Role models of greatness.

Here you will discover the back stories of kings, titans of industry, stellar athletes, giants of the entertainment field, scientists, politicians, artists and heroes – all of them gay or bisexual men. If their lives can serve as role models to young men who have been bullied or taught to think less of themselves for their sexual orientation, all the better. The sexual orientation of those featured here did not stand in the way of their achievements.

Monday, September 12, 2011

Tyrone Power, Hollywood Bisexual

Ohio-born movie star Tyrone Power (1914–1958) was the son of an actor. A practicing bi-sexual, Tyrone was involved with several men during his career, among them composer Lorenz Hart (lyricist of the Rodgers & Hart song writing team) and fellow actor Cesar Romero, who provided details about Power's same sex activity in interviews after Tyrone's death. Strikingly handsome Power had affairs with many of the attractive men on the movie lots. He was often seen in public with well known homosexuals, but he was so loved by the Hollywood community, that they turned a blind eye.

Power was liked and admired by men and women alike. His group of gay friends included director George Cukor and actors Clifton Webb, Lon McCallister (and his lover William Eythe), Cary Grant, Reginald Gardner, Van Johnson and bi-sexual billionaire Howard Hughes. Books and articles written about Power relate that the great gay love of Power's life was a lowly technician at 20th Century Fox, with whom he had a sexual and romantic relationship that lasted for decades.

Like most bi-sexual and homosexual Hollywood stars, Power lived in fear of being “found out.” Although studio head Darryl Zanuck liked Tyrone, he was afraid of losing Fox’s resident matinée idol and biggest moneymaker, should the truth of his homosexual activity become public. On the set of Suez (1939), Tyrone played opposite a French starlet named Annabella, who was older, self-assured and possessed of a frankness and down to earth attitude. Power liked her, and much to Hollywood's and his mother's surprise, they married. It was difficult to satisfy Zanuck, however, who was now worried that Power’s female fan base would be adversely affected by news of the marriage. Nevertheless, Power continued to have dalliances with both men and women alike. For a while in the early forties, he carried on a passionate affair with the young Judy Garland, which some felt led to the first of her many breakdowns.


With the advent of World War II, Power enlisted in the Marines and fought in the South Pacific, after which he negotiated a new contract with Fox. By 1946 he and Annabella had grown apart, and their marriage was over. He took a six week trip to South America with his on-again off-again male companion, gay actor Cesar Romero. Upon his return, he entered into a tempestuous relationship with Lana Turner, who was then the queen of MGM and between husbands. They made a striking couple, but Tyrone could see that life with Lana would be tempestuous and, instead, married Latin starlet Linda Christian, with whom he fathered two daughters before the marriage ended in the mid-fifties.

Reports of same sex relations continued. British comedian and actor Bob Monkhouse related in his 1994 autobiography Crying with Laughter that he had rejected sexual advances from Power. The fashion critic Mr. Blackwell had romantic moments in Power’s dressing room, as detailed in his 1995 autobiography From Rags to Bitches. In his book, Errol Flynn: The Untold Story, author Charles Higham reports that Power had a sexual relationship with Errol Flynn. According to William J. Mann, in his book Behind the Screen: How Gays and Lesbians Shaped Hollywood, 1910-1969, Power was involved in numerous same sex relationships. In his book, The Evening Crowd at Kirmser's: A Gay Life in the 1940s, Ricardo J. Brown confirms that Tyrone Power and Tallulah Bankhead were among thespians and movie stars who were bisexual. In Oops, I Lost My Sense of Humor, Lois M. Santalo writes that "many stars of the silver screen, dating back to Tyrone Power," had been gay or bisexual. In Robert Aldrich and Garry Wotherspoon's (both of Sydney University) Who's Who in Contemporary Gay and Lesbian History: From World War II to the Present Day, Power is listed among the "Top box office stars who were gay or bisexual". Your blogger has recently expanded this list of references for all those comments left by those who say I have no evidence, that I'm just repeating rumor. Read this post carefully -- I'm not saying Power was gay; I'm saying he was bisexual, engaging in sexual relations with both men and women.

Although Tyrone was only in his early forties, he was beginning to look older than his years. The busy Hollywood social life, the smoking, drinking, all night parties and other excesses were beginning to take their toll. He ignored the signs that he might have a weak heart like his father and continued to live as he always had. While filming Solomon and Sheba (1958), he did his own stunts and worked outside in the grueling sun, often in heavy armor. One afternoon on the set in Spain, during a dueling scene with George Sanders involving heavy swords, Tyrone collapsed. He'd suffered a massive heart attack and died before anything could be done. He was 44 years old.

