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Charles William "Billy" Haines (January 2, 1900 – December 26, 1973), known professionally as William Haines, was an American film actor and interior designer.
Haines was discovered by a talent scout and signed with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) in 1922. His career gained momentum when he was loaned out to Columbia Pictures where he received favorable reviews for his role in The Midnight Express. Haines returned to MGM and was cast in the 1926 film Brown of Harvard. The role solidified his screen persona as a wisecracking, arrogant leading man. By the end of the 1920s, Haines had appeared in a string of successful films and was a popular box office draw.
His career was cut short by the 1930s due to his refusal to deny his homosexuality. Haines quit acting in 1935 and started a successful interior design business with his life partner Jimmie Shields, and was supported by friends in Hollywood. Haines died of lung cancer in December 1973 at the age of 73.
Haines was born on January 2, 1900 (he claimed he was born on January 1) in Staunton, Virginia, the third child of George Adam Haines, a cigar maker, and Laura Virginia Haines (née Matthews). Two older siblings died in infancy. He had four younger siblings: Lillian, born in 1902; Ann, born in 1907; George, Jr., born in 1908; and Henry, born in 1917. He was baptized at the Trinity Episcopal Church in Staunton at the age of eight, where he later sang in the choir. He became fascinated with stage performance and motion pictures at an early age, spending hours watching early silent films in the local theatres.
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Joan Crawford (March 23, 1904 – May 10, 1977), born Lucille Fay LeSueur, was an American film and television actress who started as a dancer and stage chorine. In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked Crawford tenth on their list of the greatest female stars of Classic Hollywood Cinema.
Beginning her career as a dancer in travelling theatrical companies before debuting as a chorus girl on Broadway, Crawford signed a motion picture contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1925. In the 1930s, Crawford's fame rivaled, and later outlasted, MGM colleagues Norma Shearer and Greta Garbo. Crawford often played hard-working young women who find romance and success. These stories were well received by Depression-era audiences and were popular with women. Crawford became one of Hollywood's most prominent movie stars and one of the highest paid women in the United States, but her films began losing money, and, by the end of the 1930s, she was labelled "Box Office Poison". But her career gradually improved in the early 1940s, and she made a major comeback in 1945 by starring in Mildred Pierce, for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress. She would go on to receive Best Actress nominations for Possessed (1947) and Sudden Fear (1952).
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What price Hollywood? was the title of an early George Cukor film, but is a question every closeted movie star has probably asked himself. In 1930, the top box office star was a gay man. Billy Haines lived with his lover, Jimmie Shields, and never posed on the red carpet with a beard on his arm. By 1933, he was washed up in show business; and by 1936, he had become hugely successful in an entirely new line of work-interior decorator. Out of the Closet, Off the Screen: the Life of William Haines details the extraordinary life of Billy Haines, the only matinee idol who ever decided that Hollywood’s price was too high and walked away from film stardom.
Called "the happiest married couple in Hollywood" by Joan Crawford, Haines & Shields were together for decades, sacrificing careers and enduring persecution.
Comedian Billy Boone (openly gay silent film star William Haines) camps it up over lunch with pretentious aspiring actress Peggy Pepper, (his real life pal Marion Davies) in the studio cafeteria. A great scene from King Vidor's satirical masterpiece "Show People" (1928).
Starring William Haines, Judith Allen, Joseph Cawthorn, Ted Fio Rito, Vince Barnett, Warren Hymer and the Wampas Baby Stars of 1934: Judith Allen, Betty Bryson, Jean Carmen, Dorthy Drake, June Gale, Hazel Hayes, June Hovey, Naomi Judge, Lenore Keefe, Lucille Lind, LuAnn Meredith and Katharine Williams. Directed by Louis Santley. Hollywood press agent Robert Preston (William Haines) gets into trouble with his boss, Herman Cline, head of Superba Pictures, for neglecting his duties in order to publicize the 13 WAMPUS Baby Stars, June Dale in particular, at a banquet in their honor. However, he sweet talks Mrs. Cline and keeps his job, but risks losing his girlfriend. Per Wikipedia: "The WAMPAS Baby Stars was a promotional campaign sponsored by the United States Western Association of Motio...
