Old Hollywood Actresses Who Secretly Slept with Other Women
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- Опубликовано: 6 июн 2024
- How many Old Hollywood actresses can you think of that were lesbians or bisexual? And do you know of any of classic Hollywood's leading male stars that either lived their lives in the closet or openly engaged in same-sex romances? Let us know in the comments.
▬Contents of this video▬
00:00 - Intro
00:41 - Dorothy Arzner
01:13 - Hattie Mcdaniel & Tallulah Bankhead
02:44 - Barbara Stanywck
03:42 - Joan Crawford
04:23 - Greta Garbo
05:01 - Katherine Hepburn
05:38 - Alla Nazimova
06:11 - Marlene Dietrich
06:58 - Mercedes de Acosta
08:03 - Outro
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We tend to think of the Golden Age of Hollywood as being a fairly conservative time period. After all, it was pretty much the very definition of old-school. While nowadays stars hold nothing back, back then they really had to keep their personal lives from interfering with their careers.
Although the LGBTQ community wasn't nearly as represented as it is today, non-heterosexual relationships were still fairly common back during this era. The major studios of the day, however, did everything possible to make sure that the media didn't catch wind of their gay and lesbian star's orientations.
If you were an up-and-coming Hollywood star a century ago, the only way that you would be able to rise to fame was if you tailored your image to fit the demands of the studio executives. For LGBT actors and actresses, that often meant dating or marrying someone of the opposite sex as a cover.
Join FactsVerse as we take a look at the actresses of Old Hollywood who secretly slept with other women. Back then, being bisexual or a lesbian was quite risk - especially if you were trying to maintain an acting career. The women in this video deserve a bit of recognition for their bravery.
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You did NOT just say, “Whatever Happened to Mary Jane.” That must have been Baby Jane’s poor cousin twice removed.
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It was Baby Jane’s doobie
Yeah I caught that too ! 🤪
Guess Joan must have smoked pot. LOL.
@Stevebaby123 Facts Verse has a great reputation for getting the "facts" WRONG! Bunch of idiots behind this channel!
Billy Burke, Claudette Colbert, and Hattie Mc Daniel were the ones that surprised me the most. My grandfather, who worked for the studios back in the day as a backdrop scenic painter, the stories he told my dad would shock you even today.
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I believe Christina
Wow I bet he told some goodies!
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Hattie McDaniel was a big surprise I never heard that about her.
The one that shocked me was Hattie MacDaniel. I really don't know weather to believe all of this' bull-shit" or not.
These are guesses. They don't have a right to say they were gay unless they know for sure.
I'm not. She and most female early blues singers were.
@@bgaineshunter Indeed. Including Ethel Waters, Bessie Smith, and Alberta Hunter.
Barbara Stanwyk! My in-laws watch "Christmas in Connecticut" almost every holiday season. Quite a screen presence!
One of my favorite movies.
Yes and very beautiful.
God knows what is wrong. If he is angry about it, well in Hebrews chapter 10 Bible Scripture reveals its a Terrible thing to fall into the hands of an angry God!
Marlene is pronounced Mar - lain - ah, and the movie with Joan Crawford and Bette Davis is "Whatever Happened to Baby Jane" not Mary Jane as you stated.
You caught that one too.
I love Mary Jane shoes 🤣
And it's Judy Holiday, not Judy Hollywood.
Tim doesn't proofread his content often.
Thanks for the correction
Joan Crawford, known for her appearance in "What Ever Happened to MARY Jane???"
This dude couldn't get the movie title correct? It's 'Whatever Happened to Baby Jane'! He must throw these videos together very quickly and doesn't proofread. This is why I don't believe most of the info he puts out.
And Marlene Dietrich's first name has 3 syllables.
Because he doesn’t write them he just does the voice work . The channel is from a content farm. Also, he mispronounces Marlene as Marleen all the time.
Joan Crawford didn't have the most happy demeanor. If anything, Joan Crawford ATE Mary Jane.