In a brief career of 25 years, Tyrone Power had made 50 films. After his death those in the know began to speak openly of his homosexual dalliances. The women with whom he’d had affairs were incredulous, insisting that the rumors could not possibly be true. They proposed that the charges of homosexual relations were the work of jealous rivals who wanted to damage Power’s reputation. Sure. Why would they want to damage the reputation of a dead actor?



(above) Tyrone with popular harmonica player Jerry Adler, while serving in the South Pacific.

1936 photo by Alfred Cheney Johnston

135 comments:

  1. There is no proof whatsoever that Power wasgay or even bi. He never would have survived Darryl Zanuck's hatred of gay leading men. Please post factually

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    1. I don't make this stuff up. Read some reference material on Tyrone Power. Many, many people who knew him confirm the facts.

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    2. Who are all these anonymous posters? They need to come out and fess up.

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    3. HIS WHOLE MANNER IN REAL LIFE WAS AS A GAY NOTHING LIKE HIS FILM PERFORMANCES JUST SHOWS WHAT A GOOD ACTOR HE WAS

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    4. Darryl Zanuck didn't hate ANY leading man who could bring in big bucks for the studio. And Louis B. Mayer thought Van Johnson was so valuable to MGM that he ORDERED him to get married...which he did with the cooperation of his and Tyrone Power's best friend, who divorced his wife so Van could wed her. All in the family anyway!

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    5. I watch, rewatch, analyze all his movies and he was a good actor. Note he rarely kisses women on the mouth if he could avoid it especially as he got older and more financially secure. I think females look closely for this behavior.

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    6. His family prob posts the no-bi stuff, here.

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    7. If you watch Cary Grant movies, he rarely kisses a woman on the mouth. Watch an affair to remember, and you'll see on the stairs of the ship they don't show their faces when they're supposedly kissing. I can imagine they would find it uncomfortable to be kissing the opposite sex.

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    8. Please ignore rumours that's not facts you make the mistake of being in love with someone but refusing to accept the truth about someone, facts not rumours otherwise you wind up talking about a man who never lived in real life learn from the Rudolph valentine society website prove he was gay name sources not gay rights activist if not he was hetrosexual

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    9. read "Full Service"

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    10. He was married and had kids.He did not come off as gay to me.

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    11. that doesn't mean anything honey. there are turkey basters. I know many gay men who "don't act gay"!

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    12. that doesn't mean anything honey! I have known many gay and bisexual men who don't "act gay". As far as children, a woman can always get pregnant by another man!

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    13. Read Scotty Bowers book on old Hollywood .. total revelation.

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    14. Every gay guy I know swears that EVERY good looking man in Hollywood history is or was gay...proof or not.

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    15. They all kissed the same way back then in Hollywood! Umm it was the 1940-50's

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    16. What a homophobe you are. I've heard about him being gay for the last 35byears and I'm a straight female 63 year old. Get over it!

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    17. Gay, bi or not Ty Power was THE most handsome man in Hollywood til young Jude Law came along!!! And I am a 67 yr old straight black woman who is a Christian, and yes, I would have had him on bread, honey😌

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    18. The "rumors" of Hollywood actors being gay are only rumors because, at the time, if said directly, or put to ink, it was a career death warrant. There's no proof because those actors didn't want any. Rumors can always be denied or ignored. But Hollywood is a small community. When there are NO rumors, that's the only "proof" they didn't participate in the sexual free for alls. Rumors after someone's death from friends, or associates mean no one is libeled or harmed. The revelations won't cost a reputation or job. Today people are outed as a matter of course. The only info that kills a career now is molesting a minor or raping an adult. "Gay" began being accepted after the 1985 death of beloved actor Rock Hudson to AIDS. Did he ever SAY he was gay? Never. But everyone related stories. If no one had, I'd say there's plausible deniability. There's none in the case of Power and others from his era up to the '80s. If he was an actor, he could certainly "act" straight roles: heavily, stereotypically "masculine." The point is, why care? He gave good performances people enjoyed, and did his job. His private life, where he harmed no one, was his own.

