[1][2] He summered with his family at Woods Hole on Cape Cod, where he became involved during the early 1930s with the "University Players," at West Falmouth.
[citation needed] There he met the then unknown performers James Stewart and Henry Fonda, with whom he later shared accommodations while he struggled to establish himself.
He moved to New York City, where he was sponsored by a wealthy British patron, and although he once again failed to secure employment, he began to wear expensive clothes and jewelry, leading to speculation that he was acting as a gigolo.
[2] He moved to Los Angeles, where he met and married Austrian singer and actress Greta Keller, eleven years his senior, in 1942.
[3] In her later years, Keller disclosed that both she and Bacon were bisexuals and that their lavender marriage partly served as what she referred to as a "beard", allowing both of them to maintain the requisite façade in Hollywood, where they were both attempting to establish film careers.
[4] In 1942, Howard Hughes met Bacon, and signed him to an exclusive contract, with the intention of casting him in The Outlaw (1943) as Billy the Kid.