The studios forced him to marry an actress

Old Hollywood

Arguably the greatest western movie making actor of the silent movie era, this actor was deeply closeted.

The studios forced him to marry an actress but after three months split with her and told the studios basically to take a hike.

His only concession to them was that he didn’t finalize the divorce for years so it looked as if they were married longer.

William Hart
Winifred Westover

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