Farley Granger Articles
Elizabeth Taylor, Farley Granger, Jane Russell, Peter Falk, Sidney Lumet: TCM Remembers 2011
"TCM Remembers 2011" is out. Remembered by Turner Classic Movies are many of those in the film world who left us this past year. As always, this latest "TCM Remembers" entry is a classy, immensely moving compilation. The haunting background song is "Before You Go," by OK Sweetheart. Among those featured in "TCM Remembers 2011" are Farley Granger, the star of Luchino Visconti's Senso and [...]
Arthur Laurents Dies: GYPSY, WEST SIDE STORY, ROPE, THE WAY WE WERE
Robert Redford, Barbra Streisand, The Way We Were Playwright-screenwriter Arthur Laurents has died. Laurents, who was 93, died in his sleep. Best known for writing the book for the Broadway smashes West Side Story and Gypsy, the New York-born Laurents (July 14, 1918) also penned several screenplays, among them those for Alfred Hitchcock's Rope (1948), Otto Preminger's Bonjour Tristesse (1958), and Herbert Ross' The Turning [...]
Farley Granger: Resented Gay Label But "Lived the Greater Part of My Life with a Man"
Alida Valli, Farley Granger in Luchino Visconti's Senso Farley Granger Dies: ROPE, SENSO, STRANGERS ON A TRAIN A lengthy big-screen hiatus followed, as Farley Granger's on-camera appearances became restricted to television work. He eventually returned to features in the late '60s, almost invariably in European productions. During that time, he was featured in several Euro-Westerns and horror/gialli (mix of violence and sex) productions. Among the [...]
Farley Granger Dies: ROPE, SENSO, STRANGERS ON A TRAIN
Farley Granger in Alfred Hitchcock's Rope (top); Farley Granger, Robert Walker in Hitchcock's Strangers on a Train (bottom) Farley Granger, best known for the Alfred Hitchcock thrillers Rope (1948) and Strangers on a Train (1951), and for Luchino Visconti's period romantic drama Senso (1954), has died. Variety reports that Granger, who was 85, died of "natural causes" in New York City. One of the best-looking [...]