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LGBT-Friendly classic era stars from the Golden Age Of Hollywood?

For both men and women...

by Anonymousreply 195January 14, 2023 7:47 AM

What exactly do you mean "LGBT-friendly"?

Bette Davis and Joan Crawford, for example, both very much liked gay men in private life (and one of Crawford's favorites was William Haines, her longtime decorator) , but they would disparage them to the press back in the day. So would they count?

Judy Garland was one of the few I can think of who never (to my knowledge) disparaged gay men.

by Anonymousreply 1December 17, 2022 4:09 AM

Lucy! She had a ton of gay friends

So did Natalie Wood

by Anonymousreply 2December 17, 2022 4:09 AM

Gregory Peck was a proud liberal who appeared at the GLAAD Awards later in life

by Anonymousreply 3December 17, 2022 4:10 AM

Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward

by Anonymousreply 4December 17, 2022 4:10 AM

Why are you looking at me, Darlings?

Is it because I've been known to be liberal and progressive, or is it just because I adore pussy?

by Anonymousreply 5December 17, 2022 4:13 AM

Humphrey Bogart greatly liked Noel Coward, it was said.

by Anonymousreply 6December 17, 2022 4:14 AM

Elizabeth Taylor, of course. I don't think she ever met a gay man she didn't like, and she did so much for gay men during the AIDS crisis before anyone else famous did.

by Anonymousreply 7December 17, 2022 4:16 AM

Richard Burton let himself be passed around among Laurence Olivier, Ralph Richardson, and John Gielgud even though he was technically straight (according to him). Does that count?

by Anonymousreply 8December 17, 2022 4:17 AM

R3- I would have licked đź‘… his balls and sucked his cock back in 1948.

by Anonymousreply 9December 17, 2022 4:23 AM

It seems most people were homophobic back in those days.

by Anonymousreply 10December 17, 2022 4:56 AM

Liz Taylor

by Anonymousreply 11December 17, 2022 5:12 AM

R11 = R7

by Anonymousreply 12December 17, 2022 5:13 AM

Miss Kay Francis surrounded herself with gay men, and even slept with a few.

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by Anonymousreply 13December 17, 2022 5:50 AM

Kay Fwancis.

by Anonymousreply 14December 17, 2022 5:51 AM

Myrna Loy, another proud liberal, remained friends with Montgomery Clift at a time when many had dropped him due to his erratic behavior.

This photo was Loy was shot by Clift:

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by Anonymousreply 15December 17, 2022 6:00 AM

Burt Lancaster

by Anonymousreply 16December 17, 2022 6:13 AM

Harold Lloyd was very supportive of his gay son, iirc.

by Anonymousreply 17December 17, 2022 7:23 AM

Lana Turner was supportive of her gay daughter

by Anonymousreply 18December 17, 2022 8:03 PM

Carole Lombard!

by Anonymousreply 19December 17, 2022 8:12 PM

I read that Eddie Albert was quite liberal.

by Anonymousreply 20December 17, 2022 8:16 PM

How did Grace Kelly, Vivien Leigh, Hedy Lamarr, Gene Tierney feel about homosexuality?

by Anonymousreply 21December 17, 2022 9:51 PM

Vivien Leigh had a lot of gay friends. She supported John Gielgud after his "cottaging" bust

by Anonymousreply 22December 17, 2022 9:53 PM

Who were all of the gays that Vivien Leigh got along with?

by Anonymousreply 23December 18, 2022 3:07 AM

Was Gary Cooper homophobic?

by Anonymousreply 24December 18, 2022 5:41 AM

What do you mean by "men and women", OP? Surely that's transphobic and therefore not T-friendly.

by Anonymousreply 25December 18, 2022 5:50 AM

^ Not from what I heard, I know he was friends with Gary Cooper

by Anonymousreply 26December 18, 2022 6:46 AM

R23, Noel Coward, Cecil Beaton, John Gielgud, Terence Rattigan (among others)

by Anonymousreply 27December 18, 2022 6:48 AM

[quote] I know he was friends with Gary Cooper

Super Duper.

by Anonymousreply 28December 18, 2022 6:51 AM

R21 Considering Vivien Leigh was bi, I'm sure she was fine with gay people

by Anonymousreply 29December 18, 2022 6:52 AM

Crap, I meant Cary Cooper was friends with Cole Porter

by Anonymousreply 30December 18, 2022 6:52 AM

Ava Gardner was friends with Dirk Bogarde and his partner, Tony

by Anonymousreply 31December 18, 2022 6:53 AM

Gary Cooper allegedly had a go with roommate Anderson Lawler (pictured with Kay Francis at R13) back in the 1920s when everyone was carefree and gay.