Yeah, I was surprised about Billie Burke considering she was married to Florence Zigfeld until he died, had a child with him and considered him the love of her life. There was even a movie made about their romance.
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Most of this women on this video I wasn't shocked about, especially Joan Crawford. I was very shocked about Hattie McDaniel and Barbara Stanwyck being gay. I'm like wow!!!!😊😊😊
I knew about Barbara Stanwyck, first time I heard about Hattie McDaniel.
Yeah That’s hard to believe Hattie McDowell and did he say Billie holiday Barbara Stanwyck I’m not going with that you got to bring some proof🙄
I don’t believe the bit about Hattie McDaniel and tallulah Bankhead.
One comment Crawford made on the subject was that most everyone in Hollywood ‘at least tried it’. There was a code of silence among those people; there was nothing to be gained by outing anyone - especially if you’d ‘been down the garden path’ yourself. Seems to have been a mutual blackmail society.
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Joan Crawford NEVER said that. Source???
@@TheConcludingChapterofCrawford the book ‘’Conversations with Joan Crawford’’. Notable mainly for her commenting on every one of her pictures. And admitting she ‘lacked empathy’ which explains a lot.
@@robertdoherty2001 That is also a FAKE book. I have interviewed the children of Roy Newquist, the writer of that book, and it is entirely fabricated.
Hadn’t heard that; there are quite a few of them around.
Do we really have to know this ? Hattie MacDaniel and Tallulaq Bankhead ! ! ! Come on, give me a break - please. That would be the 'odd couple' of all-time .
Yeah that’s hard to believe you got to bring more proof than that just hearsay and Billie holiday too🙄
Have you never walked into a gay bar? On top of that, Tallulah was a nympho. She once went to a school in England and smuggled a bunch of underage boys out in her car and had "relations" with them. Look it up... she was promiscuous beyond
The vomit couple of all time.
I was surprised to hear about Hattie and Tullulah.
Not so much about Tullulah, she is known for her seductive nature.
"What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?" is the movie Joan Crawford and Bette Davis starred in.
Great video!
Please, please, please make one for Old Hollywood Men Who Secretly Slept With Other Men!
Glad you like the video! We won't promise anything but we'll definitely look into Old Hollywood Men Who Secretly Slept With Other Men.
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@@ellejay2021 you forgot Chuck Connors.
But Robert Taylor? Really? 🤔
@@AladdinSaneNYC Totally! A great reference for these stories is in Scotty Bowers book "Full Service", and there's a great documentary on him and the book that you can find online or purchase on Amazon. Plus, the Netflix series by Ryan Murphy "Hollywood" is loosely based on Scotty Bowers exploit with it's gas station setting and story of male hustlers.
Less credible (perhaps) is the gossip book "Hollywood Babylon" by the legendary cult film director Kenneth Anger. A lot of the stories were sordid and heavily disputed (naturally, being so explosive), but it's a fascinating read. Even if the stories aren't true they are so sensational.
Its "what ever happened to Baby Jane", not Mary Jane
The poor guy has copped a lot of crap about that!
Judy Hollywood? Try Holliday. Try having someone proof your scripts.
Edward Dmytryk directed Stanwyck in Walk on the Wild Side. Barbara, as always, giving 150%.
She has a superb scene with beautiful Capucine. Anger, jealousy & hidden love.
Damn... This Brooklyn girl was an absolute disciplinarian workoholic and such a great actress.
Stanwyck was the best one in that movie.
@@hcombs0104"What do you know about love!"- she passionate said to her crippled husband.
Her true love has left her...Hallie.
she was incredible, her filmography has sm variety, haven’t yet seen an old hollywood actress ( or actor for that matter ) who played such different roles, her talent and the great choice of not being under contract with a studio
That's why they call it HOLLYWIERD.
Nothing wrong with being bisexual
Yea right!
Tallulah Bankhead was the ultimate sybarite. But she was also a very good actress.
