We all know about prent day, Travolta / Prton - and the past, Ja Gaynor/ Adrian, Mary Mart / Richard Halliday, and (allegedly) Julie Andrews/Blake Edwards . Any others not so well known ?
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#TBT: BREAKG THE GAY CO THE MOVI
Upon the 75th anniversary of The Malte Faln's release, 's time to look at the gay myths ntaed the Hollywood perennial. * was sydney greenstreet gay *
Hard, tough, thls, mascule -- the words often ed to scribe Hollywood's 1941 tective classic The Malte Faln are also terms found gay eroti to pict the male an. " The search for this "pricels token, " stolen by pirat and mored to be found the Barbary Coast, driv the film and Sam Spa's trigug unrworld enunters: They clu those wh a v femme fatale, Brigid O'Shghnsy (Mary Astor), and a host of equally lty, schemg gay men, nvergg upon that sexual meltg pot San Malte Faln is Hollywood's first gay masterpiece. It's fascatg to see that the film dramatiz this as one of society's primal myths and do so the most unexpected way: The spenseful plot gradually reveals Spa's unmistakable homophobia.
) For anyone who thks gay film characters -- and gay awarens -- are new to Hollywood, this movie go beyond polil rrectns and to the plexy of Hollywood's tac regnn of queerns. The Malte Faln's gay squad nstute the glory of the stud era's character-actor legacy. Portrayed Wilmer the gunsel (a mobster's boy toy) as a tough gay who mak Spa's sexual panic flare up.
The characters' gay tras are evint -- and fun to observe -- even though genteel movie buffs have avoid the tth for almost a century. Spa's homophobia match Ethan Edwards's racism The Searchers; acknowledg a cultural fact while unrsrg another group's prence.
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Gayns is more than subtext The Malte Faln; 's what energiz the film's high erotic current -- O'Shghnsy's attempt to manipulate Spa's libido helps to illumate Gutman, Cairo, and Wilmer's attractn to Spa's phallic prciple. 1 movie for graspg how gay sexualy figur the Hollywood imagatn. We all know about prent day, Travolta / Prton - and the past, Ja Gaynor/ Adrian, Mary Mart / Richard Halliday, and (allegedly) Julie Andrews/Blake Edwards.
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