by Anonymousreply 32December 18, 2022 7:08 AM

Was John Wayne homophobic?

by Anonymousreply 33December 18, 2022 8:34 AM

What were Marilyn Monroe's views on homosexuality?

by Anonymousreply 34December 18, 2022 5:26 PM

R33 Yes! He was also homosexual.

by Anonymousreply 35December 18, 2022 5:57 PM

John Wayne was nasty to Monty Clift but got along well with Rock Hudson

by Anonymousreply 36December 18, 2022 7:34 PM

Elizabeth Taylor didn't get along with Cecil Beaton from what I have heard.

by Anonymousreply 37December 18, 2022 11:21 PM

Gary Cooper, Jimmy Stewart, Clark Gable, Henry Fonda among others were all viciously anti-gay. Lesser know actors like Walter Brennan, Ward Bond, Charles Coburn were too

by Anonymousreply 38December 19, 2022 12:05 AM

Grace Kelly despised gay men. She was a very nasty piece of work.

by Anonymousreply 39December 19, 2022 12:25 AM

R39, where did you hear that?

by Anonymousreply 40December 19, 2022 1:22 AM

R37. Who did? Even Garbo had issues with the nasty anti-Semite.

by Anonymousreply 41December 19, 2022 1:27 AM

Grace Kelly was close to (gay) agent, Rupert Allen

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by Anonymousreply 42December 19, 2022 2:05 AM

Grace was close to her gay uncle

by Anonymousreply 43December 19, 2022 5:58 AM

I didn't know Grace had a guncle

by Anonymousreply 44December 19, 2022 6:08 AM

Stop monopolizing posts by trying to make your hate of “guncle” a relevant or interesting opinion. It is not.

by Anonymousreply 45December 19, 2022 6:13 AM

Wasn't right-wing Ginger also cozy with some gays?

by Anonymousreply 46December 19, 2022 6:19 AM

Was Jane Wyman homophobic?

by Anonymousreply 47December 19, 2022 6:07 PM

Not that I ever heard. Didn't she attend Rock Hudson's funeral

by Anonymousreply 48December 19, 2022 7:15 PM

I'm not sure about how Gene Tierney felt about it

by Anonymousreply 49December 19, 2022 8:59 PM

Wavishing Kay Fwancis, r14.

by Anonymousreply 50December 19, 2022 9:04 PM

[quote]Gary Cooper, Jimmy Stewart, Clark Gable, Henry Fonda among others were all viciously anti-gay.

Source, r38?

by Anonymousreply 51December 19, 2022 9:07 PM

r47 Yes. Tommy Kirk said she was really mean and homophobic.

by Anonymousreply 52December 19, 2022 9:10 PM

She was very Catholic, r52.

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by Anonymousreply 53December 19, 2022 9:19 PM

Gary Cooper was far from homophobic. He was bisexual, and early in his career he had a long, close relationship with a man. The studio told him to cut the guy off, and he did, although he was - as told by people who knew him - devastated. After that, I haven't heard anything, but that means he abided by the requisite discretion, by hook or by crook.

by Anonymousreply 54December 19, 2022 9:42 PM

Shelly Winters was homophobic

by Anonymousreply 55December 20, 2022 1:37 AM

Shelly was bffs with Farley Granger

by Anonymousreply 56December 20, 2022 1:45 AM

[quote] What exactly do you mean "LGBT-friendly"?

I refuse to use the term.

Irrelevant then.

Irrelevant now.

by Anonymousreply 57December 20, 2022 1:51 AM

[quote] Burton let himself be passed around among Laurence Olivier, Ralph Richardson, and John Gielgud

This is the sort of ridiculous speculation that brings Datalounge into disrepute.

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by Anonymousreply 58December 20, 2022 1:56 AM

[quote] Gregory Peck was a proud liberal who appeared at the GLAAD Awards later in life

How frequently?