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    19. From your blogger:
      To those of you who declare that there is "no proof" that Power was bisexual, read my post about Richard Chamberlain. Wesley Eule (Chamberlain's male partner), who is still alive, speaks about Tyrone Power being at parties with a male boyfriend. Chamberlain (gay) and Eule (gay) were in the same social circle as Power and his gay male lovers.

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    20. If he was bisexual or not, so what.He was a GREAT movie actor and Star......Hollywood Golden age..There will never be another star like him or Erroll Flynn....They were often described as Beautiful men......I am heterosexual and I enjoyed their movies. I tip my hat to them 👍👍👍

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    21. Please, Just one look and see...

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    22. It doesn’t matter. I always try to remember you can’t believe everything you read, hear, even see.
      I was luke warm as far as his acting I would not have cast him in THE RAZOR’S EDGE, one of SOMERSET MAUGHAM’S masterpieces. He had a pretty face as did Grant. I think Burt Lancaster and Gregory Peck were handsome and actors like Power and Grant had a feminine beauty. I read Scotly Bowers book. It was disgusting but I would wager it was probably mostly true. I think people in acting and the other arts are likely “wired” to be gay or bi. Then this proclivity is reinforced by being in an environment that is heavily gay and bi and that encourages promiscuous behaviour. When all is said and done all these people owe the world is a good performance.

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    23. Tyrone Power was bisexual and not gay. Read Mai Zetterling’s All Those Tommorows, Lana Turner’s biography, Investigation Hollywood re Anita Ekberg, Mary Roblee Henry’s book. Check out the book Sonja Henie’s brother wrote, where she and Tyrone named each other’s genitals. Read Loretta Young’s interviews. And while you’re at it, go to Pineville MO and have people tell you how he knocked up a local girl and she gave the baby up for adoption. Then pick up a Bonhams auction catalogue and read the love letters to his third wife, or The Last Idol that published his letters to Annabella and hers to him. Talk to my family friend, who took care of Annabella in the hospital when she was trying to get pregnant.

      And by the way, Zanuck tried to get Annabella away from Tyrone by sending her to Europe and she wouldn’t go. He then had her blacklisted when he had intended to make her a star like she was in France.

      Read the letters from Skip Hathaway, Henry’s wife, all about him and Linda.

      The lowly boyfriend at Fix you talk about was Watson Webb. Doing research for a book on a female, the author said oh, he was in love with — I won’t give the name.

      I have news for you. Everybody in Hollywood has gay friends. And a lot of people have slept with both sexes. Big deal.

      All I used to hear about years ago was how prejudiced people were against gays. Well, gays are prejudiced against bis going all the way back. Sorry, some men sleep with both. Some men have no problem getting it up for a woman.

      And yes, women he slept with were incredulous that he was bi. As Gavin Lambert said, he could be crazy about any individual male or female.

      Why don’t you try accepting people who like both sexes? Many people have fluid sexuality. And stop printing garbage about dead people. You only do it because the dead - and their families - can’t be libeled.

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    24. 1956 Went to a Wed.matinee of Shaws 'The Devils Deciple ' at M/cr Opera House with Tyrone Power in the cast simply because as a film fan had seen and enjoyed many of his 20th Century Fox films
      He clearly was a handsome man but being in my 'teens' I assumed that played a part in his popularity.
      In my unsophistication at the time I was not aware of the power that movie moguls had on who the public got to see; THEY were 'just out to make a buck'.

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  2. He was my boyhood, teen idol. I wanted to be like him as a Teen by 1962-having all the girls hover over me, me with tyrone power looks. I was heart broken when i read the biography of T. Power's in 1979,and as honorably discharged from the the U.S. Marines in 1971; I was a fellow with something of a youthful memory that was just being a young,romantic dreamy head. I still sort of pray that someone comes forth and says that all that suttlebutt was big BS from backstabbers in his life time.

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    1. IT IS all BS...............how many others have been accused of the same thing. It is people just wanting to get their name in print.....what better way then to attack a dead man......they discuss me.

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    2. Uh to the blogger. Try getting a life. Wesley Eure was born in 1951 and was at parties with Tyrone Power? Also, I was a friend of the late Taryn Power. She was extremely close to Richard Chamberlain and said he never met her dad - he came to Hollywood in 1959, after her father died.