For your enjoyment: Here's a clip from the silent film West Point, starring William Haines and Joan Crawford. The footage is from a great documentary from Turner Classic Movies called Joan Crawford: The Ultimate Movie Star. I've set the footage against an early performance by Joan singing "I Never Knew Heaven Could Speak." I've also included a few photos of Joan and Bill together. "Wealthy Bruce Wayne enters West Point and, though he does well on the football field, angers fellow cadets with his arrogance. Disciplined by the coach he yells "To hell with the Corps!" which would have led to further discipline but for the intervention of his hero-worshipping roommate "Tex." He resigns anyway, but just before the big game returns to lead his team and reunite with Betty Channing, the h...
Hold Everything...Here's WILLIAM HAINES IN "THE MARINES ARE COMING" The Marines have landed...with a roll of drums...flags unfurled...ready to fight...ready for love!
Short but fun clip from the Silent Blockbuster BROWN OF HARVARD which made fast rising William Haines one of Hollywood's biggest Stars. MGM's third highest grossing film of 1926. Tom Brown is a youthful womanizer with a Love Em' and Leave Em' demeanor. Until he meets the young Mary Abbott delightfully portrayed by Mary Brian. Note: Apparently, neither MGM or Warner Brothers list this film among it's present archival holdings. Copyright may have expired and was not renewed.
You think 'reading' was invented by drag queens in the 90's? William Haines, an openly gay silent film star, 'reads' Alice Day in 1928's The Smart Set. The library is open, ladies.
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Tell It To The Marines: http://bit.ly/IlsqIT "Lon Chaney is superb" (Leonard Maltin) as the hard-boiled sergeant with a heart of gold in this two-fisted tale of Marine Corps life, costarring William Haines and Eleanor Boardman. When Skeet Burns (Haines) joins the U.S. Marines, he winds up under Sergeant O'Hara (Chaney), the toughest leatherneck in the Corps., and both men fall for Navy nurse Norma Dale (Boardman). When they're stationed in the Philippines, Skeet's dalliance with a native girl (Carmel Myers) tips the scale in O'Hara's favor. Reassigned to China, the two must put their differences aside when they're ordered to Hangchow to rescue Norma and the nurses from a bandit leader (Warner Oland), whose gang has invaded the city. The first film made with the full cooperation of the C...
William Haines drops trou in 1927's "Spring Fever". Nice legs.
“Wireless System for Continuous Monitoring of Core Body Temperature” William Haines, University of Colorado Recorded in Honolulu, Hawai‘i, June 5, 2017 The Inaugural IMS2017 Three Minute Thesis (3MT®) Competition Co-Organizers/Co-Chairs: John Bandler and Erin Kiley http://ims2017.org/technical-program/competitions/3mt Camera and postproduction: Jim Lyle Sound: Brian Carr Acknowledgements: Tammy Lyle, LylePhotos: http://www.lylephotos.com Ryan Pang, Elsie Vega and the IMS2017 Steering Committee The IEEE MTT International Microwave Symposium (IMS), June 4-9, 2017 http://ims2017.org/ Special thanks: Gregory Atkinson, Ana Kovacevic
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What price Hollywood? was the title of an early George Cukor film, but is a question every closeted movie star has probably asked himself. In 1930, the top box office star was a gay man. Billy Haines lived with his lover, Jimmie Shields, and never posed on the red carpet with a beard on his arm. By 1933, he was washed up in show business; and by 1936, he had become hugely successful in an entirely new line of work-interior decorator. Out of the Closet, Off the Screen: the Life of William Haines details the extraordinary life of Billy Haines, the only matinee idol who ever decided that Hollywood’s price was too high and walked away from film stardom.
Starring William Haines, Judith Allen, Joseph Cawthorn, Ted Fio Rito, Vince Barnett, Warren Hymer and the Wampas Baby Stars of 1934: Judith Allen, Betty Bryson, Jean Carmen, Dorthy Drake, June Gale, Hazel Hayes, June Hovey, Naomi Judge, Lenore Keefe, Lucille Lind, LuAnn Meredith and Katharine Williams. Directed by Louis Santley. Hollywood press agent Robert Preston (William Haines) gets into trouble with his boss, Herman Cline, head of Superba Pictures, for neglecting his duties in order to publicize the 13 WAMPUS Baby Stars, June Dale in particular, at a banquet in their honor. However, he sweet talks Mrs. Cline and keeps his job, but risks losing his girlfriend. Per Wikipedia: "The WAMPAS Baby Stars was a promotional campaign sponsored by the United States Western Association of Motio...
