(In 1946, he was sentenced to 180 days in prison following a hit-and-run; the sentence was eventually suspended.) He also had many a guest shot on TV series. Those orgies must have been the livin’ end. She'd already missed time on the set of Something's Gotta Give because of a severe sinus infection.So they fired her. Drake was born in 1918, in Brooklyn, New York. Diaries, photos, etc. Another story went that it was Gable’s doing but only because Cukor was famous as a “woman’s director” and he feared he’d be lost in Cukor’s effort to make Vivien Leigh shine. Hello. That's one way to certainly kill her career after giving a major interview to LIFE Magazine released the day before her death as well as several photo shoots that later appeared as memorials. This turned into a legal case. She had no guile. r96 You are EPIC!!! Visit this actor at the IMDb. Drake died of lung cancer at Torrance Memorial Hospital in Torrance, California (Los Angeles County) on August 11, 1982. Frank was a monster that way. He showed up every morning good to go. So, not only did he never step up to the plate and do the right thing, but he actually figured out a way to profit from AIDS. Correspondence indicates Cukors leaving was really because of a fight for control between him and GWTW producer David Selznick or for other studio politics reasons. The insurance policy holders had access to the money, which allowed some to live out their days without having to go on welfare. I also loved him as Nick Charles in The Thin Man TV series in the early 1960s opposite Phyllis Kirk. Don't you just LOVE clicking on these things on J. Edgar Hoover, who for many years contended there was no significant mafia activity, since Edgar was in their pocket, hated the Kennedys too. So it doesn’t matter if he calls James Dean a glorified prostitute, or Griffin a pimp. Here are my thoughts based on tons of material I've read about everyone involved, JFK, Bobby, Marilyn, Sinatra, the mob,the PIs, the Hollywood culture, etc. She's "afraid" of Lawford, that he might "harm" or "poison" her.%0D It seems rather contrived. None of this changes the fact that Merv may well have been the greatest talk show host in Hollywood history and my grandma’s fave. Of all the brothers Bobby was the good guy. Drake made films starting in 1940 and continuing until the mid-1970s, made TV acting appearances. She knew the ins and outs of the Rat Pack and of Hollywood. Drake h Leave some money to an AIDS charity or something? Does that mean Bobby was perfect or flawless? Idiots. It all fits. Hello. Merv actually did give money to an Aids Foundation and to expect him to come out-a man of his era is simply preposterous. BIRTHDAY August 05,1918. If you are interested you can take a look at Perversely, despite a couple passing acquaintances with gay men or bi men (Lawford, Capote, Clift, etc. Drake made films starting in 1940 and continuing until the mid-1970s, and also made TV acting appearances. And as any law student knows, you can’t libel the dead. The original story was not that Clark Gable “had to allow himself to be blown by George Cukor,” but that like a lot of 20-something meat fresh to Follywood, he peddled himself a bit, road the casting couch whatever…and that later, after he’d become a star, he was behind Cukor’s firing as the first director of “Gone With the Wind” because he didn’t want a daily reminder of those days. ), I think she secretly feared them too because if a man didn't relate to her sexually she felt confused and rejected. %0D %0D People who knew Monroe said she would carry around a notebook and jot things in it from time to time. Age: 64. Plus Judy Garland’s ‘Meet Me in St. Louis’ boy next door, Tom Drake, who, by the way, ended up a used car salesman. She meant she thought he hated her because she was a beautiful female sex symbol that men wanted, and he wished he was her. ... Tom Drake was an American actor. I think even as the men in her life disappointed her emotionally and sexually, she blindly sought older females as mother figures. But this sounds perfectly legit to me. I think many of guys in the Lawford / Kennedy circle weren't necessarily gay or even bi, but rather simply hedonistic and would fool around with a woman or a man as long as THEY got off, giving no send thoughts to the partner. I think it was Giancana's son who published a book claiming that New Orleans mob boss Johnny Roselli, who Marilyn knew well and liked, called on her with two assassins, drugged her and inserted 40 Nebutals in her rectum. Officially, she had an affair with