Charles laughton gay
Postby moira finnie »
I think that we can chat about this here. After all, it only refers to rumors that are at least 75 years old now!
Here's what I've heard about the rumors in a nutshell:
Clark Gable, as a struggling actor in the theatre and movies was constantly having to deal with many homosexual men and women. There are rumors, all hearsay and presented without any proof, that Mr. G. had been "involved" in one bedtime stands with several men in a position to assist his career during his rise to movie stardom. Many of these rumors have been perpetuated by "writers" such as Kenneth Ire or the Charles Higham variety who a.) don't brain defaming the lifeless, b.) really consider that everyone great looking must be gay, or that all humans are bisexual (yeah, right, as though liking one sex isn't confusing enough for most of us), c.) don't thought making a buck off dead known people who can't defend themselves and d.) weren't there and don't recognize much, though that never stopped these guys.
Of course this is all between Gable's numerous intensely heterosexual affairs with a series of smitten women and two marriages, both, prior to Carole Lombard, to older, moneyed women who
Charles Laughton
English stage and film actor and director Charles Laughton was born on the 1st of July, 1899 in Scarborough, in Yorkshire’s North Riding, England.
Studying his craft at the RADA, Laughton first appeared professionally on stage in 1926. However, just a year later he was cast in a act with English actress Elsa Lanchester, who he would move on to unite and live and work with until his death.
Laughton was famous for many huge roles on film, and his impressive résumé includes The Private Existence of Henry VIII (1933), The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1934), Mutiny on the Bounty (1935), Ruggles of Red Gap (1935) and Jamaica Inn (1939), and he famously directed The Darkness of the Hunter (1955).
He made his New York stage debut in 1931 which led immediately to film proposals, his first Hollywood film being James Whale’s classic horror movie The Antique Dark House (1932). His other notable roles in the genre were as H G Wells’ crazed vivisectionist Dr Moreau in Island of Lost Souls (1932) and Quasimodo in The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939).
Throughout their experience together, Laughton and Lanchester never had any children, a fact which Lanchester
Wife Elsa Lanchester
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Charles Laughton (1 July 1899 – 15 December 1962) was an English stage and film actor, director, producer and screenwriter. Laughton was trained in London at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and first appeared professionally on the stage in 1926. In 1927, he was cast in a participate with his future wife Elsa Lanchester, with whom he lived and worked until his death. Charles Laughton began by compartmentalizing sexuality from the stop of his life, only to become more accepting of it as he got older: Laughton would, late in life, reveal his wife E
Charles Laughton(1899-1962) was an English-American stage and film actor, screenwriter, producer and director. Born into a wealthy family of hotel owners in Yorkshire, England, he was raised a strict Catholic, head to his tormented and responsible adult struggles with his homosexuality. After his father’s death, he left the innkeeping field and studied acting, his first value. He quickly became successful and maintained careers simultaneously in England, New York and Hollywood. Laughton became a naturalized American citizen in 1950 and carved a career as a great ethics actor, since his portly figure and decidedly un-handsome face meant that most lead roles were not open to him.
While his pervasive unhappiness may have contributed to his accomplishment as an actor, it adversely affected his personal life. Tormented throughout his career by suppressed homosexuality and self-loathing, Laughton died in Hollywood in 1962, still deeply ashamed of his homosexual longings. He never publicly discussed or declared his homosexuality, except to his wife, Elsa Lanchester, an actress whom he married in 1929.
In the film The Privat