The Razor's Edge
1946
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Feb 14, 2021 · More signs point to Webb as queer than they do anything else. Webb did what he could in the era he lived in. When he passed away in the 60s, the Stonewall Riots were still years away. Being openly gay was not exactly an option. Regardless of staying closeted, knowing that his sexuality was something people during the Golden Age knew about, and ...
1913–1962. Webb Parmelee Hollenbeck (November 19, 1889 [1] – October 13, 1966), known professionally as Clifton Webb, was an American actor, singer, and dancer. He worked extensively and was known for his stage appearances in the plays of Noël Coward, including Blithe Spirit, as well as appearances on Broadway in a number of successful ...
Aug 2, 2018 · Scotty didn’t know about it. Someone sent him the book and that’s how he found out about it. Scotty said at one point that Noël Coward brought him to Fiji in the ’50s from Los Angeles. Then ...
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Aug 9, 2011 · For example, a squib published on 24 Aug. 1935 couched rumors of Webb and marriage in a rhetoric of incredulity: “Clifton Webb, believe it or not, is really serious in his attentions to Princess Natalie Paley … they really intend to marry and this is the truth, despite all of our ideas that this was one of Clifton's little practical jokes ...
Dec 30, 2001 · Dec. 30, 2001 12 AM PT. “The time has come when we can seriously and without sensationalism assess the gay and lesbian experience of studio-era Hollywood,” wrote William J. Mann in ...
Clifton Webb. Actor: Laura. Already trained in dance and theater, he quit school at age 13 to study music and painting. By 19 he was a professional ballroom dancer in New York, and by his mid-twenties he was performing in musicals, dramas on Broadway and in London, and in silent movies. His first real success in film came in middle age as the classy villain Waldo Lydecker in Laura (1944),...
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Mid-Century Hollywood. by Leonard Leff. Abstract: Attentive to a wide range of signs that mark queerness, "Becoming Clifton Webb" not only shows that Webb was perceived as queer in the mid-twentieth century but argues that, coincident with Sexual Behavior and the Human Male (1948), he helped introduce moviegoers to the "new" homosexual of.
