Was Cesar Romero Gay?
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maries-dogs — 17 years ago(March 10, 2009 07:01 PM)
I will never understand why people insist on believing that Cesar Romero was gay is it because he never married? There are many people who just have no need for marriage.
I think he loved being with women in his lifetime and maybe didn't want to settle for just one.
No man has ever come forth to say he had a fling with Cesar [as they did with Rock Hudson, Liberace and others] No one will ever really know for sure if he was gay or not WHERE IS THE PROOF? -
JetSoCal — 16 years ago(July 16, 2009 03:59 AM)
maries-dogs, my mother told me she once lived across street from Cesar's house in Brentwood in 1950's and she said she have seen alot of guys visiting his home. She also was told from others who were close to him that he was gay. One time my grandmother was at a restaurant and saw Cesar at a table with all men including one pretty young man who sat next to him. What does that tell you?
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maries-dogs — 16 years ago(July 24, 2009 04:07 AM)
Thanks for replying to my post, but that still tells me very little.
Having men friends visiting at your house or sitting with you at a restaurant is not a clear indication that one is gay. I went out to dinner yesterday and saw a group of men sitting a5b4t one table. and I'm a single woman and have woman friends come to my home quite often and GUESS WHATI'M NOT A LESBIAN!
As for people who knew him, I saw a biograghy on him and the close friends on it said they didn't know one way or the other because he was a very private person who never discussed very personal things. -
mcornett — 16 years ago(October 10, 2009 11:53 AM)
Although I haven't read them, interviews that Romero gave while alive have been published in which he openly discusses his gay life. (He requested that they not be published until after his death.)
I wouldn't put too much stock in 40s movie magazine interviewsthey're about as spontaneous and open and honest as a White House press release. In that time period, most movie magazine "interviews" were carefully stage-managed by studio publicity departments to enhance, or protect, their stars' images. Those same movie magazines had articles about Marlene Dietrich's devotion to her family (in real life, Dietrich was a joyous bisexual with a successful open marriage), or stuff about saintly Loretta Young's adoption of a poor orphan (in reality, Young's "adopted" daughter was her own biological child, fathered by Clark Gable and born out of wedlock, but nobody in Hollywood was fooled because the "adopted" child looked EXACTLY like Loretta, except for her huge ears).
Romero was undeniably discreet in his liaisonsback then, you had to be, because gay rumors could kill a career. Happened to actress Lizabeth Scott, whose named was dragged through a lesbian scandal that ruined her career, and the question of is-she-or-isn't-she is still debated today. George Nader's career was cut short by his own gayness; he languished in Z-grade pictures before moving to Europe where nobody cared. But even today, gay actors are still wary of coming out for fear of career suicide. Many, like Richard Chamberlain, wait until they're retired, but a growing number of younger actors, like Rupert Everett, Neal Patrick Harris, and John Barrowman, are proving that you can have a successful career AND be openly gay.
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maries-dogs — 15 years ago(September 18, 2010 10:58 PM)
Please excuse me for asking, but who was your great-aunt?.was she an actress or in some form of show-biz?.I often wonder what that "general consensus" was based on.I never saw any convincing evidence that he was gay!!!.Just rumors!
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slinter — 15 years ago(January 10, 2011 03:03 AM)
Just about every famous man, especially in show-biz, is accused of being a homo at some point. It gives people with nothing better to do something to talk about, when they lack substance for a conversation. They can also point and say "SEE????" when they want to feel affirmed in their own predilictions. It would be the same if he were supposed to have been a drunk, a doper, a 1354tax cheat, a communist, or whatever.
Come on, folks.
De mortuus nil nisi bonum! -
patriciacgould — 15 years ago(January 11, 2011 11:10 AM)
Cesar was my 3rd cousin though I never got to meet him. My mother's father, Emerson Romero, and Cesar were cousins. Though it wasn't openly discussed back in the day (like with Rock Hudson), he was most certainly gay and was always cast as the dashing bachelor with a beautiful woman on his arm at events to keep up the pretense of being straight. My mother's half sister knew him quite well and agrees.