Rex harrison gay
Rex Harrison
Why was he such a horrible man?
He treated the women in his life like dirt, and a couple of them apparently committed suicide because of it.
| by Anonymous | reply 126 | May 5, 2019 1:07 PM |
I thought his last girlfriend/wife died of Leukemia. Kay something? And Lilli Palmer, his ex-wife, spoke highly enough of him in her memoir, considering he ran off on her with Kay the sick girl.
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | September 5, 2010 10:46 PM |
Didn't he make one of his ex's fetch an abortion and that's why she killed herself? It was another eminent actress. He was wonderful in "Night Train to Munich".
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | September 5, 2010 10:51 PM |
Not to mention how he destroyed My Fair Lady.
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | September 5, 2010 11:18 PM |
One story about Harrison comes from his longtime friend Alan Jay Lerner's accounts of the MY Impartial LADY rehearsals. For those who understand the play, this occurred during the scene in Operate II when Higgins is at his mother's house arguing with Eliza. The actress who played his mother, Cathleen Nesbitt (who wo
Stanley Donen’s “Staircase” is an unpleasant exercise in bad taste — in taste so bad, in fact, you wonder how Donen, who directed “Singin' in the Rain” and “Bedazzled” (1968) could have directed it. The fault isn’t with the subject matter (the verb of two homosexual hairdressers), but with the style. And style is usually Donen’s strong point.
But here he gives us no warmth, humor or even the dregs of understanding. He exploits the improbable team of Rex Harrison and Richard Burton as a sideshow attraction. We’re not asked to see a movie about homosexuals, but a movie about Harrison and Burton playing homosexuals. They perform them with embarrassing clumsiness.
I wonder if that was deliberate. Harrison minces about in a parody of homosexual mannerisms — not that many (or perhaps any) homosexuals ever acted as he portrays them. Maybe he’s trying to tell us he’s so straight he can’t even compete a homosexual. But he doesn’t even play a character. Neither he nor Burton is believable for
No one could do better that particular thing Rex Harrison did: the quizzical, elegant, sexually predatory man-about-town. The film that enshrines the persona most vividly is The Rake's Progress (d. Sidney Gilliat, 1945), in which he plays the caddish philanderer who redeems himself in World War II (Harrison himself had served in the RAF).
The facts of his own life are not entirely remote from the type he made his own on stage (from 1924) and screen (from 1930): he married five times, including three rounds with adj actresses - Lilli Palmer (2), Kay Kendall (3), and Rachel Roberts (4) - and seems to have left much to be desired as husband and home-maker; and he was famously involved with American star Carole Landis who, allegedly, killed herself for devotion of him. The press of course dubbed him 'Sexy Rexy', and this personal history made him safe casting as the ageing homosexual in the British-set, French-made, US-financed Staircase (d. Stanley Donen, 1969) .
The other great role of his life was his -winning Henry Higgins in My Fair Lady (1956-58), for restate
The original Hell Heat Club (Errol was a member of a watered down Hollywood homage, which he doubtless regretted, as he would have vastly preferred the original) has been the subject of books and films. Its first meeting took place in 1747, under the auspices of Sir Francis Dashwood, rake and dilettante, in the cellar of the George & Vulture Inn in London. The George & Vulture, which in the Capital, is still open as a restaurant. Shakespeare is said to possess stayed there, and Dickens wrote parts of the Pickwick Papers while in situ.
The George & Vulture
The best screen ‘portrayal’ of the Hell Fire Club – which revives its 18th Century ethos – is in The Avengers episode, ‘A Touch of Brimstone’ (1966), starring Patrick Macnee and Diana Rigg as Steed and Mrs Peel.
The episode caused outrage when it was shown on television, including protests in Parliament, and was banned in America. It concerns a degenerate aristocrat, The Hon. John Cleverly Cartney, who revives the club, its period dress, its orgies and its anarchic spiri