Yes they were both gay and in a “lavender marriage”.

Source: Mr. X via http://www.crazydaysandnights.net

Old Hollywood

They were the leading acting couple on Broadway and even did a couple of movies (they only appeared in one movie together).

Heck, they even have (or did have) a theater named after them, but in their personal lives they played the biggest role of all: a married couple.

Yes they were both gay and in a “lavender marriage”.

If you go visit their lavish Midwest estate, which they used as a vacation home/trysting spot and photo op locale, don’t even bother to ask about their gay double lives because the tour guide will pull you aside and tell you to shut up.

Alfred Lunt

Lynn Fontanne

Ten Chimneys Foundation

Design for Living: Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne

No one ever questioned their lifelong devotion, though insiders assumed that the offstage union of Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne was a “white marriage” between a gay man and a bisexual woman. Peters seems to agree, though she never comes right out and says so, respecting the reticence of a more discreet age.

On occasion, especially when goaded by best buddy Coward, the couple would teasingly hint that their private lives might not play in Peoria: their scandalous 1933 hit, “Design for Living,” allowed the playwright/performer and his costars to romp through a threesome implying the sexual involvement of two men. That production showcased the flawless comic gifts for which the Lunts were particularly admired, but they also had a serious side, highlighted in Robert E. Sherwood’s brooding 1936 allegory “Idiot’s Delight” and his patriotic drama “There Shall Be No Night,” which they played amidst bombs falling over Fontanne’s native England in 1943. – Source

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