I read where Bette Davis herself went down and picked Victor Buono up after he’d been caught up in a gay raid, and she also used her influence to keep his name out of the Hollywood gossip columns about it as well. They were very close friends. She looked after him and cared about him a lot.
It is correct that the Victor Buono incident depicted in Feud was a total fabrication. It was loosely based on actors like William Haynes, a prominent movie actor well before Buono came along. Nothing of the kind ever happened with Buono.
@@larrynelson3329 I read it many years ago, long before the “Feud” series. I have come across it many times. Also, the incident was NOT listed at all in a group of “fact or fiction” blurbs I just read through online about the backstory of the making of “Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?” or the back history of Davis and Crawford. I know what I have heard and read in many documentaries. I’ll tend to believe it to be true until I come across something that says it’s not.
And the thing was, virtually NONE of these people ever even HEARD the term 'LGBT' let alone used it -- so they could not 'identify' with it. People are reverse-projecting a term that did not exist during their lifetimes onto them. That's a present-day term most of these people never heard, used or promoted.
I met Jonathan Frid at a Dark Shadows fancon in 1985. He flirted with me. My girlfriend was impressed. She bragged about it for years! He was a classy guy, may he rest in peace.
None of these men were secretly anything. Their circles knew. They just chose to show decorum and couth like most people of their generation, gay or straight.
...because immoral people used to lose viewers... I may be the only one, but when I detect these things on tv, I change the channel. I don't judge, but I don't support immorality. either.
Wrong pal. I was in those 'circles' you mention. And while others judged some single men who lived very privately as being gay, in many cases there was no other indication of homosexuality; in other cases, it was an out-and-out lie. I've spent most of my adult life as a single, very private and very straight male. Because of that, I wonder - not that I care - how many might suggest that I was gay. However, this video gave a rather fair assessment. I opened it thinking that it would mention Hollywood 'icons' who were not gay, or whose sexuality was at best questionable. Kudos to those who constructed it.
Exactly who cares, how you live is your own choice, so long as everyone is willing and safe. This goes for every orientation out there. Are you a good person, have a kind heart and do your best, I don’t need to know anything else. ❤
@@kennethrussell1158 You might want to put your comments on hold until you know what you're talking about. As a retired actor and acting coach in the Hollywood arena, their talents notwithstanding, I'm not a fan of any of these guys, but you obviously don't have a clue about them.
Nowadays we can all say who cares, but in their time it unfortunately mattered a lot to their careers. Thank God society has progressed, but there are lots of folks who want to turn back the clock.
Most of these men's sexuality was hardly a secret, and I don't quite get how most of their deaths relate to their sexuality--though it's nice to say Alec McCowen's death at 91 was untimely.
And his theories are so off the wall, taken from Wikipedia, a fan site based on rumors and personal opinions..😮.. As they say, let them rest in peace..👌
How sad these men had to hide their sexuality and live life in the shades. I have been a fan of Rock Hudson since I was 13 I am now 74 and I am still a fan . His sexuality was his business and no one else’s.
I think that an honorable mention should be given to the fantastic director James Whale (Frankenstein, The Old Dark House, The Invisible Man, Bride of Frankenstein) May he rest in eternal peace. 💐
Gay people of those years were NOT advocates of LGBTQ rights. If they were advocates for any rights then it was only LGB rights as T&Q didn't exist. Many of us gays today don't like how the trans activists have grafted themselves onto gay rights movements as being Trans has nothing whatsoever to do with being gay. Wanting someone of your own s3x it totally different to wanting to be someone of the opposite s3x. This video like so many others is a distortion of history to fit a modern agenda.
I'm seeing a lot of comments that are the same sentiment ( Thier sexuality was NO secret ) Before you comment remember TITLES to videos are many times purposefully CLICKBAIT As of now this video has 270 thousand views in TWO WEEKS BECAUSE the Title says ' SECRET ' ANY comments good or bad help the algorithm to suggest these videos to others . Especially with A.I. narrated videos , perhaps not this channel's videos but others often have inaccurate information into to inspire comments . It's better to not comment if you don't like a video because it actually HELPS the video prosper .