Gerry Mulligan - but all the while she was munching on some pretty famous muffs. Complete Tom Drake 2017 Biography. So how do you get HIV, then? How can you be unaware that people put their (straight) wedding announcements in the paper, announce the births of children etc.? R61 In fairness, Vidal Sassoon did come across as pretty damn gay. Frank was a boozer, but no drugs. You can still see some today if you go to cigar shops. He was educated at the Iona Preparatory School in New Rochelle, New York, and Mercersburg Academy in Mercersburg, Pennsylvania, There was Peter Lawford, Robert Walker, Gordon Scott the then-Tarzan. Monroe found it quite refreshing when men (straight or gay) DIDN'T think of her a sexual object. Died: August 11, 1982: Born: August 5, 1918: Cause of Death: pneumonia: Birth Place: Brooklyn, New York, USA: Profession: actor, producer, director, car salesman RATE AND COMMENT. making everyone in the world click on these pointless things while changing Plus Judy Garland’s ‘Meet Me in St. Louis’ boy next door, Tom Drake, who, by the way, ended up a used car salesman. They were terrifiedt damaginge information might get into thet wrong hands and expose JFK. Flaming?%0D %0D Monroe's psychiatrist Ralph Greene said that Monroe disliked homosexuals, but for some perverse reason frequently put herself in situations where she associated with them. In those days, people had all sorts of bizarre inconsistent ideas of what a homosexual was. What's Tom Drake's story? "In his later years, Peter Lawford could not achieve orgasm without getting his nipples lacerated with razor blades." Date of death: 11 Aug 1982 . Affair affair from 1944 until 1944. I also read he & Van Johnson had an affair. Please. >And as any law student knows, you can’t libel the dead. Tom Drake was an American actor with a relatively lengthy career. To JFK, women were disposable. They likely knew, but it was unspoken, and that allowed all involved to just rationalize things –to say to themselves that, well, Merv, is not like those other people, and to always believe that maybe it wasn’t true anyway, and that he was truly dating Eva Gabor. He gave us so many wonderful laughs over the years I wish there were more like him. Griffin was irresistibly charming and his old talk show was like a feast of the best chocolate truffles and champagne because it featured all the greatest stars [read with TALENT not just flavors of the moment] who ever agreed to do TV. What she disliked were people who she believed were untrustworthy. "Marilyn" was a creation, a character she played. Robert Walker died on Aug. 28, 1951, from an adverse reaction to prescription drugs. Peter Lawford was a notorious drug addict, liar, and fuckup who even tried to get his own children hooked on cocaine. Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com: accessed ), memorial page for Tom “Buddy” Drake (5 Aug 1918–11 Aug 1982), Find a Grave Memorial no. August 5, 1918– He was born Alfred Sinclair Alderdice in Brooklyn.At some point in his stage career and after several other name changes, he landed on Tom Drake as his professional screen name. He was the "knight" to JFK's rogue. View Tom Drake's Family Tree and History, Ancestry and Genealogy. Hello and thank you for being a DL contributor. by Anonymous: reply 2: 06/19/2014: I think this is entirely possible, wouldn't be the weirdest thing i've heard happen. Yikes! She was unavailable in the morning and by afternoon he was drunk. Marilyn defied her studio to go to NYC for the President's brithday in May. He couldn't sing or dance but looked good in (and out) of a suit. Seacrest’s not dead, so I guess this book won’t cover it. How could she have an aversion to gays with him being the Queen Gay? Hello and thank you for registering. Drake was excused from serving in World War II due to heart problems. I think it’s Marlon BRANDO! Do you not realize how outrageous her infamous appearance at JFK's birthday celebration was at the time??? Judy Garland. Become a contributor - post when you want with no ads. In fact, she had become utterly infatuated with him and desperately believed he would divorce his wife and marry her, such was her befuddled state of mind. Think about it. Place of death. In the early days of AIDS, I remember reading that Merv started a company which purchased life insurance policies from gay men with AIDS. Viewed today, it's still utterly outrageous!". Why would the mob want the Kennedys out? It's a shame Tom Drake threw his life away pining for this perv and I say this as a fan of Lawford, especially