Once? When he led in by his carer?

by Anonymousreply 59December 20, 2022 1:57 AM

R57 is such a snowflake to freak out over a term that has been around for 30 years or more

by Anonymousreply 60December 20, 2022 1:58 AM

R60 Rubbish

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by Anonymousreply 61December 20, 2022 2:00 AM

[quote] Considering Vivien Leigh was bi…

More unsubstantiated nonsense.

by Anonymousreply 62December 20, 2022 2:02 AM

[quote] Gary Cooper was far from homophobic. He was bisexual, and early in his career he had a long, close relationship with a man.

Who?

His chauffeur?

by Anonymousreply 63December 20, 2022 2:03 AM

[quote] Elizabeth Taylor didn't get along with Cecil Beaton from what I have heard.

They never worked together.

But Cecil's diaries mention some froideur with Vivien in the 60s.

by Anonymousreply 64December 20, 2022 2:08 AM

[quote] Gary Cooper, Jimmy Stewart, Clark Gable, Henry Fonda among others were all viciously anti-gay.

Gable got George Cukor fired from "Gone with the Wind."

This is likely because Cukor knew that Gable worked as a prostitute during his early days in Hollywood, before he made it big with "Night Nurse." The same dynamic was probably the reason for Cooper's homophobia--he also started out in 20s Hollywood as a gay-for-pay escort (he was from Montana and had to do something to pay the bills), and worried gay men who had heard the rumors or met him in that early period would rat him out.

by Anonymousreply 65December 20, 2022 2:09 AM

Tony Curtis was another homophobe who sold his ass on the way up.

by Anonymousreply 66December 20, 2022 2:10 AM

[quote] Source, [R38]?

R51 One drunk queen speaking to another drunk queen in a dark bar in 1953

by Anonymousreply 67December 20, 2022 2:15 AM

R61, all that proves is that the phrase LGBT has been around quite awhile, before you snowflakes started complaining about it

by Anonymousreply 68December 20, 2022 2:15 AM

R68 is Eric Cervini.

by Anonymousreply 69December 20, 2022 2:18 AM

R69 is Milo

by Anonymousreply 70December 20, 2022 2:22 AM

Why has no one mentioned my idol John Payne?

Or Lew Ayres?

by Anonymousreply 71December 20, 2022 2:27 AM

R55/R56: "Shelly Winters"

Oh, fucking dear.

But R55 needs a boot to the ass, because Shelley was a vocal supporter of gays in the business. A friend of mine knew her - and everyone else - and at a party in New York in the 1950s she stopped the action by making a loud point of it when a young gay actor was fired.

Farley Granger was a friend, as noted, and she famously married her gay companion of 20 years when she was 85.

Fuck you, R55, for your pointless hate speech.

by Anonymousreply 72December 20, 2022 2:39 AM

[quote] Gary Cooper… had a long, close relationship with a man. The studio told him to cut the guy off…although he was …devastated.

But as Gary Cooper lay on his deathbed he whispered the name 'Randy'.

by Anonymousreply 73December 20, 2022 2:51 AM

I haven't read the biography of William Haines. Other than Crawford, which stars used him as their interior decorator?

by Anonymousreply 74December 20, 2022 2:54 AM

r74, according to this article:

Billy’s friends were clients: Joan Crawford, Gloria Swanson, Carole Lombard, Rosalind Russell, Constance Bennett, Marion Davies, Lucille Ball, Ann Rutherford, Jack Benny and George Cukor.

Cole Porter, another friend, rented Haines’ Brentwood house. Orry-Kelly was a close pal too.

And also Betsy Bloomingdale and Nancy Reagan

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by Anonymousreply 75December 20, 2022 3:05 AM

[quote] LGBT-Friendly classic era stars from the Golden Age Of Hollywood?

Next you'll be asking about the Cis-friendly Trans stars from the Golden Age Of Hollywood?

by Anonymousreply 76December 20, 2022 3:11 AM

r76, oh, please. LGBT includes gay, lesbian, and bisexual people and there were plenty of those in Old Hollywood. You're just looking for shit to complain about

by Anonymousreply 77December 20, 2022 3:14 AM

[quote][italic]Elizabeth Taylor didn't get along with Cecil Beaton from what I have heard.[/italic]

[quote]They never worked together.

I'm not R37 but he's right, R64.

[quote]The Hollywood couple were photographed by Beaton at a party thrown at the Rothschilds' home, Chateau de Ferrières, near Paris in December 1971. Shortly afterwards Beaton wrote in his diary: "I have always loathed the Burtons for their vulgarity, commonness and crass bad taste, she combining the worst of US and English taste, he as butch and coarse as only a Welshman can be."

