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Photo Coverage: Remembering Farley Granger

By: Mar. 31, 2011
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Broadway veteran Farley Granger died on Sunday, March 27. He was 85 years old.

Granger made his Broadway debut in The Carefree Tree, a play with music based on an old Chinese legend. The cast included Janice Ruleas Granger's love interest and Alvin AileyFrances Sternhagen,Jerry Stiller and Sada Thompson in supporting roles. In 1959, Granger returned to Broadway as Fitzwilliam Darcy opposite Polly Bergen as Elizabeth Bennet in First Impressions, a musical adaptation of Pride and Prejudice with a book and direction by Abe Burrows.

Granger finally achieved some success on Broadway in The Seagull, The Crucible, The Glass Menagerie, and Deathtrap. He starred opposite Barbara Cook in a revival of The King and I at the off-Broadway New York City Center, and in 1979 he was cast in the Roundabout Theatre Company production of A Month in the Country. In 1986 he won the Obie Award for his performance in theLanford Wilson play Talley & Son.

In 2003, Granger made his last film appearance in Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There. In it, he tells the story of leaving Hollywood at the peak of his fame, buying out his contract from Samuel Goldwyn, and moving to New York City to work on the Broadway stage.

Photos by Walter McBride / Retna Ltd.

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Farley Granger starring in 'DeathTrap' at the Music Box Theatre in New York City.

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Farley Granger starring in 'DeathTrap' at the Music Box Theatre in New York City.

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Farley Granger and Eileen Fulton attending an AIDS Benefit in New York City.

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