John Gielgud won an Oscar for his role in the movie Arthur and he put his Oscar statue on his toilet cistern as he said it seemed to be the most appropriate place for it. When his partner died his friends said John would soon join him and he did.
Thank you so much for this.. the ones that paved the roads for the now generations.. and had a very hard time back then.. and a few I did not know .. thank you again, for the memories and letting us know the stories.. Cheers!
@@oneironaut420 Sorry, that was not what I meant. John Inman; Divine; and Graham Chapman (to name a few) were openly gay. So how could they be secretly gay?
@@LJB103 oh yeah. Well maybe it’s not something some people acknowledged. I know a lot of people refused to acknowledge that Liberace was gay despite the fact that he was a flaming queen!
@@oneironaut420 I was just commenting on the ones who shouted "I'm gay" from the proverbial rooftops. They shouldn't be on a list of secretly gay actors. One who did fit this category, but was left off, was Dirk Bogarde.
I always suspected that Louis Edmonds, who was also on "Dark Shadows", was gay himself. But I never let it come between me and my enjoyment of his work on the show.
I would imagine that Dick Sargent’s prostate took quite a beating over the years. His casting to replace Dick York was the beginning of the end for Bewitched. The whole tone of the show changed for the worse.
Victor Buono did not have a “villainous role” in “What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?” In fact, his character Edwin Flagg was more of a victim. A major villainous role he did have was the lead in The Strangler. Ellen Corby played his mother. John Dall starred in “The Corn is Green” opposite Bette Davis. Both Buono and Dall were excellent actors.
I so agree with you; and this is coming from a straight 76 year old mother and grandmother. After WW2, a great man called Alan Turing was criminalised, then institutionalised and chemically castrated. His crime? He was gay. His great achievement? He cracked the Nazi's Enigma Code, saving millions of lives. Alan ended up taking his own life. But, no worries his picture is on the back of our British bank notes notes now. My msg to those tyrants - far too little - far too late. My msg to Alan Turing - Thank you Sir; I salute you. X❤
Fun fact: Dick Sargent changed his name as an actor because his real name, Dick Cox, could not be used on television at the time (but might have been used by a porn star).
Peter marshal's real last name was " La Cock " which they wouldn't allow on t.v. at the time also. I know because his son went to the same h.s.as I did in the w. San fernando valley. his name was " get this "--- peter la cock! 😖🤪🥴 🤚👳♂️😯
@@Brunoburningbright : It was the fact that his first name was dick that forced him to take a stage name. BTW, Wally Cox was, so I hear, sometimes called by those who knew, "Swallow Cox"
You know if I had a big secret that I had nicely kept my whole life, who has the right to tell it 😔. Stop making people’s decisions for them when they no longer can fight back!!
So many more, probably half of every male golden age star. Many were in total denial and married to the same woman for their entire lives. Errol Flynn a definite exception and Victor Buono's sexuality can only be guessed at but no guessing that he was a fascinating actor in every performance he ever gave.
I don't collect autographs as a hobby but I have a few interesting ones. My Richard Deacon autograph is complete with a caricature of his own bald head that he drew. And he added "Happy Holidays". It's a scarce autograph and I was glad to pay only $50 for it. I also have a microwave cookery book he authored in the late 70s. Lots of people were buying their first microwave oven back then.
This ish is ridiculous. You used three different people's photos for George Nader. Inman and Divine were "secretly" gay???? What a shocker!!!! Thumbs down.
This channel is from the Philippines 🇵🇭. Stay in your own lane? Your channel does nothing to diminish the talent of these artists. What is your talent? Asking for a friend.