in his later years. Didn't he have an affair with Dorothy Dandridge? Secondly, Griffin’s closet had him engaging in workplace sexual harassment, something that, as I showed in my 1993 book Queer in America, is common among closeted powerful men, who often are simply seeking outlets for sex. I have always wondered who was handing him that whiskey bottle. And now he’s doing it to Griffin with Merv Griffin: a Life in the Closet. He didn't want to be a woman. The fact that she had unscrupulous people working for her, spying on her, attempting to exploit her, over medicating her, was a sad, disgusting testimony to something that we now know to be all to common in Hollywood and something that happens still today. Their image at the time as an intact, Catholic family with two cute little tykes was a huge selling point for the First Family. Bobby's mission was to try to calm her down, help her get into rehab, and see if he could negotiate her return to the studio and making movies, he wanted to help get her career back on track. Why would anyone want to slander the dead? And apparently he was into serious nipple play during sex. It's sad to hear all these awful things about Peter, though I'm not doubting their veracity. He did it for Katharine Hepburn. Hell, you must admit, that’s one hell of a life. He was slime. New Releases. We are changing the login scheme for contributors for simpler login and to better support using multiple devices. I think Frank tolerated Gay men who were out. Nationality: United States Executive summary: Meet Me In St. Louis. Don't we get a new one every year, along with yet another husband she married in Mexicali in 1948? Tom Drake. His body is interred at Holy Cross Cemeteryin Culver City, California. This being an era when male actors felt homosexuality was a danger to their career, lawyers shot down that book fast.”. click ACCEPT She attempted suicide and was taken away in an ambulance. That should not be forgotten.”. No -- they kept secrets from their own WH staff. Popularizing a perversion does not make it right. It's a shame Tom Drake threw his life away pining for this perv and I say this as a fan of Lawford, especially in his later years. He had a minor role in the Debbie Reynolds vehicle The Singing Nun. American Actor Tom Drake was born Alfred Alderdice on 5th August, 1918 in Brooklyn, New York and passed away on 11th Aug 1982 Torrance, California aged 64. r8 and 9 are completely dense. So I suggest before you start quoting Voltaire, who was not referring to Gayness at all, you educate yourself. Of course, some part of you secretly wants this all to be real. Peter Lawford wasn't gay. And if that wasn’t scandalous enough: “I write that friends who went to school with him in San Mateo say, when he was a young homosexual growing up, he was sexually molested” by a priest. And lots about Merv’s prolonged sexual tryst with Marlon Brando. Some features on this site require a subscription. I read somewhere that Marilyn said she wouldn't have an affair with Bobby; he was too puny. Birthday August Aug 5, 1918. They were no bloody good. Walker had been battling alcoholism for some time, which had led to at least a couple of car accidents and an array of embarrassing headlines. What next, sheep or goats? Frank invited Marilyn there to meet Sam and they plied her with booze and pills. I guess you had to be there. He was 76. I don't buy the affair with Bobby meme even though it's practically dogma. But the answer to the question is so easy Ask Shirley MacLaine. Ttttom Drake was definitely gay. He generally felt like Lawford was a weak man and Frank hated weak men. As reckless as the Kennedys were sometimes I don't think they were crazy enough to do THAT. [quote]THere are even photos of her running outside semi nude yelling or arguing with Sinatra, and some men came and took her by the arms and forcibly "escorted " her back to her room. The story given out that she was despondent over her latest crisis. She felt terribly used. Included...%0D %0D [quote]Monroe's final writings, however, do not concern a renewed love for DiMaggio but rather detail her fear of actor Peter Lawford, brother-in-law to President John F. Kennedy. Though dismissed, the lawsuits put Griffin on the spot, and while he never denied being gay, he didn’t own it either. So they fired Marilyn. "Dr Ralph Greenson, her last psychiatrist, wrote that Monroe feared being drawn into ‘situations of a homosexual colouring.’". He bullied them. Scroll below and check more details information about Current Net […] ""%0D %0D What, did she think he was going to throw her into a pit in the cellar, and then make a woman-suit out of her skin?