On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 11:28 AM Melissa P <[email protected]> wrote:
> Do you know how the books treated their relationship? > > Also, wasn't Burr's (who also did Ironside) orientation "buried" until > after his death? > I can't speak to how the books handled the relationship over the years because I didn't read enough of them. The heroes of crime stories of that era did not engage in intimate relationships outside of marriage. Pulp writers had ways of hinting at it but I don't know if Gardner used those hints. Burr started in Hollywood late in the studio system and the PR department took over his biography. Whatever Burr shared with colleagues, I don't think anything was made public. The first time I read that Burr was gay was in an interview with a gay film scholar. He said that Burr always told reporters that he had been married but his wife had died. While that made it into all the profile articles no reporter ever followed up by asking his late wife's name or how she died. I later went to Wikipedia to see what was mentioned and what I found there was most interesting. When they went to verifiable sources for the details of his life, the sources were PR departments, and the information they provided was all over the place and contradictory. Things that were generally known about him and were never questioned, like his service record, were completely made up. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAJE-FiHsx5B5kbDXRbVj1SDCwJV9bBu5vfH7HdE0%3DUbnw2uoCA%40mail.gmail.com.