I remember Rock Hudson was the shock at the time of the 1980s when it was publicised that he had contracted Aids. He was friends with Clift Montgomery who was also gay. Great actors who should have their own private lives, but because of the times, they would have been shunned from Hollywood.
Though they both were married, Cary Grant and Randolph Scott shared a beach house in Santa Monica called Bachelor Hall from 1932-1944....they died 3 months apart in 11/86 -3/87...born too soon! 😢
On one level I think you make a good point, why bring up info on people who aren't around to defend themselves. However I would bet some of these people would have preferred if it had been possible to live publicly their true selves. This video perhaps reinforces that today in at least this aspect those late actors might have appreciated today's better level of acceptance. Granted, I don't appreciate when it goes to extremes and such a small % is over represented in todays entertainment! Tuff to balance. I guess.
Their family and friends no doubt knew. Back then they had to keep it secret if they wanted to work. They'd never have been able to work because of people like you who find it shameful
AS a kid no one talked about it and no one suspected anything unless you were told. As time went on, and you educate yourself and publicly there are more obvious behavior, we just thought Dark Shadows was the coolest thing having no clue the majority of the cast wad gay.
when my grandson was 12 i was watching the movie grease.....he said john travoltas gay i said what how do u know he said by the way he looks at other men and read were jeff conway woke up to john travolta trying to unzip his fly jeff said no man i love women so yep it ends up coming to the light
Exploitative click bait. Why have brief clips of Jimmy Stewart, Clark Gable, etc at the beginning? What is your definition of "Stars" ? Most of the list were either unknown and/or had unremarkable careers. How is it secret when you point out they "were open about their sexuality" ? What is "untimely" about 50- 90 year old passing from mostly natural causes? Entire premise of this is disingenuous at best. Albeit probably being charitable describing as such.
John Inman! NO! that cannot possibly be. Oh Lord... what am I going to tell my sister-in-law? She divorced my brother, planning to connect with Inman to start a new life.
If someone lives a 'quiet, private' life, how would it be known if they were homosexual? I spent 30 years in the business (...Retired SAG/AFTRA actor and member of The Actors Studio) and worked with, had for friends and acquaintances, and even roomed with two gay brothers for two years. Many other guys - straight guys - were single, never married, and were fine with that choice. I have some great memories of several gay people that I knew from those years, but I came away with a very unpopular notion - it is definitely a disorder, and, when its victims are willing, it can and has been corrected. That's not said with any animosity, prejudice, or moral judgement.
This list should have been taken much, much further to include folks like Marlon Brando, James Dean, Richard Pryor, Anthony Perkins along with some of the women of the Golden Age of Hollywood who were closeted lesibans and bisexuals.
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I read where Bette Davis herself went down and picked Victor Buono up after he’d been caught up in a gay raid, and she also used her influence to keep his name out of the Hollywood gossip columns about it as well. They were very close friends. She looked after him and cared about him a lot.
@@littleogeechee223 that's a made up story for the TV show Feud. Didn't happen in real life.
Victor Buono was a delight as the, child-like, villain King Tut on tv's Batman.
It is correct that the Victor Buono incident depicted in Feud was a total fabrication. It was loosely based on actors like William Haynes, a prominent movie actor well before Buono came along. Nothing of the kind ever happened with Buono.
@@darrelljustice6105and as the Reverend Jim's father on "Taxi".
@@larrynelson3329 I read it many years ago, long before the “Feud” series. I have come across it many times. Also, the incident was NOT listed at all in a group of “fact or fiction” blurbs I just read through online about the backstory of the making of “Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?” or the back history of Davis and Crawford. I know what I have heard and read in many documentaries. I’ll tend to believe it to be true until I come across something that says it’s not.
SECRETLY gay? Are you kidding? Was there ANYONE who didn't know that Charles Nelson Reilly was gay???? As well as a number of others!
Several were new to me and I watch this stuff like a hawk.
I didn't know about Charles-loved him in "The ghost and Mrs Muir" t.v. show.
