoiled in horror. Unfortunate placement of the watermark.

George Chakiris is the worst best supporting actor of the1960s!

Why persist with the tragedy that is that stubble?

What a thing to cling to!

R93 Martin Balsam didn't exactly like the screen on fire in A Thousand Clowns (1965) his performance is OK but nothing about it seems to be Oscar worthy. Chakiris left more of an impression.

Light the screen on fire R95

I think he looks good for his age

WEHT Richard Beymer?

WHET Rachel Zegler and David Alvarez?

R99 redo

WEHT Rachel Zegler and David Alvarez?

WEHT to Fay Wray? That delicate, satin draped frame.

I'm looking at the OP's picture and he has those four of those awful "strings" in his neck.

Can anything be done to avoid that condition when I get into my senior years?

—Anonymous

yes, R71 slit your throat!

Martin Balsam is the poor man's Eli Wallach.

Eli Wallach was the poor man's Marlon Brando in the 50s. And after that he was another David Kossoff or David Opatoshu.

Balsam had a remarkable and long career. With film and TV credits from1944-1996 the year he died.

He was in Cape Fear the original and the remake, Murder on the Orient Express, Psycho, 12 Angry Men, Catch-22, Breakfast at Tiffany's, The Taking of Pelham 123, The Carpetbaggers, Tora, Tora, Tora, Little Big Man, Seven Days in May, Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams. All the President's Men . . .

[quote]Martin Balsam

J'adore his fir trees.

[quote]He deserves respect and I wish I could've repaid him somehow for his kindness.

Hey, r72, you sent him ten bucks.

[quote]Balsam had a remarkable and long career. With film and TV credits from1944-1996 the year he died.

Not to mention having been George Clooney's father-in-law.

For 90 he looks incredible.

Is Richard Beymer gay?

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