Farley Granger

Born on July 1, 1925 in San José (California), Farley Earle Granger II began acting at a young age, in high school plays and in amateur groups. It was the legendary producer Samuel Goldwyn who noticed his talent, and offered him a contract in the early 40s, when the interpreter was only 18 years old.

He debuted as a featured supporting role in The North Star and The Purple Heart , two war films by Lewis Milestone . He then enlisted in the Navy until the end of World War II.

At the end of the contest, he was recruited by Alfred Hitchcock to play one of the protagonists of The Rope , a young university student who murders a classmate with his friend, with the aim of demonstrating that they can commit a perfect crime, and to gloat in their intelligence, they even throw a party in their apartment to which they invite, among other people, a former teacher ( James Stewart ). This entertaining technical exercise by the master of suspense was going to be shot in a single shot, although for technical reasons the filmmaker had to settle for one sequence-shot per roll, and discreetly interconnect them all.

This film specialized Granger in the roles of an attractive young man with a dark and complex mind. Hitchcock turned to him again to star in Strangers on a Train , an adaptation of the work by Patricia Highsmith . He played Guy Haines, an apparently exemplary tennis player, but tormented by his wife, who will come to establish a macabre deal with a guy he meets on a train.

Although she did not become a big star, Granger appeared in notable titles throughout the 1950s, such as I Don’t Want to Say Goodbye , The Fabulous Andersen , Three Loves , and Luchino Visconti ‘s Senso .

After The Girl with the Red Trapeze , in 1955, she left the cinema to focus on television. She returned at the end of his career and in the 1970s and 1980s she shot mostly by-products, many of them in Italy, where she was involved, for example, in They Called Her Trinity , alongside Terence Hill and Bud Spencer .