And the thing was, virtually NONE of these people ever even HEARD the term 'LGBT' let alone used it -- so they could not 'identify' with it. People are reverse-projecting a term that did not exist during their lifetimes onto them. That's a present-day term most of these people never heard, used or promoted.
Helen Keller would have known that Charles Nelson Reilly was gay!
It really shocked me to I never dreamed charles nelson riley was gay
❤Charles Nelson Reilly was Fabulous.. & Matchgame was the best show!! Still is!!
Love the Reruns!!
everyone knew rhat charles was gat. no one cared. charles was the gi to guy during the 70s to save fauling sutcoms
@@JenniferDawn-c1o YES!!
You forgot Jack Larsen,Rock Hudson,Jim Nabors,Sal Mineo,Paul Lynde & Liberace!!
@benyaakov6453
It's No Secert that Rock Hudson , Jim Nabors , Paul Lynde , & Liberace are Gay .
😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅
Liberace was gay? I never knew.
Raymond burr
Randolph Scott as well
@@geowynleda4641 lmao
I don't Judge
& Their Sexuality has nothing to do with their Talent. Quite a few of these Actors where & still are, Entertaining to watch.
One Love❤
Your virtue is awesome
If they died in their 70s or older, their deaths would not really be "untimely".
I met Jonathan Frid at a Dark Shadows fancon in 1985. He flirted with me. My girlfriend was impressed. She bragged about it for years! He was a classy guy, may he rest in peace.
None of these men were secretly anything. Their circles knew. They just chose to show decorum and couth like most people of their generation, gay or straight.
It was a bit more than that...they wouldn't have had their careers had they been exposed back then.
@@zzzbbbooo bingo! 🤷
...because immoral people used to lose viewers... I may be the only one, but when I detect these things on tv, I change the channel. I don't judge, but I don't support immorality. either.
Wrong pal. I was in those 'circles' you mention. And while others judged some single men who lived very privately as being gay, in many cases there was no other indication of homosexuality; in other cases, it was an out-and-out lie. I've spent most of my adult life as a single, very private and very straight male. Because of that, I wonder - not that I care - how many might suggest that I was gay. However, this video gave a rather fair assessment. I opened it thinking that it would mention Hollywood 'icons' who were not gay, or whose sexuality was at best questionable. Kudos to those who constructed it.
@@zzzbbboooyeah like Liberace if people found he was gay ….. nobody cared …. This is totally gay af
I knew most were "gay" but who cares. They were wonderful actors.
Exactly who cares, how you live is your own choice, so long as everyone is willing and safe. This goes for every orientation out there.
Are you a good person, have a kind heart and do your best, I don’t need to know anything else. ❤
Today you have Tom Cruise John Travolta and Jamie Foxx and Will Smith
@@kennethrussell1158 You might want to put your comments on hold until you know what you're talking about. As a retired actor and acting coach in the Hollywood arena, their talents notwithstanding, I'm not a fan of any of these guys, but you obviously don't have a clue about them.
I agree 👍
Nowadays we can all say who cares, but in their time it unfortunately mattered a lot to their careers. Thank God society has progressed, but there are lots of folks who want to turn back the clock.
Most of these men's sexuality was hardly a secret, and I don't quite get how most of their deaths relate to their sexuality--though it's nice to say Alec McCowen's death at 91 was untimely.
Untimely at 91. I don't think so as good grief he was born before Moses in the Bible.
ROTFLMAO! When was it any secret that Divine was gay?
I saw him in the original Hair Spray.
😅😅😅😅😅😅 I choked at that
If they believe that the G W Bridge is for sale , 2 million cash quick take the cash !!😂😂
Let them rest in peace all where good Actor and Comedians sad there gone and there're miss with there talent left behind them
If it was a secret how did you find out?
And his theories are so off the wall, taken from Wikipedia, a fan site based on rumors and personal opinions..😮.. As they say, let them rest in peace..👌
People talk
It wasn’t a secret within the industry and in gay circles probably.