[quote]He said Taylor had craved compliments during the brief shoot. "She got none. I felt I must be professional and continued, but not without loathing at this monster … Round her neck was a velvet ribbon with the biggest diamond in the world pinned on it.

[quote]”On her fat, coarse hands more of the biggest diamonds and emeralds, her head a ridiculous mass of diamond necklaces."

[quote]Ungallantly, Beaton described Taylor's hair as "sausage curls", adding: "Alexandre, the hairdresser, had done his worst.

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by Anonymousreply 78December 20, 2022 3:15 AM

[quote]However, his real venom was reserved for Elizabeth Taylor, who he photographed in 1957.

[quote]“She’s everything I dislike,” he wrote.

[quote]“I have always loathed the Burtons for their vulgarity, commonness and crass bad taste, she combining the worst of US and English taste.

[quote]“I treated her with authority, told her not to powder her nose, to come in front of the cameras with it shining.

[quote]“She wanted compliments. She got none. “Don’t touch me like that,” she whined!

[quote]“Her breasts, hanging and huge, were like those of a peasant woman suckling her young in Peru. On her fat, coarse hands more of the biggest diamonds and emeralds...

[quote]“And this was the woman who is the greatest “draw”. In comparison everyone else looked ladylike.”

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by Anonymousreply 79December 20, 2022 3:15 AM

[quote] "sausage curls"

Yuck.

by Anonymousreply 80December 20, 2022 4:22 AM

Lauren Bacall was homophobic

by Anonymousreply 81December 20, 2022 8:01 PM

R81, but what about her friendships with Rock Hudson and Roddy McDowall? Did she just ignore their proclivities because they were celebrity peers?

by Anonymousreply 82December 20, 2022 10:01 PM

What did Shirley Temple think of homosexuality?

by Anonymousreply 83December 21, 2022 4:05 AM

[quote] What did Shirley Temple think of homosexuality?

She was probably fine with it considering The Good Ship Lollipop was all about men sucking each other's cocks.

by Anonymousreply 84December 21, 2022 4:11 AM

Doris Day had many gay friends and was devoted to them. Of course, she just blocked that aspect of their lives out of her mind.

by Anonymousreply 85December 21, 2022 7:28 AM

R79 Who is that in the photo of the article?

by Anonymousreply 86December 21, 2022 2:47 PM

Wasn't Shirley Temple conservative? Her daughter was a semi-famous bass player in punk and metal bands in the 80s-90s.

by Anonymousreply 87December 21, 2022 2:48 PM

R62 Vivien Leigh having sex with women and visiting lesbian bars isn't unsubstantiated nonsense. What's next, John Travolta being gay/bi is unsubstantiated nonsense?

by Anonymousreply 88December 21, 2022 2:50 PM

Anne Revere was homophobic

by Anonymousreply 89December 21, 2022 11:16 PM

Gale Sondergaarrd was awful.

And Henry Daniell was a beast!

by Anonymousreply 90December 21, 2022 11:43 PM

R88 Unsubstantiated, undocumented nonsense.

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by Anonymousreply 91December 21, 2022 11:53 PM

Cary Grant was homophobic

by Anonymousreply 92December 22, 2022 3:31 AM

R91 What does your post has to do with Vivien Leigh being bi?

by Anonymousreply 93December 22, 2022 2:46 PM

Stanwick, R91, claims Vivien was a 'whore' but not a lesbian.

by Anonymousreply 94December 22, 2022 10:21 PM

[quote]Was Jane Wyman homophobic?

She nixed the introduction of a lesbian couple on Falcon Crest.

by Anonymousreply 95December 22, 2022 10:48 PM

Rosemary Clooney was like Doris Day in that regard. She had many gay friends and knew they were gay, but turned a blind eye to their love/sex life.

by Anonymousreply 96December 23, 2022 2:31 AM

R94 Where in that text does she mentions anything about being or not being a lesbian? Also, I said Vivien was bi, not a lesbian.

by Anonymousreply 97December 23, 2022 4:46 AM

[quote] I said Vivien was bi

How can you say Vivien was bi?

by Anonymousreply 98December 23, 2022 5:13 AM

[quote] Bette Davis and Joan Crawford, for example, both very much liked gay men in private life (and one of Crawford's favorites was William Haines, her longtime decorator) , but they would disparage them to the press back in the day. So would they count?

