Farley Granger

Farley Earle Granger II was discovered in Hollywood at age seventeen by producer Samuel Goldwyn and served in the U.S. Navy in the Pacific during World War II. Returning to Hollywood, he starred in Nicholas Ray's classic film noir 'They Live by Night' (1948).

Granger earned cinematic immortality when Alfred Hitchcock cast him as the conflicted Leopold-and-Loeb student in 'Rope' (1948) and as tennis star Guy Haines opposite Robert Walker in 'Strangers on a Train' (1951). Rejecting the studio contract system, Granger spent subsequent decades starring on Broadway and in Italian art cinema, notably Luchino Visconti's 'Senso'.