And so farewell to the actor and former screen heart-throb Farley Granger, whose death has been announced today.
Mr Granger was never a top star in the same way as contemporaries such as Jimmy Stewart (his co-star in Hitchcock's Rope). Many have posited that this may have been due to the fact he was openly bisexual (even before such things were talked about) - he apparently had affairs with Ava Gardner, Roddy McDowell, Arthur Laurents and Leonard Bernstein, among other stars.
In his memoir Include Me Out, co-written with his long-term partner Robert Calhoun, he observed, "I never have felt the need to belong to any exclusive, self-defining, or special group... I was never ashamed, and I never felt the need to explain or apologise for my relationships to anyone... I have loved men. I have loved women."
Mr Calhoun died in 2008; they had been together since the early 1960s. Mr Granger died peacefully in his sleep on Sunday (27 March 2011). He was 85.
RIP.
Farley Granger obituary
RIP
ReplyDeleteI wonder how you survive after being together and part of a pair for so long.
ReplyDeleteLove the black & white picture with the dogs
I seem to have featured a few gay relationships of great longevity recently, both here and in Dolores Delargo Towers Museum of Camp - something must be at work for these people somehow!
ReplyDeleteLord knows, thirteen years with Madame Acarti is a miracle... Jx
congratulations x
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