Who did Bette like?

by Anonymousreply 99December 23, 2022 5:16 AM

Angela Lansbury loved gays. She even married one.

by Anonymousreply 100December 23, 2022 5:18 AM

[quote] Harold Lloyd was very supportive of his gay son, iirc.

He was but he blamed his son’s homosexuality on himself for being an absentee father.

Buster Keaton seemed fine with it. Hell, he dressed in drag and displayed his feminine side a million times.

by Anonymousreply 101December 23, 2022 5:21 AM

Richard Burton was homophobic

by Anonymousreply 102December 23, 2022 7:03 PM

Jeffrey Hunter was homophobic

by Anonymousreply 103December 23, 2022 8:37 PM

It's retarded to consider people born in the early 20th century homophobic because they said a few un-PC comments about gays. You all must be Gen Z morons.

Bette and Joan were both very supportive of gay men, I don't give a hang about off hand jokes or comments. Most old Hollywood stars were gay friendly, most of them WERE somewhat gay, for fuck's sake.

by Anonymousreply 104December 23, 2022 8:40 PM

R104 uses "retarded" as an insult. Probably a low IQ Trump voter. Baby boomer moron.

by Anonymousreply 105December 23, 2022 8:46 PM

[quote] Richard Burton was homophobic

He hated everyone, not just gay people. He was a miserable cunt through and through.

by Anonymousreply 106December 23, 2022 9:42 PM

There is NO documentation to say that Vivien ever touched Isabel.

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by Anonymousreply 107December 23, 2022 9:48 PM

Richard Burton was close to gay men like John Gielgud and Alec Guinness

by Anonymousreply 108December 23, 2022 9:49 PM

The alte great Vivian Blaine was pro-gay & pro-AIDS activism in her life/career =

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by Anonymousreply 109December 23, 2022 9:50 PM

Viv was doing AIDS benefits before some of the more diva stars attached their name to the cause. This is an '83 interview

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by Anonymousreply 110December 23, 2022 9:52 PM

[quote] Richard Burton was close to gay men like John Gielgud and Alec Guinness

He may have allowed Gielgud to direct him in a New York production 'Hamlet'.

He may have allowed Guinness to support him in that weak film called 'The Comedians'.

But they weren't invited to his private parties and you don't find their names in his personal life in his diaries.

by Anonymousreply 111December 23, 2022 10:05 PM

^ That's cool of her, there was a TON of stigma around AIDS back then.

by Anonymousreply 112December 23, 2022 10:25 PM

I agree R112. It's hard to believe that the woman performing with such a high voice in R109 is the same as the one in the interview below it.

by Anonymousreply 113December 23, 2022 10:27 PM

There is NIL documentary evidence to say that Ursula and Vivien connected.

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by Anonymousreply 114December 24, 2022 12:23 AM

[quote] Jeffrey Hunter was homophobic

He may have been, but he would have had to put up with them being around because both Barbara Rush and Emily McLaughlin were very accepting of gay people and welcomed them into their homes.

by Anonymousreply 115December 24, 2022 12:57 AM

I know Barbara Rush said she loved working with Rock Hudson. So did Doris Day.

by Anonymousreply 116December 24, 2022 12:59 AM

I loved working with Rock Hudson.

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by Anonymousreply 117December 24, 2022 1:19 AM

Bacall wasn't homophobic, she hated everyone equally

by Anonymousreply 118December 24, 2022 1:39 AM

Ursula and Vivien:

there's just twelve inches separating their lips.

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by Anonymousreply 119December 24, 2022 4:19 AM

Mr. & Mrs. Alfred Steele with Jimmy Shields and Billy Haines

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by Anonymousreply 120December 24, 2022 5:30 AM

These gays...they're trying to murder me!

by Anonymousreply 121December 24, 2022 5:41 AM

Haven't you eldergays daydreamed up some secret stories about Phillips Holmes?

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by Anonymousreply 122December 24, 2022 8:22 AM

R114 What do you mean by connected?

by Anonymousreply 123December 24, 2022 11:54 PM

How could Joan be homophobic when she was fucking women?

by Anonymousreply 124December 24, 2022 11:54 PM

How could Cary Grant be homophobic when he was fucking men as recently as the early sixties.

by Anonymousreply 125December 25, 2022 1:57 AM

Carleton Carpenter said Cary Grant hit on him

by Anonymousreply 126December 25, 2022 2:08 AM

So did Dick Sargent

by Anonymousreply 127December 25, 2022 3:16 AM

I've learned so much from this thread.

