Yes, he was a sodomite, but no one who wasn’t an insider could have ever guessed it from watching him on the screen. Even the sodomites back then appeared more manly, and that’s saying something.
The one which comes to mind whom I had an inkling after seeng him on the screen, that he might be a sodomite, was William Haines. I don’t know why, but even before I knew it as a fact, I had an idea after watching him in a movie that he was swishy.