@@2NVS The guy was being sarcastic.. Learn to pick up on the subtlety of language, and stop being so literal..🤣
People were too busy having a gay old time
What difference does it make really? They were talented & vastly entertaining...period.
This is the best comment by far
How sad these men had to hide their sexuality and live life in the shades. I have been a fan of Rock Hudson since I was 13 I am now 74 and I am still a fan . His sexuality was his business and no one else’s.
All the same he was a promiscuous AIDS spreader. Same as Mercury and his ilk.
I think that an honorable mention should be given to the fantastic director James Whale (Frankenstein, The Old Dark House, The Invisible Man, Bride of Frankenstein) May he rest in eternal peace. 💐
Gods and Monsters is a wonderful movie about his life with Ian Mc Kellan, Brendan Fraser and Lyn Redgrave.
Many were not "Secretly" Gay!
Like George Takei, Ian McKellen, David Orgen Siters, Billie Joe Armstrong, Fergie, and many others...
Gay people of those years were NOT advocates of LGBTQ rights. If they were advocates for any rights then it was only LGB rights as T&Q didn't exist. Many of us gays today don't like how the trans activists have grafted themselves onto gay rights movements as being Trans has nothing whatsoever to do with being gay. Wanting someone of your own s3x it totally different to wanting to be someone of the opposite s3x. This video like so many others is a distortion of history to fit a modern agenda.
Billie Joe Armstrong is not gay, he's bisexual. He's been married for a long time and has grown children....
#2 wasn’t even Golden Age
And many that were, were actually straight. Yes, that's true.
I appreciate your pacing. Thanks ❤
Graham Chapman was openly gay. He discussed this in his memoir, "A Liar's Autobiography".
I'm seeing a lot of comments that are the same sentiment ( Thier sexuality was NO secret )
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Especially with A.I. narrated videos , perhaps not this channel's videos
but others often have inaccurate information into to inspire comments .
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John Gielgud won an Oscar for his role in the movie Arthur and he put his Oscar statue on his toilet cistern as he said it seemed to be the most appropriate place for it. When his partner died his friends said John would soon join him and he did.
He was excellent in The Shoes of the Fisherman, opposite Anthony Quinn.
This was fun. A real trip down memory lane. And now I have all these images of their work tumbling in my head. 🎉
I don't care about their private life,,I liked him or her as an actor..
Thank you so much for this.. the ones that paved the roads for the now generations.. and had a very hard time back then.. and a few I did not know .. thank you again, for the memories and letting us know the stories.. Cheers!
"19 Secretly Gay Stars of Golden Age"
"16: Graham Chapman was openly gay and an advocate of LGBTQ+ rights"
Jimmy Olson was gay? I had no idea - not that it matters.
Sorry, but you cannot be openly gay and secretly gay at the same time.
You can be out privately and closeted publicly. Many gay people have had to lead double lives like this.
@@oneironaut420 Sorry, that was not what I meant. John Inman; Divine; and Graham Chapman (to name a few) were openly gay. So how could they be secretly gay?
@@LJB103 oh yeah. Well maybe it’s not something some people acknowledged. I know a lot of people refused to acknowledge that Liberace was gay despite the fact that he was a flaming queen!
@@oneironaut420 I was just commenting on the ones who shouted "I'm gay" from the proverbial rooftops. They shouldn't be on a list of secretly gay actors. One who did fit this category, but was left off, was Dirk Bogarde.
@@LJB103 - what you meant was blindingly obvious, a secretly gay John Inman is an oxymoron
Rock Hudson should have been mentioned.
Absolutely Patricia
Everyone knew about Rock Hudson!This was a list of lesser known actors/entertainers.
Wasn't a big secret with Hudson
It was sad what happened to Divine & Victor Buono. They were great talents gone too soon. TY for sharing this. God Bless You & stay safe.
