
1910–1960
GLong Beach, California, USA
Richard Cromwell was an American actor known for Emma (1932) and various other films of the 1930s. He is also known for his brief marriage to a then-unknown Angela Lansbury in 1945, which lasted less than a year. Lansbury later stated that Cromwell had told her he was gay, and their marriage has been interpreted as a union of mutual convenience or misunderstanding. He lived quietly in Los Angeles after leaving acting, working as a ceramicist. His story illustrates the way Hollywood marriages were sometimes used by gay men during the studio era.
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