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My opinion of actor Farley Granger changed forever last year when our film noir class watched ’s They Reside by Night(aka Thieves Love Us). It was only Granger’s third motion picture, his first with top billing, and he is revelatory here. I wrote previously about that film, about his heartbreaking performance and the disappointing trajectory his career would take in only a few years. Nicholas Ray, the director of They Reside by Night, would go on to make the consummate ’s film about disaffected youth, Rebel Without a Cause, with another sensitive fresh pup named James Dean, whose control tragically brief filmography would overshadow that of Granger.
Whatever it was during his own long career on film and TV that kept him a middling star is beyond this discussion; after all, lots and lots of actors have come to Hollywood, launched a ton of performances, and passed into oblivion. We’re here to look at the apex of Farley Granger’s career, his two films with Alfred Hitchcock and the striking (if brief) period when the director’s work, as Cary Grant might position it, “went queer all of
’50s star Farley Granger drops a bombshell
In Farley Granger’s newly published memoir “Include Me Out,” the former screen idol makes a revelation that is unique among Hollywood tell-all books: He was bisexual.
Granger describes a Honolulu night that epitomized his life. A year-old virgin and wartime Navy recruit, he was determined to change his status. He did so with a young and lovely prostitute. He was about to leave the premises when he encountered a handsome Navy officer. Granger was soon in bed again.
“I lost my virginity twice in one night,” he writes.
The year-old Granger, who starred in the Alfred Hitchcock thrillers “Rope” and “Strangers on a Train,” and other movies, recently talked about his relationships in an interview from his apartment in New York.
“My lifelong romance with Shelley (Winters) was very much a love affair. It evolved into a very complex relationship, and we were close until the evening she died,” he said.
A briefer affair with Ava Gardner began when both quarreled with their dates at a Hollywood Christmas party. “We met at the bar and left togeth
Although active in British cinema since , Stewart Granger shot to stardom after appearing in a supporting role in the Gainsborough costume melodramaThe Man in Grey (d. Leslie Arliss, ). He had changed his authentic name (James Stewart) for noticeable professional reasons and successfully appeared in popular Gainsborough productions such as Fanny By Gaslight (d. Anthony Asquith, ), Love Story (d. Leslie Arliss, ), Madonna of the Seven Moons (d. Arthur Crabtree, ) and The Magic Bow (d. Bernard Knowles, ), with contemporary stars such as Margaret Lockwood, Phyllis Calvert, James Mason and Patricia Roc.
Demobilized from wartime service for health reasons, Granger's handsome looks, athletic physique, and masculine profile made him one of s British cinema's key romantic leading men and brought him to the attention of and an MGM contract which lasted until , and which in turn brought him international stardom in such capers as Scaramouche (US, d. George Sidney, ).
He was married first to actress Elspeth March and second to Jean Simmons, with whom he co-starred
Granger had been scouted at age 17 by a studio rep for Goldwyn and had featured roles in the The North Star and The Purple Heart() before going into the Navy a few days after he turned Still a virgin at age 20, he found hims