Hold Everything...Here's WILLIAM HAINES IN "THE MARINES ARE COMING" The Marines have landed...with a roll of drums...flags unfurled...ready to fight...ready for love!
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Part 3 of London 43LG Community Church Workshop in preparation for Foundation Day. Lecturer: William Haines
Part 1 of London 43LG Community Church Workshop in preparation for Foundation Day. Lecturer: William Haines
Lecture on Leadership given by William Haines at 43 Lancaster Gate Monday 17th Marsh 2014, this is part one of three lectures that he will be giving on this topic. Parts 2 and 3 will be given on the 24th and 31st of March respectively at 7pm in the Café at 43 Lancaster Gate, W2 3NA.
It was said of him that in more than seventy films, he never once gave a bad performance. He was a charming and unconventional man with a “wild streak” and a compulsion to test himself at every turn. Subscribe for more Hollywood biographies and stories! http://bit.ly/HollywoodCollectionSub At his peak he became a leading man of immense attractiveness who refused to take fame and adulation seriously while in his later years a weary cynicism seemed to reflect the reality of the world around him. William Holden’s achievements as an Academy-Award winning, internationally-acclaimed actor are revealed in clips from some of his best films, such as The Golden Boy, Born Yesterday, The Country Girl, Sunset Boulevard, Stalag 17, Sabrina, The Bridge On The River Kwai, The World Of Suzie Wong and Ne...
When Lt. "Wild Bill" Traynor, bad boy of the Marine Corps, arrives at a San Diego Marine Base, he is surprised to discover he has been assigned to duty under his old rival, Captain Benton (Conrad Nagel). While eluding the advances of Rosita (Armida), a Latin dancer, Bill becomes involved with Benton's fiancee, Dorothy Manning (Esther Ralston), whom he quickly wins and Benton accepts the impending marriage. ---------------- Cast: William Haines - Lt. William 'Wild Bill' Traylor Conrad Nagel - Capt. Edward 'Ned' Benton Esther Ralston - Dorothy Manning Armida - Rosita Hernández Consuelo Ibera y Buenaventura
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TV & Film - You Must Remember This - EP.#60: MGM Stories Part 5: William Haines and Hollywood’s First Openly Gay Marriage The rare silent star who made a relatively smooth transition to sound films, William “Billy” Haines was one of the top box office stars of the late 1920s-early 1930s. Beginning in 1926, Haines started living with Jimmie Shields, and the two men became one of the most popular couples on the Hollywood social scene, facing little if any homophobia among the industry’s elite. But as times changed and the heat from the censors began to get hotter, MGM began to put pressure on Haines to pretend to be someone he wasn’t. This episode is brought to you by Squarespace. Please subscribe for more updates: https://goo.gl/vJMHeH G+: https://goo.gl/biWG3X Twitter: https://goo.gl/...
Part 2 of London 43LG Community Church Workshop in preparation for Foundation Day. Lecturer: William Haines
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What price Hollywood? was the title of an early George Cukor film, but is a question every closeted movie star has probably asked himself. In 1930, the top box office star was a gay man. Billy Haines lived with his lover, Jimmie Shields, and never posed on the red carpet with a beard on his arm. By 1933, he was washed up in show business; and by 1936, he had become hugely successful in an entirely new line of work-interior decorator. Out of the Closet, Off the Screen: the Life of William Haines details the extraordinary life of Billy Haines, the only matinee idol who ever decided that Hollywood’s price was too high and walked away from film stardom.
Called "the happiest married couple in Hollywood" by Joan Crawford, Haines & Shields were together for decades, sacrificing careers and enduring persecution.
William Haines drops trou in 1927's "Spring Fever". Nice legs.
Comedian Billy Boone (openly gay silent film star William Haines) camps it up over lunch with pretentious aspiring actress Peggy Pepper, (his real life pal Marion Davies) in the studio cafeteria. A great scene from King Vidor's satirical masterpiece "Show People" (1928).
You think 'reading' was invented by drag queens in the 90's? William Haines, an openly gay silent film star, 'reads' Alice Day in 1928's The Smart Set. The library is open, ladies.
