tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8600881040144310286.post1085990111772361618..comments2024-01-05T05:02:49.566-06:00Comments on Scorethefilm's Movie Blog: Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)scorethefilmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15740271029710781821noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8600881040144310286.post-60739649556473575912009-02-15T17:52:00.000-06:002009-02-15T17:52:00.000-06:00I agree. I see that he couldn't publicly be a kno...I agree. I see that he couldn't publicly be a known homosexual but to those close to him and those he worked with it was known or at least highly suspected by film crews and such. That's interesting about their working relationship having mellowed by the end. Viva la Bride of Frankenstein! LOL.scorethefilmhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15740271029710781821noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8600881040144310286.post-74653163251610809432009-02-15T15:05:00.000-06:002009-02-15T15:05:00.000-06:00"Regardless of if that's true or not"My opinion is...<I>"Regardless of if that's true or not"</I><BR/><BR/>My opinion is that it was not. This is the trouble when some people writes books about film history with a present-time mindset. For an actor, even more a film actor, and more an actor, or star, playing lead parts, being a "flamboyant homosexual" in the 30s wasn't possible. If you didn't want to hide or mask the fact that you were gay then, you'd loose your job. Take, for instance, the case of William Haynes.<BR/><BR/>Hence, and in short, Laughton was gay, but not openly so (the fact wasn't known by the public until Laughton's widow talked it about it in a book years after Charles' death). Of course, some his good, close friends were aware, and possibly those working with him were able to notice some details. Ian Wolfe, for instance, noticed that Laughton and a masseur who often accompanyed him to the set were, hum, rather friendly. Maybe Gable noticed it, too.<BR/><BR/>At any rate, and as (gay) writer (and actor) Simon Callow put it rather well, the enmity behind-the-scenes was rather a matter of different acting/working styles, and a bit of jealousy between leading men, too. However, this enmity (which, yes, worked wonders on the final onscreen results) seemed to have mellowed by the end of shooting, according to some anecdotes told by Elsa Lanchester.Gloriahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00895285900033034259noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8600881040144310286.post-83959394637340817082009-02-14T22:22:00.000-06:002009-02-14T22:22:00.000-06:00You forgot to mention the other awesome trivia tid...You forgot to mention the other awesome trivia tidbit about this movie! The actors playing the "Polynesians"? They were all Mexicans.Dottie MacMappersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06378679230255834869noreply@blogger.com