Farley Granger Slept With Everyone

Farley Granger was a looker back in the day.

Rope is one of my favorite Hitchcock films.  I watched To Catch a Thief last night and it really pales in comparison.  I don’t just love Rope because of the homoeroticism, but, well, I love the homoeroticism.   Hitchcock did an astounding job of making it plain as day but slipping it by the censors. What’s even more interesting is that the writer and both the stars were queer. 

Farley Granger’s new memoir Include Me Out, which came out in March, states pretty unequivocally just how queer he is.  Which is ultimately very bisexual, even though he’s lived with his male partner since 1963.  He talks about affairs with the likes of Ava Gardner, Leonard Bernstein, Shelley Winters and Arthur Laurents, as well as friendships and meetings with Richard Burton, Kay Medford and Stella Adler.  I love reading about this time in Hollywood (the gossip, the drama!) and I especially love a memoir from an interviewee in The Celluloid Closet.  Old gay Hollywood never ceases to captivate me.

Two of Granger's famous lovers: Ava Gardner and Leonard Bernstein.  Is it wrong for me to hope that Ava was bisexual too?

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[Jay]

Hitchcock got past the censors with hetero sex too...fireworks to insinuate getting it on...