Contents:
- WAS CARY GRANT THE FIRST ACTOR TO SAY "GAY" ONSCREEN?
- BRGG UP BABY – I JT WENT GAY ALL OF A SUDN
- BRGG UP BABY (1938) - (MOVIE CLIP) I JT WENT GAY!
WAS CARY GRANT THE FIRST ACTOR TO SAY "GAY" ONSCREEN?
The term Gay had fely bee a sexualized term by the 17th century to mean "unhibed by moral nstrats" and was then attached to homosexualy by the early 1900s. Grant's explanatn for wearg women's cloth the film, "I jt went gay all of a sudn, " was improvised on set, which may expla how slipped by the Productn Co Admistratn (PCA), Hollywood's self-censorship group. Between 1934, when the PCA began strict Co enforcement, and 1961, when the Co was amend, any mentn of homosexualy was strictly forbidn on screen.
BRGG UP BABY – I JT WENT GAY ALL OF A SUDN
This marks the only e of "gay" to mean "homosexual" a Hollywood film of that era. Some historians have suggted that 's the screen's first e of "gay" a sexual ntext. Sce this was a mastream movie at a time when the e of the word to mean homosexual would be unfaiar to most film-goers, the le uld also be terpreted to mean, “I jt cid to do somethg ivolo.
[As a pot of tert, a reliance on lgual obscury helped wrers slip another gay term past censors The Malte Faln 3 years later by scribg Wilmer, a character nsired by many to be gay, as a 'gunsel', a Yiddish word for a young homosexual pann:]. And closeted gay Hollywood stars. Let`s say he was out and everybody knew he was a homosexual, I`m not sure he would have had the reer.
BRGG UP BABY (1938) - (MOVIE CLIP) I JT WENT GAY!
BEHAR: Oh he was gay, too? In the film, the word “gay” was an ad-lib by Grant and not any versn of the origal script.
But 1934, even as mors of his gay affair wh Stt beme rife, he married Virgia Cherrill.
[Jeniffer] claims she wouldn't blame men for wantg [Grant] and would not be surprised if he flirted mentators today look at Gary and Stt's photographs and picture a perfect and happy gay uple, but acrdg to people who were close to them at the time, they were nothg but pals. In addn to raisg spicn by livg wh Stt the '30s, Grant reportedly lived a gay life but was forced to ver up his sexualy.