Farley Granger

Farley Granger was an American actor known for his roles in two Alfred Hitchcock thrillers, Rope (1948) and Strangers on a Train (1951), in both of which queer subtext was central to the characters he played. Granger was bisexual and wrote candidly about his relationships with both men and women in his 2007 memoir, Include Me Out: My Life from Goldwyn to Broadway, co-written with his longtime partner Robert Calhoun. He described a passionate, on-and-off romance with Arthur Laurents, the gay playwright and screenwriter who wrote Rope's screenplay and went on to create West Side Story and Gypsy, as well as a serious relationship with actress Shelley Winters that nearly ended in marriage. Granger and Calhoun, an Emmy-winning television producer, were partners from 1963 until Granger's death in 2011. His memoir remains one of the frankest accounts of bisexuality by a Hollywood actor of the classical era.