What’s worse is that Divine had just landed a roll on “Married with children” and was due to start filming a couple of days before his death😔
Lose the AI voiceover. ‘Deck van Dyke’? Come on now.
Deck Sargeant too
Michael jeeter. he was wonderful but from the golden age of Hollywood? huh?
There was not the term LGBT back in 1989 .... if I recall .
back then it was the LGB
No there were much more offensive words for it.
@@oneironaut420 ... yes I think everybody knows that.
@@vulcan2882 No, it was just "gay" or "lesbian".
@@zzzbbbooo ... my 71 year old uncle is gay and back in the 80s they called it LGB, I'm also gay and now it's the LGBTQ community.
Interesting show! Thank you for the information. Some I knew, many I did not.
Most of these are no surprise, and their families likely knew already. But so much talent here! Glad that it doesn't have to be hidden anymore.
I always suspected that Louis Edmonds, who was also on "Dark Shadows", was gay himself. But I never let it come between me and my enjoyment of his work on the show.
Why would it?
Really - my that's big of you.
Charles Nelson Reilly and Divine were gay?? That's ridiculous! Next thing you know, you're going to say Paul Lynde and Liberace were gay!
Lee's 'brother George' wasn't !
I would imagine that Dick Sargent’s prostate took quite a beating over the years. His casting to replace Dick York was the beginning of the end for Bewitched. The whole tone of the show changed for the worse.
The first Darren died of cancer, too. Lung cancer due to smoking.
I have a great respect for the ones openly gay esp Charles Nelson Reilly. Love that guy.
He was a great man ❤
"Untimely Deaths ?! ... What does the Robot-voice Expect they Die at ... 179 ?"
No, but evidently, whoever wrote the script it read from did.
Victor Buono did not have a “villainous role” in “What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?”
In fact, his character Edwin Flagg was more of a victim.
A major villainous role he did have was the lead in The Strangler. Ellen Corby played his mother.
John Dall starred in “The Corn is Green” opposite Bette Davis. Both Buono and Dall were excellent actors.
Both John Dahl and Farley Granger were gay. Alfred Hitchcocks' movie The Rope, is a great movie!
Buono was in the TV show The Untouchables where he played a villian. He was great in Batman.
What did it matter? They all delivered their talent. RIP to every one of them. ❤❤❤
It will be a good day when nobody even cares about someone's sexuality and just considers their talents and contributions.
*YAWN*
I so agree with you; and this is coming from a straight 76 year old mother and grandmother. After WW2, a great man called Alan Turing was criminalised, then institutionalised and chemically castrated. His crime? He was gay. His great achievement? He cracked the Nazi's Enigma Code, saving millions of lives. Alan ended up taking his own life. But, no worries his picture is on the back of our British bank notes notes now. My msg to those tyrants - far too little - far too late. My msg to Alan Turing - Thank you Sir; I salute you. X❤
That will only happen when they stop theirloud n proud pride crap. Proud of what?
The Golden Age didn't run from 1910 to 1970: I always heard it was from the 1930's to either the late 1950's or the early 1960s
Fun fact: Dick Sargent changed his name as an actor because his real name, Dick Cox, could not be used on television at the time (but might have been used by a porn star).
Peter marshal's real last name was " La Cock " which they wouldn't allow on t.v. at the time also.
I know because his son went to the same h.s.as I did in the w. San fernando valley. his name was " get this "--- peter la cock!
😖🤪🥴 🤚👳♂️😯
No doubt for sure!
@@ccrider00 The MLB player?
Wally Cox got away with it.
@@Brunoburningbright : It was the fact that his first name was dick that forced him to take a stage name.
BTW, Wally Cox was, so I hear, sometimes called by those who knew, "Swallow Cox"
You know if I had a big secret that I had nicely kept my whole life, who has the right to tell it 😔. Stop making people’s decisions for them when they no longer can fight back!!
You're within an arm's reach of Annette Funicello and you're gay? THAT sucks.
