Four For Friday - Old Hollywood

#1 - A "six-foot-two, 200-pound star of a tv action series" had a sugar daddy who was the vice president of a top Madison Avenue advertising agency. The show failed to live up to expectations and was canceled, but the tv star moved on to feature films. The "daddy" actually adopted his son and son introduced his sugar daddy to people as his actual father. The "son" married an actress but cheated on her with a young, well-known (male) tennis player. The wife found out and threatened to out the relationship in the divorce suit, but the sugar daddy was able to talk her out of that so she divorced on grounds of "cruelty" instead. The actor is described as a former high school football player who grew up near Washington D.C. and served in Korea.

#2 - "A husky-voiced, broken-nosed roughneck lover, who had been rumored engaged to half the most bra-busting females in films" picked up a young male hitchhiker and kissed and groped the hitchhiker against his wishes.

#3 - "Fred (pseudonym) was a barroom brawler who lost more fights than he won. Once he received a broken nose which held up production for days. He spent several different nights in the drunk-tank, and was given to mysterious disappearances...it turns out Fred would not or could not accept his homosexual streak...his drinks coincided with his homosexual urges..." It also says Fred was reduced to low-budget Poverty Row films at some point in his career.

#4 - "Jay is a big star on both TV and in the movies. He has been arrested several times as a common drunk and once for drunk driving. This last conviction sent him to a county Honor Camp for thirty days...Early in his Hollywood career, Jay had indulged in active homosexuality with an agent, the man who got him his first role. It was repulsive to him at the time, and he began to drink heavily out of guilt...Jay had always been a ladies' man and had once been a top football player. He could not face the fact that he might have been inclined toward homosexuality..." He was on location in a small Utah town and came on to his stand-in, then had the stand-in fired for knowing too much.