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This late A list actor who was successful in both movies, where he was mostly in light romantic comedies and action films, and TV had one of the most successful long lived maybe the most most successful long lived lavender marriage of all time. It was an arrangement that worked - He took care of his wife and her daughter from another relationship, she gave him cover and didn't mind his relationships with men. She didn't even mind when during his popular detective TV show, he moved in with a boyfriend for a couple of years.
Is this James Garner?
ReplyDelete+1 except it doesn't mention another daughter he had with his wife.
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ReplyDeletePierce Brosnan?
ReplyDeletepierce is still alive
ReplyDeleteThis is James Garner. He did have a child with his wife, but they separated for a couple of years before he returned to her.
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ReplyDeleteJames Garner was in no way, gay. Raymond Burr.
ReplyDeleteI hope its not James Garner. But him and Rock Hudson both had the same kinds of roles, hype etc.
ReplyDeletePierce needs a beard???? Say it ain’t so?!!
ReplyDeleteThe marriage fits with James Garner.
ReplyDeleteRaymond Burr.
ReplyDeleteIronside I think it was the name of his show
If this was Raymond burr why would it even be a blind. He was well known to be gay, married for a time, but divorced so i am not sure it even fits.
ReplyDeleteLavender Marriage implies both parties are gay. So you're saying his wife was as well?
ReplyDeleteRaymond Burr didn't do romantic comedies. He didn't have a long marriage. James Garner fits.
ReplyDeleteRaymond Burr did light romantic comedy movies?
ReplyDeleteRaymond Burr's marriage was fake and never happened. The lady was deceased and they used her photo etc for his cover up. James Garner was gay??? Had no clue. Both were excellent actors.
ReplyDeleteWhy are we not hooking up more impoverished single mothers with these guys? Guy pays the bills and doesn't beat them, that's a winner in many communities.
ReplyDelete+1000 I like that idea
DeleteRaymond Burr was Canadian. He played the reporter Steve Martin in the first Godzilla movie.
ReplyDeleteI'm going to go with Telly Savalas. Who loves ya, baby?
Nicolette Sheridan was his step-daughter.
DeleteI'm familiar with the lavender marriages, but what other color coded marriages are there?
ReplyDeleteWay out on a limb here....Jim Hutton. Ellery Queen being the popular TV detective series.
ReplyDeleteJack Klugman? Quincy for the Detective Series. Married to Brett Somers forever until she died.
ReplyDeleteRobert Blake. "Baretta"
ReplyDeleteOoooh! I just thought of William Conrad "Cannon"!
Jim Hutton is the biological father of his son Tim(othy) Hutton, so that's out. Used to love "Ellery Queen" too.
I don't think James Garner was gay, but who knows...
@Chase Jack Klugman almost fits he was divorced from Brett Sommers in 1977 and was with Peggy Crosby for 20 years and married the last 4 of his life. But she had a son with her previous husband not a daughter.
ReplyDeletenot Klugman he wasn't known for doing action films in Movies he was known for being a character actor, not leading man, in dramas.
ReplyDeleteSo Mariette Hartley, the Most Beautiful Woman In The World (face it),
ReplyDeletewas one of TV's original fag hags.
(The more you know.)
Notice Enty doesn't say "hit TV Show" or "ratings smash" and "Rockford" got good to middling ratings ratings but nothing spectacular.
ReplyDeleteBut it had a loyal fan base like Star Trek and Garner did several TV movie sequels.
In pop-culture it's huge, many peoples' favorite TV show all time and it made Garner's image and persona stick.
I loved Rockford Files as a kid.
DeleteI know of a young woman that had an affair with James Garner in the late 70's. Don't think it's him.
ReplyDeleteRaymond Burr did light romantic comedies? Think this is more apt to be Garner by the details.
ReplyDeleteI'm so ready for an arrangement too. This single parenthood is no joke. It's exhausting. Especially when youre amazing and a blast.
ReplyDeleteThey need to be rich tho.
Apropos of nothing, James Garner was awardes a Purple Heart.
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ReplyDeleteMike Connors of Mannix detective show,
ReplyDeletedid romantic comedies and action in the movies. Married from 1949-2017 to one woman
Not Mike Connors he had 2 kids with his only wife and she wasn't married to any one else.
ReplyDeleteYears ago a friend was a chauffeur driver in the 80s and he said he witnessed James Garner in the backseat making out with another man. I doubted it then and still do. I read his book; admits to smoking pot for 20 years but no mention of men. Hmmm.
ReplyDeleteConsidering how lenient the "Star system" has become around here, I'd please give the great James Garner a "permanent A+" rating. One of my favorite stars of all time.
ReplyDeleteHe didn't just get a Purple Heart, by the way, he got five medals for his military service.
He also had two biological children. I'm not sure this is him. If it is, I don't care if he was bisexual. If you read his autobiography, "The Garner Files: A Memoir," you will find the best adjusted, most self-aware star in Hollywood history.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Garner
James Garner always pinged my gaydar, simultaneously seeming like the perfect man -- smart, funny, strong, handsome -- sensitive but not too sensitive. Which seems to happen so often -- straight women crushing on gay men. It's really not fair, God.
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ReplyDeleteMy (female) friend had a medium term fling with Gardner. It was def not a "beard" thing!
ReplyDeletePeter Falk ?
ReplyDeleteI loved Garner. I know without a doubt he was a good he was being. There was something incredibly decent about him. If this is him, I'm so sorry you had to live this life, but I guarantee you he was good to her.
ReplyDeleteWhoever it is, who cares.
And I hate voice recognition
DeleteTHE "Gardner" @Unknown? You sure you got the right guy?
ReplyDeleteThe family stuff doesn't exactly fit, but the description made me think of Karl Malden, married 70 years.
ReplyDeleteJim Garner was the “quintessential” Oklahoman IMO.
ReplyDeleteClassy, kind, tough, tenacious and a hard worker.
My college roommate’s mom owned a shop in Norman. Jim Garner would come in with his brother, after a round of golf. They chatted and joked around with her about the Rose Rocks for sale (very common to us but unique to visitors). Said they could have cornered the market, when they were kids.
When he returned to the store a few days later, he asked her dad why “Monique” wasn’t working. He was that kind of guy.
I heard, from someone in the biz, that Garner was. That's what I heard, not long after he died. See, the person told me that the Mariette Hartley scandal was staged by his PR rep because the National Enquirer supposedly was threatening a cover story on him. Again, that's what I was told, so I don't know if it was true or not, but this person does have info from way back in the day.
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ReplyDeletePeter Falk was pretty into young women. I worked for the painting department at an art school in a big city and whenever Falk was in town, he’d hang out in a figure drawing class but only if the model was a young female-pretty much the most uninteresting kind for serious minded artists.
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