Farley Granger dead at 85
Farley Granger dead at 85
#1Farley Granger dead at 85
Posted: 3/29/11 at 10:21am
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Actor Farley Granger, who put his boyish good looks to dark use in two classic Alfred Hitchcock thrillers as well as several postwar film noirs, died Sunday in New York. He was 85.
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/movies/2011/03/29/2011-03-29_farley_granger_dies_at_85_in_new_york_actor_starred_in_strangers_on_a_train_and_.html#ixzz1HzueQtjG
I remember seeing him on Broadway in DEATHTRAP ...... wish I had seen FIRST IMPRESSIONS.
#2Farley Granger dead at 85
Posted: 3/29/11 at 10:24amI saw him in Deathtrap also. May he rest in peace.
#3Farley Granger dead at 85
Posted: 3/29/11 at 11:09am
A handsome star and a good actor. RIP
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#4Farley Granger dead at 85
Posted: 3/29/11 at 11:24amCoincidentally, he and Helen Stenborg played husband and wife in Lanford Wilson's Tally & Son...all three have died within the past week.
egghumor
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/9/11
#5Farley Granger dead at 85
Posted: 3/29/11 at 11:43am
beautiful and gifted man in deed. Granger was smart enough to dodge the pitfalls of being a Hollywood Pretty Boy. He shaped a film and theater career to be proud of. Uncannily, I JUST finished reading his memoir, "Include Me Out" a week ago.
Thanks Calvin, for making the Granger-Stenborg-Wilson connection. I love many of Wilson's plays, and I was lucky to see the excellent Helen Stenborg in a few productions as well. She was always great, and so real -- and she gave us Doug Hughes!
#6Farley Granger dead at 85
Posted: 3/29/11 at 11:46am
I stagedoored after Deathtrap and got his autograph. I don't know where it is now. 
daredevil
Featured Actor Joined: 8/17/05
#7Farley Granger dead at 85
Posted: 3/29/11 at 12:18pmJune 1962: Granger played a terrific Jeff Douglass (perhaps the best I have even seen) in a revival of Brigadoon at City Center, opposite Stephen Douglass and Sally Ann Howes. I remember it vividly, a terrific evening!
NYadgal
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/18/04
#8Farley Granger dead at 85
Posted: 3/29/11 at 1:23pm
I hadn't made that connection, either, Calvin. Thank you.
And wasn't aware he had a book - I'll have to read it.
He as talented and attractive, and I wish him Peaceful Rest.
(also saw him in Deathtrap).
#9Farley Granger dead at 85
Posted: 3/29/11 at 3:04pmI may need to watch "Strangers on a Train" and "Rope" this weekend in his honor. Rest in peace.
#10Farley Granger dead at 85
Posted: 3/29/11 at 3:21pmFor anyone with Comcast, I believe Strangers on a Train is available for free On Demand. Maybe under the TCM section.
Ed_Mottershead
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/20/05
#11Farley Granger dead at 85
Posted: 3/29/11 at 3:25pmAlways liked him, although I never got to see him in person. Considering how Laurents trashed him in his memoirs, Farley was a perfect gentleman in his memoirs -- and I'm sure he had a lot more to say than he would have thought acceptable. RIP, Farley.
Dollypop
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#12Farley Granger dead at 85
Posted: 3/29/11 at 4:23pm
This is really upsetting to me.
A month ago--almost to the day--some friends and I attended a performance of LA BOHEME at the Met. One of my friends recognized a man she'd worked with previously. It turned out that her friend and his wife were with an elderly man named "Farley". The old man was stooped over, walking with a pronounced shuffle and was wearing very thick glasses. His mind, however, was sharp as a tack. It turned out it was Farley Granger. He bore very little resemblance to the movie star of yore. We all went out for a nightcap afterwards and Farley entertained us with some wonderful stories.
I'm terribly sorry to hear of his passing.
#13Farley Granger dead at 85
Posted: 3/29/11 at 10:35pm
It's quite a book.
He talks very respectfully about his love affairs with Patricia Neal, Shelley Winters, Leonard Bernstein and Ava Gardner.
And he talks abut his four-year affair with Arthur Laurents, who had previously outed Farley against his will in an interview.
Arthur then turned around and trashed Farley in his memoir.
But Farley remained the gentleman. When a New York Magazine interviewer asked him about Arthur, Farley replied, "I don't want to talk about him. I'd be too tempted to say something mean."
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