First Knight
1995
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Feb 10, 2008 · Critic's play shows how the famous actor's arrest was part of the 1950s homosexual witch-hunts. Vanessa Thorpe, arts and media correspondent. Sat 9 Feb 2008 19.20 EST. The scandal that almost ...
Jan 31, 2011 · Gielgud was arrested at around midnight, and taken to a local police station where he gave the name "Arthur Gielgud" and stated his occupation as "self-employed clerk". He was charged with...
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Feb 28, 2008 · John Gielgud: When England hounded a hero. John Gielgud's arrest for cottaging in 1953 sparked public outrage and, for the actor, private agony. A new play tells the story of the...
On the evening of 20 October 1953, Gielgud, usually highly discreet about casual sex, was arrested in Chelsea for cottaging (i.e. cruising for sex in a public lavatory). Until the 1960s sexual activity of any kind between men was illegal in Britain.
Feb 15, 2010 · There had been rumours, never substantiated, that Sir John had been arrested before or warned off by a sympathetic policeman. Here was likely confirmation of the fact – more than half a century...
Genre. Drama. Setting. London. Plague Over England is a play written by Nicholas de Jongh, based on a real-life incident when actor John Gielgud was arrested for lewd behavior in 1953; it provides an insight into the changes in the lives of gay people over the last fifty years.
Gielgud was charged with "persistently importuning men for immoral purposes", a crime that transgressed the social taboos of the era and threatened to ruin him. Gielgud pleaded guilty and was...
