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Bookmark or Share- Today’s actors who could never happen in the Golden Age of Hollywood.[quote] I could see Timothee Chalamet in Farley Granger or Montgomery Clift roles. It’s not about his acting, it’s about his physicality. Hollywood didn’t cast skinny cute boy-men as leads back then. The men looked like mature men even if they were young. On the rare occasions you do see someone twinky in an old movie it looks jarring.
- Which stars of Hollywood's Golden Age were genuinely homophobic?[quote]And Arthur Laurents, who was a member of the Kelly's Saturday afternoon volleyball crowd and Sunday night house party crowd, and was an out gay man in the 40s (his lover, who also came to the events, was Farley Granger) has also said in print and in person that Kelly was not only NOT gay, but a bit homophobic."
- Farley Granger has to be the most underrated Old Hollywood male beautyWe randomly started watching a 1981 slasher called The Prowler. I had to look up the movie on IMDb to confirm it really was Farley Granger playing the sheriff. Funny seeing him slumming in something like that. It’s a pretty bad film. Spoiler: Farley’s character is the killer.
- Farley Granger and Barbara Stanwyck had a one night stand - the Data LoungeFarley Granger was a beautiful man and Stanwyck was a homely almost deformed woman. Limp hair, colorless skin, TINY eyes and small teeth from the poor nutrition and abysmal life she lived as a child. She was rickety and had abnormally small facial features. These are some reasons she is not well remembered.
- The Way We Were based on Farley Granger/Arthur Laurents relationshipScreenwriter Arthur Laurents based the story upon his earlier romance with bisexual actor Farley Granger. Their personality differences were immense: Laurents was Jewish and a political activist, while Granger was a carefree White Anglo-Saxon Protestant.
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