William Haines as he appeared in his first part-talkie Alias Jimmy Valentine in 1928.

William Haines (January 2, 1900 – December 26, 1973) was an American film actor who was one of the most notable film stars of the silent era. Image File history File linksMetadata Haines30. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Haines30. ... January 2 is the second day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... See also: 19th century in film 1899 in film 1900 1901 in film 1900s in film years in film film Events Births January 1 - Mildred Davis, actress (d. ... December 26 is the 360th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, 361st in leap years. ... // Events The Marx Brothers Zeppo Marx divorces his second wife, Barbara Blakely. ... Film is a term that encompasses motion pictures as individual projects, as well as the field in general. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... A silent film is a film which has no accompanying soundtrack. ...

Born Charles William Haines to a wealthy family in Staunton, Virginia, Haines left home at the age of 14 and moved to New York City. After winning a talent contest he moved to Hollywood where he played bit parts for several years until MGM Studios began casting him in more prominent roles. West Beverley Street in downtown Staunton Staunton is an independent city within the confines of Augusta County in the commonwealth of Virginia. ... Nickname: Big Apple, City that never Sleeps, Gotham Location in the state of New York Coordinates: Country United States State New York Boroughs The Bronx Brooklyn Manhattan Queens Staten Island Settled 1613 Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R) Area    - City 1,214. ... ... MGM logo Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer or MGM, is a large media company, involved primarily in the production and distribution of cinema and television programs. ...

Career in film

By 1925 he was MGM's most important male star, and his films were very profitable for the studio. He was cultivated as a romantic leading man, and his combination of good looks and flair for comedy won him many fans. He made a career out of playing wise-cracking young athletic types whose large egos hold them back until an attitude adjustment leads to success. MGM logo Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer or MGM, is a large media company, involved primarily in the production and distribution of cinema and television programs. ...

He appeared in hits such as The Midnight Express (1924) with Elaine Hammerstein, Sally, Irene and Mary (1926) with newcomers Joan Crawford and Constance Bennett, West Point (1927) also with Crawford, and scored his biggest personal successes with Brown of Harvard (1926) opposite Jack Pickford and Mary Brian, Little Annie Rooney (1927) with Mary Pickford and Vola Vale, and Show People (1928), costarring Marion Davies. Haines was a top-five box office star from 1928 to 1932. He made a successful transition into talking pictures in the part-talkie Alias Jimmy Valentine (1928). His first all-talkie, Navy Blues, was released the following year. Elaine Hammerstein (June 16, 1897 - August 13, 1948) was a silent film and stage actress Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, she was the daughter of opera producer Arthur Hammerstein and the granddaughter of Oscar Hammerstein. ... Joan Crawford (March 23, 1905 – May 10, 1977) was an acclaimed, iconic, Academy Award winning American actress. ... Constance Bennett on the cover of a 1930s magazine Constance Campbell Bennett (October 22, 1904 - July 24, 1965) was a US actress known more for her elegant persona than her acting talents. ... Brown of Harvard is the title of both a film from 1918 and from 1926. ... John Charles Smith (August 18, 1896 - January 3, 1933) was a Canadian-born American actor. ... Mary Brian (February 17, 1906 – December 30, 2002) was an American actress and movie star who made the transition from silents to talkies. ... Mary Pickford (April 8, 1892 – May 29, 1979) was an Oscar-winning Canadian-born motion picture star and co-founder of United Artists, known as Americas Sweetheart, Little Mary and the girl with the golden curls. ... // Silent Era Beauty and Biograph Star Vola Vale (February 12, 1897 - October 17, 1970) was a silent motion picture actress from Buffalo, New York. ... Show People is 1928 silent comedy film produced at MGM Studios, and directed by King Vidor. ... Marion Davies illustrated by Hamilton King, 1920 Marion Davies (born January 3, 1897; died September 23, 1961) was an American comedic actress. ... A sound film (or talkie) is a motion picture with synchronized sound, as opposed to a silent movie. ... Navy Blues was the fourth album by Canadian rock band Sloan. ...

End of film career

Haines lived openly as a homosexual^[1] - from 1926 with Jimmy Shields, whom he had met when Shields was his stand-in during the production of a film. Studio publicists were able to keep Haines' sexual orientation from the press. Since its coinage, the word homosexuality has acquired multiple meanings. ... Jimmy Shields (c 1896 - 1974) was an interior designer and actor who lived openly as a homosexual man with former movie idol William Haines from 1926 until his death. ...

