William+Haines

**William** "Billy" **Haines** (January 2, 1900 – December 26, 1973)
==William Billy Haines was a famous actor in the 1920's. == He had many famous roles, most often playing the lead male role falling in love, and saving the girl were what he was known best to do. He became very famous for staring in the films called the silent era films. He wasnt an actor very long because of a very contravercial acusation saying that he was a homosexual and MGM studios said that if he didnt deny the acusations then he would be fired and he was fired a month later for not giving any information on his sexuality. He then took some time off and became a very popular interior desginer. In his later life through his friends still in hollywood beged for him to return back too acting, many claimed he was even better then he had ever been before when they saw him in plays, but he never made it back to movies. although william was offered many great roles. William died when he was seventy three years old from a very tragic case of lung cancer that left his wife very upset. She couldnt deal with the pain of his death so a month later she put his old pajamas on and crawled in to there bed and overdosed on pills. They were then barryed together side by side in a hollywood cemitary. Through out life they were known as the happiest couple in hollywood and thats they way they wanted to always be remembered.