Movie Queers - Personal stories embedded in film history

Not a movie but an actress this time. But what an actress! And what a voice! Little Hollis had a crush on Julie Andrews the moment she saw her on the silver screen as "Mary Poppins" for the very first time, but "The Sound of Music" came a year later and sealed her infatuation forever. As a jewish queer kid, Hollis was alive with the sound of her music and the beauty of her gorgeous face. So were you? And, by the way, if you are listening to this podcast the day of its release, remember to say happy birthday to Julie Andrews. She is turning 88 today.

What is the movie that you know almost by heart? That you use as a coded language with some of your friends? Since he watched it on TV when he was a sick kid in bed, Paolo included the memorable lines of "All About Eve" (1950) as part of his social repertoire and now he shares that with us in this delightful pre-holiday episode. Bette Davis and Anne Baxter are leading the slide, with George Sanders, Celeste Holm and Marilyn Monroe following. Fasten your seatbelts!

All the possible combinations of love and all the layers of nudity are exposed in "Women in Love", the movie that merged D.H Lawrence, Ken Russell and Larry Kramer in 1969. Spider had a turning point in his life by following the discursive approach to feelings that earned Glenda Jackson her first Oscar and offered global audiences the first male full frontal ever,  an ex aequo honor shared by Alan Bates and Oliver Reed. 

In its combination of blaxploitation and melodrama, "Mahogany" empowered Rayman to pursue his dreams as a black artist from Indiana back in 1975. Directed by Motown's producer Berry Gordy Jr. and with a stellar and very campy performance by Diana Ross, this today problematic movie has a lot of emotional value for the now successful interior designer based in New York.

What made "Tiger Bay" (Jack Lee Thompson, 1959) so shocking for little Paul when he was in a farm town in Wisconsin in the 60s? He fell in love with Hayley Mills for sure, but, what else?