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- WAS GEE COR GAY REAL LIFE?
- NETFLIX'S HOLLYWOOD: GEE COR'S GAY POOL PARTI REALLY HAPPENED
- THE OUT TAKE: GEE COR WAS A GAY MAN, BUT DID HE MAKE GAY FILMS?{FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.25 "GRAVY",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NONE;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#FFFFFF;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}{FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.25 "GRAVY",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NONE;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#FFFFFF;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}MOVIBY DANIEL WALBERDECEMBER 12, 2013/2:49 {HEIGHT:HER;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;POSN:RELATIVE;-WEBK-FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;-MS-FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;-WEBK-ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-ALIGN:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-ALIGN:CENTER;ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-WEBK-TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;-MS-TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;} IMG{HEIGHT:100%;WIDTH:100%;OBJECT-F:VER;}{HEIGHT:574PX;WIDTH:1020PX;}BY DANIEL WALBERDECEMBER 12, 2013 / 2:49 PM{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"NEWSARTICLE","HEADLE":"THE OUT TAKE: GEE COR WAS A GAY MAN, BUT DID HE MAKE GAY FILMS?","THUMBNAILURL":","DATEPUBLISHED":"2013-12-12T19:49:42.000+0000","DATEMODIFIED":"2013-12-12T19:49:42.000+0000","IMAGE":{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","URL":","WIDTH":1920,"HEIGHT":1080},"URL":","THOR":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","NAME":"MTV"},"MAENTYOFPAGE":{"@TYPE":"WEBPAGE","@ID":"},"PUBLISHER":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","@ID":","NAME":"MTV","URL":","LOGO":{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","URL":","WIDTH":1280,"HEIGHT":720}},"CREATOR":"DANIEL WALBER","ARTICLESECTN":"MOVI"}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}LEGENDARY, OSR-WNG, ENORMOLY PROLIFIC OLD HOLLYWOOD DIRECTOR GEE COR WAS GAY. IT WASN’T PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE AT THE HEIGHT OF HIS REER, BUT ALSO WASN’T NECSARILY HIDN. PEOPLE THE DTRY KNEW ABOUT HIM, AS WELL AS HIS RELAXED SUNDAY AFTERNOON PARTI ATTEND BY CLOSETED CELEBRI AND THEIR BOYIENDS. AMONG THIS CIRCLE WERE SOMERSET MGHAM, ORRY-KELLY AND WILLIAM {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}YET HE WAS ALSO IMPORTANT ENOUGH BROAR HOLLYWOOD SOCIETY THAT THIS MT HAVE BEEN EVEN LS OF A SECRET. HIS REGULAR EVENG DNER PARTI WERE ATTEND BY THE LIK OF VIVIEN LEIGH, TALLULAH BANKHEAD AND LIFE-LONG IEND KATHARE HEPBURN. HE NEVER SETTLED DOWN WH A PERMANENT PARTNER, BUT HIS HOMOSEXUALY WAS CERTALY TRANSPARENT TO THOSE -THE-KNOW. THE MOR, AFTER ALL, IS THAT CLARK GABLE HAD HIM FIRED OM “GONE WH THE WD” A HOMOPHOBIC {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THIS IS A ROUGH, ROUGH OVERVIEW. MUCH HAS BEEN WRTEN ABOUT COR AND HIS PRIVATE LIFE. IN FACT, SOMETIM OUR MEMORY OF THE BON VIVANT SEEMS TO OVERSHADOW HIS LEGACY AS A DIRECTOR. YET AT THE SAME TIME, ’S IMPOSSIBLE TO SEPARATE THE TWO PLETELY. SO, THE NTEXT OF A PLETE RETROSPECTIVE OPENG TOMORROW AT THE FILM SOCIETY OF LLN CENTER, SEEMS AN APPROPRIATE TIME TO TRY PARSG OUT THIS QUTN: IS THE FILMOGRAPHY OF GEE COR A QUEER FILMOGRAPHY, OR A BUNCH OF FILMS DIRECTED BY A MAN WHO HAPPENED TO BE GAY?{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}OF URSE, AS A STUD DIRECTOR OF THE GOLN AGE, HE NEVER ACTUALLY MA A FILM WH ANY GAY CHARACTERS. THE MOST MON WAY TO SCRIBE COR’S STYLE, PECIALLY THE FIRST UPLE S OF HIS REER, WAS THAT OF THE “WOMAN’S DIRECTOR.” HE ME TO FD THIS PARTICULAR PHRASG GRATG, PART DUE TO THE LS HERALD BUT EQUALLY FANTASTIC PERFORMANC BY MEN THAT HE DIRECTED OVER THE YEARS. IN THE NTEXT OF OLD HOLLYWOOD ALSO HAS THE STG OF A PRUMPTN OF SIGNIFINCE, THAT MOVI ABOUT AND FOR WOMEN ARE LS OF A SER ACPLISHMENT. (THOUGH TODAY, THE ERA OF THE “CHICK FLICK,” THGS MIGHT ACTUALLY BE WORSE.){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;POSN:RELATIVE;PADDG-BOTTOM:56.49999999999999%;} .TWTER-TWEET-RENRED, {M-WIDTH:65%;WIDTH:TO !IMPORTANT;} {WIDTH:100%;} {MARG-LEFT:TO !IMPORTANT;MARG-RIGHT:TO !IMPORTANT;} IMG{MAX-WIDTH:100%;WIDTH:100%;} > IAME{BORR:NONE;MAX-WIDTH:100%;} > *{MAX-WIDTH:NONE !IMPORTANT;POSN:ABSOLUTE;HEIGHT:100% !IMPORTANT;WIDTH:100% !IMPORTANT;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}HOWEVER, ’S ALSO IMPOSSIBLE TO NY THE OVERWHELMG NUMBER AND QUALY OF FEMALE PERFORMANC THAT HE DID DIRECT. GARBO “CALE,” NORMA SHEARER “ROMEO AND JULIET,” AND THE ALL-STAR ST OF “THE WOMEN” ARE PERHAPS THE STAND-OUTS OF THE 1930S. THEN THERE’S INGRID BERGMAN’S OSR-WNG “GASLIGHT,” FOUR FILMS WH JUDY HOLLIDAY CLUDG HER OSR WNER, “BORN YTERDAY,” AND LLABORATNS WH ANNA MAGNANI, AUDREY HEPBURN, MARILYN MONROE, SHELLEY WTERS AND JUDY GARLAND. WHILE HARDLY ALL OF THE WERE HS, MORE OFTEN THAN NOT COR DIRECTED THE WOMEN TO SOME OF THE FT TURNS OF THEIR {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}WAS THAT BEE HE WAS GAY? IT’S BEEN SAID THAT HE WAS SIMPLY MORE EQUIPPED TO MAKE ACTRS FEEL RELAXED ON SET, WHOUT THEM WORRYG ABOUT ANY SORT OF HCHCK-LIKE CREEPS, BUT EVEN IF THAT MIGHT BE SOMEWHAT TE ALSO FEELS A B ASE. A MORE TERTG THEORY VIA “THE CELLULOID CLOSET,” THE NOW CLASSIC BOOK AND DOCUMENTARY THAT LOOKED AT THE HISTORY OF CEMA WH A QUEER EYE. THE IA THERE WAS THAT GAY MEN, FACED WH A PLETE ABSENCE OF ANYONE EXACTLY LIKE THEMSELV ON SCREEN, INTIFIED STEAD WH STRONG FEMALE CHARACTERS AND THE STAR ACTRS THAT PLAYED THEM. IN COR’S SE, PERHAPS THIS N BE FLIPPED. AS ANGELA LANSBURY POTS OUT THE AMERIN MASTERS DOCUMENTARY “ON COR,” “HE ULD EXPRS HIS FEME SI THROUGH THE ACTRS THAT HE WORKED WH.”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}SIMPLE ENOUGH. YET AGA WE SEEM TO BE SELLG COR A LTLE B SHORT. THIS IS A PSYCHOLOGIL EXPLANATN FOR HIS ATTENTIVE TREATMENT OF CHARACTER AND PERFORMANCE. IT ISN’T ONE THAT ANALYZ HIS TALENT, SKILL OR THORSHIP. THE GREAT PERFORMANC ARE GREAT, PART, BEE OF THE FILMS AROUND {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}COR IS ACTUALLY A B OF AN ANOMALY AMONG THE SIGNIFINT DIRECTORS OF OLD HOLLYWOOD, PECIALLY PARED TO THOSE THAT HAVE BEEN MORE QUICKLY TAKEN UP BY FILM HISTORIANS. HE BEGAN THEATER, AND NEVER QUE ACHIEVED THE SAME GREE OF TECHNIL MASTERY AS SOME OF HIS LLEAGU. YET HIS PRRI WERE ALSO DIFFERENT. HE DIDN’T TST EDORS, FOR EXAMPLE, OFTEN CHOOSG TO SHOOT LONGER TAK ORR TO PREVENT ANYTHG OM BEG CUT UP WAYS HE DIDN’T LIKE. THIS ALSO BELI THE SKILL OF A THEATRIL DIRECTOR WORKG WH HIS ACTORS, MAKG SURE THEY’RE GOOD ENOUGH THAT HE DIDN’T NEED TO {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE BT EXAMPLE OF THIS MIGHT BE THE FIRST BIG MIL TRIUMPH OF “A STAR IS BORN,” JUDY GARLAND’S LATE-NIGHT RENDN OF “THE MAN THAT GOT AWAY” (ONE OF ’S TOP 50 MIL MOMENTS). THE MERA IS GLUED TO HER, TENT ON PTURG EVERY LTLE EMOTNAL TAIL, EVERY FLECTN OF HER FACE. YET THIS SORT OF FAH THE TALENT OF ACTORS ALSO THROUGH LS SHOWY MOMENTS, BE THEY THE IC VICTORI OF JUDY HOLLIDAY OR THE RAPID FIRE BANTER BETWEEN SPENCER TRACY AND KATHARE HEPBURN. THE LONG TAKE IS OFTEN SEEN AS A TOOL OF THE FORMALLY AMB TR, PLAYG WH SPACE OR TIME. YET S POTENTIAL IS EQUALLY EMBODIED BY THOSE OF COR, WHICH ARE WORKS OF GREAT FAH THE RONANCE OF THE LIVG, TALKG {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;POSN:RELATIVE;PADDG-BOTTOM:56.49999999999999%;} .TWTER-TWEET-RENRED, {M-WIDTH:65%;WIDTH:TO !IMPORTANT;} {WIDTH:100%;} {MARG-LEFT:TO !IMPORTANT;MARG-RIGHT:TO !IMPORTANT;} IMG{MAX-WIDTH:100%;WIDTH:100%;} > IAME{BORR:NONE;MAX-WIDTH:100%;} > *{MAX-WIDTH:NONE !IMPORTANT;POSN:ABSOLUTE;HEIGHT:100% !IMPORTANT;WIDTH:100% !IMPORTANT;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}HEPBURN MIGHT BE THE KEY TO FALLY FIGURG OUT EXACTLY HOW QUEER WE N NSIR COR’S WORK. HE DIRECTED THE STAR HIS FIRST EVER FILM, 1932’S “A BILL OF DIVORCEMENT.” IT WAS THE FIRST OF TEN FILMS THAT THEY WOULD MAKE TOGETHER, THE LAST OF WHICH WAS 1979’S “THE CORN IS GREEN.” FEW ACTRS F THE MOLD OF THE ANDROGYNO, CHARISMATIC OBJECT OF CLOSETED GAY MALE INTIFITN MORE THAN HEPBURN, AND FEW OF HER FILMS ARE MORE WILLFULLY PLAYFUL WH GENR THAN THOSE DIRECTED BY {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}IN 1935, THE PAIR TRIED TO PALIZE ON THAT ANDROGYNY A SURPRISGLY EXPLIC WAY. “SYLVIA SRLETT” IS THE STORY OF A YOUNG WOMAN ON THE N WH HER FATHER, FLEEG CREDORS PARIS. IN THEIR PE SHE DISGUIS HERSELF AS A BOY, AND MATAS THE SE FOR MOST OF THE FILM. THIS GETS PLITED WHEN SHE MEETS N MAN JIMMY MONKLEY (CARY GRANT), PROUD WOMANIZER. THEN SHE FALLS LOVE WH A PATER, PLAYED BY BRIAN AHERNE. IT HAS SOME DANGERO MOMENTS, PARTICULARLY WHEN AHERNE’S ARTIST BEGS TO NOTICE SYLVIA’S CHARMS WHILE SHE’S STILL KNOWN TO HIM AS SYLVTER. ITS FLUIDY MIGHT SEEM TAME PARED TO NTEMPORARY FILMS, BUT FOR THE 1930S THIS WAS QUE SOMETHG. IT WAS ALSO A TOTAL FLOP AT THE BOX OFFICE AND A TEMPORARY DISASTER FOR BOTH HEPBURN AND COR’S {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}IF THEIR TENTN HAD BEEN TO ADDRS QUTNS OF FORBIDN SEXUALY, THEY MT HAVE BEEN CRTFALLEN BUT PERHAPS UNSURPRISED WHEN DIDN’T END WELL. THEY WOULD NEVER PH THE ENVELOPE SO FAR AGA. YET LATER ON, WH THE HELP OF SPENCER TRACY AND SCREENWRERS RUTH GORDON AND GARSON KAN, THEY WOULD TACKLE GENR POLICS WH THE SAFETY OF HETEROSEXUALY. “ADAM’S RIB” IS NOTHG IF NOT A FEISTY ASSERTN OF NTROVERSIAL IAS, WHICH HAVEN’T QUE LOST THEIR LTER AFTER SIX {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE HEPBURN FILMS SHOW THAT COR’S LEADG LADI WERE MORE THAN A SIMPLE NDU WH WHICH HE ULD EXPRS HIS REPRSED FEMY. HE DIDN’T LIVE A REPRSED LIFE, AFTER ALL, THOUGH MOST OF AMERI WAS IGNORANT OF HIS SUNDAY POOL PARTI. RATHER, HE WAS AN ACTIVE THOR PARTICIPANT, SHAPG FILMS AROUND THE REER-BT WORK HE GOT OM HIS ACTORS. MANY OF THE PERFORMANC WOULD BEE INIC, AND SOME OF THEM EVEN SPECIFILLY INIC TO THE GAY MUNY. TO WATCH “A STAR IS BORN” AND THK THAT THIS IS ANYTHG LS THAN THE NSC, PLITED WORK OF A WISE AND AMB DIRECTOR WOULD BE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}AS TO WHETHER THE FILMS HAVE A “GAY SENSIBILY,” SUCH A NCEPT IS HARR TO ARTICULATE. YET THERE’S PLENTY OF EVINCE COR’S FILMOGRAPHY THAT HE WORKED TO ENGAGE WH IAS OF GENR AND SEXUALY, EVEN IF WAS TO MIXED POPULAR SUCCS. AND WHAT IS OUR ROLE NOW, WELL AFTER EVEN “THE CELLULOID CLOSET,” IF NOT TO LOOK BACK AT COR’S WORKS, EVEN THE FOTTEN ON, WH A SET OF QUEER EY? HE’D PROBABLY FD THE WHOLE THG A B SILLY, BUT THAT SHOULDN’T STOP {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;CLEAR:BOTH;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;MARG:0 TO;WIDTH:90%;M-WIDTH:288PX;MAX-WIDTH:1440PX;M-HEIGHT:194PX;}LATT NEWS
- GAY HOLLYWOOD THE STUD DAYS. DECEMBER 16, 2015 ADM UNTEGORIZED 2 I READ RECENTLY THAT ‘GAY-GOSSIP IS THE NEWT AND MOST CLEVER FORM OF HOMOPHOBIA’. NICE TRY, BUT I’M NOT BUYG . I AM NEHER HOMOSEXUAL NOR HOMOPHOBIC, BUT I AM TERTED SUBTERFUGE AND EXPOSG OLD-TIME MOVIE STUDS THAT MA AN ART FORM OUT OF GULLG THE PUBLIC. FOR FIFTY OR SO YEARS THEIR PUBLICY MACH CHURNED OUT PHONY, SANIZED IMAG OF THEIR STARS AND THEIR LIFTYL, AND THE PUBLIC SWALLOWED EVERY WORD OF THEM. TODAY, WE KNOW BETTER. HUNDREDS, IF NOT THOANDS, OF BGRAPHI HAVE BEEN PUBLISHED OVER THE LAST FORTY OR SO YEARS, THAT DISPUTE THE FANTASY CREATED BY STUD MOGULS WHOSE ONLY AIM WAS TO MAKE MORE MONEY AND STILL MORE MONEY. THE DAYS WE N READ ACUNTS OF LIFE AMONG THE STARS BY FORMER EMPLOYE OF THE STUDS, EVEN THEIR CHILDREN, ACUNTS THAT ARE EE OF THE THREAT OF DISMISSAL OR LIGATN NOW THAT THE ALL-POWERFUL STUD BOSS ARE GONE. NOT ALL OF THE ACUNTS N BE TSTED, OF URSE, BUT THERE ARE MORE THAN ENOUGH TO ENABLE TO SEEK (AND FD) VERIFITN WHERE NEED. SO, FOR THE RERD, I HAVE NO TERT WHAT NSENTG ADULTS DO BEHD CLOSED DOORS. IT IS THEIR BS AND NO-ONE ELSE’S. BUT I DO HAVE AN TERT HISTORY, GENUE HISTORY THAT IS, NOT SOME ‘SMOKE AND MIRRORS’ EXERCISE DREAMT UP BY SOME CIGAR-CHOMPG STUD EXECUTIVE WH TOO MUCH POWER AND TOO FEW MORALS.HOMOSEXUALY AND BISEXUALY WERE AGAST THE LAW BACK THE DAYS WHEN THE STUDS RAN HOLLYWOOD (APPROXIMATELY 1905 – 1958). THE MOVIE LONY WAS LERALLY RIDDLED WH PEOPLE WHOSE SEXUAL PERSUASN WAS ANYTHG OTHER THAN HETEROSEXUAL. THE STUD BOSS KNEW WHO WAS WHAT, OF URSE, AND THEY KEPT A CLOSE WATCH ON THE TABLOIDS, MAGAZ AND TRA PAPERS TO MAKE SURE THE SEXUALY OF THEIR MEAL-TICKETS REMAED, AT LEAST PUBLICLY, HETEROSEXUAL AND NOTHG BUT HETEROSEXUAL. WHAT STARTED OUT AS A SAFEGUARD QUICKLY EVOLVED TO A FULL-TIME POLICY SIGNED TO HOODWK THE PAYG PUBLIC TO BELIEVG WHATEVER THE STUDS WANTED THEM TO BELIEVE.STRANGE AS MIGHT SEEM, MOST FANS TEND NOT TO BELIEVE STORI THAT THEIR IDOLS ARE GAY. PROBABLY BEE THEY SIMPLY DON’T WANT TO. ANY REPORT OF SLEAZY HETEROSEXUAL SHENANIGANS IS UALLY ACCEPTED WHOUT QUTN, BUT MENTN OF A STAR BEG GAY OR BISEXUAL IS GENERALLY MET WH ACCATNS OF ‘MUCK-RAKG’ AND/OR PEDDLG SENSATNALISM. WHY IS THAT? NAYSAYERS THROW UP THE UAL ARGUMENTS – ‘BUT HE’S MARRIED’ OR ‘THEY HAVE KIDS’. BUT THE FACT IS THAT HOLLYWOOD IS (AND ALWAYS HAS BEEN) CHOCK FULL OF MALE AND FEMALE STARS PLAYG THE HETEROSEXUAL GAME FOR ALL THEY ARE WORTH. AND, OF URSE, HAS ALWAYS BEEN THE STUDS’ TERTS TO HAVE ALL THEIR MATEE IDOLS AS ‘STRAIGHT’ AS ARROWS, HENCE LAVENR MARRIAG EVERYWHERE, ‘BEARDS’ WORKG FULL TIME, AND ‘VER-UPS’ ORCHTRATED BY THE STUD ‘FIXERS’. THE FACT THAT THE ‘BIGGI’ HAVE ALWAYS ED ‘FIXERS’ IS ILLUMATG SELF.LAVENR MARRIAG WERE ARRANGED BY STUDS TO FLECT TABLOIDS OM LVG TO THE SEXUAL PERSUASN OF STARS THEY SPECTED OF BEG HOMOSEXUAL. TY AND SWEET JA GAYNOR LIVED HER LIFE LAVENR MARRIAG, THE SEND OF WHICH WAS FOR TWENTY YEARS TO GAY SIGNER ADRIAN, AND PRODUCED A CHILD. LILYAN TASHMAN WAS A LAVENR ARRANGEMENT WH GAY ACTOR EDMUND LOWE WHILE DULGG A FOUR-YEAR AFFAIR WH GARBO. CLTTE COLBERT WAS ANOTHER OF HER LBIAN LOVERS. OTHER STARS, SUCH AS JEAN ARTHUR, HAD THEIR LBIAN LIAISONS OUT ON THE AST, FAR OM HOLLYWOOD AND THE GOSSIP LUMNISTS.JA GAYNOR AND ADRIAN – A LAVENR MARRIAGEJEAN ARTHURCARY GRANT WOULD MARRY FIVE TIM ATTEMPTS TO MASK HIS HOMOSEXUALY AND HIS LIFELONG LOVE AFFAIR WH RANDOLPH STT (SEE PICTURE AT TOP). GAY DIRECTOR GEE COR WOULD HOLD THE BIGGT GAY AND LBIAN PARTI HIS HOME, HIS HOMOSEXUALY AN OPEN SECRET THROUGHOUT THE MOVIE MUNY. MEN OFTEN WORE PURPLE NECKTI AS A KD OF FOR ATTRACTG OTHER GAY MEN AT CLUBS AND PARTI. LBIAN FANS OFTEN WROTE THEIR LETTERS ON LAVENR OR MVE PAPER. I LOVE THE STORY TOLD ABOUT COR WHEN HE WAS NONTED ABOUT HIS HOMOSEXUALY BY THE HEAD OF MGM, LOUIS B MAYER, A DYED THE WOOL HOMOPHOBIC IF THERE EVER WAS ONE. ‘ER…GEE, ARE YOU REALLY A…HOM…HOMOSEXUAL? MAYER ASKED. COR LOOKED HIM STRAIGHT THE EYE AND GAVE HIM A ONE-WORD ANSWER. ‘DEDITED!’ MAYER NEVER BROUGHT THE SUBJECT UP WH HIM AGA.DIRECTOR GEE CORAND THERE WERE MANY GAY TABLISHMENTS THROUGHOUT HOLLYWOOD, PECIALLY THE THIRTI AND FORTI. THE VERY FIRST WAS JIMMY’S BACK YARD, WHICH OPENED 1929. PROHIBN WAS FULL SWG THEN, BUT BOOTLEGGERS AND E ALERS KEPT PATRONS WELL SUPPLIED NEVERTHELS. A SPEAKEASY NAMED BBB’S CELLAR WAS EXTREMELY POPULAR WHEN OPENED DOWN THE ROAD OM JIMMY’S, ALTHOUGH THERE WERE NO SIGNS DITG WAS A RENZVO FOR GAY PATRONS. TRADNALLY, PATRONS WERE GIVEN A HAMMER AS THEY ARRIVED, WHICH THEY WOULD BANG ON THE TABLE WHENEVER SOMEONE ENTERED THE PREMIS. REGULARS CLUD TALLULAH BANKHEAD, JOAN CRAWFORD, CONSTANCE BENT, NORMA TALMADGE, LILYAN TASHMAN, RAMON NOVARRO, CARY GRANT AND HOWARD HUGH, JT TO NAME A FEW. IT WAS MARLENE DIETRICH’S FAVOURE CLUB.TALLULAH BANKHEADCONSTANCE BENTLILYAN TASHMANTHE POLICE TEND TO CRACK DOWN ON WHAT THEY REFERRED TO AS THE ‘PANSY CLUBS’, THE ON THAT OFFERED FLOORSHOWS WHICH ‘WOMEN MASQUERAD AS MEN, AND MEN AS WOMEN’. THE HOLLYWOOD VICE SQUAD REGULARLY POUNCED ON THE TABLISHMENTS. FEMALE IMPERSONATORS AT JIMMY’S BACK YARD WERE DRAGGED OFF TO JAIL AFTER ONE RAID AND GIVEN 6 MONTH’S IMPRISONMENT! ONE NIGHT, SO THE STORY GO, THE BISEXUAL ACTRS LILI DAMA HAD SEX WH A WAER FULL VIEW OF TWENTY OR SO SPECTATORS. LTLE WONR HER FORMER LOVER HUMPHREY BOGART NICKNAMED HER ‘TIGER LIL’. HER LOVERS, MALE AND FEMALE, NUMBERED THE HUNDREDS. FANS HAD NO IA SHE SWUNG BOTH WAYS. HER HBAND ERROL FLYNN KNEW, OF URSE, NOT THAT OVERLY BOTHERED HIM. LILI DAMA AND HER HBAND ERROL FLYNNCAFé GALA WAS OPENED 1939 ON SUNSET BOULEVARD. IT NEVER ADVERTISED SELF AS A GAY BAR, NOR WAS EXCLIVELY GAY, BUT WAS SENTIALLY SO, NOHELS. THE BAR AREA TERED TO GAY MEN, BUT THERE WERE STRICT L, PECIALLY REGARDG NTACT BETWEEN PATRONS. NOTHG BEYOND A HANDSHAKE WAS TOLERATED ON THE PREMIS. OPENED BY THE BARONS CATHERE D’ERLANGER, FEATURED GAY SGER JOHNNY WALSH, AND WAS THE FAVOURE GAY BAR OF JUDY GARLAND. COLE PORTER ULD BE OBSERVED THERE, AS WELL AS GRETA GARBO ON THE RARE OCSNS SHE VENTURED OUT WH HER NUTRNIST RT GAYLORD HSER. IT WAS ONE PLACE WHERE GAY AND LBIAN STARS AND OTHER NOTABL ULD DROP WHOUT NNG THE RISK OF BEG RAID. IT CLOSED 1948.THE GREAT COLE PORTERTHE ALMOST AS GREAT JUDY GARLANDTHE FLAMGO WAS AN UPSLE LBIAN NIGHTCLUB, VERY POPULAR THE 1940S, THAT WAS N BY A WOMAN NAMED BEVERLY SHAW, WHO WOULD GREET PATRONS WEARG A MAN’S JACKET AND BOW TIE ON HER TOP HALF, A SHORT SKIRT AND HIGH HEELS BELOW THE WAIST. THE CANYON CLUB WAS A GAY AND LBIAN SPOT THROUGHOUT THE 40S AND 50S, SUATED THE TOPANGA CANYON AREA. IT HAD AN EARLY WARNG SYSTEM WHICH LIGHTS WOULD FLASH WHEN THE VICE SQUAD WAS SPIED APPROACHG. THIS WAS THE SIGNAL FOR PATRONS TO SWCH DANCE PARTNERS TO SOMEONE OF THE OPPOSE SEX.BEVERLY SHAW OF THE FLAMGOSMTY’S, THE GAY INN AND THE GAYWAY CAFé WERE THREE GAY VENU WELL KNOWN TO THE ARY. WHEREVER THEY SPECTED GAY CROWDS TO NGREGATE, THE ARMY WOULD POST SIGNS AT THOSE PLAC, ‘OUT OF BOUNDS TO ARY PERSONNEL’. NOT ALL GAY MEETG PLAC WERE CLUBS, OF URSE. PERSHG SQUARE WAS A PARK DOWNTOWN LOS ANGEL. A TRAVEL SE LLED ‘DISVER LOS ANGEL’ NAMED PERSHG SQUARE AS ONE OF ‘TEN GAY LANDMARKS’ WORTH VISG. DURG WW2 THE ARMY WOULD PUT UP RMATN AREAS THE SQUARE FOR SOLDIERS, EVEN THOUGH WAS A POPULAR NGREGATG AREA FOR GAYS. AND THE NOTOR BILTMORE HOTEL WAS JT ACROSS THE STREET.PERSHG SQUARE, L.A. CIR 1945THE BILTMORE HOTEL BALLROOM CIR 1930THE BILTMORE OPENED S DOORS 1923. ITS BAR WAS ONE OF THE FEW PLAC LOS ANGEL WHERE GAYS ULD MEET OPENLY. THE HOTEL HAS WELED PRINTS, DIGNARI AND CLOSETED MALE CELEBRI FOR S. EIGHT OSRS BANQUETS HAVE BEEN HELD THERE, AND MOVI AND TELEVISN PROGRAMS FILMED THERE. DURG THE WAR UNIFORMED SOLDIERS WOULD BE PACKED THREE EP AT THE BAR SEARCH OF GAY LOVE. THE BILTMORE IS ALSO HISTORILLY KNOWN TO BE THE LAST PLACE THE FAMO BLACK DAHLIA WAS SEEN PRR TO HER GRISLY RPSE TURNG UP TWO HALV 1946. TODAY, (TO S EVERLASTG SHAME), THE BAR SERV A ‘BLACK DAHLIA COCKTAIL’. WELL, WHATEVER BRGS A BUCK, I GUS.ELIZABETH SHORT – ‘THE BLACK DAHLIA’OTHER VENU OF THE 30S AND 40S CLUD SPEAK 39, JOHNNY FRENCHMAN’S, THE GYPSY ROOM, THE TROPIL VILLAGE AND SANTS CLUB. A JOT LLED M & M WAS A LBIAN BAR THAT TERED PRIMARILY FOR LATAS. BROTHERS WAS A GAY BAR FOR AIN-AMERINS. IN THE 50S AND 60S THERE EXISTED THE CHEROKEE CLUB, HOE OF IVY, LAFAYETTE, CHEE-CHEE’S, OPEN DOOR, THE PARTY PAD AND THE CAROEL VENICE. THERE WERE SR MORE. UNR-AGE GAYS WERE TERED FOR AS WELL. THOSE WHO LACKED THE NECSARY ID TO GET TO BARS ULD ADJOURN TO PLAC SUCH AS COFFEE DAN’S, THE GOLD CUP AND MARL INN ON HOLLYWOOD BOULEVARD, ALL OF WHICH TERED EXCLIVELY FOR HOMOSEXUALS. IN THE FIFTI MONTGOMERY CLIFT WAS OFTEN SEEN AT COFFEE DAN’S. BY THE 60S TRANSVT HAD TAKEN OVER THE TABLISHMENT. THERE WERE SEVERAL COFFEE DAN’S LOS ANGEL. THE GAY ONE WAS ON HOLLYWOOD BOULEVARD.MONTGOMERY CLIFTIT WAS ALLA NAZIMOVA WHO ED THE PHEMISM ‘THE SEWG CIRCLE’ FOR HOLLYWOOD’S LBIAN ATERNY. TALLULAH BANKHEAD MAY OR MAY NOT HAVE BEEN VOLVED WH THE GROUP, BUT SHE HAD MANY FEMALE LOVERS. HATTIE MCDANIEL AND PATSY KELLY WERE TWO OF THEM. HATTIE WON AN OSR PLAYG MAMMY GONE WH THE WD 1939. SGER BILLIE HOLIDAY WAS ANOTHER OF TALLULAH’S NQUTS. THE CIRCLE WOULD MEET REGULARLY, SOMETIM AT THE HOME OF DELOR DEL R, AND NSISTED OF LBIANS, BISEXUALS AND THE OCSNAL ‘EXPERIMENTER’. THEY WOULD MEET AT ONE ANOTHER’S HOM FOR LUNCH, A CHAT AND WHATEVER ELSE EVENTUATED. THE AGENDA WAS FLEXIBLE. HATTIE MCDANIELMEMBERS ME AND WENT, BUT STARS SUCH AS JOAN CRAWFORD, GARBO, BARBARA STANWYCK, MYRNA LOY, AGN MOOREHEAD, DANCER ISADORA DUNN, WRER MERCES ASTA AND DIETRICH WERE ALL SAID TO BE PART OF THE SAPPHIC SEWG CIRCLE. OTHERS CLUD KATE HEPBURN, KAY FRANCIS, JUDH ANRSON, EVELYN BRENT AND MARJORIE MA (MA KETTLE). GARBO AND DIETRICH ALWAYS MATAED THEY NEVER KNEW EACH OTHER, BUT SIRS DISAGREE, PECIALLY LIGHT OF THE FACT THAT BOTH WOMEN APPEARED A MOVIE BERL 1925 LLED THE JOYLS STREET. PERSONALLY, I DOUBT IF THEY WERE LOVERS. IF THEY WERE, THEN WHY WOULD DIETRICH NY ? GARBO WAS RIDICULOLY SECRETIVE, BUT MARLENE CERTALY WAS NOT.AGN MOOREHEADMYRNA LOYKAY FRANCISMA KETTLECRAWFORD HAD MANY LOVERS OF BOTH SEX. SHE EVEN TOOK A CRACK AT THE HETEROSEXUAL MARILYN MONROE DURG ONE OF MM’S WEAKER MOMENTS. IT WAS MON KNOWLEDGE HOLLYWOOD THAT THE BETTE DAVIS-JOAN CRAWFORD FD ME ABOUT BEE JOAN MA A PASS AT BETTE AND WAS TURNED DOWN. CRAWFORD WAS NOTOR FOR HOLDG GDG AGAST ANYONE (MALE OR FEMALE) THAT REFED TO SLEEP WH HER.OTHER THAN LILYAN TASHMAN, GARBO HAD RELATNSHIPS WH LOUISE BROOKS AND MERCES ASTA, YET HER GREAT LOVE WAS A MARRIED SWEDISH ACTRS NAMED MIMI POLLAK. UNLIKE DIETRICH, GARBO NEVER MARRIED AND NEVER HAD CHILDREN. OF URSE, JT LIKE MARLENE, SHE TOOK LOVERS OF BOTH GENRS. EVA LE GALLIENNE SHARED HER FAVOURS WH TALLULAH, ESTELLE WWOOD, ALLA NAZIMOVA AND ASTA, TO NAME BUT A FEW.MIMI AND GARBOA YOUTHFUL ESTELLE WWOODESTELLE MURR BY DEATH (1976)DURG THE SEND WORLD WAR LOS ANGEL WAS OFFICIALLY KNOWN AS A GAY MUNY, ALTHOUGH IF YOU WERE TO TAKE THE STUDS’ WORD FOR EVERY ACTOR AND ACTRS ON THEIR BOOKS WAS AS HETEROSEXUAL AS CAPTA AMERI! SIGNIFINTLY, THE FEAR OF EXPOSURE AS A GAY PERSON WAS TANGIBLE AND POTENTIALLY REER-STROYG, WHILE THE SEXUAL EXPLOATN OF YOUNG HOPEFULS (OF BOTH SEX) WENT ON UNCHECKED, DAY AND DAY OUT AT EVERY STUD, LARGE OR SMALL.ADRIANAGN MOOREHEADBARBARA STANWYCKBBB'S CELLARBETTE DAVIS JOAN CRAWFORDBEVERLY SHAWRY GRANTTHERE D'ERLANGERCLTTE LBERTFFEE DAN'SLE PORTERNSTANCE BENTELIZABETH SHORTERROL FLYNNTELLE WWOODGAYLORD HSERGEE CRETA GARBOHATTIE MCDANIELJA GAYNORJEAN ARTHURJIMMY'S BACK YARDJOAN CRAWFORDJUDY GARLANDKAY ANCISLILI DAMALILYAN TASHMANMA KETTLEMARJORIE MAMIMI POLLAKMONTGOMERY CLIFTMURR BY ATHMYRNA LOYPERSHG SQUARERANDOLPH STTTALLULAH BANKHEADTHE BILTMORE HOTELTHE BLACK DAHLIA PREVHOLLYWOOD – TAL OM THE DARK SI. NEXTTRAGIC HOLLYWOOD – WHO KILLED FUNNYMAN TED HEALY? 2 COMMENTS TS BALLOS DECEMBER 31, 2022 AT 4:01 PM THE RMATN ABOUT GRANT AND STT IS MOR. STT’S BGRAPHER STATED THAT THERE WAS NO EVINCE TO BACK THIS CLAIM, AS DID GRANT’S DGHTER. 