Thanks, guys!

by Anonymousreply 128December 25, 2022 6:04 PM

R38, Didn’t Jimmy Stewart play a gay man in Rope? And Henry Fonda was in Otto Preminger’s Advise & Consent. It seems odd to say they were viciously anti-gay.

by Anonymousreply 129December 25, 2022 7:10 PM

[quote] It seems odd to say they were viciously anti-gay.

R129 We shouldn't expect too much intellectual rigor in a thread written about the dead by the almost-dead.

by Anonymousreply 130December 25, 2022 11:21 PM

Anita Bryant

by Anonymousreply 131December 25, 2022 11:35 PM

Ava?

by Anonymousreply 132December 26, 2022 5:59 AM

Why have you omitted my god, George O'Brien?

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by Anonymousreply 133December 26, 2022 6:25 AM

Greta Garbo was homophobic

by Anonymousreply 134December 27, 2022 12:46 AM

Garbo was a dyke

by Anonymousreply 135December 27, 2022 12:57 AM

Ethel Merman was homophobic

by Anonymousreply 136December 27, 2022 8:57 PM

R133 That man must be rolling his waistband downward because his elastic has failed.

by Anonymousreply 137December 27, 2022 10:54 PM

George O’Brien is of high interest to me now.

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by Anonymousreply 138December 28, 2022 12:30 AM

I didn’t think George O’Brien actually played tennis in that loincloth at r133.

Apparently, he did.

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by Anonymousreply 139December 28, 2022 12:33 AM

R91 That Barbara was a bitch.

by Anonymousreply 140December 28, 2022 12:45 AM

R1, liking gay men and women if you are opposite sex is not pro gay , it’s also a form of bigotry.

by Anonymousreply 141December 28, 2022 1:02 AM

Ethel Merman wasn't homophobic. She supported gay rights and had many gay friends.

by Anonymousreply 142December 28, 2022 1:03 AM

You can't give us a link that "She supported gay rights".

by Anonymousreply 143December 28, 2022 1:08 AM

I don't think Clark Gable had the power to have George Cukor fired from GWTW. Cukor himself said he had doubts about how he was doing, and Selznick didn't think he was getting it right (for example, the scene of the Atlanta bazaar had to be completely re-shot by Victor Fleming.) Cukor had done pre-production of the film for over a year. Possibly he was too close to the material, or even burnt out.

by Anonymousreply 144December 28, 2022 1:27 AM

R144 That sounds like a reasonable assessment.

There was third director needed on this massive production after a year's pre-production.

by Anonymousreply 145December 28, 2022 1:29 AM

Natalie Wood was homophobic

by Anonymousreply 146December 28, 2022 9:27 PM

So many accusations without anything to back it up.

by Anonymousreply 147December 28, 2022 9:39 PM

[quote]Gary Cooper, Jimmy Stewart, Clark Gable, Henry Fonda among others were all viciously anti-gay.

Jimmy Stewart was also virulently racist. I don't know about Fonda or Cooper, but Gable was not racist at all and frequently attended Hattie McDaniel's parties, where he was one of only a handful of white guests. True story!

by Anonymousreply 148December 28, 2022 10:02 PM

Is Katharine Hepburn was gay I wonder what she thought of that homophobic scece in On Golden Pond where Henry Fonda condemns a lesbian couple living close by their lake house.

by Anonymousreply 149December 28, 2022 10:20 PM

R146, Liar!!

by Anonymousreply 150December 28, 2022 11:36 PM

[quote]I don't know about Fonda or Cooper, but Gable was not racist at all

I know very little about Gary Cooper, but Henry Fonda was not racist. He told the story more than once about how when he was a kid he witnessed a lynching.

[quote]Nebraska-born actor Henry Fonda was 14 years old when the lynching happened. His father owned a printing plant across the street from the courthouse. He watched the riot from the second floor window of his father’s shop.

[quote]"It was the most horrendous sight I’d ever seen . . . We locked the plant, went downstairs, and drove home in silence. My hands were wet and there were tears in my eyes. All I could think of was that young black man dangling at the end of a rope."

[quote]During Fonda’s long career, at least two of his best movies — Young Mister Lincoln and The Ox Bow Incident — featured lynchings as major plot points.

