![]() Wisecracker sweeps from gay pool parties to the excitement of early talkies to Haines's infamous encounter with gay-bashing white supremacists in 1936. Here is Haines's virtually unknown story-rich with detail, revelations, and scandal-about silent movies and talkies his lover Jimmie Shields, and their fifty-year relationship (Joan Crawford, their best friend, called them "The happiest married couple in Hollywood") and the enforcement of the Production Code and establishment of the Hollywood closet, which led to the blacklisting that ultimately doomed Haimes's film career. Off screen, however, protected by a careful collaboration between studio and press, he was openly gay with reporters and studio chiefs alike. ![]() In 1930 William Haines was Hollywood's #1 box-office draw-a talented, handsome, and wisecracking romantic lead. ![]()
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