Daily Archives: July 30, 2019
Vintage men together, outdoors
William Haines and Eddie Nugent in “The Duke Steps Out”, 1929
William Haines was a big Hollywood actor in the 1920s who was gay. When he was caught in public with a man he was forced by MGM to either marry a woman and continue his very successful movie career – or be banned from the movies if he didn’t. He chose the latter and then went on to become a much sought after interior designer for movie stars and wealthy patrons in Los Angeles. He refused to work for any client who was in MGM management.

Joan Crawford (left) and Dorothy Sebastian in “Our Dancing Daughters”, 1928

Joan Crawford, 1926 (a year into her first movie studio contract)

Gloria Swanson, 1922

Silent film star Clara Bow on the cover of ‘Screenland’

Buster Keaton emoting in a silent film, 1920s
