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Anyone else remember watching John Hurt as Quentin Crisp in The Naked Civil Servant and thinking it was a documentary?

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u/bodles9 — 3 days ago
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For the last day of Pride Month: here are some of my favourite performances as queer characters in classic films.

In order, unranked:

- Dirk Bogarde - Victim
- Paul Newman - Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
- (Dame) Judith Anderson - Rebecca
- Sal Mineo - Rebel Without a Cause
- Robert Walker - Strangers on a Train
- Peter O'Toole and Omar Sharif - Lawrence of Arabia
- Shirley MacLaine - The Children's Hour
- Peter Lorre - The Maltese Falcon
- Marlene Dietrich - Morocco
- John Dall and Farley Granger - Rope

(Just saw that someone else posted something similar, but oh well)

Thoughts on my picks? Any that you’d add?

u/MoonlightDahling — 7 days ago
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Was there ever a more iconic beauty?

Bud Fraker’s shot of Audrey Hepburn on the set of Roman Holiday, in 1953, is one of the great Hollywood portraits.

u/bodles9 — 11 days ago
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Marilyn Monroe having her hair styled in 1962: Does this look like a woman who will take her own life two weeks later?

u/bodles9 — 1 month ago