In 1933, Haines was arrested in a YMCA with a sailor he had picked up in Los Angeles' Pershing Square. Louis B. Mayer, the studio head at MGM, delivered an ultimatum to Haines: choose between a sham marriage or lavender marriage, or his relationship with Shields. Haines chose Shields (they were ultimately together for 50 years). Mayer subsequently fired Haines and terminated his contract, quickly recasting Robert Montgomery in roles that had been planned for Haines. Haines did made a few minor films at Poverty Row studios, then retired from film. His final films were made with Mascot Pictures, Young and Beautiful and The Marines Are Coming in 1934 YMCAs in the United States and Canada use this logo. ... Pershing Square Signed into being by Los Angeles mayor Cristobal Aguilar as a park in 1866. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... A sham marriage is a union (marriage) motivated not so much by love but instead by a desire for political advantage or personal convenience. ... This article or section is missing needed references or citation of sources. ... Robert Montgomery (May 21, 1904 – September 27, 1981) was an American actor and director. ... Poverty Row is a slang term used in Hollywood from the late silent period through the mid-fifties to refer to a variety of mostly short-lived small studios, many clustered in the area of Los Angeles, USA known as Gower Gulch, near the corner of Sunset Boulevard and Gower...

William Haines in Just A Gigolo (1931)

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Career in interior design

Haines and Shields began a successful career as interior designers and antique dealers. Among their early clients were friends such as Joan Crawford, Gloria Swanson, Carole Lombard, Marion Davies and George Cukor. Their lives were disrupted in 1936 when members of the White Legion dragged the two men from their home and beat them, because a neighbour had accused the two of propositioning his son. Crawford, along with other stars such as Claudette Colbert, George Burns, Gracie Allen, Kay Francis and Charles Boyer urged the men to report this to the police. Marion Davies asked her lover William Randolph Hearst to use his influence to ensure the neighbors were prosecuted to the full extent of the law, but ultimately Haines and Shields chose not to report the incident. Interior design is a multi-faceted profession in which creative and technical solutions are applied within a structure to achieve a built interior environment. ... Joan Crawford (March 23, 1905 – May 10, 1977) was an acclaimed, iconic, Academy Award winning American actress. ... Gloria Swanson (March 27, 1897 - April 4, 1983), an American Hollywood actress, was prolific during the silent film era, but saw her career go into decline with the advent of talkies. She is now best known for her comeback role in the film (1950), in which -- mirroring her own life... Carole Lombard Carole Lombard (October 6, 1908 – January 16, 1942) was an American actress. ... Marion Davies illustrated by Hamilton King, 1920 Marion Davies (born January 3, 1897; died September 23, 1961) was an American comedic actress. ... George Cukor George Cukor (July 7, 1899 – January 24, 1983) was an American film director. ... Members of the second Ku Klux Klan at a rally during the 1920s. ... Claudette Colbert (September 13, 1903 - July 30, 1996) was a French-born American actress who won an Academy Award for It Happened One Night. ... George Burns, born Nathan Birnbaum (January 20, 1896 – March 9, 1996), was an American comedian and actor. ... It has been suggested that Gracie Allen Awards be merged into this article or section. ... Kay Francis (13 January 1905 - 26 August 1968) was an American actress who, after a brief beginning on Broadway in the 1920s, moved to film and achieved her greatest success between 1930 and 1936. ... Charles Boyer in Love Affair Charles Boyer (August 28, 1899 – August 26, 1978) was a French actor. ... William Randolph Hearst (April 29, 1863 – August 14, 1951) was an American newspaper magnate, born in San Francisco, California. ...

The couple finally settled into the Hollywood community in Malibu, and their business prospered until their retirement in the early 1970s, except for a brief interruption when Haines served in World War II. Their long list of clients included Ronald and Nancy Reagan when Reagan was governor of California. The Malibu pier near the famous Surfrider Beach Dawn in the Santa Monica Mountains The Pacific Coast Highway (PCH) in central Malibu The Paradise Cove pier in Malibu Malibu is a city located in western Los Angeles County, California, United States. ... Combatants Major Allied powers: United Kingdom Soviet Union United States Republic of China and others Major Axis powers: Nazi Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Harry Truman Chiang Kai-Shek Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tojo Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead... Ronald Wilson Reagan GCB (February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004) was the 40th President of the United States (1981–1989) and the 33rd Governor of California (1967–1975). ... Nancy Davis Reagan (born July 6, 1921) is the widow of Ronald Reagan and was First Lady of the United States from 1981 to 1989. ... This article is about the U.S. state. ...

