We’ve always heard that mousy actor Wally Cox was quite handy with the gentlemen, especially with onetime roommate Marlon Brando. But we weren’t aware that rooomie Brando was even handier, if somewhat less selective. Rush & Molloy in the NY Daily News (3rd item) say that rumors linked him with not only Cox, but also James Baldwin, Gore Vidal, and Leonard Bernstein. And now there’s an Internet-bound photo floating around of the Wild One servicing another man in the late ’50s. In a Brando biography, The Only Contender, Brando told author Gary Carey, “I, too, have had homosexual experiences and am not ashamed. Deep down I feel ambiguous.”

A more likely companion was the late actor Christian Marquand. In 1966, 25-year-old British critic Michael Thornton was dispatched to interview Brando at the Savoy Hotel. According to Britain’s Daily Mail, the Q&A was done in a bed shared by Brando and Marquand, who were “in various state of undress, with alcohol [and] marijuana … being liberally consumed. Says Thornton today: “I can only say that I was left in no doubt about Marlon’s interest in men.”