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  3. I am watching WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION with Tyrone Power and Marlene Dietrich who play a rather eccentric married couple. Movie was released in 1957 when Tyrone was 43 and Marlena was 56 years old. She looks fabulous while he has clearly lost his matinee idol good looks. One would never know the age difference by looking at them in this film.

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    1. Funny.....I just reached "Witness for the Prosecution" and I too was shocked at his very poor aging. He should have been.....still gorgeous! Anybody know his ....real name?

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    2. Tyrone Edmund Power III.

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    3. I thought the very same as I watched the movie!

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    4. Tyrone did age badly...very badly. It really makes you wonder just how much drinking and smoking and, well, partying he really was doing. I cried when I first saw him in WFTP, as I didn't recognize my matinee idol at the beginning of the movie had it not been for his voice!!!

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    5. Samtrak Yes it is true Tyrone Power did age rapidly especially after the war. Drinking and smoking like a chimney didn't help either. It is also true Mar Marlena Dietrich had multiple cosmetic surgeries to help maintain her looks my dear.

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    6. Since Powers died in his early forties from his lifestyle of heavy smoking and drinking, his heart was damaged and thus the heart attack.
      Lots of people with deteriorating hearts seem to age faster.

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    7. I knew a man and his sons. None of the male members or his family lived past 50. They all died of heart disease. They all looked older than their years.

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  4. I loved Tyrone Power in all his movies. He was a great actor and I don't really care if he was gay, bi, or whatever. He was a beautiful man.

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    1. From your blogger: And please reveal how you know that people who confirmed that Power had gay sexual relations were just lying "jealous people" We're waiting for your response.

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    2. I agree a beautiful man who really cares what he got up he died far to young just leave it all in the past

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  5. Mrs. William Boyd once said she wouldn't go out with him because "he wasn't just handsome, he was beautiful."

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    1. Love the quote. Some men are truly beautiful, handsome, insightful, kind, savvy, and joyful, living their good and natural lives. Some are gay. Some are not. No apologies are ever necessary by and with someone who is in earnest with themselves, and causing no harm. Not ever......

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  6. Broadway actors have ALWAYS been involved in homosexuality, and the same is true of Hollywood hunks....except there's strong resistance to public knowledge on the West Coast. How naive can people be to think the 'casting couch' was reserved for only the Marilyn Monroes of the Silver Screen? Yes, I believe that Paul Newman lost a key "starter" role on Broadway to Ben Gazzara because the director, who had sampled both, preferred Gazzara in bed. And yes, I believe that the young Steve McQueen escaped a background of poverty through male prostitution. And Cary Grant with Randolph Scott? Without DOUBT. Ditto Marlon Brando and the well-endowed (!) Wally Cox. Come on, folks, it's SHOW BIZ!

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    1. do you really believe yourself??????????????

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    2. Here it is 2016 and I have been living in Hollywood now 35 years. Not much has changed over the years. The beat goes on. We now have evening movies on a blanket with snacks and wind in the place where Tyrone and many of his fellow actors are buried. The pretty boys and beautiful women still keep coming and enjoying the fruits of the land (so to speak)

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    3. And nobody knew he'd be dead within a year.

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    4. You hit the the nail on the head! Even Clark Gable had sex with Billy Haines, back in the day.

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  7. It seems such a strange way to live your life. So lonely and hidden however, that is the chosen path they led . This is one of the many prices of fame one has to endure.I am sure they felt some measure of happiness through riches and social acceptance. Most people are a fraud one way or the other.

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  8. Tyrone Power was so handsome and had such sex appeal to both women abd men that no wonder everyone wanted him. I am a hetersexual, but he probably would have turn me on in no time..

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    1. Man..you are not hetero..

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    2. Yeah if you're heterosexual you cant be " turned out "....unless you were not a true hetrosexual like me😁

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  9. Never thought him handsome. Too adolescent. That sexless hairless body. Until "The Rains Came," when he had to put dark makeup (for him) all over his body to play a doctor in India. Myrna Loy, as a predatory Brit, says, "Who's the bronze Adonis?" Bronze, in those days, meant "not TOO dark." And indeed he looks fabulous that color. The only time he ever turned me on. (Myrna, of course ... but why spoil it? It's a TERRIFIC picture, won -- and deserved -- Hollywood's first Special Effects Oscar.)

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    1. I can feel some racist comments here: come on!

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    2. Hollywood had to de-hair him. He was very hirsute and manly.