I didn't know some of these people were so disgusting! Thanks for the info.
Why were they disgusting?
So many more, probably half of every male golden age star. Many were in total denial and married to the same woman for their entire lives. Errol Flynn a definite exception and Victor Buono's sexuality can only be guessed at but no guessing that he was a fascinating actor in every performance he ever gave.
I don't collect autographs as a hobby but I have a few interesting ones. My Richard Deacon autograph is complete with a caricature of his own bald head that he drew. And he added "Happy Holidays". It's a scarce autograph and I was glad to pay only $50 for it.
I also have a microwave cookery book he authored in the late 70s. Lots of people were buying their first microwave oven back then.
Looks like I am not..."the only gay in the village" !
This ish is ridiculous. You used three different people's photos for George Nader. Inman and Divine were "secretly" gay???? What a shocker!!!! Thumbs down.
This channel is from the Philippines 🇵🇭. Stay in your own lane? Your channel does nothing to diminish the talent of these artists. What is your talent? Asking for a friend.
I remember Rock Hudson was the shock at the time of the 1980s when it was publicised that he had contracted Aids. He was friends with Clift Montgomery who was also gay. Great actors who should have their own private lives, but because of the times, they would have been shunned from Hollywood.
Deck Sergeant? Really class post.
I was going to say the same thing, A "typo + AI = F'ed up!"
Though they both were married, Cary Grant and Randolph Scott shared a beach house in Santa Monica called Bachelor Hall from 1932-1944....they died 3 months apart in 11/86 -3/87...born too soon! 😢
Innman suffered persecution from some within the gay community. He was a good actor & played his true gay part to a tee.
Does it matter to us? No. We have our own issues.
Boomers remember Barbarous! Dark Shadows rocked!
It is informative video.
Richard Deacon was on 3 shows all at the same time, Dick Van Dyke, The Munsters & Leave It To Beaver.
Why do this? Most of these individuals, if not all, have passed away and you're only hurting their family and friends. Let them rest in peace.
On one level I think you make a good point, why bring up info on people who aren't around to defend themselves. However I would bet some of these people would have preferred if it had been possible to live publicly their true selves.
This video perhaps reinforces that today in at least this aspect those late actors might have appreciated today's better level of acceptance.
Granted, I don't appreciate when it goes to extremes and such a small % is over represented in todays entertainment! Tuff to balance. I guess.
How is being gay or bisexual hurtful to them?
Their family and friends no doubt knew. Back then they had to keep it secret if they wanted to work. They'd never have been able to work because of people like you who find it shameful
Their families who probably knew they were gay?
How is it hurtful. They’re just gay, not murderers.
So, both Samantha's parents were Gay. Uncle Arthur and Darrin! 😆😁😄👍
The remake of " Dark Shadows" with Johnny Depp absolutely stunk.
Robert Reed of The Brady Bunch? Paul Lynde? Sal Mineo? James Dean? Raymond Burr?
Sadly actors and pop stars in this day (and age)are still scared to come out of the closet because it will hurt their careers.
Really? Most not really that private
Jeter's Epilepsy death had absoulte nothing to do with his HIV his Health inregard to his HIV was actually very good..
I had no idea John inman and Divine were gay - what shocking news. I also found on line an outrageous comment - saying Liberace was gay - unbelievable
Why are people obsessed with other people's sexual orientation ?
& why is there such an agenda for promoting it ????
@@gregorystinette8271 Indoctrination. That's why there's drag shows for kids.
@@gregorystinette8271 If you had used only two question marks, you would have had the strength to type the whole word "And".
@creech54 / & you must have way too much time on your hands !!!!
You're right. So, lets do away with all the gay pride crap.
AS a kid no one talked about it and no one suspected anything unless you were told. As time went on, and you educate yourself and publicly there are more obvious behavior, we just thought Dark Shadows was the coolest thing having no clue the majority of the cast wad gay.