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- WERE GEE COR'S SUNDAY NIGHT SOIRE REALLY THAT SALAC?"HOLLYWOOD" V YOU TO ONE OF THE DIRECTOR'S LEGENDARY DNER {FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}{FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}TVBY CHRISTOPHER RUDOLPHMAY 1, 2020/7:51 {HEIGHT:HER;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;POSN:RELATIVE;-WEBK-FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;-MS-FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;-WEBK-ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-ALIGN:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-ALIGN:CENTER;ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-WEBK-TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;-MS-TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;} IMG{HEIGHT:100%;WIDTH:100%;OBJECT-F:VER;}{HEIGHT:1635PX;WIDTH:3600PX;}NETFLIXBY CHRISTOPHER RUDOLPHMAY 1, 2020 / 7:51 AM{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"NEWSARTICLE","HEADLE":"WERE GEE COR'S SUNDAY NIGHT SOIRE REALLY THAT SALAC?","THUMBNAILURL":","DATEPUBLISHED":"2020-05-01T11:51:56.000+0000","DATEMODIFIED":"2020-05-01T11:51:56.000+0000","IMAGE":{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","URL":","WIDTH":1920,"HEIGHT":1080},"URL":","THOR":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","NAME":"LOGO TV"},"MAENTYOFPAGE":{"@TYPE":"WEBPAGE","@ID":"},"PUBLISHER":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","@ID":","NAME":"LOGO TV","URL":","LOGO":{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT"}},"CREATOR":"CHRISTOPHER RUDOLPH","ARTICLESECTN":"TV"}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}GEE COR WAS ONE OF THE HARST-WORKG DIRECTORS OF THE GOLN AGE OF HOLLYWOOD. HE WAS VOLVED THE PRODUCTN OF THE CLASSICS GONE WH THE WD AND THE WIZARD OF OZ, AND HE ALSO HELMED BELOVED HOLLYWOOD MOVI LIKE THE WOMEN, A STAR IS BORN, ADAM'S RIB, AND {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}COR WAS FALLY REWARD WH HIS OWN OSR GOLD WHEN HE BROUGHT MY FAIR LADY TO THE BIG SCREEN 1964. THE MIL WON EIGHT AMY AWARDS, CLUDG BT PICTURE AND BT DIRECTOR.JOHN KOBAL FOUNDATN/GETTY IMAG1942: DIRECTOR GEE COR DISCS THE FILM SCRIPT WH STARS KATHARE HEPBURN (1907 - 2003) AND SPENCER TRACY (1900 - 1967) ON THE SET OF THE MGM FILM 'KEEPER OF THE FLAME'. SILVERWARE IS LAID OUT ON THE FFEE TABLE ONT OF THEM. (PHOTO VIA JOHN KOBAL FOUNDATN/GETTY IMAG){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}COR WAS KNOWN AS A "WOMAN'S DIRECTOR," WHICH WAS A PHEMISTIC WAY OF SAYG HE WAS GAY. HIS SEXUALY WAS AN OPEN SECRET AROUND HOLLYWOOD, BUT PEOPLE TALKED—PECIALLY ABOUT HIS FAMO SUNDAY-NIGHT DNER {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}RYAN MURPHY'S NEW NETFLIX SERI, HOLLYWOOD, V VIEWERS TO COR'S PALATIAL TATE. IN THE THIRD EPISO, "OUTLAWS," ERNIE (DYLAN MCDERMOTT) RMS HIS TEAM OF GAS STATN ATTENDANT TRICKS THAT THEY WILL ATTEND COR'S NEXT PARTY. ERNIE SCRIB THE SOIRE AS LAVISH EVENTS WHERE MOVIE STARS LIKE TALLULAH BANKHEAD AND VIVIEN LEIGH DRK FLOWG CKTAILS, GO SKNY DIPPG, AND GET WILD WH AN ENDLS PARA OF YOUNG HUNKS NEW TO {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}WERE THE COR AFFAIRS REALLY AS SALAC AS THEY ARE PORTRAYED HOLLYWOOD? IT TURNS OUT THEY {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}IN HIS BGRAPHY GEE COR: A DOUBLE LIFE, THOR PATRICK MCGILLIGAN VOT PASSAG TO THE WEEKLY PARTI:{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE GUTS WOULD MEET AND MUNCH AS THE SUN WENT DOWN. AFTERWARD, THE IENDS WOULD PCH AND WASH THE DISH, AND SOME OF THE CIRCLE WOULD NGREGATE THE SUE-WALLED OVAL ROOM, WH S OLD-FASHNED RAD THAT NEVER FUNCTNED, FOR AN AFTER-DNER SALON. THERE WOULD BE WTY, SPARKLG NVERSATN ABOUT ART, LERATURE, THEATER, AND FILMS. THERE WOULD ALSO BE BRISK GOSSIP. THERE WOULD BE AN ASSSMENT OF THE NEW YOUNG MEN WHO HAD BEEN DOTTED AMONG THE GUTS. THE WERE THE “FAMO COR SUNDAYS,” GARSON KAN’S WORDS—FAMO AN OPEN-SECRET KD OF WAY. THIS ASPECT OF COR’S LIFE WAS, OF URSE, UNKNOWN TO MANY: SO NOCENT OF COR’S HOMOSEXUALY WAS ONE YOUNG ACTRS MAKG HER SCREEN BUT UNR HIS DIRECTN, SHE ASKED HIM WHETHER HE EVER HAD BEEN MARRIED. WHEN THE DIRECTOR REPLIED WH A STRAIGHT FACE THAT HE HADN’T YET MET THE “RIGHT GIRL,” THE ACTRS—WHO WAS SHELLEY WTERS—BELIEVED {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}IN HOLLYWOOD, ALONG WH FAMO GUTS LIKE BANKHEAD AND LEIGH, PLAYWRIGHT AND ACTOR NOëL COWARD IS ALSO ATTENDANCE. ACRDG TO MCGILLIGAN, COR'S HOMOSEXUALY WAS PART OF THE "CHET OF THE HOE":{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THAT WAS PART OF WHAT MA UNIQUE: THERE WAS A FLOW OF DISTGUISHED HOMOSEXUAL GUTS OM AROUND THE GLOBE, AND PARTICULARLY OM ENGLAND: THE THOR SOMERSET MGHAM, PLAYWRIGHT AND ACTOR NOËL COWARD, THE NOTED VOGUE PHOTOGRAPHER GEE HOYNGEN-HUENE, THE PHOTOGRAPHER AND SIGNER CECIL BEATON... AND MANY OTHERS... IN GENERAL, WAS THE G TOGETHER OF A GLOBAL WORK OF ALMOST EXCLIVELY HOMOSEXUAL MEN WHO COR’S CHANGED LIFE FORMED A NURTURG FAY—AND SUBSTUTED FOR THE CISG AND NIGHTLIFE OF THE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}"OUTLAWS" ALSO SHOWS PLENTY OF SK, AS ACTORS STRIP DOWN TO SWIM NAKED COR'S POOL. SKNY-DIPPG WAS ALSO A SUNDAY RUAL, MCGILLIGAN WR: "SUNDAYS WAS WATCHG SOME VAGUELY REGNIZABLE AND WELL-ENDOWED ACTOR—FORRT TUCKER, SAY—TAKG LAPS THE DIRECTOR’S POOL."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}DES LATER, COR'S SUNDAY-NIGHT PARTI ARE STILL THE STUFF OF LEGEND AROUND HOLLYWOOD, PROVG THAT COR'S FLUENCE STRETCHED WELL BEYOND THE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}AS A LONGTIME IEND OF THE DIRECTOR PUT : “HE WAS THE MEC. YOU MET EVERYBODY THROUGH COR.”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;CLEAR:BOTH;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;MARG:0 TO;WIDTH:90%;M-WIDTH:288PX;MAX-WIDTH:1440PX;M-HEIGHT:194PX;}LATT NEWS
WAS GEE COR GAY REAL LIFE?
In Netflix's Hollywood, the episo "Outlaws" shows the inic director Gee Cor's gay pool parti that actually took place the '30s. * george cukor gay *
The statement is accurate, and so is the fact that Ha was gay and had turned to terr signg after givg up his actg reer. ” Further, he scribed as a “g together of a global work of almost exclively homosexual men who Cor’s changed life formed a nurturg fay—and substuted for the cisg and nightlife of the 1930s. In Netflix's Hollywood, the episo "Outlaws" shows the inic director Gee Cor's gay pool parti that actually took place the '30s.
Hollywood is a historilly based seri and episo three, “Outlaws, ” featur the gay director Gee Cor and his famo pool parti.
Recently, Ryan Murphy has produced several documentari on gay life the Uned Stat for Netflix such as A Secret Love and Circ Of Books. As the episo draws attentn to the exuberant and lavish pool parti that Cor threw, also sh a spotlight on the homosexual unrground of Hollywood durg postwar Ameri.
NETFLIX'S HOLLYWOOD: GEE COR'S GAY POOL PARTI REALLY HAPPENED
Is Gee Cor's a queer filmography, or rather a bunch of films directed by a man who happened to be gay? * george cukor gay *
In the seri, Ernt “Ernie” Wt (Dylan McDermott) explas that Cor’s parti are a safe haven for homosexual men to exprs their sexualy whout fear of beg put unr arrt or beaten by police. He emphasiz that gay men are perceived as outlaws and the pool parti that Cor throws are one of their only means to e together as a muny. What Wt is scribg is the tth of Hollywood durg postwar Ameri, pecially regards to homosexualy and the importance of Cor’s parti to gay people the muny.
In the mid-1930s he was a proment director and unofficial head of the unrground gay subculture that existed durg one of the worst tim history to be gay Ameri.