Hattie McDaniel was a shock to say the least. Others no surprise.
Lgb and that’s it … what does the t has to do with sexual orientation ? Back then it didn’t nearly exist , it was incredibly rare that someone was pretending to be the opposite sex . I don’t know why it seems like obsolete to simply say for gays and lesbians or for homosexual people , instead of “lgbtqi plus alphabet “ , especially when we talk of things of the past when most of those made up letters didn’t even exists
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I am reminded of one of Paul Newman's most famous lines from "Slapshot!"
If you're not familiar, watch it and you'll understand.
The narrator claims that Joan Crawford starred in “Whatever Happened to Mary Jane?” It’s nonsense, but would explain what happened to the infamous Joan Crawford pumps.
The movie title was “What ever happened to BABY Jane” (not Mary Jane).
I was surprised to hear of Hattie McDaniel.
No mention of whether the Hepburn Tracy “romance” never actually was a romance?
According to Scotty Bowers' book Full Service, that was story presented to the public. Tracy and Hepburn were, at the very least, bisexual.
@@TheRetroWoman80 true. Tracy used to hook up with guys when he was drunk enough. If he wasn't drunk he couldn't deal with beeing a devoute catholic and still sleeping with men.
@@normadesmond6017 Yep
As my pappy used to say "As long as they don't do it in the street and scare the horses." I couldn't give a rats patootie if someone in gay or straight, just keep your private life private.
Problem with keeping private life private "back in the day" and now: ever-intrusive, uncontrolled gossip media prying into every hole and corner. Paparazzi should be liable whenever outrageous stories appear.
Wish straight people would do the same damn thing! Been brainwashed by heterosexual everything since I was little. It's any wonder I didn't grow up straight honestly lol.
That does go both ways
Seriously? Dude can’t pronounce Dietrich’s name correctly, and doesn’t bother to get the iconic movie title correct? Mary Jane? Unbelievable.
He also said Judy Hollywood. I think he meant Holiday.
Beautiful talented woman.
Did anyone else catch that flub?
He said, "Whatever Happened To Mary Jane" when talking about Joan Crawford...
Interesting, but the Joan Crawford movie was Whatever Happened to Baby Jane!
There are a lot of people very pressed in the comments and I love it 🥰
A quote i have heard attributed to Taluah Bankhead " Daddy warned me about men and booze but he didn't say anything about women and cocaine"
Too many are even today but are afraid with consequences
Dietrich's first name was pronounced "Marlainah" not "Marleen."
Whatever happened to MARY Jane? Yikes!
A friend and co-worker told me that he went to see one of Hepburn's live shows where she wore a man's suit and called herself "he" throughout.
I can see it for just about all actresses on the list. Greta Garbo and Joan Crawford are surprising.
Greta Garbo I didn't know, Joan Crawford I have known for sometime.
really? Not Garbo? Look at Queen Christina. There was a lesbian scene in that one.
Marlene Dietrich was German. The correct pronunciation of her first name is mar-LAY-nuh, not mar-LEEN.
It’s crazy to me that Tallulah Bankhead and Hattie McDaniel were lovers, because it’s such an odd pair, but that’s so cool!! I’m such a fan of both of them.
Joan Crawford never did a movie called " whatever happened to MARY JANE" IT was baby jane
What about Katherine Hepburn's longterm relationship with Spencer Tracy? The story goes that Spencer Tracy was married, but he was also Catholic, so he wouldn't divorce his wife and, ofcourse, couldn't marry Katherine. Their relationship(affair) lasted 3 decades, so it's kinda doubtful she had time for other liaisons. Jackie Gleason was in a similar situation and had mistresses.
I remember hearing about him and June Taylor who was the head of the dance group on his show. Don’t know if she was his wife or girlfriend. Please clarify if you know.
There were rumours Spencer was Bisexual too ..
Of course you have to remember that there was no sex education in the home, in church, or in school.
Do a video: VD of the stars. These stars were co- mingling with each some much, they must have been passing VD between them.
