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Main Discussion Area => In Memoriam, Happy Birthday => Topic started by: Wayback on March 29, 2011, 11:17:34 AM

Title: RIP Farley Granger, actor, 85
Post by: Wayback on March 29, 2011, 11:17:34 AM

Farley Granger starred in the Hitchcock classics “Rope” and “Strangers on a Train” among other roles. He was 85.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/afterword/2011/03/farley-granger-star-of-hitchcock-classics-dies-at-85.html

Title: Re: RIP Farley Granger, actor, 85
Post by: RGMike on March 30, 2011, 09:37:29 AM

The comments on the above LATimes obit point out that Granger was gay or bi and that he came out some years ago; he and screenwriter Arthur Laurents were lovers when they filmed Rope with Hitchcock, who slipped a LOT of gay subtext past the censors.

http://www.awardsdaily.com/2011/03/farley-granger-hitchcock-the-making-of-rope/#more-38448

Title: Re: RIP Farley Granger, actor, 85
Post by: Tinka Cat on March 30, 2011, 11:27:20 AM

Quote from: RGMike on March 30, 2011, 09:37:29 AM

The comments on the above LATimes obit point out that Granger was gay or bi and that he came out some years ago; he and screenwriter Arthur Laurents were lovers when they filmed Rope with Hitchcock, who slipped a LOT of gay subtext past the censors.

http://www.awardsdaily.com/2011/03/farley-granger-hitchcock-the-making-of-rope/#more-38448

The AP article in the Chron mentions his sexuality, which Granger was very open about in his autobiography:

He writes about a Honolulu night that epitomized his life. A 21-year-old 
virgin and wartime Navy recruit, he was determined to change his status. 
He did so with a young and lovely female prostitute. He was about to leave 
the premises when he ran into a handsome Navy officer. Granger was soon 
in bed again.

"I lost my virginity twice in one night," he writes.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2011/03/29/state/n055947D23.DTL

Title: Re: RIP Farley Granger, actor, 85
Post by: mshray on March 31, 2011, 11:21:28 AM

I guess people see, or fail to see, what they want to.  I have this on DVD & when I watched it I thought it was pretext, not subtext...meaning that the only way the Brandon character could the influence he did over Philip (FG's character), was if they were, or at least had been, lovers. 

I'll have to watch it again soon, because having watched that "Making of..." clip, I want to see if I pick up on the fact that Jimmy Stewart's character (in the original play) was supposed to also have been gay & had an affair with one them when he taught them in prep school.