While Hollywood picts them as servg the purpose of allowg gay men to have open sex, Cor’s parti were also meant to provi a space for gay men to gather whout fear. The tth of Gee Cor’s pool parti is that they allowed him and fellow homosexuals to eely gather wh one another alongsi tsted iends the dtry.
THE OUT TAKE: GEE COR WAS A GAY MAN, BUT DID HE MAKE GAY FILMS?{FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.25 "GRAVY",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NONE;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#FFFFFF;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}{FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.25 "GRAVY",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NONE;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#FFFFFF;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}MOVIBY DANIEL WALBERDECEMBER 12, 2013/2:49 {HEIGHT:HER;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;POSN:RELATIVE;-WEBK-FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;-MS-FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;-WEBK-ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-ALIGN:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-ALIGN:CENTER;ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-WEBK-TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;-MS-TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;} IMG{HEIGHT:100%;WIDTH:100%;OBJECT-F:VER;}{HEIGHT:574PX;WIDTH:1020PX;}BY DANIEL WALBERDECEMBER 12, 2013 / 2:49 PM{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"NEWSARTICLE","HEADLE":"THE OUT TAKE: GEE COR WAS A GAY MAN, BUT DID HE MAKE GAY FILMS?","THUMBNAILURL":","DATEPUBLISHED":"2013-12-12T19:49:42.000+0000","DATEMODIFIED":"2013-12-12T19:49:42.000+0000","IMAGE":{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","URL":","WIDTH":1920,"HEIGHT":1080},"URL":","THOR":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","NAME":"MTV"},"MAENTYOFPAGE":{"@TYPE":"WEBPAGE","@ID":"},"PUBLISHER":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","@ID":","NAME":"MTV","URL":","LOGO":{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","URL":","WIDTH":1280,"HEIGHT":720}},"CREATOR":"DANIEL WALBER","ARTICLESECTN":"MOVI"}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}LEGENDARY, OSR-WNG, ENORMOLY PROLIFIC OLD HOLLYWOOD DIRECTOR GEE COR WAS GAY. IT WASN’T PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE AT THE HEIGHT OF HIS REER, BUT ALSO WASN’T NECSARILY HIDN. PEOPLE THE DTRY KNEW ABOUT HIM, AS WELL AS HIS RELAXED SUNDAY AFTERNOON PARTI ATTEND BY CLOSETED CELEBRI AND THEIR BOYIENDS. AMONG THIS CIRCLE WERE SOMERSET MGHAM, ORRY-KELLY AND WILLIAM {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}YET HE WAS ALSO IMPORTANT ENOUGH BROAR HOLLYWOOD SOCIETY THAT THIS MT HAVE BEEN EVEN LS OF A SECRET. HIS REGULAR EVENG DNER PARTI WERE ATTEND BY THE LIK OF VIVIEN LEIGH, TALLULAH BANKHEAD AND LIFE-LONG IEND KATHARE HEPBURN. HE NEVER SETTLED DOWN WH A PERMANENT PARTNER, BUT HIS HOMOSEXUALY WAS CERTALY TRANSPARENT TO THOSE -THE-KNOW. THE MOR, AFTER ALL, IS THAT CLARK GABLE HAD HIM FIRED OM “GONE WH THE WD” A HOMOPHOBIC {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THIS IS A ROUGH, ROUGH OVERVIEW. MUCH HAS BEEN WRTEN ABOUT COR AND HIS PRIVATE LIFE. IN FACT, SOMETIM OUR MEMORY OF THE BON VIVANT SEEMS TO OVERSHADOW HIS LEGACY AS A DIRECTOR. YET AT THE SAME TIME, ’S IMPOSSIBLE TO SEPARATE THE TWO PLETELY. SO, THE NTEXT OF A PLETE RETROSPECTIVE OPENG TOMORROW AT THE FILM SOCIETY OF LLN CENTER, SEEMS AN APPROPRIATE TIME TO TRY PARSG OUT THIS QUTN: IS THE FILMOGRAPHY OF GEE COR A QUEER FILMOGRAPHY, OR A BUNCH OF FILMS DIRECTED BY A MAN WHO HAPPENED TO BE GAY?{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}OF URSE, AS A STUD DIRECTOR OF THE GOLN AGE, HE NEVER ACTUALLY MA A FILM WH ANY GAY CHARACTERS. THE MOST MON WAY TO SCRIBE COR’S STYLE, PECIALLY THE FIRST UPLE S OF HIS REER, WAS THAT OF THE “WOMAN’S DIRECTOR.” HE ME TO FD THIS PARTICULAR PHRASG GRATG, PART DUE TO THE LS HERALD BUT EQUALLY FANTASTIC PERFORMANC BY MEN THAT HE DIRECTED OVER THE YEARS. IN THE NTEXT OF OLD HOLLYWOOD ALSO HAS THE STG OF A PRUMPTN OF SIGNIFINCE, THAT MOVI ABOUT AND FOR WOMEN ARE LS OF A SER ACPLISHMENT. (THOUGH TODAY, THE ERA OF THE “CHICK FLICK,” THGS MIGHT ACTUALLY BE WORSE.){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;POSN:RELATIVE;PADDG-BOTTOM:56.49999999999999%;} .TWTER-TWEET-RENRED, {M-WIDTH:65%;WIDTH:TO !IMPORTANT;} {WIDTH:100%;} {MARG-LEFT:TO !IMPORTANT;MARG-RIGHT:TO !IMPORTANT;} IMG{MAX-WIDTH:100%;WIDTH:100%;} > IAME{BORR:NONE;MAX-WIDTH:100%;} > *{MAX-WIDTH:NONE !IMPORTANT;POSN:ABSOLUTE;HEIGHT:100% !IMPORTANT;WIDTH:100% !IMPORTANT;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}HOWEVER, ’S ALSO IMPOSSIBLE TO NY THE OVERWHELMG NUMBER AND QUALY OF FEMALE PERFORMANC THAT HE DID DIRECT. GARBO “CALE,” NORMA SHEARER “ROMEO AND JULIET,” AND THE ALL-STAR ST OF “THE WOMEN” ARE PERHAPS THE STAND-OUTS OF THE 1930S. THEN THERE’S INGRID BERGMAN’S OSR-WNG “GASLIGHT,” FOUR FILMS WH JUDY HOLLIDAY CLUDG HER OSR WNER, “BORN YTERDAY,” AND LLABORATNS WH ANNA MAGNANI, AUDREY HEPBURN, MARILYN MONROE, SHELLEY WTERS AND JUDY GARLAND. WHILE HARDLY ALL OF THE WERE HS, MORE OFTEN THAN NOT COR DIRECTED THE WOMEN TO SOME OF THE FT TURNS OF THEIR {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}WAS THAT BEE HE WAS GAY? IT’S BEEN SAID THAT HE WAS SIMPLY MORE EQUIPPED TO MAKE ACTRS FEEL RELAXED ON SET, WHOUT THEM WORRYG ABOUT ANY SORT OF HCHCK-LIKE CREEPS, BUT EVEN IF THAT MIGHT BE SOMEWHAT TE ALSO FEELS A B ASE. A MORE TERTG THEORY VIA “THE CELLULOID CLOSET,” THE NOW CLASSIC BOOK AND DOCUMENTARY THAT LOOKED AT THE HISTORY OF CEMA WH A QUEER EYE. THE IA THERE WAS THAT GAY MEN, FACED WH A PLETE ABSENCE OF ANYONE EXACTLY LIKE THEMSELV ON SCREEN, INTIFIED STEAD WH STRONG FEMALE CHARACTERS AND THE STAR ACTRS THAT PLAYED THEM. IN COR’S SE, PERHAPS THIS N BE FLIPPED. AS ANGELA LANSBURY POTS OUT THE AMERIN MASTERS DOCUMENTARY “ON COR,” “HE ULD EXPRS HIS FEME SI THROUGH THE ACTRS THAT HE WORKED WH.”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}SIMPLE ENOUGH. YET AGA WE SEEM TO BE SELLG COR A LTLE B SHORT. THIS IS A PSYCHOLOGIL EXPLANATN FOR HIS ATTENTIVE TREATMENT OF CHARACTER AND PERFORMANCE. IT ISN’T ONE THAT ANALYZ HIS TALENT, SKILL OR THORSHIP. THE GREAT PERFORMANC ARE GREAT, PART, BEE OF THE FILMS AROUND {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}COR IS ACTUALLY A B OF AN ANOMALY AMONG THE SIGNIFINT DIRECTORS OF OLD HOLLYWOOD, PECIALLY PARED TO THOSE THAT HAVE BEEN MORE QUICKLY TAKEN UP BY FILM HISTORIANS. HE BEGAN THEATER, AND NEVER QUE ACHIEVED THE SAME GREE OF TECHNIL MASTERY AS SOME OF HIS LLEAGU. YET HIS PRRI WERE ALSO DIFFERENT. HE DIDN’T TST EDORS, FOR EXAMPLE, OFTEN CHOOSG TO SHOOT LONGER TAK ORR TO PREVENT ANYTHG OM BEG CUT UP WAYS HE DIDN’T LIKE. THIS ALSO BELI THE SKILL OF A THEATRIL DIRECTOR WORKG WH HIS ACTORS, MAKG SURE THEY’RE GOOD ENOUGH THAT HE DIDN’T NEED TO {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE BT EXAMPLE OF THIS MIGHT BE THE FIRST BIG MIL TRIUMPH OF “A STAR IS BORN,” JUDY GARLAND’S LATE-NIGHT RENDN OF “THE MAN THAT GOT AWAY” (ONE OF ’S TOP 50 MIL MOMENTS). THE MERA IS GLUED TO HER, TENT ON PTURG EVERY LTLE EMOTNAL TAIL, EVERY FLECTN OF HER FACE. YET THIS SORT OF FAH THE TALENT OF ACTORS ALSO THROUGH LS SHOWY MOMENTS, BE THEY THE IC VICTORI OF JUDY HOLLIDAY OR THE RAPID FIRE BANTER BETWEEN SPENCER TRACY AND KATHARE HEPBURN. THE LONG TAKE IS OFTEN SEEN AS A TOOL OF THE FORMALLY AMB TR, PLAYG WH SPACE OR TIME. YET S POTENTIAL IS EQUALLY EMBODIED BY THOSE OF COR, WHICH ARE WORKS OF GREAT FAH THE RONANCE OF THE LIVG, TALKG {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;POSN:RELATIVE;PADDG-BOTTOM:56.49999999999999%;} .TWTER-TWEET-RENRED, {M-WIDTH:65%;WIDTH:TO !IMPORTANT;} {WIDTH:100%;} {MARG-LEFT:TO !IMPORTANT;MARG-RIGHT:TO !IMPORTANT;} IMG{MAX-WIDTH:100%;WIDTH:100%;} > IAME{BORR:NONE;MAX-WIDTH:100%;} > *{MAX-WIDTH:NONE !IMPORTANT;POSN:ABSOLUTE;HEIGHT:100% !IMPORTANT;WIDTH:100% !IMPORTANT;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}HEPBURN MIGHT BE THE KEY TO FALLY FIGURG OUT EXACTLY HOW QUEER WE N NSIR COR’S WORK. HE DIRECTED THE STAR HIS FIRST EVER FILM, 1932’S “A BILL OF DIVORCEMENT.” IT WAS THE FIRST OF TEN FILMS THAT THEY WOULD MAKE TOGETHER, THE LAST OF WHICH WAS 1979’S “THE CORN IS GREEN.” FEW ACTRS F THE MOLD OF THE ANDROGYNO, CHARISMATIC OBJECT OF CLOSETED GAY MALE INTIFITN MORE THAN HEPBURN, AND FEW OF HER FILMS ARE MORE WILLFULLY PLAYFUL WH GENR THAN THOSE DIRECTED BY {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}IN 1935, THE PAIR TRIED TO PALIZE ON THAT ANDROGYNY A SURPRISGLY EXPLIC WAY. “SYLVIA SRLETT” IS THE STORY OF A YOUNG WOMAN ON THE N WH HER FATHER, FLEEG CREDORS PARIS. IN THEIR PE SHE DISGUIS HERSELF AS A BOY, AND MATAS THE SE FOR MOST OF THE FILM. THIS GETS PLITED WHEN SHE MEETS N MAN JIMMY MONKLEY (CARY GRANT), PROUD WOMANIZER. THEN SHE FALLS LOVE WH A PATER, PLAYED BY BRIAN AHERNE. IT HAS SOME DANGERO MOMENTS, PARTICULARLY WHEN AHERNE’S ARTIST BEGS TO NOTICE SYLVIA’S CHARMS WHILE SHE’S STILL KNOWN TO HIM AS SYLVTER. ITS FLUIDY MIGHT SEEM TAME PARED TO NTEMPORARY FILMS, BUT FOR THE 1930S THIS WAS QUE SOMETHG. IT WAS ALSO A TOTAL FLOP AT THE BOX OFFICE AND A TEMPORARY DISASTER FOR BOTH HEPBURN AND COR’S {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}IF THEIR TENTN HAD BEEN TO ADDRS QUTNS OF FORBIDN SEXUALY, THEY MT HAVE BEEN CRTFALLEN BUT PERHAPS UNSURPRISED WHEN DIDN’T END WELL. THEY WOULD NEVER PH THE ENVELOPE SO FAR AGA. YET LATER ON, WH THE HELP OF SPENCER TRACY AND SCREENWRERS RUTH GORDON AND GARSON KAN, THEY WOULD TACKLE GENR POLICS WH THE SAFETY OF HETEROSEXUALY. “ADAM’S RIB” IS NOTHG IF NOT A FEISTY ASSERTN OF NTROVERSIAL IAS, WHICH HAVEN’T QUE LOST THEIR LTER AFTER SIX {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE HEPBURN FILMS SHOW THAT COR’S LEADG LADI WERE MORE THAN A SIMPLE NDU WH WHICH HE ULD EXPRS HIS REPRSED FEMY. HE DIDN’T LIVE A REPRSED LIFE, AFTER ALL, THOUGH MOST OF AMERI WAS IGNORANT OF HIS SUNDAY POOL PARTI. RATHER, HE WAS AN ACTIVE THOR PARTICIPANT, SHAPG FILMS AROUND THE REER-BT WORK HE GOT OM HIS ACTORS. MANY OF THE PERFORMANC WOULD BEE INIC, AND SOME OF THEM EVEN SPECIFILLY INIC TO THE GAY MUNY. TO WATCH “A STAR IS BORN” AND THK THAT THIS IS ANYTHG LS THAN THE NSC, PLITED WORK OF A WISE AND AMB DIRECTOR WOULD BE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}AS TO WHETHER THE FILMS HAVE A “GAY SENSIBILY,” SUCH A NCEPT IS HARR TO ARTICULATE. YET THERE’S PLENTY OF EVINCE COR’S FILMOGRAPHY THAT HE WORKED TO ENGAGE WH IAS OF GENR AND SEXUALY, EVEN IF WAS TO MIXED POPULAR SUCCS. AND WHAT IS OUR ROLE NOW, WELL AFTER EVEN “THE CELLULOID CLOSET,” IF NOT TO LOOK BACK AT COR’S WORKS, EVEN THE FOTTEN ON, WH A SET OF QUEER EY? HE’D PROBABLY FD THE WHOLE THG A B SILLY, BUT THAT SHOULDN’T STOP {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;CLEAR:BOTH;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;MARG:0 TO;WIDTH:90%;M-WIDTH:288PX;MAX-WIDTH:1440PX;M-HEIGHT:194PX;}LATT NEWS
* george cukor gay *
Furthermore, Cor’s parti helped open the door for more gay men to get rol Hollywood by workg and formg unfettable bonds wh one another. Legendary, Osr-wng, enormoly prolific Old Hollywood director Gee Cor was gay. He never settled down wh a permanent partner, but his homosexualy was certaly transparent to those -the-know.
The mor, after all, is that Clark Gable had him fired om “Gone wh the Wd” a homophobic is a rough, rough overview. So, the ntext of a plete retrospective openg tomorrow at the Film Society of Lln Center, seems an appropriate time to try parsg out this qutn: Is the filmography of Gee Cor a queer filmography, or a bunch of films directed by a man who happened to be gay?
GAY HOLLYWOOD THE STUD DAYS. DECEMBER 16, 2015 ADM UNTEGORIZED 2 I READ RECENTLY THAT ‘GAY-GOSSIP IS THE NEWT AND MOST CLEVER FORM OF HOMOPHOBIA’. NICE TRY, BUT I’M NOT BUYG . I AM NEHER HOMOSEXUAL NOR HOMOPHOBIC, BUT I AM TERTED SUBTERFUGE AND EXPOSG OLD-TIME MOVIE STUDS THAT MA AN ART FORM OUT OF GULLG THE PUBLIC. FOR FIFTY OR SO YEARS THEIR PUBLICY MACH CHURNED OUT PHONY, SANIZED IMAG OF THEIR STARS AND THEIR LIFTYL, AND THE PUBLIC SWALLOWED EVERY WORD OF THEM. TODAY, WE KNOW BETTER. HUNDREDS, IF NOT THOANDS, OF BGRAPHI HAVE BEEN PUBLISHED OVER THE LAST FORTY OR SO YEARS, THAT DISPUTE THE FANTASY CREATED BY STUD MOGULS WHOSE ONLY AIM WAS TO MAKE MORE MONEY AND STILL MORE MONEY. THE DAYS WE N READ ACUNTS OF LIFE AMONG THE STARS BY FORMER EMPLOYE OF THE STUDS, EVEN THEIR CHILDREN, ACUNTS THAT ARE EE OF THE THREAT OF DISMISSAL OR LIGATN NOW THAT THE ALL-POWERFUL STUD BOSS ARE GONE. NOT ALL OF THE ACUNTS N BE TSTED, OF URSE, BUT THERE ARE MORE THAN ENOUGH TO ENABLE TO SEEK (AND FD) VERIFITN WHERE NEED. SO, FOR THE RERD, I HAVE NO TERT WHAT NSENTG ADULTS DO BEHD CLOSED DOORS. IT IS THEIR BS AND NO-ONE ELSE’S. BUT I DO HAVE AN TERT HISTORY, GENUE HISTORY THAT IS, NOT SOME ‘SMOKE AND MIRRORS’ EXERCISE DREAMT UP BY SOME CIGAR-CHOMPG STUD EXECUTIVE WH TOO MUCH POWER AND TOO FEW MORALS.HOMOSEXUALY AND BISEXUALY WERE AGAST THE LAW BACK THE DAYS WHEN THE STUDS RAN HOLLYWOOD (APPROXIMATELY 1905 – 1958). THE MOVIE LONY WAS LERALLY RIDDLED WH PEOPLE WHOSE SEXUAL PERSUASN WAS ANYTHG OTHER THAN HETEROSEXUAL. THE STUD BOSS KNEW WHO WAS WHAT, OF URSE, AND THEY KEPT A CLOSE WATCH ON THE TABLOIDS, MAGAZ AND TRA PAPERS TO MAKE SURE THE SEXUALY OF THEIR MEAL-TICKETS REMAED, AT LEAST PUBLICLY, HETEROSEXUAL AND NOTHG BUT HETEROSEXUAL. WHAT STARTED OUT AS A SAFEGUARD QUICKLY EVOLVED TO A FULL-TIME POLICY SIGNED TO HOODWK THE PAYG PUBLIC TO BELIEVG WHATEVER THE STUDS WANTED THEM TO BELIEVE.STRANGE AS MIGHT SEEM, MOST FANS TEND NOT TO BELIEVE STORI THAT THEIR IDOLS ARE GAY. PROBABLY BEE THEY SIMPLY DON’T WANT TO. ANY REPORT OF SLEAZY HETEROSEXUAL SHENANIGANS IS UALLY ACCEPTED WHOUT QUTN, BUT MENTN OF A STAR BEG GAY OR BISEXUAL IS GENERALLY MET WH ACCATNS OF ‘MUCK-RAKG’ AND/OR PEDDLG SENSATNALISM. WHY IS THAT? NAYSAYERS THROW UP THE UAL ARGUMENTS – ‘BUT HE’S MARRIED’ OR ‘THEY HAVE KIDS’. BUT THE FACT IS THAT HOLLYWOOD IS (AND ALWAYS HAS BEEN) CHOCK FULL OF MALE AND FEMALE STARS PLAYG THE HETEROSEXUAL GAME FOR ALL THEY ARE WORTH. AND, OF URSE, HAS ALWAYS BEEN THE STUDS’ TERTS TO HAVE ALL THEIR MATEE IDOLS AS ‘STRAIGHT’ AS ARROWS, HENCE LAVENR MARRIAG EVERYWHERE, ‘BEARDS’ WORKG FULL TIME, AND ‘VER-UPS’ ORCHTRATED BY THE STUD ‘FIXERS’. THE FACT THAT THE ‘BIGGI’ HAVE ALWAYS ED ‘FIXERS’ IS ILLUMATG SELF.LAVENR MARRIAG WERE ARRANGED BY STUDS TO FLECT TABLOIDS OM LVG TO THE SEXUAL PERSUASN OF STARS THEY SPECTED OF BEG HOMOSEXUAL. TY AND SWEET JA GAYNOR LIVED HER LIFE LAVENR MARRIAG, THE SEND OF WHICH WAS FOR TWENTY YEARS TO GAY SIGNER ADRIAN, AND PRODUCED A CHILD. LILYAN TASHMAN WAS A LAVENR ARRANGEMENT WH GAY ACTOR EDMUND LOWE WHILE DULGG A FOUR-YEAR AFFAIR WH GARBO. CLTTE COLBERT WAS ANOTHER OF HER LBIAN LOVERS. OTHER STARS, SUCH AS JEAN ARTHUR, HAD THEIR LBIAN LIAISONS OUT ON THE AST, FAR OM HOLLYWOOD AND THE GOSSIP LUMNISTS.JA GAYNOR AND ADRIAN – A LAVENR MARRIAGEJEAN ARTHURCARY GRANT WOULD MARRY FIVE TIM ATTEMPTS TO MASK HIS HOMOSEXUALY AND HIS LIFELONG LOVE AFFAIR WH RANDOLPH STT (SEE PICTURE AT TOP). GAY DIRECTOR GEE COR WOULD HOLD THE BIGGT GAY AND LBIAN PARTI HIS HOME, HIS HOMOSEXUALY AN OPEN SECRET THROUGHOUT THE MOVIE MUNY. MEN OFTEN WORE PURPLE NECKTI AS A KD OF FOR ATTRACTG OTHER GAY MEN AT CLUBS AND PARTI. LBIAN FANS OFTEN WROTE THEIR LETTERS ON LAVENR OR MVE PAPER. I LOVE THE STORY TOLD ABOUT COR WHEN HE WAS NONTED ABOUT HIS HOMOSEXUALY BY THE HEAD OF MGM, LOUIS B MAYER, A DYED THE WOOL HOMOPHOBIC IF THERE EVER WAS ONE. ‘ER…GEE, ARE YOU REALLY A…HOM…HOMOSEXUAL? MAYER ASKED. COR LOOKED HIM STRAIGHT THE EYE AND GAVE HIM A ONE-WORD ANSWER. ‘DEDITED!’ MAYER NEVER BROUGHT THE SUBJECT UP WH HIM AGA.DIRECTOR GEE CORAND THERE WERE MANY GAY TABLISHMENTS THROUGHOUT HOLLYWOOD, PECIALLY THE THIRTI AND FORTI. THE VERY FIRST WAS JIMMY’S BACK YARD, WHICH OPENED 1929. PROHIBN WAS FULL SWG THEN, BUT BOOTLEGGERS AND E ALERS KEPT PATRONS WELL SUPPLIED NEVERTHELS. A SPEAKEASY NAMED BBB’S CELLAR WAS EXTREMELY POPULAR WHEN OPENED DOWN THE ROAD OM JIMMY’S, ALTHOUGH THERE WERE NO SIGNS DITG WAS A RENZVO FOR GAY PATRONS. TRADNALLY, PATRONS WERE GIVEN A HAMMER AS THEY ARRIVED, WHICH THEY WOULD BANG ON THE TABLE WHENEVER SOMEONE ENTERED THE PREMIS. REGULARS CLUD TALLULAH BANKHEAD, JOAN CRAWFORD, CONSTANCE BENT, NORMA TALMADGE, LILYAN TASHMAN, RAMON NOVARRO, CARY GRANT AND HOWARD HUGH, JT TO NAME A FEW. IT WAS MARLENE DIETRICH’S FAVOURE CLUB.TALLULAH BANKHEADCONSTANCE BENTLILYAN TASHMANTHE POLICE TEND TO CRACK DOWN ON WHAT THEY REFERRED TO AS THE ‘PANSY CLUBS’, THE ON THAT OFFERED FLOORSHOWS WHICH ‘WOMEN MASQUERAD AS MEN, AND MEN AS WOMEN’. THE HOLLYWOOD VICE SQUAD REGULARLY POUNCED ON THE TABLISHMENTS. FEMALE IMPERSONATORS AT JIMMY’S BACK YARD WERE DRAGGED OFF TO JAIL AFTER ONE RAID AND GIVEN 6 MONTH’S IMPRISONMENT! ONE NIGHT, SO THE STORY GO, THE BISEXUAL ACTRS LILI DAMA HAD SEX WH A WAER FULL VIEW OF TWENTY OR SO SPECTATORS. LTLE WONR HER FORMER LOVER HUMPHREY BOGART NICKNAMED HER ‘TIGER LIL’. HER LOVERS, MALE AND FEMALE, NUMBERED THE HUNDREDS. FANS HAD NO IA SHE SWUNG BOTH WAYS. HER HBAND ERROL FLYNN KNEW, OF URSE, NOT THAT OVERLY BOTHERED HIM. LILI DAMA AND HER HBAND ERROL FLYNNCAFé GALA WAS OPENED 1939 ON SUNSET BOULEVARD. IT NEVER ADVERTISED SELF AS A GAY BAR, NOR WAS EXCLIVELY GAY, BUT WAS SENTIALLY SO, NOHELS. THE BAR AREA TERED TO GAY MEN, BUT THERE WERE STRICT L, PECIALLY REGARDG NTACT BETWEEN PATRONS. NOTHG BEYOND A HANDSHAKE WAS TOLERATED ON THE PREMIS. OPENED BY THE BARONS CATHERE D’ERLANGER, FEATURED GAY SGER JOHNNY WALSH, AND WAS THE FAVOURE GAY BAR OF JUDY GARLAND. COLE PORTER ULD BE OBSERVED THERE, AS WELL AS GRETA GARBO ON THE RARE OCSNS SHE VENTURED OUT WH HER NUTRNIST RT GAYLORD HSER. IT WAS ONE PLACE WHERE GAY AND LBIAN STARS AND OTHER NOTABL ULD DROP WHOUT NNG THE RISK OF BEG RAID. IT CLOSED 1948.THE GREAT COLE PORTERTHE ALMOST AS GREAT JUDY GARLANDTHE FLAMGO WAS AN UPSLE LBIAN NIGHTCLUB, VERY POPULAR THE 1940S, THAT WAS N BY A WOMAN NAMED BEVERLY SHAW, WHO WOULD GREET PATRONS WEARG A MAN’S JACKET AND BOW TIE ON HER TOP HALF, A SHORT SKIRT AND HIGH HEELS BELOW THE WAIST. THE CANYON CLUB WAS A GAY AND LBIAN SPOT THROUGHOUT THE 40S AND 50S, SUATED THE TOPANGA CANYON AREA. IT HAD AN EARLY WARNG SYSTEM WHICH LIGHTS WOULD FLASH WHEN THE VICE SQUAD WAS SPIED APPROACHG. THIS WAS THE SIGNAL FOR PATRONS TO SWCH DANCE PARTNERS TO SOMEONE OF THE OPPOSE SEX.BEVERLY SHAW OF THE FLAMGOSMTY’S, THE GAY INN AND THE GAYWAY CAFé WERE THREE GAY VENU WELL KNOWN TO THE ARY. WHEREVER THEY SPECTED GAY CROWDS TO NGREGATE, THE ARMY WOULD POST SIGNS AT THOSE PLAC, ‘OUT OF BOUNDS TO ARY PERSONNEL’. NOT ALL GAY MEETG PLAC WERE CLUBS, OF URSE. PERSHG SQUARE WAS A PARK DOWNTOWN LOS ANGEL. A TRAVEL SE LLED ‘DISVER LOS ANGEL’ NAMED PERSHG SQUARE AS ONE OF ‘TEN GAY LANDMARKS’ WORTH VISG. DURG WW2 THE ARMY WOULD PUT UP RMATN AREAS THE SQUARE FOR SOLDIERS, EVEN THOUGH WAS A POPULAR NGREGATG AREA FOR GAYS. AND THE NOTOR BILTMORE HOTEL WAS JT ACROSS THE STREET.PERSHG SQUARE, L.A. CIR 1945THE BILTMORE HOTEL BALLROOM CIR 1930THE BILTMORE OPENED S DOORS 1923. ITS BAR WAS ONE OF THE FEW PLAC LOS ANGEL WHERE GAYS ULD MEET OPENLY. THE HOTEL HAS WELED PRINTS, DIGNARI AND CLOSETED MALE CELEBRI FOR S. EIGHT OSRS BANQUETS HAVE BEEN HELD THERE, AND MOVI AND TELEVISN PROGRAMS FILMED THERE. DURG THE WAR UNIFORMED SOLDIERS WOULD BE PACKED THREE EP AT THE BAR SEARCH OF GAY LOVE. THE BILTMORE IS ALSO HISTORILLY KNOWN TO BE THE LAST PLACE THE FAMO BLACK DAHLIA WAS SEEN PRR TO HER GRISLY RPSE TURNG UP TWO HALV 1946. TODAY, (TO S EVERLASTG SHAME), THE BAR SERV A ‘BLACK DAHLIA COCKTAIL’. WELL, WHATEVER BRGS A BUCK, I GUS.ELIZABETH SHORT – ‘THE BLACK DAHLIA’OTHER VENU OF THE 30S AND 40S CLUD SPEAK 39, JOHNNY FRENCHMAN’S, THE GYPSY ROOM, THE TROPIL VILLAGE AND SANTS CLUB. A JOT LLED M & M WAS A LBIAN BAR THAT TERED PRIMARILY FOR LATAS. BROTHERS WAS A GAY BAR FOR AIN-AMERINS. IN THE 50S AND 60S THERE EXISTED THE CHEROKEE CLUB, HOE OF IVY, LAFAYETTE, CHEE-CHEE’S, OPEN DOOR, THE PARTY PAD AND THE CAROEL VENICE. THERE WERE SR MORE. UNR-AGE GAYS WERE TERED FOR AS WELL. THOSE WHO LACKED THE NECSARY ID TO GET TO BARS ULD ADJOURN TO PLAC SUCH AS COFFEE DAN’S, THE GOLD CUP AND MARL INN ON HOLLYWOOD BOULEVARD, ALL OF WHICH TERED EXCLIVELY FOR HOMOSEXUALS. IN THE FIFTI MONTGOMERY CLIFT WAS OFTEN SEEN AT COFFEE DAN’S. BY THE 60S TRANSVT HAD TAKEN OVER THE TABLISHMENT. THERE WERE SEVERAL COFFEE DAN’S LOS ANGEL. THE GAY ONE WAS ON HOLLYWOOD BOULEVARD.MONTGOMERY CLIFTIT WAS ALLA NAZIMOVA WHO ED THE PHEMISM ‘THE SEWG CIRCLE’ FOR HOLLYWOOD’S LBIAN ATERNY. TALLULAH BANKHEAD MAY OR MAY NOT HAVE BEEN VOLVED WH THE GROUP, BUT SHE HAD MANY FEMALE LOVERS. HATTIE MCDANIEL AND PATSY KELLY WERE TWO OF THEM. HATTIE WON AN OSR PLAYG MAMMY GONE WH THE WD 1939. SGER BILLIE HOLIDAY WAS ANOTHER OF TALLULAH’S NQUTS. THE CIRCLE WOULD MEET REGULARLY, SOMETIM AT THE HOME OF DELOR DEL R, AND NSISTED OF LBIANS, BISEXUALS AND THE OCSNAL ‘EXPERIMENTER’. THEY WOULD MEET AT ONE ANOTHER’S HOM FOR LUNCH, A CHAT AND WHATEVER ELSE EVENTUATED. THE AGENDA WAS FLEXIBLE. HATTIE MCDANIELMEMBERS ME AND WENT, BUT STARS SUCH AS JOAN CRAWFORD, GARBO, BARBARA STANWYCK, MYRNA LOY, AGN MOOREHEAD, DANCER ISADORA DUNN, WRER MERCES ASTA AND DIETRICH WERE ALL SAID TO BE PART OF THE SAPPHIC SEWG CIRCLE. OTHERS CLUD KATE HEPBURN, KAY FRANCIS, JUDH ANRSON, EVELYN BRENT AND MARJORIE MA (MA KETTLE). GARBO AND DIETRICH ALWAYS MATAED THEY NEVER KNEW EACH OTHER, BUT SIRS DISAGREE, PECIALLY LIGHT OF THE FACT THAT BOTH WOMEN APPEARED A MOVIE BERL 1925 LLED THE JOYLS STREET. PERSONALLY, I DOUBT IF THEY WERE LOVERS. IF THEY WERE, THEN WHY WOULD DIETRICH NY ? GARBO WAS RIDICULOLY SECRETIVE, BUT MARLENE CERTALY WAS NOT.AGN MOOREHEADMYRNA LOYKAY FRANCISMA KETTLECRAWFORD HAD MANY LOVERS OF BOTH SEX. SHE EVEN TOOK A CRACK AT THE HETEROSEXUAL MARILYN MONROE DURG ONE OF MM’S WEAKER MOMENTS. IT WAS MON KNOWLEDGE HOLLYWOOD THAT THE BETTE DAVIS-JOAN CRAWFORD FD ME ABOUT BEE JOAN MA A PASS AT BETTE AND WAS TURNED DOWN. CRAWFORD WAS NOTOR FOR HOLDG GDG AGAST ANYONE (MALE OR FEMALE) THAT REFED TO SLEEP WH HER.OTHER THAN LILYAN TASHMAN, GARBO HAD RELATNSHIPS WH LOUISE BROOKS AND MERCES ASTA, YET HER GREAT LOVE WAS A MARRIED SWEDISH ACTRS NAMED MIMI POLLAK. UNLIKE DIETRICH, GARBO NEVER MARRIED AND NEVER HAD CHILDREN. OF URSE, JT LIKE MARLENE, SHE TOOK LOVERS OF BOTH GENRS. EVA LE GALLIENNE SHARED HER FAVOURS WH TALLULAH, ESTELLE WWOOD, ALLA NAZIMOVA AND ASTA, TO NAME BUT A FEW.MIMI AND GARBOA YOUTHFUL ESTELLE WWOODESTELLE MURR BY DEATH (1976)DURG THE SEND WORLD WAR LOS ANGEL WAS OFFICIALLY KNOWN AS A GAY MUNY, ALTHOUGH IF YOU WERE TO TAKE THE STUDS’ WORD FOR EVERY ACTOR AND ACTRS ON THEIR BOOKS WAS AS HETEROSEXUAL AS CAPTA AMERI! SIGNIFINTLY, THE FEAR OF EXPOSURE AS A GAY PERSON WAS TANGIBLE AND POTENTIALLY REER-STROYG, WHILE THE SEXUAL EXPLOATN OF YOUNG HOPEFULS (OF BOTH SEX) WENT ON UNCHECKED, DAY AND DAY OUT AT EVERY STUD, LARGE OR SMALL.ADRIANAGN MOOREHEADBARBARA STANWYCKBBB'S CELLARBETTE DAVIS JOAN CRAWFORDBEVERLY SHAWRY GRANTTHERE D'ERLANGERCLTTE LBERTFFEE DAN'SLE PORTERNSTANCE BENTELIZABETH SHORTERROL FLYNNTELLE WWOODGAYLORD HSERGEE CRETA GARBOHATTIE MCDANIELJA GAYNORJEAN ARTHURJIMMY'S BACK YARDJOAN CRAWFORDJUDY GARLANDKAY ANCISLILI DAMALILYAN TASHMANMA KETTLEMARJORIE MAMIMI POLLAKMONTGOMERY CLIFTMURR BY ATHMYRNA LOYPERSHG SQUARERANDOLPH STTTALLULAH BANKHEADTHE BILTMORE HOTELTHE BLACK DAHLIA PREVHOLLYWOOD – TAL OM THE DARK SI. NEXTTRAGIC HOLLYWOOD – WHO KILLED FUNNYMAN TED HEALY? 