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Jean Malin, an openly gay nightclub entertainer in real life, found his one scene in 1933's Double
Harness reshot with another actor because of studio fears about his notoriety.
Learning from the Past
Historian curates monthlong series of queer-centric cinema
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n honor of Pride Month, Turner Classic
Movies—that venerable cable oasis of bona
fide cinephilic credibility—is broadcasting
Screened Out: Gay Images in Film, a series for
which a treasure trove of queer-interest films
has been assembled for broadcast. It covers decades
of film history, from near the birth of the medium
all the way up through the watershed cultural (and
political) moment of Stonewall. From its earliest
entry, 1912’s silent short Algie, the Miner, to its
most recent, William Friedkin’s 1970 touchstone/
lightning rod The Boys in the Band, the series
Barrios is rightfully proud of what has been
accomplished: “The fact that TCM is devoting
eight full nights to this festival, with 44 films plus
this amazing group of guest commentators (includ
ing Alan Cumming, Charles Busch and Michael
Musto] is still stunning to me. I’m just awed by this
kind of support, and in great admiration of TCM’s
willingness to extend itself in this fashion.”
Among those 44 films are unequivocal classics
such as 1933’s Queen Christina (Garbo, the queen
of the title, has an affair with a countess); the
giddy Rock Hudson/Doris Day sex comedy That
encompasses multiple genres and styles of films
Touch of Mink, from 1962; Otto Preminger’s 1962
with queer themes or characters, mining TCM’s
political thriller Advise and Consent, with its plot
vast film library to bring to the fore some occasion
turning on a closeted senator and featuring the
ally surprising but unfailingly interesting selections.
first-ever Hollywood depiction of a gay bar; and
The germ of the idea for Screened Out can be
Robert Aldrich’s dark lesbian comedy from 1968,
traced back to 2002’s Out on Film, Atlanta’s queer
The Killing of Sister George.
film festival, where a chance meeting between
Even more tantalizing than revisiting these
author Robert Barrios (from whose 2002 book the
familiar and much-discussed favorites, however, is
series derives its title, timeline and sensibility)
the chance to catch those films for which the series
and Lee Tsiantis—a Turner
has gone a bit further off
Entertainment attorney with
the beaten path. In
an enthusiasm for film and
1930’s Way Out West,
Barrios’ work, and with
modern audiences have
connections to the ranks at
a chance to catch the
TCM—led to the eventual
now virtually forgotten
realization of the project.
William Haines, the first
With other TCM monthlong
gay movie star, in action.
showcases, such as last year’s
The lesser-known work
Race
Hollywood: Black
of two queer directors,
Images in Film, offering what
George Cukor’s Our
Barrios calls “an excellent
Betters ( 1933) and
precedent of sorts,” he and the
Vincente Minnelli’s
network’s programmers have
Designing Woman (1957),
been working in earnest for
blend prominent gay
almost a year now to curate Film historian Robert Barrios (left) co
sidekicks into their
and develop Screened ( >ut.
hosts Screened Out with Robert Osborne.
frothy comedic mixes.