Stuart Granger

TCM is doing a Stuart Granger film festival today (God knows why). Talk about a closeted gay and a treetrunk of an actor (stealing from Roger Ebert's description of Roger Moore) who starred in an endless series of mediocre flicks. Strangely enough I think everyone at that time probably also sensed that he was gay but didn't really care. I think society has never had a problem with gays as long as it wasn't in their face and there was some distance of plausible deniability -- then they'd get murderous. Most of the time you could fob it off on "sophistication", and since you thought of yourself as sophisticated too, you went along with it.