Farley Granger Biography

Fast Facts

• His movie debut was in 1943's The North Star when he was 18
• Best known for his work in the Hitchcock movies Rope (1948) and Strangers on a Train (1951)
• In 1953 he bought out the remaining two years of his contract with MGM so that he could pursue stage work, and in 1959 was on Broadway as Fitzwilliam Darcy in a musical version of Pride and Prejudice called First Impressions
• Also starred on Broadway with Julie Harris and Larry Hagman in 1959's The Warm Peninsula
• In 1986 he appeared on As the World Turns playing the role of Earl Mitchell, Lisa's husband
• (Julianne Moore appeared on the soap at the same time, though their story lines were not linked
• ) Appeared in a 1995 documentary about the history of homosexuality in the Hollywood film industry
• His romantic partners included soap star Jimmy Mitchell, Leonard Bernstein, Ava Gardner, Arthur Laurents, Shelley Winters ("the love of my life and the bane of my existence") and Robert Calhoun
• Said that of his partners, Gardner attracted him most
• Told Daily Intel that he considered himself neither gay nor bisexual: "We're not going to emerge as untarnished until we get rid of labels
• " His last movie was 2002's The Next Big Thing
• His memoir, Include Me Out: My Life From Goldwyn to Broadway, was written with Calhoun and published in 2007