Epilogue

Haines never returned to films. Gloria Swanson (another lifelong friend) extended him a personal invitation to appear with her in the film Sunset Boulevard (1950) but he declined. Gloria Swanson (March 27, 1897 - April 4, 1983), an American Hollywood actress, was prolific during the silent film era, but saw her career go into decline with the advent of talkies. She is now best known for her comeback role in the film (1950), in which -- mirroring her own life... Sunset Boulevard (also known as Sunset Blvd. ...

Haines and Shields remained together for the rest of their lives. Joan Crawford described them as "the happiest married couple in Hollywood". Same-sex marriage, often called gay marriage, is a marriage between two persons of the same gender. ...

Haines died from lung cancer in Santa Monica, California at the age of 73. Soon afterward, Shields, who suffered from what many believe to be Alzheimer's Disease, put on Haines' pajamas, took an overdose of pills, and crawled into their bed to die. They were interred side by side in the Woodlawn Memorial Cemetery. Lung cancer is a cancer of the lungs characterized by the presence of malignant tumours. ... Location of Santa Monica in California and Los Angeles County Coordinates: Country United States State California County Los Angeles Incorporated November 30, 1886 Mayor Robert Holbrook City Council Bobby Shriver Ken Genser Kevin McKeown Herb Katz Pam OConnor Richard Bloom Area    - City 41. ... Woodlawn Memorial Cemetery is located at 1847 14th Street in Santa Monica, California. ...

William Haines has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 7012 Hollywood Boulevard. His life was detailed in William J. Mann's critically-acclaimed 1998 biography, Wisecracker: The Life and Times of William Haines, Hollywood's First Openly Gay Star. A band plays on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. ... William J. Mann is an openly gay author who has written several novels, including The Men From the Boys, The Biograph Girl, Where the Boys Are, and All American Boy, as well as four film-related non-fiction books: Wisecracker, a biography of film star William Haines; Behind the Screen...

Filmography

Features:

• Brothers Under the Skin (1922)
• Lost and Found on a South Sea Island (1923)
• Souls for Sale (1923)
• Three Wise Fools (1923)
• Three Weeks (1924)
• True As Steel (1924)
• The Midnight Express (1924)
• The Gaiety Girl (1924)
• Wine of Youth (1924)
• Circe, the Enchantress (1924)
• So This Is Marriage? (1924)
• The Wife of the Centaur (1924)
• A Fool and His Money (1925)
• Who Cares (1925)
• The Denial (1925)
• A Slave of Fashion (1925)
• Fighting the Flames (1925)
• The Tower of Lies (1925)
• Little Annie Rooney (1925)
• Sally, Irene and Mary (1925)
• Mike (1926)
• The Thrill Hunter (1926)
• Memory Lane (1926)
• Brown of Harvard (1926)
• Lovey Mary (1926)
• Tell It to the Marines (1926)
• A Little Journey (1927)
• Slide, Kelly, Slide (1927)
• Spring Fever (1927)
• West Point (1928)
• The Smart Set (1928)
• Telling the World (1928)
• Excess Baggage (1928)
• Show People (1928)
• Alias Jimmy Valentine (1928)
• The Duke Steps Out (1929)
• A Man's Man (1929)
• The Hollywood Revue of 1929 (1929)
• Speedway (1929)
• Navy Blues (1929)
• The Girl Said No (1930)
• Free and Easy (1930) (Cameo) (Spanish version also filmed)
• Way Out West (1930)
• Remote Control (1930)
• A Tailor Made Man (1931)
• Just a Gigolo (1931)
• The New Adventures of Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford (1931)
• Are You Listening? (1932)
• Fast Life (1932)
• Young and Beautiful (1934)
• The Marines Are Coming (1934)

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• 1925 Studio Tour (1925)
• The Slippery Pearls (1931)

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References

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External links

• Official William Haines website
• William Haines Photo Gallery
• William Haines at the Internet Movie Database
• William Haines' Gravesite