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  10. I had friends who were Hollywood greengrocers and knew many stars. They knew Power and told me it was "common knowledge" that Power would... uh... have sex with "anything that moved."

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  11. Most of those straight actors from back in the day switched the other way to get movie roles in the beginning of their careers. Many of the casting directors and directors were gay. It was a small price to pay. I'm pretty sure it still goes on today to an extent.

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    1. Small price? I would think that is a huge price. It goes to the very personal essence of one.

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  12. Jealous people...way to much gossip...Power was a great actor and I dont believe a word of the gay references...just more BS for peopel to talk about!!

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    1. It doesn't really natter what his sexual preferences were...he was at least bi....but, why are you on this blog if you didn't at least have an inkling?

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  13. Why does it matter? He was gorgeous and I am sure both men and women had the hots for him. Still. He was a good actor. Too bad he never got to prove how good an actor he would've become

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  14. I don't care if he was with woman, men or trees, I loved him!

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  15. Ty power was a great actor. Loved him

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  16. I am shocked, but ilove him so much it doesn't matter

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  17. Back in the day I didn't think any of the male or female actors could kiss good, when the camera was on them...

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    1. what does it matter? what they've given us over the years!!!! may they all rest in peace!!!!!!!!!!

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    2. Isn't it just shame he couldn't just be himself... without the judgement of others.
      Let's all admire his acting skills and the wonderful films his talent graced.
      Marcus :-) .

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    3. People ...see In old Chicago or Marie Antoinette and tell me if he didn t kiss Alice Faye and Norma Shearer...

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  18. Of course a lot of young wannabees of both sexes have had sex with both sexes in order t get ahead. Rumor (lol) has it that the reason George Cukor was fired from Gone With the Wind was due to Gable's demand. You see, rumor also has it that Cukor was a good friend of Billy Haines (a well known gay from early Hollywood) and Cukor knew that Gable had "gone thataway" with Haines when Gable was trying to get noticed in Hollywood. But so what? According to Lombard "Papa wasn't that great between the sheets." (LOL) Gossip? Don't you love it??

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  19. Why do people do that once someone has died people want a tell all book who care he was a great actor I loved him for his dedication the films he made he was so handsome I guess men and women wanted him

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  20. Why do people do that once you have died stuff seems to come out of the closet he was a great actor a ve r y handsome man no wonder men and women was after him lol who wouldn't I'm just sorry that he didn't take care of himself like many stars they die young

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  21. These are all lies. It is sad that rubbish like that is allowed to be published !!!!

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    1. From your blogger:
      OK, Sarah. Tell us how you know these comments are all lies. How are you an expert on the life of Tyrone Power - and those who have done years of research are not? I suspect you're just another starry-eyed fan who lives in denial and lashes out at those whose facts don't jibe with your adoration. I look forward to your proof that these statements are lies.

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  22. Very good example of matinee idol. Leave it at that

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  23. Great matinee idol. Not a great actor but not a bad one. Leave it at that

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    1. 100000 times better than anyone we have today.

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  24. No, I had heard years ago that a rather common girl from Mississippi had declared to her family that she was going to go to Hollywood and marry a movie star. The story (unverified) was that she indeed went to Hollywood and married a certain Tyrone Power.

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  25. i dont care what orientation tyrone power was. he was a kind man..a superbe actor...watch nightmare alley...and he could do know wrong in my eyes. the only thing i detest about him was that dangling white cigarette that always seem to follow him every minute.it didnt help his early demise. and to top it all TODAY IN THEFUTURE.....there will never be a better looking man. flawless clean or un clean....hehas the physique andtheface of an adonis. clooney cruise pitt...im sorry you have a long way to go before surpassing him. so haters ask yourselves one question....AND IM NORMAL.

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  26. Such a shame that actors like Tyrone Power,the likes of which Hollywood will never produce again had to hide their personal lives due to the era they lived in.They must have endured terrible unhappiness to an unknown world.My mother thought he was the best looking actor she had ever seen,if only she knew the truth!

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    1. Would that have changed his looks??? Nooooooo!!!!

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    2. People talk about Power being the most HANDSOME actor. What about Robert Taylor? He had it hands down over Power.

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  27. i loved tyrone i watch all his old movies he was the most handsome actor on the screen. i dont believe the gay rumors.i almost married a man that could have been his double. but he was 10 years younger than me with his tyrone power looks he would of broke my heart .although he said i was beautiful. looks dont last forever.

