Farley Granger Overview:

Legendary actor, Farley Granger, was born Farley Earle Granger II on Jul 1, 1925 in San Jose, CA. Granger died at the age of 85 on Mar 27, 2011 in Manhattan, New York City .

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Dark, brooding American leading man with boyish good looks and liquid brown eyes. Signed by Samuel Goldwyn at 18, Granger alternated romantic leads with disturbed youths, but was seen to best advantage as flawed heroes, especially in Hitchcock's Strangers on a Train. After a career hiatus, he re-emerged for a few years in the 1970s in Italian exploitation films, mostly as handsome ne'er-do-wells.

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He was honored with one star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in the category of Television. Granger was never nominated for an Academy Award.

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Roseanna McCoy (1949) with

By Orson De Welles on May 21, 2015 From Classic Film Freak

Share This! Billed as containing all of the drama of the real life Hatfield and McCoy feud, in 1949 Samuel Goldwyn released Roseanna McCoy. He put together an extremely strong cast, with Raymond Massey and Charles Bickford as the two patriarchs of the McCoys and Hatfields, respectively. Additional a... Read full article


Roseanna McCoy (1949) with

By Orson De Welles on May 21, 2015 From Classic Film Freak

Share This! Billed as containing all of the drama of the real life Hatfield and McCoy feud, in 1949 Samuel Goldwyn released Roseanna McCoy. He put together an extremely strong cast, with Raymond Massey and Charles Bickford as the two patriarchs of the McCoys and Hatfields, respectively. Additional a... Read full article


Five Things I Learned From ’s Autobiography

By KC on Jul 12, 2011 From Classic Movies

I have liked since I first saw him freaking out in his role as a young killer in Alfred Hitchcock’s Rope (1948). When he died earlier this year, I was surprised to realize how little I knew about him. In order to remedy this, I picked up a copy of his 2007 autobiography, Include... Read full article


In Memory: (July 1, 1925 – March 27, 2011).

By Dawn on Mar 30, 2011 From Noir and Chick Flicks

(July 1, 1925 – March 27, 2011), career spanned over several decades and was best known for his two films with Alfred Hitchcock, Rope(1948) and Strangers on a Train (1951). I'm kind of freaking out.. I wrote this tribute a couple of weeks ago to add to N and CF in April. Farley ... Read full article


Attractive Stranger: RIP

By Jnpickens on Mar 30, 2011 From Comet Over Hollywood

in 1953 In the shadows of Elizabeth Taylor’s death, died on March 27, at age 85. Sometimes I think that ?was forgotten. He wasn’t as dynamic as other 1950s actors like Marlon Brando, and he was pretty awkward compared to suave Cary Grant, but M... Read full article


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Farley Granger Quotes:

Damian Simonov: Be a man of the world in front of your own mirror. It's better that way - mirrors don't talk back.


Guy Haines: Doesn't that bloodhound ever relax? He sticks so close he's beginning to grow on me - like a fungus.


Brandon Shaw: Determined to get drunk, aren't you?
Phillip Morgan: I am drunk.
Brandon Shaw: And just as childish as you were before when you called me a liar.
Phillip Morgan: You had no business telling that story.
Brandon Shaw: Why did you lie anyway?
Phillip Morgan: I had to! Have you ever bothered for just one minute to understand how someone else might feel?
Brandon Shaw: I'm not sentimental if that's what you...
Phillip Morgan: No, that's not what I mean; but it doesn't matter. Nothing matters... except that Mr. Brandon liked the party. Mr. Brandon gave the party. Mr. Brandon had a delightful evening. Well, I had a rotten evening!
Brandon Shaw: Keep drinking, and you'll have a worse morning.
Phillip Morgan: At least if I have a hangover, it'll be all mine!


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Farley Granger Facts
Scored in short-lived comeback on Broadway in Ira Levin's "Deathtrap" in 1980.

In his book "Original Story By: A Memoir of Broadway and Hollywood," playwright and screenwriter Arthur Laurents detailed his live-in relationship with Farley Granger during the 1940s and '50s. Laurents and Granger were already romantically involved when Laurents wrote the screenplay for Rope, in which Granger co-starred.

Granger has no grave, he was cremated and his ashes were given to his companion.

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