2 COMMENTS TS BALLOS DECEMBER 31, 2022 AT 4:01 PM THE RMATN ABOUT GRANT AND STT IS MOR. STT’S BGRAPHER STATED THAT THERE WAS NO EVINCE TO BACK THIS CLAIM, AS DID GRANT’S DGHTER. 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WERE GEE COR'S SUNDAY NIGHT SOIRE REALLY THAT SALAC?"HOLLYWOOD" V YOU TO ONE OF THE DIRECTOR'S LEGENDARY DNER {FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}{FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}TVBY CHRISTOPHER RUDOLPHMAY 1, 2020/7:51 {HEIGHT:HER;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;POSN:RELATIVE;-WEBK-FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;-MS-FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;-WEBK-ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-ALIGN:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-ALIGN:CENTER;ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-WEBK-TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;-MS-TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;} IMG{HEIGHT:100%;WIDTH:100%;OBJECT-F:VER;}{HEIGHT:1635PX;WIDTH:3600PX;}NETFLIXBY CHRISTOPHER RUDOLPHMAY 1, 2020 / 7:51 AM{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"NEWSARTICLE","HEADLE":"WERE GEE COR'S SUNDAY NIGHT SOIRE REALLY THAT SALAC?","THUMBNAILURL":","DATEPUBLISHED":"2020-05-01T11:51:56.000+0000","DATEMODIFIED":"2020-05-01T11:51:56.000+0000","IMAGE":{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","URL":","WIDTH":1920,"HEIGHT":1080},"URL":","THOR":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","NAME":"LOGO TV"},"MAENTYOFPAGE":{"@TYPE":"WEBPAGE","@ID":"},"PUBLISHER":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","@ID":","NAME":"LOGO TV","URL":","LOGO":{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT"}},"CREATOR":"CHRISTOPHER RUDOLPH","ARTICLESECTN":"TV"}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}GEE COR WAS ONE OF THE HARST-WORKG DIRECTORS OF THE GOLN AGE OF HOLLYWOOD. HE WAS VOLVED THE PRODUCTN OF THE CLASSICS GONE WH THE WD AND THE WIZARD OF OZ, AND HE ALSO HELMED BELOVED HOLLYWOOD MOVI LIKE THE WOMEN, A STAR IS BORN, ADAM'S RIB, AND {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}COR WAS FALLY REWARD WH HIS OWN OSR GOLD WHEN HE BROUGHT MY FAIR LADY TO THE BIG SCREEN 1964. THE MIL WON EIGHT AMY AWARDS, CLUDG BT PICTURE AND BT DIRECTOR.JOHN KOBAL FOUNDATN/GETTY IMAG1942: DIRECTOR GEE COR DISCS THE FILM SCRIPT WH STARS KATHARE HEPBURN (1907 - 2003) AND SPENCER TRACY (1900 - 1967) ON THE SET OF THE MGM FILM 'KEEPER OF THE FLAME'. SILVERWARE IS LAID OUT ON THE FFEE TABLE ONT OF THEM. (PHOTO VIA JOHN KOBAL FOUNDATN/GETTY IMAG){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}COR WAS KNOWN AS A "WOMAN'S DIRECTOR," WHICH WAS A PHEMISTIC WAY OF SAYG HE WAS GAY. HIS SEXUALY WAS AN OPEN SECRET AROUND HOLLYWOOD, BUT PEOPLE TALKED—PECIALLY ABOUT HIS FAMO SUNDAY-NIGHT DNER {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}RYAN MURPHY'S NEW NETFLIX SERI, HOLLYWOOD, V VIEWERS TO COR'S PALATIAL TATE. IN THE THIRD EPISO, "OUTLAWS," ERNIE (DYLAN MCDERMOTT) RMS HIS TEAM OF GAS STATN ATTENDANT TRICKS THAT THEY WILL ATTEND COR'S NEXT PARTY. ERNIE SCRIB THE SOIRE AS LAVISH EVENTS WHERE MOVIE STARS LIKE TALLULAH BANKHEAD AND VIVIEN LEIGH DRK FLOWG CKTAILS, GO SKNY DIPPG, AND GET WILD WH AN ENDLS PARA OF YOUNG HUNKS NEW TO {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}WERE THE COR AFFAIRS REALLY AS SALAC AS THEY ARE PORTRAYED HOLLYWOOD? IT TURNS OUT THEY {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}IN HIS BGRAPHY GEE COR: A DOUBLE LIFE, THOR PATRICK MCGILLIGAN VOT PASSAG TO THE WEEKLY PARTI:{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE GUTS WOULD MEET AND MUNCH AS THE SUN WENT DOWN. AFTERWARD, THE IENDS WOULD PCH AND WASH THE DISH, AND SOME OF THE CIRCLE WOULD NGREGATE THE SUE-WALLED OVAL ROOM, WH S OLD-FASHNED RAD THAT NEVER FUNCTNED, FOR AN AFTER-DNER SALON. THERE WOULD BE WTY, SPARKLG NVERSATN ABOUT ART, LERATURE, THEATER, AND FILMS. THERE WOULD ALSO BE BRISK GOSSIP. THERE WOULD BE AN ASSSMENT OF THE NEW YOUNG MEN WHO HAD BEEN DOTTED AMONG THE GUTS. THE WERE THE “FAMO COR SUNDAYS,” GARSON KAN’S WORDS—FAMO AN OPEN-SECRET KD OF WAY. THIS ASPECT OF COR’S LIFE WAS, OF URSE, UNKNOWN TO MANY: SO NOCENT OF COR’S HOMOSEXUALY WAS ONE YOUNG ACTRS MAKG HER SCREEN BUT UNR HIS DIRECTN, SHE ASKED HIM WHETHER HE EVER HAD BEEN MARRIED. WHEN THE DIRECTOR REPLIED WH A STRAIGHT FACE THAT HE HADN’T YET MET THE “RIGHT GIRL,” THE ACTRS—WHO WAS SHELLEY WTERS—BELIEVED {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}IN HOLLYWOOD, ALONG WH FAMO GUTS LIKE BANKHEAD AND LEIGH, PLAYWRIGHT AND ACTOR NOëL COWARD IS ALSO ATTENDANCE. ACRDG TO MCGILLIGAN, COR'S HOMOSEXUALY WAS PART OF THE "CHET OF THE HOE":{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THAT WAS PART OF WHAT MA UNIQUE: THERE WAS A FLOW OF DISTGUISHED HOMOSEXUAL GUTS OM AROUND THE GLOBE, AND PARTICULARLY OM ENGLAND: THE THOR SOMERSET MGHAM, PLAYWRIGHT AND ACTOR NOËL COWARD, THE NOTED VOGUE PHOTOGRAPHER GEE HOYNGEN-HUENE, THE PHOTOGRAPHER AND SIGNER CECIL BEATON... AND MANY OTHERS... IN GENERAL, WAS THE G TOGETHER OF A GLOBAL WORK OF ALMOST EXCLIVELY HOMOSEXUAL MEN WHO COR’S CHANGED LIFE FORMED A NURTURG FAY—AND SUBSTUTED FOR THE CISG AND NIGHTLIFE OF THE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}"OUTLAWS" ALSO SHOWS PLENTY OF SK, AS ACTORS STRIP DOWN TO SWIM NAKED COR'S POOL. SKNY-DIPPG WAS ALSO A SUNDAY RUAL, MCGILLIGAN WR: "SUNDAYS WAS WATCHG SOME VAGUELY REGNIZABLE AND WELL-ENDOWED ACTOR—FORRT TUCKER, SAY—TAKG LAPS THE DIRECTOR’S POOL."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}DES LATER, COR'S SUNDAY-NIGHT PARTI ARE STILL THE STUFF OF LEGEND AROUND HOLLYWOOD, PROVG THAT COR'S FLUENCE STRETCHED WELL BEYOND THE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}AS A LONGTIME IEND OF THE DIRECTOR PUT : “HE WAS THE MEC. YOU MET EVERYBODY THROUGH COR.”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;CLEAR:BOTH;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;MARG:0 TO;WIDTH:90%;M-WIDTH:288PX;MAX-WIDTH:1440PX;M-HEIGHT:194PX;}LATT NEWS
The Hollywood closet is a uniquely sctive trap: Homosexuals who have succeed makg a reer for themselv wh the film dtry--most are men and few of them have ever intified themselv as gay--have long enjoyed a relative, though clearly circumscribed, eedom. * george cukor gay *
To watch “A Star Is Born” and thk that this is anythg ls than the nsc, plited work of a wise and amb director would be to whether the films have a “gay sensibily, ” such a ncept is harr to articulate.
He worked at a gas statn on the rner of North Van Ns Avenue and Hollywood Boulevard, out of which, he says, he and a dre of his male and female iends serviced Hollywood celebri—many of them closeted homosexuals. They provid a safety zone for people whose reers would have been ed if the tth about them emerged the s before gay rights and the AIDS crisis. I read recently that ‘gay-gossip is the newt and most clever form of homophobia’.
I am neher homosexual nor homophobic, but I am terted subterfuge and exposg old-time movie studs that ma an art form out of gullg the public. Homosexualy and bisexualy were agast the law back the days when the studs ran Hollywood (approximately 1905 – 1958).