Not race related, but Fonda also had a falling out with his best friend James Stewart over the fact that Stewart had been providing names of suspected Communists to the FBI. I believe Fonda called Stewart a "stupid bastard" and they didn't talk for a few years.

by Anonymousreply 151December 28, 2022 11:39 PM

Fonda was pretty liberal, although he did make a homophobic comment about Charles Laughton when they worked together

by Anonymousreply 152December 29, 2022 12:04 AM

Jane Fonda was homophobic

by Anonymousreply 153December 29, 2022 6:31 PM

"What do you know about men, you fat, ugly faggot!”

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by Anonymousreply 154December 29, 2022 9:13 PM

Fonda may have been pretty in 1938.

He specialised in playing passive characters.

He never radiated a scintilla of intellect.

by Anonymousreply 155December 29, 2022 9:36 PM

"I don't think Clark Gable had the power to have George Cukor fired from GWTW. "

I disagree, I think that if Gable had told Selznick "It's Cukor or me", I think Selznick would have fired Cukor and kept Gable. Gable was the King of Hollywood, the whole world wanted to see him in the role, Selznick didn't have the kind of financial cushion that a studio had, he was always on the financial edge and couldn't afford to waste time and money in court when there was a huge movie to be made.

This doesn't mean that Gable *did* have Cukor fired, just that I think he could have if he'd really wanted to. He probably didn't, Gable wasn't given to throwing his weight around, he usually showed up and did a good job, and if he didn't like his co-star (as happened) he got on with the job.

by Anonymousreply 156December 29, 2022 10:27 PM

James Garner was a proud liberal so I can’t imagine him being homophobic.

by Anonymousreply 157December 29, 2022 10:30 PM

[quote] I can’t imagine him

The so-called 'Golden Age Of Hollywood' ended around 1954.

So I can’t imagine any of those people would have any idea what a 'LGBT' is.

by Anonymousreply 158December 29, 2022 10:44 PM

Was Jean Harlow homophobic?

by Anonymousreply 159December 30, 2022 10:24 PM

She held the rights to Terms of Endearment for years to make her big return to films in. She never could get it made though.

She’s usually boring as excement.

She broke up one of Hollywood’s most powerful marriages in her youth and married the producer husband. He then over managed her career to the point where she appeared mostly in boring projects when not tied to his overblown bombs. She still won an Oscar, but her career would have really been better if not shackled to him.

In later life (after marrying another multi millionaire) she had a hairdresser and makeup man drop by the house every morning and do her up. Because she didn’t trust a mortuary to make her look good for an open casket should she drop dead.

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by Anonymousreply 160December 30, 2022 10:28 PM

r160 who the hell are you talking about? I don't recognize the woman in your link.

by Anonymousreply 161December 30, 2022 11:53 PM

R161 Jennifer Jones, one of the biggest stars of the 40s and 50s.

And I don't think she was boring, far from it.

by Anonymousreply 162December 31, 2022 2:33 AM

I seem to remember in Henry Fonda's autobiography that he said Dick Powell (the official director of the stage production, The Caine Mutiny Court Martial) was in way over his head, and that Charles Laughton (who I think was the producer, with Paul Gregory) took over and directed the actors on the bus as they toured from city to city prior to Broadway. He certainly comes across in the book as admiring Laughton.

Also, Advise And Consent was the first big movie to have a closeted gay character (played by Don Murray) and he's presented sympathetically in the film. I wouldn't think Fonda would accept one of the biggest roles in the film (and top billing) if he were homophobic.

Where is that quote where he called Laughton a faggot taken from? Is it a reliable source?

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by Anonymousreply 163December 31, 2022 7:01 PM

That picture has Tyrone and Charles together.

I wish we had some RELIABLE, credible, FEASIBLE gossip about Tyrone's prvate life.

by Anonymousreply 164December 31, 2022 10:08 PM

What did Marilyn Monroe think of homosexuality?

by Anonymousreply 165January 2, 2023 11:15 PM

R34

[quote] What were Marilyn Monroe's views on homosexuality?

R165

[quote] What did Marilyn Monroe think of homosexuality?

by Anonymousreply 166January 2, 2023 11:19 PM

I don’t think Marilyn was totally straight.

by Anonymousreply 167January 3, 2023 12:08 AM

R164, Power and Laughton made a movie together, "Witness for the Prosecution" in 1957, of course they'd be photographed together.

As for Power, didn't Susielee describe him as someone very nice, obliging, and willing? Like he'd have sex if the other person wanted it, so it was out of the way and they could get to know each other, if I remember correctly and I probably dont.

