Charles William "Billy" Haines (2 January 1900 - December 26, 1973) was an American film actor and interior designer. A star of the silent era, Haines's career was cut short in the thirties as a result of his refusal to deny his homosexuality.
Haines and Shields began a dual career as a successful interior designers and antique dealers. Among their first clients were friends such as Joan Crawford, Gloria Swanson, Carole Lombard, Marion Davies and George Cukor
. Their lives have been disrupted in 1936 when members of the Ku Klux Klan, the two men dragged from their homes and beat them, because a neighbor had accused the two propositioning his son. Crawford and other stars like Claudette Colbert, George Burns, Gracie Allen, Kay Francis and Charles Boyer urged people to report it to police.
Marion Davies asked his lover William Randolph Hearst used his influence to ensure the neighbors were prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, but ultimately, Haines and Shields chose not to report the incident.
The couple eventually settled in the Hollywood community in Brentwood, and their business prospered until their retirement in the 1970s, except for a brief interruption when Haines served in the Second World War.
Their long list of clients include Betsy Bloomingdale, Ronald and Nancy Reagan when Ronald Reagan was governor of California, and Walter and Leonore Annenberg with their acres (0.97 km 2) real estate 240 "Sunnyland.
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