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Posted on 10/06/2011 10:24:27 AM PDT by Vision
This is your Turner Classic Movie Channel alert!
Tonight...The Gay Sisters (1942), 8pm est
"A New York aristocrat marries for the money to save the family mansion."
Two thoughts on this film. I love Barbara Stanwyck dearly. It's sad to see how far homosexuality has lowered the world's culture. Homosexuality has hijacked the term gay and it no longer describes a very pleasant, innocent state of being extremely happy. Anyway, enjoy!
“Homosexuality has hijacked the term gay...”
my mother-in-law’s exact sentiment, and it’s true.
Mike
I attended a Christmas concert at a school a couple years ago. And the kids sang “Deck The Halls”, but they omitted the line “Now we don our gay apparel”. I think it was because the word “gay” means only “homosexual” nowadays. The meaning of the word gay has been lost due to being adopted by the homosexual community.
BS
Her first husband was actor Frank Fay. They were married on August 26, 1928. On December 5, 1932, they adopted a son, Dion Anthony “Tony” Fay. (He and Stanwyck eventually became estranged.) The marriage was a troubled one; Fay’s successful career on Broadway did not translate to the big screen, whereas Stanwyck achieved Hollywood stardom, after a bumpy start. Fay did not shy from physical confrontations with his young wife, especially when he was inebriated.[citation needed] Some claim that this union was the basis for A Star is Born.[27] The couple divorced on December 30, 1935. Subsequently, Stanwyck won custody of their adoptive son.
In 1936, while making the film His Brother’s Wife, Stanwyck met and fell in love with her co-star, Robert Taylor. Following a whirlwind romance, the couple began living together. Their 1939 marriage was arranged with the help of Taylor’s studio MGM, a common practice in Hollywood’s golden age. She and Taylor enjoyed time together outdoors during the early years of their marriage, and were the owners of acres of prime West Los Angeles property. Their large ranch and home in the Mandeville Canyon section of Brentwood, Los Angeles is to this day referred to by locals as the old “Robert Taylor ranch”.[citation needed]
Taylor reportedly had affairs during the marriage. When Stanwyck learned of Taylor’s fling with Lana Turner, she filed for divorce in 1950 when a starlet made Turner’s romance with Taylor public. The decree was granted on February 21, 1951. After the divorce, they acted together in Stanwyck’s last feature film The Night Walker (1964). Stanwyck never remarried, collecting alimony of 15 percent of Taylor’s salary until his death in 1969.[clarification needed]
Stanwyck had an affair with actor Robert Wagner, whom she met on the set of Titanic. Wagner, who was 22, and Stanwyck, who was 45 at the beginning of the affair, had a four-year romance, as described in Wagner’s 2008 memoir, Pieces of My Heart. Stanwyck broke off the relationship.[28]
She was reportedly a conservative-minded Republican along with such contemporaries as William Holden, Ginger Rogers, Gary Cooper, and Double Indemnity co-star Fred McMurray.[29][30][31]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Stanwyck
Thanks.
Wasn’t she also the mistress of Papa Joe Kennedy?
OOPS, just looked it up, Not Barbara, it was Gloria Swanson, yuk.
Thanks for the ping. I won’t be home for most of it, but I set it to record.
Source, please? No such fact or insinuation is stated on IMBD. To the contrary, IMBD relates her marriages and biological children.
I did a google search, found it there.
Really? Because I just did a web search and found absolutely nothing of the kind. I’d really like your source, please. Otherwise, I consider your statement rumor or worse.
Oh my, this is such old news, but you insist:
http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2002/04/joekennedy200204
"This is three books in one, a business story, a lively biography (especially on the subject of Joe Kennedy and Gloria Swanson), and a detailed examination of the movie business from 1926 to 1930."
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