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Screening: Hiding in Plain Sight: The Case of Gay Life
Screening
Hiding in Plain Sight: The Case of Gay Life
Wednesday, May 8 at pm
Michelson Theater, Broadway, 6th Floor
Perry Mason (–, CBS-TV) is known for its formulaic plots—attorney Mason (Raymond Burr) defends an innocent client and forces the real murderer to confess in a courtroom finale. With its modish noir filming, outdoor locations, and deep background characterizations, the series arguably also featured a prescient queer subtext. Burr was a gay man who led a covert life, but on the show, Mason is consistently paired with his investigator, Paul Drake (William Hopper), in peaceful, sometimes domestic contexts—especially notable in the episode we’ll screen: The Case of the Borrowed Baby (). 50 min. With commentary by Drake Stutesman, Adjunct Professor of Cinema Studies (TSOA) and Costume Studies (Steinhardt), NYU.
Co-sponsored by NYU’s Department of Cinema Studies and Grey Art Gallery.
Free of charge, no reservations, capacity limited, and subject to change. Photo ID required for entrance to NYU buil
RAYMOND BURR, Canadian actor, died (b. ) OKwe're going to rename September 12 "Closet Day", what with Chevalier, Perkins and Burr you have three of the biggest closet cases in Hollywood and film (I mean, of course, there are others.)
But Raymond is Closet Case…writ large. An Emmy-nominated actpr as well as being a vintner, Burr is perhaps best known for his roles in the television dramas Perry Mason and Ironside, Burr's official biography stated that he had been previously married, but both his wives and one child had died.
In , while working in London, he met Annette Sutherland, an aspiring actress from Scotland and that year they married. Despite protests from her husband, Sutherland insisted on fulfilling her contract and traveled to Spain with the tour company while Burr returned to America. Shortly before her death, Burr received a letter that Sutherland was working in Spain and would return to England and then America; Sutherland then boarded a flight from Lisbon to London and it has been widely reported that Sutherland then perished on BOAC Flight A, the same flight th
Created by Earle Stanley Gardner, in , Perry Mason appeared in over 80 novels and concise stories, becoming one of the best-known fictional characters of all time. Movie adaptions began almost immediately, in A radio series began in
The iconic tv series began in , and ran for nine seasons. Years later, tv movies began to air, three or four per year, thirty in all ().
In the original series, there were five main characters:
1. Perry, played by busy character actor Raymond Burr. Burr was gay, but invented a heterosexual back story for himself, and refused to be seen in public with lover Robert Benevides. He never came out to the lie down of the cast; they knew, sort of, but they
Yeah, okay, gossip columnist is not a profession for the nice. If you were nice, you wouldn&#;t take the job. You have to have something of a petty streak. You have to adore gathering information and spreading it as far as you can. However, even within those confines, there was something deeply toxic about Hedda Hopper. There are probably literally dozens of stories of people in Hollywood reacting with anger to her, and they&#;re all deeply satisfying. As is the truth that her birth surname was Furry, thereby tying her with a disliked subculture.
While her rival Louella Parsons had dabbled in acting before becoming a gossip columnist, Hedda Hopper had a serious career. She acted on the stage and was in many, many movies not as herself. She was rejected by Flo Ziegfeld and then ended up in the troupe of DeWolf Hopper. Then, she married him; together, they had a son. Eventually, she was offered a gossip column. In noun, the gossip became her primary career, leading to her being probably the most feared and hated woman in Hollywood.
ZaSu Pitts called her a ferret, which is an insult