Took his life with sleeping pills after a separation from his wife,
millionaire torch singer
Libby Holman. According to Robert La
Guardia's biography on
Montgomery Clift, Ralph was reportedly a
depressed homosexual. While Libby was attracted to homosexuals, this
claim that he was gay is in dispute. "Rafe", as he was known to his
friends, was an alcoholic who suffered from postwar trauma after his
experiences during WWII, which took the life of his brother
Phillips Holmes.
Rafe's failed marriage was more of a symptom of his chronic depression
than the cause of his suicide.
