HITCHCOCK

STAR FARLEY GRANGER LATE
It was an almost forgotten Hollywood legend: Farley Granger, known from the Hitchcock films "Cocktail for a corpse" and "The stranger in the train", has passed away at the age of 85 years in New York.

Only few days after Elizabeth Taylor another old star of classical Hollywood who disposed, however, from today's view of less fame by far has passed away: Farley Granger, known by the role of the student Phillip Morgan from Alfred Hitchocks "cocktail for a corpse" (1948). Three years later an other cooperation with the master of Suspense followed with the "stranger in the train".

Farley Granger was born on the 1st of July, 1925 in New York city. Samuel Goldwyn discovered the good-looking young man for the film. The first sensation excited Granger in Lewis Mileston's war film "The North of the star" (1943) who was torn though by the press, but to the Hollywood newcomer to an other role in Darryl F. Zanucks "The Purple Heart" helped (also produces from Lewis Milestone). After the war he took over a role in Nicholas Rays "you live at night" which was finished already in 1947, but came only in 1949 to the cinemas. Alfred Hitchcock saw the film by chance in a London studio - and engaged the young man immediately in his crime film society play "cocktail for a corpse".

Farley Granger The stranger in the train" was also to be seen in Hitchcocks ", however, his Hollywood career got in faltering. he went to Italy where he played under direction of Luchino Visconti in the history drama "longing". Afterwards he returned to America and concentrated completely upon his Broadway career. Every now and then he was also to be seen on the American television. His autobiography "Include Me Out" appeared in 2008. In it he confessed to his bisexuality and his affairs with Ava Gardner, Shelley Winters and Leonard Bernstein.