The Closet Door is Open - Lavender Ladies & Gents of the Golden Age of Hollywood

[rue]

I only know what I was told Story

 

[Story]

I only know what I was told Story

Shhhh... I'm still picturing a couple flying tackled by Betty White.

nb: an attractive couple, obviously.

 

[rue]

Shhhh... I'm still picturing a couple flying tackled by Betty White.

nb: an attractive couple, obviously.

lol

 

[Story]

lol

nttawwt.

 

[Stanley Doble]

Reporter/humorist H. Allen Smith worked in Hollywood for a time in the forties after moving from New York. He said that in Hollywood you hadn't arrived until you were making $2000 a week and rumors went around that you were a swish. You were then permitted to wear your overcoat over your shoulders like a cape.lol

 

[Doctor Strange]

This article should probably be referenced in this thread:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/29/f...and-his-sexual-tell-all-of-old-hollywood.html

 

[C-dot]

This article should probably be referenced in this thread:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/29/f...and-his-sexual-tell-all-of-old-hollywood.html

“I’ve kept silent all these years because I didn’t want to hurt any of these people .... I finally said yes because I’m not getting any younger and all of my famous tricks are dead by now. The truth can’t hurt them anymore.”

He means, of course, that he cannot be sued for libel anymore. I wonder if he knows David Bret?

 

[Mrs Chaddsley_Corbett]

He was rather dashing himself

 

[Story]

This article should probably be referenced in this thread:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/29/f...and-his-sexual-tell-all-of-old-hollywood.html

Cross referenced for maximum entertainment value

 

[Mrs Chaddsley_Corbett]

Paul Newman asking Jimmy Dean for a quick snog

[video=youtube;U1sLlcarbu4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1sLlcarbu4[/video]

 

[fortworthgal]

I read quite a lot of "old Hollywood" bios and stories. It is really shocking how many celebrities back in those days weren't really who we all grew up thinking they were. Also very sad that it was considered "necessary" to conceal their true preferences.

The studios were masters at covering up everything from sexual preferences to drug use to car accidents and illegitimate children. I'm convinced if Lindsay Lohan had lived in the 1930s, she would have been a huge star and nobody would ever have known about her escapades.