%0D %0D I suspect the pills were getting to her at that point. You may not have heard of him, but Drake made many films beginning in 1940 and continuing in to the mid-1970s. Allegedly Cukor continued to privately coach Leigh and Olivia de Havilland during filming. “Author Darwin Porter’s niche is posthumously outing celebrities. His real name was Alfred Sinclair Alderdice. If anyone can tell us definitely she could. Mia at R17, how is that movie overall? Heard the gay rumors about Lawford. His zodiac sign is Leo. Yes indeed, we too use "cookies." HOLLYWOOD -- Tom Drake, who rose to stardom in a series of 1940s musicals including 'Meet Me in St. Louis' and became Hollywood's favorite boy-next-door, died Wednesday of … Mayer declined. Her survival instincts were on target. We were the mincing hairdresser, the predator wearing a trench coat in the park, the body builder and the invisible (communist?) The ending of this piece harping on how you can’t libel the dead is passive-aggressive to the extreme. It is hard for me to believe than none of these rich and powerful closeted Gay men’s did NOT have friends who knew the truth. Drake made films starting in 1940 and continuing until the mid-1970s, and also made TV acting appearances. His first encounter, a boyhood friend he grew up with, later tried writing a book about Merv. Blackmail was top of the list. The Judith Campbell Exner connection to Giancana/Sinatra was well known to Bobby. Bobby truly couldn't stand his brother-in-law either. that no one ever encountered. I recall reading in one of the Marilyn bios that her therapist said she did indeed have an aversion to homosexuals. She never left her suite for three or four days. I'm always on the lookout for good old movies I haven't seen, especially with handsome classic Hollywood leading men. I guess I didn't find 'Age of Aquarius' any more cringe worthy than similar song and dance numbers aging stars performed along with the Gold Diggers on Dean Martin's program. Bobby may have visited her much earlier, prior to her death, and they allegedly had a pretty heated discussion,she was already spaced out from pills & booze, but he wasn't having an affair with her, and he didn't have her killed. His first crush was Errol Flynn, whom he saw passed out naked on a couch. He made films beginning in 1940 & continuing in to the mid-1970s. Effective blackmail bought all kinds of immunity. He was born on August 5, 1918 at Brooklyn, New York, United States. I can now reveal that The Mogul is Merv Griffin. I know we do! She knew the gay mob adored her but she was uneasy about being viewed as the world's biggest fag hag. Tom Drake was born in New York. Peter certainly knew who to call about that, but chances are they didn't leave it to Peter. He also stayed silent about the epidemic in the media — ironic since he was a man very much at the center of the media industry and in shaping communications and television in this country — when his voice would have made a huge difference. JFK and Marilyn fucked, they didn't sleep together, way more than once. Bobby felt very sorry for Marilyn. r18: Marilyn was dangerous to the Kennedys not because she knew political secrets but because she might be foolhardy enough to expose her affairs with them. If she loved him, as you write, why would she want to destroy him? Tom Drake was a Leo and was born in the Generation Z. Everyone sympathizes with female starlets being used by casting agents and producers, but there was also a male equivalent. There's plenty of documentation that disproves many of their supposed visits, but the entire Kennedy connection only adds interest and allure to Monroe's death months later. There is a really interesting book called 'Hollywood Warts 'n' All, published in 2005 (R76),that names names right the way through it. Marilyn hung around with Truman Capote a lot. The Sinatra/Giancana drugging and gang rape of Marilyn Monroe at the Cal Neva Lodge was the most despicable vile thing imaginable. Occupations. Tom Drake Family, Childhood, Life Achievements, Facts, Wiki and Bio of 2017. Micheangelo Signorile described [and documented] him best: “First off, Griffin’s closet kept him shockingly silent while he had access to the president of the United States as his own people were dying. You can thank the EU parliament for There was Peter Lawford, Robert Walker, Gordon Scott the then-Tarzan. 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