Judy Garland's love interest in Meet me in St. Louis was gay

Mama schure loved her gaysch!

Are you implying he was a friend of Esther?

R1- You’re funny 😆

And Vincente Minnelli was kind to give him a decent role two decades later in The Sandpiper.

Isn’t it a bit odd for three generations of women (Judy’s mother, Judy, Liza) to all marry gay men?

R5 no odder than Mama and daughters all had substance abuse issue These patterns repeat in families

Tom Drake was hot when he was young.

He also slept with Van Johnson, too (allegedly)

Merv Griffin??? Ewww.

Merv

[quote]He also slept with Van Johnson, too (allegedly)

All the boys fucked Van. He had the loosest hole in Hollywood, after Crawford.

Broderick Crawford was a greasy holed sling slut?

Broderick was a doll, baby. I paid his bail for a few of his DUIs. You know what Crawford I'm talking about.

[quote]All the boys fucked Van. He had the loosest hole in Hollywood, after Crawford.

That's rich coming from a broad with blown out, well worn cavern like yourself.

Must be like the consistency of Jack Link's these days.

No worn out cavern on me, baby. I do my exercises. Keeps things nice and tight down there.

R4, I wondered if Minnelli tapped that

Or George Cukor

[quote]Keeps things nice and tight down there.

More like pickled and preserved by all the hooch!

Yes, OP, we know.

Thank you for rushing to start this badly written thread to tell us something we ALL know and which we have discussed here many, many, many, many, many, MANY times.

R17 has stated your boundaries.

You know he must have been gay because Judy slept with him.

Sometimes I think to myself how wonderful it will be to one day open Datalounge and read, "R17 is Dead to Me! (Stick Up His Ass Finished Him Off)"

The guy who played her brother was way cuter.

They were both hot

But the really cute guy was the boyfriend of Judy’s sister, the one who called from Yale or Princeton or whatever. You just know that dick sucking had something to do with his casting.

"Mama schure loved her gaysch!

—Lizascha!"

You had a certain knack for picking out just the right queens to marry, Missy.

R20 ah, it must be relaxing to be such a basic bitch.

Aw, how cute. R25 is trying to be witty.

I can't think of a more depressing end than living in Torrance.

Try living in Darfur.

Isn't he the guy who was Elizabeth Taylor's groom in Father of the Bride?

I've always crushed on Tom Drake in "MMISL" with Judy, especially the scene when he finally catches up to and joins her and their other friends on the trolley car. (I know, this is my "MARY!" moment.) Such beautiful eyes, face and voice.

R30, time, tide and trolley wait for no man.

OP, Judy Garland met and fell in love with and married the Gay man who directed this movie..... and thus...Liza with a "Z"

He died broke

R33 yes, as OP's article told us.

[quote] He was taken by pneumonia, alone & mostly forgotten in a tiny apartment in Torrence, California in 1982.

On John Carlyle -

Darkly handsome actor who was once represented by the notorious Henry Willson, the manager/agent who changed the name of Roy Fitzgerald to Rock Hudson and made the actor a huge star. Tried to promote Carlyle as the "next Montgomery Clift" but the promo fell short. A homosexual, Carlyle authored "Under the Rainbow: An Intimate Memoir of Judy Garland, Rock Hudson and My Life in Old Hollywood" [ISBN-13: 978-0786718535] that was published shortly after his death. He dishes sympathetic dirt on Garland, peccadilloes with the likes of Tom Drake and his own personal and professional shortcomings in an era of homophobia.

The good doctor.

See, now Drake was a pretty decent actor and could have had a decent career, but IMO homophobia destroyed his opportunities.

[quote]But the really cute guy was the boyfriend of Judy’s sister, the one who called from Yale or Princeton or whatever.

Warren Sheffield!

I always loved his speaking voice

He did not age well. He look like an alcoholic in THE SINGING NUN Puffy

Tom attended a taping of "The Judy Garland Show", and Judy introduced him in the audience and said sweet things about him to the viewers.

Per the Clarke bio, Judy was very chilly to Drake after he couldn't get it up for her.