3:51 Nader looks a lot like Jonathan Frid.
Yeah, I was going to comment on that as well; having a publicity still of one actor accidentally traded for another is a bit confusing.
I was 3 years old, and I loved Hoodoo (Charles Nelson Reilly).
Good a list of more
when my grandson was 12 i was watching the movie grease.....he said john travoltas gay i said what how do u know he said by the way he looks at other men and read were jeff conway woke up to john travolta trying to unzip his fly jeff said no man i love women so yep it ends up coming to the light
Exploitative click bait. Why have brief clips of Jimmy Stewart, Clark Gable, etc at the beginning? What is your definition of "Stars" ? Most of the list were either unknown and/or had unremarkable careers. How is it secret when you point out they "were open about their sexuality" ? What is "untimely" about 50- 90 year old passing from mostly natural causes? Entire premise of this is disingenuous at best. Albeit probably being charitable describing as such.
So no one knew Glen was Gay. They were lovely, I was lucky enough to meet, that wonderful, kind person. ❤❤❤❤❤❤
John Dahl, is the correct spelling, and he acted in the Epic Sparticus.
All these men have died they have no saying in what people thought they were.
🤫 Yes, and you can not libel the dead !....
Thanks for avoiding the usual suspects. This was interesting. BTW it’s Dick, not Deck.
How many of these secretly gay actors were described in voiceover as OPENLY GAY?
Update. Who is Deck Van Dyke? And, hasn't he learned to rehearse?
John Inman! NO! that cannot possibly be. Oh Lord... what am I going to tell my sister-in-law? She divorced my brother, planning to connect with Inman to start a new life.
OMG!!!!! 2:08 JOHN GIELGUD ACES SCANDAL IN 1953. WTF???? Julian West in Vam pie er. 6:27 "The Deck Van Dyke show"
Secretly?
Graham Chapman himself
told everyone he was gay😂
If someone lives a 'quiet, private' life, how would it be known if they were homosexual? I spent 30 years in the business (...Retired SAG/AFTRA actor and member of The Actors Studio) and worked with, had for friends and acquaintances, and even roomed with two gay brothers for two years. Many other guys - straight guys - were single, never married, and were fine with that choice. I have some great memories of several gay people that I knew from those years, but I came away with a very unpopular notion - it is definitely a disorder, and, when its victims are willing, it can and has been corrected. That's not said with any animosity, prejudice, or moral judgement.
Wow. Charles Nelson Reilly and Divine were gay. Women loved them. I never saw that one coming.
This list should have been taken much, much further to include folks like Marlon Brando, James Dean, Richard Pryor, Anthony Perkins along with some of the women of the Golden Age of Hollywood who were closeted lesibans and bisexuals.
Paul Lynde, Alan Sues, Sal Mineo, this list could go on for hours.
Paul Lynde, Hayden Rorke, Liberace, Rock Hudson.
John Gielgud Victor Buono there were some i said yes i knew it Some are so obvious like Charles, Paul Lynde Liberace
The last photo you showed of George Nader wasn't George Nader. It was Tom Tryon who is a totally different person.
Just wondering, Richard Gere and Hugh Jackman? How about Troy Aikman and Aaron Rodgers while we are at it?
The last clip you show for George Nader is actually John Gavin (who as far as anyone knows was not gay).
The only person that didn't know liberace was gay was liberace.
It’s sad to me that we don’t know who their partners were
Most of these men are barely known
If it's all on the QT, how come we're all talking about it on YT?
I honestly don't know who any of these are except Charles Nelson Rilley,Divine (did not know his real name)
You gotta get out more.
@@creech54 I know
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Randolph Scott, James Dean, Marlon Brando to name a tiny few
Never any proof Scott was gay
@@billieunderwood8303 you know that I was looking into that and you are correct, no proof 👌
Interesting facts
Mr Humphries was gay - no, say it isn't so. I'm crushed.