Was claudette colbert gay or bisexual

Today it's common knowledge that Rock Hudson was gay, but in the s a lot of effort went into maintaining his straight leading man image. Now a new documentary, "Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood" —featuring year-old Scotty Bowers, who was an unabashed pimp to the stars—sheds new light on that pre-Stonewall world. Here, to mark Hudson's birthday, are 20 gay and bisexual actors who became movie legends. Tab Hunter was arrested at a gay party in Scandal sheets had it in for Hunter. Not long after his agent sacrificed Tab Hunter to keep Hudson's sex life out of the press, the leading man in "Giant" seen here with co-star Elizabeth Taylor married his agent's secretary.

She began acting professionally when she was years-old and she worked well into her 80s. I surfed on to the sparkling romantic screwball comedy It Happened One Night one evening in June and we marveled at how fresh it seemed for a film made in the mids. Colbert could play in anything, light comedy, historical bio-pics or romantic dramas with equal ease. She was the champagne of movie stars. Pre-Code refers to a brief era in the American film industry between the introduction of sound pictures in and the enforcement of the Motion Picture Production Code censorship guidelines in Films in the late s and early s included plenty of sexual innuendo, profanity, drug use, promiscuity, prostitution, infidelity, abortion, intense violence, and homosexuality, all ingredients for fun viewing as far as I am concerned.

The French actress turned American femme fatale, Claudette Colbert, was born on this day in The possibly bisexual performer had a successful acting career that lasted over two decades. In an ironic twist of fate, she was nicknamed Lily by her family after the New Jersery-born actress Lillie Langtry and the family would later migrate to New Jersey themselves.

Perkins was intense, sensitive, and complex, according to Scotty Bowers in Full Service. He was married with two kids but also gay. His longest gay relationship was with actor Tab Hunter, but he saw many men. Bowers writes that Perkins always wanted someone different. Bowers writes, "He always wanted someone different.