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  28. Great post. And as they say: if there's smoke, there is a fire... Thank you!

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  29. I am Closet Gay and Tyrone and Robert Stack still make my heart race and my kness weak just looking at them. Hot Damn,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

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  30. I also admire Tyrone Power. He was brilliant as an actor. He lived in different times. I respect him. I went to his grave today and it is a beautiful setting by a lake. He is at peace now.

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    1. Where is he buried? Might want to visit one day.

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  31. Tyrone Power. Keanu Reeves. Leo DiCaprio. Get a clue.

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  32. He was born to portray Larry Darrell of The Razors Edge. Yes a super handsome man who also had a spiritual allure about him. I don't care if he was gay or not...how about a late lifetime achievement award. Modern screen actors do not have a presence like Power or Peck. I wish he had lived to make more movies.

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  33. I love the term "practicing bisexual" at the beginning of the article. I assume he was beyond practicing and rather accomplished.

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  34. According to Mark Harris, Martha Raye's husband, Cesar Romero said that Tyrone was the love of his life. Mark reveled this in the 90s during an interview with Howard Stern.

    I just wanted to leave that little bit of information here for people who'd like to know about it.

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    1. Big deal. Ask any man or woman he was involved with - he was the love of everyone’s life.

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  35. Google Tyrone Powers Gay and you will see him effeminately posed on a bicycle in a striped shirt sitting side saddle on it and effeminately standing with other effeminate guys. He was definitely and very obviously bi. Very obvious. I never thought Cary Grant was but there are some pics of him too close to another guy in swimming trunks on a diving board. Hmmmmm. Who knows. Who cares. Can't we just like the actors for the legacy they left behind for future generations and not care what they do in their semi-private lives? Sometimes it's very disappointing to learn what's behind the silk screen. So don't dig too deeply about your heroes. You might not like what you find. Personally, I feel God is Judge and Jury. Not me. I'm not anyone's keeper and it is not my place to decide what's right or wrong for someone else. I say live and let live. They apparently entered into whatever relationships in a consensual relationship and no one was hurt except those who idolized them and thought they were in real life, those characters that they portrayed on screen. Almost never are people like the part they play. Even Cary Grant said he wished he was more like Cary Grant.

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    1. I dont care! !! I love him!!Have hots for him today and ever.And it hurts me more when people dont regonize how good actor he was. And how much the new actors are influenced by him.

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  36. From your blogger:
    Please read the paragraph at the top of this blog just before the blog entry. The purpose of this blog is not to "out" anyone as gay or bi. The purpose is to provide examples of gay and bi men who have had successful careers in their respective fields. And you should know that effeminate physical traits are no proof that a man is gay or bi, and that there is no shame in being gay or bi. Sheesh.

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  37. I don't understand what all the fuss is about w/ these comments. If he was bisexual or gay, would that make him any less of a great star and wonderful human being? I have read that he was a very kind, down to earth man, who treated every person he met in the studio and out with respect. God bless him -- regardless of who he slept with.

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  39. People who say it doesn't matter obviously are not Gay. Thankfully things have improved quite a bit in most areas of the USA but growing up in the 1960s I thought I was the only Gay boy on earth - a real freak. It was extremely difficult to say the least. I don't know if one ever truly gets over it. As to people's "personal lives" we want to know who they date or marry , about their hobbies and children. Etc. so it is okay only to inquire if they are straight? I agree with the author - Gay people want some role models too.

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  40. To put it simply;we all believe what we want to believe.

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  41. One thing's for sure--Tyrone Power was a beautiful man

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  42. Why you all are obsessed with his sexuality. Just enjoy his movies case closed.

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    1. From your blogger. There is no "case" to be closed or opened. And I'm not "obsessed" with his sexuality. I post articles about gay and bisexual men who have been successful in their respective careers, as a way to encourage younger readers who have been bullied or made to feel bad about themselves as they are struggling with their sexual orientation. The men featured on my blog have been successful -- and they are bisexual or gay. If you had read the paragraph at the top of my blog, you would be aware of this. I am not "accusing" anyone of being gay or bisexual or making a case against them. Instead, I am celebrating their sexual orientations.

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  43. That is difficult to come out as bisexual. Will be proud of being that.