Was their the flynn gonorrhea or Mickey Rooney crabs 🦀?
Geez, was there anybody left?
What Happened to Mary Jane? You have got to be kidding!!!
I love Louise Brooks. Wish I had known her.
Beautiful Lulu... opening the Pandora's box.
Same here, but she owed a lot to adorable Colleen Moore, who was a huge box office star in the twenties. A lot of people sadly do not know, but MOMA through negligence accidentally destroyed so many of Colleen's films. Colleen has the beauty of a Lulu with more playfulness and soul and an energy like Clara Bow.
I am too old to be surprised by any of this.
They say Crawford tried to have a go at Bette Davis and she got short shrift. As you say Crawford was maneater and the same with women , I call these people greedy, they want it all.
Crawford's apparent words regarding Bette were "I'd give her a poke" 😅 Bette was hetero though so no luck for Joan.
I'd have not been able to turn down Crawford, personally but only in her pre-slug brows, overdrawn lips era. The 1920's blond Joan... aye yi yi
Hattie McDaniels was gay?
There was no question that she was straight.
Whoa, that blew my mind.
To be honest, sexuality doesn’t have a look. Nobody can know if anybody’s gay, straight, bisexual, etc unless the person themselves tell you.
There was book release by a well know procurer with lot of Hollywoid secrets. Some info would blow the minds of those that were big fans of certain stars. Some of what he said was old dark rumors. But one things back then studios protected the imagine of their stars.
Name of author, please?
The author was Scotty Bowers. His book is called : My Adventures in Hollywood and the Secret Sex Lives of The Stars
Fun stuff, thanks for sharing this! What was the name of the book?
@@andrewcarter3903 that's the one. Thanks . Saved me time digging for it
@@andrewcarter3903 I read that book too, someone just asked about it and I couldn't remember Scottys name! Thank you so much!!!
Thank you for the video but who cares that was their personal lives Let It Be
Hattie McDaniel? That sure is out of the corn fields!
Reading the Sewing Circle brought me here. I have an ever so slight obsession 😂
😅😂🤣It's "Whatever Happened To Baby Jane" not Whatever Happened To Mary Jane (you said Mary at 8:37)😅😂🤣 Is there something you're tryin to tell us?
Jeez!!! So when did sleeping become a bad thing??? Crazy world!!!
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Watching these videos you would think that no one was straight! Lol
“Full Service” by Scotty Bowers, having out lived his friends, just wanted to make everyone happy.
He survived Iwo Jima, losing his brother and best friend. Bartender to the Stars for over 60 years.
That documentary was not surprising but how long that open secret stuff went on without people's careers getting destroyed....amazing. Like Scotty said "they are all dead now so the truth can't hurt them."
I think you meant Billie Holiday and not Billie Hollywood.
Anything possible in secret
The big names you mentioned bio,and all of them beautiful and attractive for men
I'm waiting for Elizabeth Taylor's name. She's not on the list 😂
Who was she knocking around with?
Hattie McDaniel: Gone With The Heterosexuals!!!
I think you only touched the tip of the iceberg with this subject. There are definitely actresses that you didn't cover in here. I think Lillian Gish was wasn't she?
They all were. Acting's the perfect profession.
'Whatever Happened to MARY Jane' Did you even look at the Wikipedia page???
Maybe he was high on maryjane when he was making the video.
I’m not surprised by any of it.
When gossip is the main goal climbing upon rumors as supposedly facts is completely disgusting and shows when a dirty mind is also sick. Those who try to smear are the ones who show their true colors.
Being gay or bi is not dirty or disgusting. Being prejudiced and hateful, like you, is. Get a life.
huh??? disgusting is living hidden for loving women
What about the huge stage actress Lotta Crabtree. She was a total closet lesbian, and had some affairs with other actresses. She never married, and according to the medical examiner she died a virgin.
I don't know what's wrong, but I have slowed down the playback speed on this video all the way back to 25%. It still is playing at 100% speed. Way to fast to read!
