Can we discuss Robert Preston in Victor Victoria? - the Data Lounge
2020年4月21日 · My mom insisted Robert Preston really must be gay, wife and children be damned. She also referred to Billy Crystal as "that little fruit from Soap." If you played gay, you had to be gay in her little world. As for Victor/Victoria, I love that movie and always will.
The Music Man (1962)- with Robert Preston and Shirley Jones
2014年7月6日 · [quote]but Danny Kaye had turned down the leading part of Professor Harold Hill. For that matter, so did Dan Dailey, Gene Kelly, and Phil Harris, thinking the story was too corny. It was the show's director, Morton Da Costa, who insisted that Robert Preston would be perfect for the role, even though Willson had his doubts about him.
Semi-famous actors who died of AIDS - the Data Lounge
2014年9月23日 · Stephen W. Burns made a potentially promising film debut in the last (and worst) of the initial Herbie films, “Herbie Goes Bananas” (1980), replaced Mark Harmon in the last 3 episodes of the LA paramedics TV series “240 Robert” (1981) and, in the role that probably brought him his biggest exposure, played Jack Cleary, one of Meggie’s brothers, in the classic miniseries “The Thorn ...
Closet Cases who successfully "fooled the world" - the Data Lounge
2020年5月11日 · Billy Preston too. He wasn't an unattractive guy, but he was no heartthrob either. He seemed sort of asexual, if anything. Again, if there hadn't been that scandal with the Mexican day laborer, I doubt anybody would have given it a second thought. I admit to being surprised when Clive Davis came out as bi.
The lesser known Lavender marriages in Hollywood - the Data …
2015年2月17日 · The marriage of Robert Taylor and Barbara Stanwyck supposedly disguised her putative bisexuality and has been characterized as lavender for that reason, but it was prompted by the need to protect both their reputations after a Photoplay magazine article reported they had been living together for years while unmarried.
"Victor / Victoria" (1982) - the Data Lounge
2024年6月8日 · [quote]Robert Preston's pouffy hair was distracting. I was going to post the very same thing. Even as a young gayling when I first saw V/V, I was troubled by his hairstyle. In fact, all the men's hairstyles looked a little off to me. Too contemporary. Dapper men out on the town in the 1930s wore their hair slicked back and heavily pomaded.
Capucine - the Data Lounge
2019年10月7日 · R12, the transsexual rumors stem from the fact that there was another performer who went by the name Capucine, a female impersonator at Le Carrousel in Paris, who frequently appeared alongside other celebrated trans performers, Coccinelle and Bambi.
Let's Talk About Van Johnson - the Data Lounge
2021年6月13日 · Georges was written with Robert Preston in mind. Herman had tailored the songs to his voice. They were almost stunned and more than disappointed when he turned it down, since had openly played gay in V/V. But that's why he declined. After being so successful as Teddy in V/V, he was afraid of getting typecast as the go-to guy for a lovable old gay.
The Ugly But Actual Pretty One - the Data Lounge
2015年11月14日 · Robert Preston over Shirley Jones. Dave Madden and David Cassidy over Shirley Jones. Robert Preston over Lucille Ball. Albert Finney, Tim Curry and Geoffrey Holder over Ann Reinking, Bernadette Peters, and Carol Burnett. Roy Scheider, Cliff Gorman, Ben Vereen, John Lithgow and all the gay male dancers in [italic]All That Jazz[/italic] over Ann ...
I watched Funny Girl this week. - the Data Lounge
2021年11月14日 · R113, in reality, Robert Blake walked out after the reading in a mental snit. The original story was - he was told he got it (the part), and said "I just did it," and left. Blake resembled the character, and I wonder how the movie would be if he was cast as Billy Rose, how the whole movie would be if they went realistic.