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  44. Truly a man for all seasons, f all his sexuality, the mans intelligence, grace style, sheer beauty, and artistic talent are self explanatory, or should be....48, way too yong, what a talent what man

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  45. The bisexual orientation is so normal for almost 99% people, especially most bisexual couples explore 3some online.

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  46. I believe that many people, male and female, label themselves as "bisexual" because it is still more acceptable than "gay or lesbian"; as the "straight" saying goes "At least they are playing for our team half of the time." Even a gay man can have sex with a woman without being considered bisexual, as long as he doesn't continually do it throughout his life, and mainly to hide who he truly is from other people in his life.

    I can confirm this to be true, personally. Even though I had the "clues" (or crushes, in wanting to be with certain boys as often as possible) during chilhood, and my first time was with another young man (he was 22 and I was 24), I "experimented" (normally?) with a few women (starting at age 25), while also monogamously with men - between each woman monogamously. The sex was great, but being in a relationship with a woman was hell (for me); though most of my friends have been women (and I have been their advisor on their relationships, to men and to women). I eventually (at age 33) realized that "I am totally gay", and have never wanted to be with any woman since.

    Quotes from the film "The Celluloid Closet" (1995):

    Susan Sarandon: "You wouldn't have to get drunk to bed Catherine Deneuve, I don't care what your sexual history to that point had been." - from "The Hunger" (1983), lesbian scene.

    Narrator: "Hollywood, that great maker of myths, taught straight people what to think about gays and gay people what to think about themselves."

    Harry Hamlin: "I often wondered, after watching a male actor due a gay role, 'Is he really gay?' After I did "Making Love", I thought 'How hypocritical I am, to do a movie role about a gay man and to question another actor's true sexuality?' I no longer do that."

    Harvey Fierstein: "The hunger I felt as a kid looking for gay images was not to be alone."

    Richard Dyer: "Most expressions of homosexuality in most of movies are indirect. And what's interesting about that is of course that is what it was like to express homosexuality in life, that we could only express ourselves indirectly, just as people on the screen could only express themselves indirectly. And the sense in which the characters are in the closet, the movie is in the closet and we are in the closet."

    Armistead Maupin: "I was invited to Rock Hudson's house for one of his 'all boy weekends', and he would love to show the old Doris Day movies he made with her. It was so funny; watching a gay man, playing a straight man, who had to play being gay just to get the girl!"

    Thank you for writing this blog.
    Graywolfm2m

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  47. As an unambiguous heterosexual woman, I find myself endlessly curious about the sexuality of Hollywood men (and to a much lesser extent women). I’m not at all sure why, but it might have begun when I was part of a local amateur theatre group and I watched gay men often win the romantic lead in the current play and recognized the absence of that sexual spark in their performances, especially those romantic scenes, where a recognizable spark usually exists between a man and a woman. Absent that spark, any romance in a performance falls a little flat and the romance is not a turn on. I think romantic scenes are SUPPOSED to be a turn on. That’s what sells magazines like Photoplay and their ilk and brings fans to the movies. Rock Hudson never turned me on. Cary Grant never turned me on. I don’t remember one way or the other about Tyrone Power, though I though he was amazinglyly good looking. But when I finally understood what that absence of a turn on spark meant, it all made more sense. If Tyrone Power was a turn on to the ladies, perhaps he was heterosexual. But it could also have meant he was bisexual and genuinely attracted to women too. I would be surprised if a unambiguous gay man could be a good enough actor to create that romantic spark I find so appealing.

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  48. don't know how the rumor started that the big love of Tyrone's life was someone on the technical side who worked at Fox. Wrong. And he was one of those people who fell for men and women - I don't think for him love knew a gender, I really don't.

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  49. From your blogger:
    Tell us, Miss Chandler, how you know the rumor about the Fox employee is wrong. We'd all like to know your source. And the title of this post contains the label "bisexual," meaning he liked both men and women sexually.

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    1. My source? All the people who knew Watson Webb, an editor at Fox and a Vanderbilt. He knew everyone in Hollywood, they all came to his house, and his affair with Tyrone was short-lived and they remained friends as he did with Ceasar. Tyrone once said sex gets in the way of friendship so it’s best to get it out of the way in the beginning.

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  50. A lot can be explained about his early life on Broadway. If someone could do a research about that time, i think there's only a book about that called Quicksilver...i only think that someone could write about him and with more respect than the writer of The secret life of Tyrone Power...

