sovay: (Claude Rains)
sovay ([personal profile] sovay) wrote 2017-01-03 11:38 pm (UTC)

Ian McKellen speculates that studio pressure to marry may also have been a factor.

That doesn't surprise me either. Check out the career of William Haines sometime. I only ever saw him in one movie—Show People (1928) with Marion Davies—and he's so good and I looked forward to seeing so much more of him, especially in the sound era, and if Hollywood hadn't been so homophobic, that's what I'd have done.

I was rather charmed to find that McKellen visited Manners, not long before the latter's death, while preparing for Gods and Monsters:

That's lovely.

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