Was bob denver gay
The “Beat Generation” started as a tiny group of writers and artists in New York’s Greenwich Village. Allen Ginsberg’s Howl (1956), William S. Burroughs’s Naked Lunch (1957), and Jack Kerouac’s On the Road (1957) set the mood. Bebop jazz and bongo drums were its soundtrack. The Beats, as they were called, were always small in number, but they were very leading. They defined what it meant to be avant-garde in the American 1950s.
The Beats saw themselves as innovative artists and free thinkers. Their credo mixed modernism, romanticism, existentialism, anti-authoritarianism, surrealism, absurdism, chemical experimentation, and hedonism. They deified at the temples of City Lights bookstore, Cafe Trieste and Vesuvio, the Co-Existence Bagel Shop, the Six Gallery. The Beats more or less picked up where the Lost Generation left off when the blitzkrieg chased them out of Paris.
By 1957, the movement’s leading lights, for the most part, had relocated to San Francisco’s North Beach neighborhood. That’s when the San Francisco Chronicle’s Herb Caen dubbed them “Beatniks,” a take-off of the Soviet Sputnik satellite that had
AKA Robert Denver
Born:9-Jan-1935
Birthplace:New Rochelle, NY
Died:2-Sep-2005
Location of death:Winston-Salem, NC
Cause of death:Cancer - Throat
Remains: Cremated
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor
Nationality: Merged States
Executive summary: Gilligan on Gilligan's Island
Bob Denver worked as a mailman and school teacher prior to landing his first professional acting job, as Maynard G. Krebs on The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis with Dwayne Hickman and Warren Beatty. Many of Krebs' "beatnik" mannerisms were improvised by Denver, since neither the show's straight-laced writing staff nor Denver himself knew much about the beatnik movement. Four episodes into the operate of Dobie Gillis, Denver was drafted. His Krebs ethics was replaced by his fictional cousin, Michael Pollard, but only for two episodes, until Denver successfully flunked his physical.
Dobie Gillis ended in 1963, and the next year Denver was support as the dopey but lovable first mate of the marooned Minnow on Gilligan's Island, the "little buddy" serving under Alan Hale, Jr. and accidentally preventing countless rescue
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This month we are looking at some of our favorite sitcom stars. With roles in more than eight popular sitcoms, Jerry Van Dyke has to be in the mix.
Jerry was born in Danville, Illinois in 1931. Van Dyke started his comedy stand-up career in high school carrying out for local nightclubs. In 1954 he joined the US Atmosphere Force Tops in Blue, carrying out at military bases around the world. During this time, he also played the banjo in his shows. After his military time was up, he married Carol Jean Johnson; they would divorce in 1974.
Dick Van Dyke was his brother, and Jerry’s first television appearance was on his brother’s show where he fittingly played Rob Petrie’s brother Stacey.
In 1963 he made his movie debut with two movies: The Courtship of Eddie’s Father and Palm Springs Weekend. He was also made a member of The Judy Garland Show which was cancelled after its first season. I’m not sure if there were behind-the-scenes issues with this show or not, but it seems like it would h
Most famous openly gay (American) actor?
ToddPence said:
Maybe not the most famous, but my favorite would be George Maharis.
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Here are some others from the past-
-Marjorie Main (Ma Kettle in the Ma & Pa Kettleseries)
-Patsy Kelly (1940's stage and show actress who came out in the 1940s-suffered by being relegated only to Poverty Row movies made at companies like PRC and Monogram; was a sporadic lover and housekeeper of Tallulah Bankhead.)
-Spring Byington (December Brideradio and television show, was companion to Marjorie Main)
-Sheila Kuehl (played Zelda Gilroy-the "Betty" to Dwayne Hickman's "Archie" [Dobie Gillis] and Bob Denver's "Jughead" [Maynard G. Krebs] in the classic TV show The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis)
-Jill Esmond (one-time wife of Laurence Olivier)
-Jackie “Moms” Mabley (well-known Afro-American comedienne)