Charles William Haines was an American actor and interior designer.
30 Facts About William Haines
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William Haines's career gained momentum when he received favorable reviews for his role in The Midnight Express.
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William Haines was cast in the 1926 film Brown of Harvard and his performance solidified his screen persona as a wisecracking, arrogant leading man.
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William Haines' acting career was cut short by the studios in the 1930s due to his refusal to deny his homosexuality.
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William Haines quit acting in 1935 and started a successful interior design business with his life partner Jimmie Shields, and his work was widely patronized by friends in Hollywood.
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William Haines died of lung cancer in December 1973 at the age of 73.
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William Haines had four younger siblings: Lillian, born in 1902; Ann, born in 1907; George, Jr.
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William Haines was baptized at the Trinity Episcopal Church in Staunton at the age of eight, where he later sang in the choir.
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William Haines became fascinated with stage performance and motion pictures at an early age, spending hours watching early silent films in local theatres.
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William Haines ran away from home at the age of 14, accompanied by an unidentified young man whom William Haines referred to as his "boyfriend".
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William Haines did not return home with them, remaining instead in Hopewell and sending money back home to help support the family.
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William Haines worked a variety of jobs and was for a time the kept man of an older woman before becoming a model.
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William Haines' career began slowly, as he appeared in extra and bit parts, mostly uncredited.
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William Haines attracted positive critical attention and the studio began building him up as a new star.
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The offer was refused and William Haines continued in bit roles for Goldwyn.
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William Haines scored his first big personal success with Brown of Harvard opposite Jack Pickford and Mary Brian.
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William Haines returned repeatedly to that formula for the next several years.
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William Haines convinced Shields to move to Los Angeles, promising to get him work as an extra.
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William Haines found box-office success with Little Annie Rooney, costarring Mary Pickford, and Show People, costarring Marion Davies.
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William Haines was a top-five box-office star from 1928 to 1932.
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William Haines made a successful transition into "talkies" in the part-talking film Alias Jimmy Valentine.
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In 1933, William Haines was arrested in a YMCA with a sailor he had picked up in Los Angeles' Pershing Square.
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William Haines chose Shields and they remained together in a private relationship for 47 years.
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William Haines made a few minor films at Poverty Row studios and soon retired from acting.
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The couple finally settled in the Hollywood community of Brentwood and their business prospered until their retirement in the early 1970s, except for a brief interruption when William Haines served in World War II.
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William Haines and Ted Graber designed the interiors of Walter and Leonore Annenberg's "Sunnylands" estate in Rancho Mirage.
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On December 26,1973, William Haines died from lung cancer in Santa Monica, California, at the age of 73.
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William Haines Designs remains in operation, with main offices in West Hollywood and an additional showroom in New York.
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William Haines's designs are the subject of Peter Schifando and Haines associate Jean H Mathison's 2005 book Class Act: William Haines Legendary Hollywood Decorator.
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World of Wonder produced Out of the Closet, Off the Screen: The Life of William Haines, which aired on American Movie Classics in 2001.