Suddenly at about 20seconds the speed changed and slowed down. A little later the speed picked up pace again. I tried to change the speed again, but the information was speeding ut didn't slow down. It was finally easier to pause and restart multiple times
This could be fake. There are just rumors.
Did "Mommie Dearest" really need to be in here?
Billie Holiday and Hattie McDaniel's were the shockers for me
Somehow, none of this really surprises me; we are talking about actors after all.
I was surprised there was no mention of the incestuous relationship between Norma Shearer and Minnie Mouse. Or Claudette Colbert and Lassie.
😅😅😅💯💯💯😅😅😅💯💯💯😅😅😅😅😅😅
Lassie was male, which makes their relationship less-than-scandalous.
You might think it was less than scandalous, but Claudette did this thing with her tongue and a yo-yo that had Rin Tin Tin hyperventilating.
Bow Wow 🤪
“JUDY HOLLYWOOD” ?? Did you mean Judy Holliday ????
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"Secretly" due to the then-immense stigma against same-sex attraction. Sometimes-extreme actions of those so inclined (e.g. Liberace) were in reaction that dreadful standard.
It's baby jane, not Mary Jane
Marilyn Monroe I didn't know she was bisexual.
OK, now what actors aren't Gay? No matter who might be named as straight...I can't believe it.
A woman enjoying or preferring women was preferable to a studio as long as they kept it quiet. Less pregnancies and drama.
Much of Anger’s book has been debunked
Hollywood Babylon is basically a work of fiction.
Joan Crawford was the most surprising too me. Hepburn would be the second surprise. I always thought these two were only into men. One learns something new everyday as they say. 😀
While not a famous Hollywood Actress as women mentioned in this. Lily Tomlin who starred with Dolly Parton in 9 to 5 is a lesbian and has been living with another woman for sometime.
Do you mean Lily Tomlin by any chance?
@@lilyredhead1398 Yes!! I did mean "Lily Tomlin" wrote it in hurry because of needing to get to church where I am organist.
I heard something about M. Munroe and B.Bardot..just a rumour?
If you’re looking for credibility calling it ‘Whatever happened to Mary Jane’ ain’t a good way to start.
People were too classy to label or discuss sexual orientation publicly, most likely like my ww2 gen grandparents sex was a private matter
They may have, but they always came back to me. 😜😍👌👍✔
Now I’d like to know the stars that were exclusively heterosexual
Bette Davis. Probably Jimmy Stewart... ?
I had to dress up as Hattie McDaniel for African American History
In my opinion, women being bisexual is completely normal and has been for hundreds of thousands of years. Just realize we have been polygamous marriages for hundreds of thousands of years.
You're very perceptive . 😊💕
Next thing we will be told is that Liberace was gay. I always thought he was a bit flamboyant, but in our day (the 1950s) we did not even really think about those things.
Many people are posting interesting comments, which begs the question, What is gay? If one lusts after people of the same sex but never have sex with someone of the same sex are they gay? What if someone just likes to have sex with people of the same sex, but do not tend to fall in love with people of the opposite sex? What if someone just likes to sleep around, period? Male, female, whatever? Doesn't care? A term often used by heath care agents is MSM, men who have sex with other men. Why? Because some men have sex with other men, but claim to be straight. Are they lying? See, these are the issues that confuse people, both straight and LGBT. This is also what makes being LGBT different than being pretty much any other type of minority.
"What Ever Happened to Mary Jane?"
What the...what the...?🤭🤔
Judy HOLLYWOOD?! I think you mean Judy Holliday...
Ennywho...the only surprise on your list is Billie Burke.
Isn't it kinda weird how people accept the female bisexual women but not any of the men.
Tallulah Bankhead. What a wonderful woman.
“WHATEVER HAPPENED TO MARY JANE” ??? You mean “Baby Jane”.
3:42 Once again, it's WHATEVER HAPPENED TO BSBY JANE...NOT Whatever Happened to Mary Jane. Just sayin.