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by Anonymousreply 168January 3, 2023 12:24 AM

Tyrone Power was homophobic

by Anonymousreply 169January 3, 2023 12:31 AM

Tyrone Power was family. His best friend was Cesar Romero

by Anonymousreply 170January 3, 2023 12:33 AM

R170, Cesar Romero was straight

by Anonymousreply 171January 3, 2023 1:12 AM

^Straight into big hard dick.

by Anonymousreply 172January 3, 2023 1:21 AM

R165 She was bi so I guess she was okay with it.

by Anonymousreply 173January 3, 2023 5:44 AM

In one biog. of Power there was info about him having an early relationship with some other young gay man, very affedtionate in front of the other guy's family. It was a NY "society" family, I think.

by Anonymousreply 174January 3, 2023 8:27 PM

*affectionate

by Anonymousreply 175January 3, 2023 8:27 PM

Laughton also directed Power (and Raymond Massey, Judith Anderson) in John Brown's Body.

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by Anonymousreply 176January 3, 2023 8:36 PM

Natalie Wood gay AND lesbian friendly . A big advocate

by Anonymousreply 177January 4, 2023 6:31 AM

R177, nope she was a homophobe

by Anonymousreply 178January 5, 2023 8:42 PM

Natalie Wood was quite close to a number of gays.

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by Anonymousreply 179January 5, 2023 10:23 PM

Natalie wanted to play a lesbian in a movie involving twins in early 60’s and it never came to pass . She was ardently a champion for LGB rights and was courageous.

by Anonymousreply 180January 6, 2023 2:08 AM

[quote] She was ardently a champion for LGB rights and was courageous.

She was as courageous as St Joan of Arc.

by Anonymousreply 181January 6, 2023 2:44 AM

Photo is Bogie, Webb, and Larry Olivier.

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by Anonymousreply 182January 6, 2023 6:07 PM

(Bogart and Lauren Bacall were friends with Clifton Webb, Noel Coward.)

by Anonymousreply 183January 6, 2023 6:07 PM

What did Elvis Presley think of homosexuality?

by Anonymousreply 184January 7, 2023 12:47 AM

Elvis adores the gays.

by Anonymousreply 185January 7, 2023 1:09 AM

Remember the story Tom Jones told about Elvis in a hotel room?

by Anonymousreply 186January 7, 2023 1:16 AM

R186, no I want to hear

by Anonymousreply 187January 7, 2023 1:20 AM

Is this the story?

It’s got nudity and transgressed boundaries, but it’s almost anti-homoerotic.

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by Anonymousreply 188January 7, 2023 1:24 AM

Betty Grable loved gay men. Chuck Walters writes in his autobiography that when he and Betty were in "DuBarry was a Lady" on Broadway after the show they would go out and party in the Village all night with his (gay) friends.

Grable's best friends at Fox were the gay chorus boys and girls she worked with and she hooked up her friend and favorite co-star Dan Dailey with the hottest boys on the lot. She loved to hang out with her gay choreographers Hermes Pan and Jack Cole. Marge Champion was interviewed live about working with Grable in "Three For The Show" and said all Grables scenes had to be done in the morning before lunch, because she and Cole would have big boozy lunches with Coles hottest male dancers and was in no shape in the afternoon to do much.

by Anonymousreply 189January 7, 2023 2:41 AM

I consider gay acceptance if straight men have gay male friends and straight female have gay female friends. And accept both gay sexes

by Anonymousreply 190January 7, 2023 3:07 AM

Who were all of Tyrone Power's gay friends?

by Anonymousreply 191January 8, 2023 7:48 PM

One interviewer wrote that Ava Gardner told him she realized women turned her on when watching Betty Grable (left) and Charles Walters in the number. Well Did You Evah?, from DuBarry Was A Lady (starring Ethel Merman and Bert Lahr). Ava wasn't a star at the time. She said that later in Hollywood she told Grable this, and Grable just laughed.

by Anonymousreply 192January 8, 2023 8:08 PM

photo:

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by Anonymousreply 193January 8, 2023 8:08 PM

Isn't Raquel Welch homophobic?

by Anonymousreply 194January 11, 2023 2:08 AM

R184 I think Elvis was a product of his times but he was friendly with a lot of bisexual and gay stars like Nick Adams, Sal Mineo, Cary Grant, Sammy Davis Jr., Little Richard, Liberace, etc.

by Anonymousreply 195January 14, 2023 7:47 AM
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