Anita Page 1996 Interview Part 1 of 9. Videographed by Luke Sacher, interviewed by Carole Langer at Anita Paige's home in Pasadena CA. Anita Evelyn Pomares (August 4, 1910 -- September 6, 2008), better known as Anita Page, was a Salvadoran-American film actress who reached stardom in the last years of the silent film era. She became a highly popular young star, reportedly at one point receiving the most fan mail of anyone on the MGM lot. When Page died in 2008 at age 98, she was the last surviving "famous" film star of the silent era except for child actresses such as Baby Peggy and Baby Marie. A few silent leading ladies who did not achieve wide fame survive her. She was referred to as "a blond, blue-eyed Latin" and "the girl with the most beautiful face in Hollywood" in the 1920s. ...
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This week, Steve spoke to bestselling author William Boyd about his new book Sweet Caress. The writer has also written a James Bond book and had a smash hit with Any Human Heart, which was long-listed for the Booker Prize. Subscribe to LBC: http://bit.ly/SubscribeToLBC LBC: Leading Britain's Conversation DAB Digital Radio Nationwide | 97.3FM FM London
Marion Davies has stars in her eyes in this “delightful look at silent Hollywood” (Time Out Film Guide), directed by King Vidor and costarring William Haines. All Peggy Pepper (Davies) wants in life is to be a great dramatic actress, but when rowdy slapstick comic Billy Boyle (Haines) gives Peggy her big break, she puts her dreams on hold and becomes America’s comedy queen. So when prestigious High Arts Studio offers her the chance to play serious roles and Peggy gets an awfully swelled head, it’s up to Billy to burst her bubble and bring Peggy down to earth. Loosely based on Gloria Swanson’s career, Show People features cameos by Charlie Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks, John Gilbert, William S. Hart and more in this “bright and snappy ode to Hollywood stardom” (Allrovi.com).
As Hollywood prepares for the 89th Academy Awards and the party season hits full swing, we pay tribute to the First Lady of entertaining, ahead of the second part of the Betsy Bloomingdale: A Life in Style auction on 5 April. Read more at http://www.christies.com/features/Betsy-Bloomingdale-and-the-art-of-entertaining-8086-3.aspx ‘Entertaining is not a frivolous endeavour,’ wrote Betsy Bloomingdale in her book Entertaining with Betsy Bloomingdale: A Collection of Culinary Tips and Treasures from the World’s Best Hosts and Hostesses. ‘I believe it is one of the great essentials of life.’ The legendary socialite and philanthropist kept a record of every dinner party she hosted from 1959 until her death in 2016. These notebooks contained lists of her guests, copies of the menus, notes on h...
Short but fun clip from the Silent Blockbuster BROWN OF HARVARD which made fast rising William Haines one of Hollywood's biggest Stars. MGM's third highest grossing film of 1926. Tom Brown is a youthful womanizer with a Love Em' and Leave Em' demeanor. Until he meets the young Mary Abbott delightfully portrayed by Mary Brian. Note: Apparently, neither MGM or Warner Brothers list this film among it's present archival holdings. Copyright may have expired and was not renewed.
Stewart Copeland talks about Ramón Novarro (Ben-Hur), who became Hollywood's first gay icon in the MGM 1925 silent film Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ. It's music and a movie, together on the VPAC stage! Composed by drummer Stewart Copeland, don't miss him rock out his hometown with the Pacific Symphony under the baton of CSUN alum Richard Kaufman MAR 16. For tickets, info, and more videos: http://goo.gl/nB1Fav Follow us on social media @VPACatCSUN
Jump to 13:00 for Sermon by William Haines
Lecture on Leadership given by William Haines at 43 Lancaster Gate Monday 17th Marsh 2014, this is part one of three lectures that he will be giving on this topic. Parts 2 and 3 will be given on the 24th and 31st of March respectively at 7pm in the Café at 43 Lancaster Gate, W2 3NA.
Recorded on 16/03/2011 - Captured Live on Ustream
For your enjoyment: Here's a clip from the silent film West Point, starring William Haines and Joan Crawford. The footage is from a great documentary from Turner Classic Movies called Joan Crawford: The Ultimate Movie Star. I've set the footage against an early performance by Joan singing "I Never Knew Heaven Could Speak." I've also included a few photos of Joan and Bill together. "Wealthy Bruce Wayne enters West Point and, though he does well on the football field, angers fellow cadets with his arrogance. Disciplined by the coach he yells "To hell with the Corps!" which would have led to further discipline but for the intervention of his hero-worshipping roommate "Tex." He resigns anyway, but just before the big game returns to lead his team and reunite with Betty Channing, the h...
Clip from 1928 silent film starring William Haines and Marion Davies.
