19. yes There was a documentary made about gay actors
Edited on Thu Nov-25-04 07:54 PM by scarletlib
in Hollywood that came out a few years ago called (I think) "The Celluloid Closet". It goes pretty far back to beginnings of Hollywood and discussing gay actors who were of course in the closet.
In one scene, Gore Vidal is discussing the movie Ben Hur. He was working on the screen play and it was very boring--the screen play itself. So he decided along with Stephen Boyd who played Ben-Hur's best friend Messala to have Stephen play the part gay. Of course Ben-Hur was played by Charlton Heston who did the entire movie not realizing that Stephen Boyd was playing Messala as a gay man. Neither of them told Heston.
Changes one's entire perspective when watching Ben-Hur anymore.
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