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  51. Being gay or bisexual doesn't necessarily mean you are a bad person. I'm 77, gay, have a great education and worked as a software engineer for 40 years. My sexuality was never questioned and when men found out I was gay, most of them wanted to sign on for a trip!!! Tyrone Power, had I been old enough to try, would have been in my grips forever. He and Guy Madison and Tab Hunter were my idols in the Golden Age of Cinema. I hoped Tyrone was gay because he sure had pretty feet!

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  52. Tyrone Power Errol Flynn, Robert Taylor, Tab Hunter, Cary Grant, we're born to be movie stars they were beautiful men simple as that

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  53. Richard Chamberlain as Dr Kildare was sexy and as Father Ralph in the Thornbirds

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    1. Thank you for the epic reminder of the incredible Thornbirds. Glued to the set and story in Australia....

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  54. Tyrone Power certainly was handsome

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  56. Tyrone Power brought a unique passion to his work that was evident in every role he undertook. Obviously his sexual ambiguity contributed to his ability to tap into that unique energy and project it into all of the stories that he became a part of in his films. A gift and talent exists no matter who you sleep with so why are we talking about a person's personal life when what he contributed to the arts was so amazingly Unforgettable.... And the native American world a homosexual or bisexual person is called a person of two spirits that means they can see all experience all and express all... Thank you Tyrone for everything you gave to the world... Your special gifts continue to embrace the screen as the films that have survived you....

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    1. From your blogger: the reason we're talking about his personal life is stated in the blog description at the top of each page - "Here you will discover the back stories of kings, titans of industry, stellar athletes, giants of the entertainment field, scientists, politicians, artists and heroes – all of them gay or bisexual men. If their lives can serve as role models to young men who have been bullied or taught to think less of themselves for their sexual orientation, all the better. The sexual orientation of those featured here did not stand in the way of their achievements."

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  57. Powers was as gay as a girl guide with the tent flaps flapping

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  58. Just like Cary Grant, he was most likely bi-sexual.

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  59. As a gay person, I don't believe in the label: BISEXUALITY! i'M ONE OF SEVEN BOYS IN OUR FAMILY and the only one that is gay! When I came out to them, they were accepting, but couldn't understand how I could love a guy, it just would not register! They were (for the most part) pussy hounds, some cheated on their wives, if they found one that was hot! When they were together (sans wives!), all they would talk about how they would like to F*** this one or that one, and liked to eat her pu***! (it goes on!) I, on the other hand, wellllllllll! I think T. Power was truly Gay, and his Bi stance was more for public consumption thus making him an EQUAL OPPORTUNIST!! hE ALSO WANTED A FAMILY AND A SON! So, Since a man cannot accommodate on that score, naturally he had to turn to a woman to fulfill his quest! Right now. all the new Twinks who make a movie and are obviously gay, come out of the closet and claim they are BISEXUAL! (It satisfies both camps!) Just say'en!

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    1. I think bisexuality makes perfect sense. I think sexuality is like a continuous line that at one end is extreme masculinity and at the other end is extreme femininity and between the two extremes are endless possibilities and expressions of sexuality. You surely must know the many different ways of heterosexual women, from the ultra feminine sort to the tomboy sort. I could easily imagine that there is great variability in bisexual men and women just as there is in gay men and women.

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  60. Please, everybody knows Tyron Power gay or bisexuality, friends of him, actors, the same Cesar Romero when they were together to Havana, the owner of El Encanto saw Power buying suits and ties to Power, they were a lovely couple in Havana..

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  61. Note from your blogger: In researching Romero’s life, I was surprised how many writers used the words, “rumors of homosexuality.” Romero’s sexual orientation is based on fact, not rumor or speculation – he freely admitted his homosexuality during his lifetime and allowed writer Boze Hadleigh (Hollywood Gays) to write about his dalliances with other gay or bisexual men. Many fans of Hollywood stars dismiss reports of their favorites’ homosexual activity, but they fail to realize that, for most stars, a public “outing” would have been the end of their careers. Those who knew about a star’s true sexual orientation waited until the actor/actress was deceased to speak about it, out of respect for their colleagues’ careers. Hollywood is disproportionately populated by gays and bisexuals, on both sides of the camera.

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  62. Herr Power är inte här för att försvåra sig, mänsklig sexualitet är mer komplex än vi inser.
    -Baltijasmodes

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