Lazy Circles reader Clay has left a comment alerting me to the fact that the handsome and talented actor
Farley Granger has
died at his home in Manhattan at the age of 85. He follows his long-time partner, Robert Calhoun, who died three years ago. Granger was an A-list star whose credits included Hitchcock's
Rope and
Strangers on a Train as well as
The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing and
Around the World in 80 Days. He also had great success on Broadway where his credits included
The Warm Peninsula with Julie Harris,
The Seagull,
The Crucible,
The Glass Menagerie, and the revival of
The King and I, starring opposite Barbara Cook. He won an Obie award in 1986 for the Lanford Wilson play
Talley & Son.
In 2007, Granger and Calhoun published a memoir called
Include Me Out in which he freely discussed his many affairs including Shelley Winters, Ava Gardner, Arthur Laurents, and Leonard Bernstein. Calhoun's sister, Linda Plevin, said of Granger,
"He was a very handsome and beloved film star who always did exactly what he wanted to do, which was a little bit of everything." Sounds like a life well lived.
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