Actor Grant Williams
He played the lead role of Scott Carey in the 1957 film "The Incredible Shrinking Man." Total hottie! Gorgeous eyes, beautiful hair, handsome face. The movie is a schlock classic, but if I found this three-inch-tall guy duking it out with a spider in my basement, I'd save him and keep him in my shirt pocket. I'd do anything to return him to a normal size so I could look him in the eyes while I fuck him.
He's one of those guys who looks better and better the more he looks like shit. He was a veteran of the Korean War, and died in 1985 at 53 of peritonitis. Anyone know why he didn't get more, better roles? He was kind of "discovered" by Rosalind Russell. Maybe she kept him in HER pocket (or a gilded cage at home - MEOW). Was he a sister?
For the moment, I'm obsessed.
| by Anonymous | reply 10 | November 26, 2024 3:24 PM
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He was gay.
From WIKI:
Williams died on July 28, 1985, aged 53, at the Los Angeles Veterans Administration Hospital, where he had been receiving treatment for blood poisoning.
HIV/AIDS?
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | April 21, 2024 11:45 PM
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I get him mixed up with Grant Withers.
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | April 21, 2024 11:56 PM
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Thanks, R2. Now I'll think of him every time I see Nurse Withers in "Murder by Death."
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | April 21, 2024 11:59 PM
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I hadn't thought of AIDS, R1. The timing is right, to be sure. The X post suggests peritonitis and it resonated with me, as I suffered from it after my appendix burst in 2011. The condition used to be untreatable - my great-grandmother died of the same condition in 1957.
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | April 22, 2024 12:04 AM
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If you know he was gay, R1, please continue. Do you have any stories? Knowledge of any connections?
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | April 22, 2024 12:06 AM
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[quote]Who dies of peritonitis these days?!
[quote]No one!
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | April 22, 2024 12:08 AM
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Just watched him in an old episode of The Munsters. He truly was gorgeous. Reading his bio, it’s kind of odd that Hollywood never seemed much interested in making him a major star.
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | November 26, 2024 2:14 PM
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R7: He was the 'Prince' who kissed Marilyn awake from her insomnia. He was gorgeous (@5:42):
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | November 26, 2024 2:39 PM
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That he was gay is presented as one reason for his career decline on the commentary track of the Criterion edition of Shrinking Man.
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | November 26, 2024 3:10 PM
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He was very handsome. He died so young, too. Tragic.
| by Anonymous | reply 10 | November 26, 2024 3:24 PM
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