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Gay subjects in movies??
Artiste:
Thanks MaineWriter!
James Whale, I do not think that I met him then. Maybe my Hollywood friends would have!!
However, I would question if his death was suicide!! Is such a note still exist? Many, too many actors who were gay men have unknown deaths... even if it was murder!! Remember official papers on Marilyn Monroe disappeared at the coroner's office?
What was the name of his lover?
Hugs! Thanks again...
Artiste:
Thanks TOoP/Bruce!
You say:
In "Clone: the life and legacy of Al Parker, Gay Superstar", there is mention of Al Parker being set up with his first job as an escort to service a very aged Tom Ewell. It apparently didn't go so well...
Bruce, is there proof of that?
Al Parker past away, I think, right?
Hugs!!
MaineWriter:
--- Quote from: Artiste on January 05, 2008, 04:28:46 pm ---Thanks MaineWriter!
James Whale, I do not think that I met him then. Maybe my Hollywood friends would have!!
However, I would question if his death was suicide!! Is such a note still exist? Many, too many actors who were gay men have unknown deaths... even if it was murder!! Remember official papers on Marilyn Monroe disappeared at the coroner's office?
What was the name of his lover?
Hugs! Thanks again...
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His lover was named David Lewis.
I am not an expert on Whale's life, I only know what I have read online--and what was suggested in the movie "Gods and Monsters." You can find a brief bio at IMDb:
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001843/bio
Hope this helps.
L
TOoP/Bruce:
--- Quote from: Artiste on January 05, 2008, 04:31:27 pm ---Thanks TOoP/Bruce!
You say:
In "Clone: the life and legacy of Al Parker, Gay Superstar", there is mention of Al Parker being set up with his first job as an escort to service a very aged Tom Ewell. It apparently didn't go so well...
Bruce, is there proof of that?
Al Parker past away, I think, right?
Hugs!!
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The book is by Roger Edmonson.
The reference is on page 62.
http://books.google.com/books?id=xTHijC4DkGEC&pg=PA62&lpg=PA62&dq=clone+al+parker+tom+ewell&source=web&ots=mfSmgQhSlL&sig=9S94nU77M9scrn-G9yFbPf0WdsM
Artiste:
Thanks MaineWriter!
Boy it would take me a whole afternoon maybe to see that suicide note which was possibly by James Whale! Since there are so many suicides by actors!! I often wonder about that, if so many did that or were they murdered?? !!
When I lived many times in Los Angeles, I heard, born persons there, mentioned sadly often that they thought that murderers got away with killing gays there!! I know that gay actors who past away as being murdered or unsolved deaths in Hollywood, most, if not all, have never been solved. Police, etc., do not care less. Look what happen to Marylin Monroe, since her papers about her disappeared at the morgue?? !!
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Regarding one of those first films in which James Whale participated in, that being Hell's Angels, I wonder if that became the criminal gang's tiltle we know of to-day?
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Any other gay subjects in movies you know about?
Hugs!!
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