He Was Romantically Linked To Ginger Rogers’ Mother & Actress Dorothy Lamour
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Even though Hoover may have been gay, biographers such as Richard Hack think he was straight. He was romantically linked to a couple of women, including actress Dorothy Lamour in the late ’30s and early ’40s. She appeared in several films with Bill Cosby and Bob Hope. Following Hoover’s death, she didn’t deny the relationship.
In the ’40s and ’50s, Hoover went to several social events accompanied by Lela Rogers, who was the mother of dancer-actress Ginger Rogers. Lela was a Hollywood scriptwriter and one of the first women to enlist in the Marines. Many of their mutual friends believed the pair would eventually wed.