What price Hollywood? was the title of an early George Cukor film, but is a question every closeted movie star has probably asked himself. In 1930, the top box office star was a gay man. Billy Haines lived with his lover, Jimmie Shields, and never posed on the red carpet with a beard on his arm. By 1933, he was washed up in show business; and by 1936, he had become hugely successful in an entirely new line of work-interior decorator. Out of the Closet, Off the Screen: the Life of William Haines details the extraordinary life of Billy Haines, the only matinee idol who ever decided that Hollywood’s price was too high and walked away from film stardom.
Starring William Haines, Judith Allen, Joseph Cawthorn, Ted Fio Rito, Vince Barnett, Warren Hymer and the Wampas Baby Stars of 1934: Judith Allen, Betty Bryson, Jean Carmen, Dorthy Drake, June Gale, Hazel Hayes, June Hovey, Naomi Judge, Lenore Keefe, Lucille Lind, LuAnn Meredith and Katharine Williams. Directed by Louis Santley. Hollywood press agent Robert Preston (William Haines) gets into trouble with his boss, Herman Cline, head of Superba Pictures, for neglecting his duties in order to publicize the 13 WAMPUS Baby Stars, June Dale in particular, at a banquet in their honor. However, he sweet talks Mrs. Cline and keeps his job, but risks losing his girlfriend. Per Wikipedia: "The WAMPAS Baby Stars was a promotional campaign sponsored by the United States Western Association of Motio...
Hold Everything...Here's WILLIAM HAINES IN "THE MARINES ARE COMING" The Marines have landed...with a roll of drums...flags unfurled...ready to fight...ready for love!
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Jump to 13:00 for Sermon by William Haines
Part 3 of London 43LG Community Church Workshop in preparation for Foundation Day. Lecturer: William Haines
Part 1 of London 43LG Community Church Workshop in preparation for Foundation Day. Lecturer: William Haines
Lecture on Leadership given by William Haines at 43 Lancaster Gate Monday 17th Marsh 2014, this is part one of three lectures that he will be giving on this topic. Parts 2 and 3 will be given on the 24th and 31st of March respectively at 7pm in the Café at 43 Lancaster Gate, W2 3NA.
It was said of him that in more than seventy films, he never once gave a bad performance. He was a charming and unconventional man with a “wild streak” and a compulsion to test himself at every turn. Subscribe for more Hollywood biographies and stories! http://bit.ly/HollywoodCollectionSub At his peak he became a leading man of immense attractiveness who refused to take fame and adulation seriously while in his later years a weary cynicism seemed to reflect the reality of the world around him. William Holden’s achievements as an Academy-Award winning, internationally-acclaimed actor are revealed in clips from some of his best films, such as The Golden Boy, Born Yesterday, The Country Girl, Sunset Boulevard, Stalag 17, Sabrina, The Bridge On The River Kwai, The World Of Suzie Wong and Ne...
When Lt. "Wild Bill" Traynor, bad boy of the Marine Corps, arrives at a San Diego Marine Base, he is surprised to discover he has been assigned to duty under his old rival, Captain Benton (Conrad Nagel). While eluding the advances of Rosita (Armida), a Latin dancer, Bill becomes involved with Benton's fiancee, Dorothy Manning (Esther Ralston), whom he quickly wins and Benton accepts the impending marriage. ---------------- Cast: William Haines - Lt. William 'Wild Bill' Traylor Conrad Nagel - Capt. Edward 'Ned' Benton Esther Ralston - Dorothy Manning Armida - Rosita Hernández Consuelo Ibera y Buenaventura
Recorded on 16/03/2011 - Captured Live on Ustream
TV & Film - You Must Remember This - EP.#60: MGM Stories Part 5: William Haines and Hollywood’s First Openly Gay Marriage The rare silent star who made a relatively smooth transition to sound films, William “Billy” Haines was one of the top box office stars of the late 1920s-early 1930s. Beginning in 1926, Haines started living with Jimmie Shields, and the two men became one of the most popular couples on the Hollywood social scene, facing little if any homophobia among the industry’s elite. But as times changed and the heat from the censors began to get hotter, MGM began to put pressure on Haines to pretend to be someone he wasn’t. This episode is brought to you by Squarespace. Please subscribe for more updates: https://goo.gl/vJMHeH G+: https://goo.gl/biWG3X Twitter: https://goo.gl/...
Part 2 of London 43LG Community Church Workshop in preparation for Foundation Day. Lecturer: William Haines
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