-San Francisco fan girl
BABY JANE
@@aavv1818 Lol. Right. Out there playing school teacher and then misspelling the hard word of “Baby’. Damn Karma comes really quick sometimes.
@@applepie1923 Note to self: Don't write while in bed. Lol
@@applepie1923 I felt like an IDIOT as I read my note. Yuck!
@@aavv1818 I was just messing with you, all in fun. If you want me to take off my comments I will.
Hepburn and Tracy never were sexual toward each other; he preferred men and she preferred women. As for Barbara Stanwyck, she was married to Robert Taylor. They too, preferred individuals of their own sex; Barbara - women and Taylor - men. Cary Grant and Randolph Scott were a long time item and they lived together on the beach. Grant got married to protect his image and career.
Wait.....spencer Tracy was bi????
According to some sources. A lot of this is rumor and hearsay. Or based on books written by people claiming to have had same-sex relationships with some of the people named in this video.
A lot of the Tracey stuff comes from a guy who was a male hooker in Hollywood who wrote a book and starred in a documentary claiming Tracey was gay, and was also one of his clients. The hooker also hinted that Hepburn was a lesbian, rather than the bisexual that she had long been rumored to be. It seems likely Hepburm was one or the other, but I don't know how much of a "GOSPEL" the male Hollywood hooker should be taken as.
It's pretty much-accepted fact among historians that Garbo/Crawford/Dietrich were bisexual. And that Barbara Stanwyck was either bisexual or lesbian. And Bankhead made no secret of her bisexuality. As far as a lot of the women this video mentions as being among their lovers (including Claudette Colbert/Hattie McDaniel, Billie Burke), that is just based on what was rumor, gossip, and hearsay. Maybe it's all true and maybe it's not.
Mercedes De Acosta was a well-established Hollywood screenwriter in the 1930s and 1940s, and she was an out lesbian. She wrote a book claiming she had affairs with several famous actresses (movie
stars and theater stars) of that day, including Greta Garbo and Marlene Dietrich. Both of who denied the claim
Dyan Cannon, Grant's fourth wife (and a bombshell) said she never saw any evidence of his homosexuality.
@@keythdanielsen9315 A lot of the Grant stuff comes from the fact that in the 1930s and 1940s Grant often lived with Randolph Scott when he wasn't married. And it was apparently a well-known "Secret" in Hollywood that Grant liked men.
There is supposedly a quote from a female star (I forget who) from that period, who supposedly said, "EVERYBODY IN HOLLYWOOD KNOWS CARY GRANT LIKES MEN"
However, it's probably more likely that he was bisexual rather than gay. For instance In the 1950s Grant had a romance with Sophia Loren, who had a longstanding boyfriend (who become her husband). People close to Grant always said Grant was deeply in love with Loren and very much devastated when she ultimately chose her future husband over him. And a writer who wrote a biography of Grant came to the conclusion that he was bisexual. That writer also said that Grant was pretty much done with men as he got older. Which would include the time of his marriage to Dyan Cannon.
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Tracy and Hepburn did have a sexual affair at first, but stayed together to beard for each other. Hepburn largely preferred woman. Tracy took whatever.
No surprise, really, that nearly everyone in the acting profession's gay, lesbian or bi - and much more. It seems to be their nature to swing either way or bat for both sides, especially with all the opportunity afforded them to explore different characters and the human condition.
Joan Crawford and Katherine Hepburn
How can we believe anything you say when you can't even get the title of a very well known movie correct? MARY Jane?!... seriously?!
There was a lot of sleeping around in Hollywood by both sexes, with both sexes. That doesn’t mean there was actually a romance, though. A well known female entertainer slept with multiple women (and men), but only had what could be called a romance with one of the women. As soon as she found a man she fancied, the female romance was over. Happened the other way, too.
Well ..that can happen in life .not just Hollywood .Sexual encounters and romanctic relationships are not the same thing sometimes .