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THE GREAT LEE DIXON AND ROSS ALEXANDER
SEXUALIZED, NOT IN THE INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE TWO STARS,
BUT RATHER IN THE SHOTS OF DIXON IN HIS SHORTS-NEAR THE START,
AND AT THE END, OF HIS NUMBER
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All I noted was a couple of room-mates goofing-off...nothing more provocative than that. Maybe my imagination is defective.

Your gaze is a bit gay-isized.

All I noted was a couple of room-mates goofing-off...nothing more provocative than that

Perhaps it is simply a matter of our falling slightly in love with Lee Dixon...
While the scene is not so obvious, or comical, as Pangborn greeting Fields in International House, or Laurel & Hardy swapping pants in Liberty, can you think of another pre 1960s musical number that begins with a close up of a male dancer's shorts-clad rump, and concludes with the same dancer flopping into a chair with his legs wide open? Surely not the kind of thing Astaire or Kelly or Bolger or Robinson or Dailey were doing...
Our initial posting was updated to better explain our wild surmise.

Don't anyone mention Smith & Dale's WHAT PRICE PANTS?

Bob

JFK,
You may find this thread of interest.

Gay/Lesbian characters in silent film

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the very thought of Lee Dixon is revolting..........

Laurel and Hardy slept in the same bed in
Angora Love. Would they be considered gay
lovers today (as well as as members of PETA)?

Quote: "Laurel and Hardy slept in the same bed in "Angora Love""

Why specifically in "Angora Love"? Stan and Babe slept in the same bed in almost all their movies (if there were a bed scene of course) and I never considered it as having a "gay" implication of any kind, although being gay myself.

Has anybody noted Mischa Auer hyperactivally rhapsodiszing over Jon Hall in LADY IN THE DARK?

Top Brit TV comics from the 60s and 70s Morecambe and Wise were regularly shown in a double bed. Signifies nothing. They were happily married men. And as Morecambe, or more likely his latter-day reincarnation Vic Reeves, might have said as he put his arm around Wise "but not necessarily to each other".

Has anybody noted Mischa Auer hyperactivally rhapsodiszing over Jon Hall in LADY IN THE DARK?

If they'd been allowed to film LADY IN THE DARK as originally produced on Broadway, it would have been even more blatant.

My favorite subliminally gay character is still Gig Young in TEACHER'S PET (1958). In the film, Doris Day is enamored of the indifferent Mr. Young, much to the dismay of Clark Gable, who contrives to get Gig drunk. After a monstrous hangover, Gig spends the rest of the picture trying to help Clark and Doris get together--with apparently no romantic interest of his own. The code word for this sort of character used to be "confirmed bachelor" (e.g. Christopher Isherwood in the movie version of I AM A CAMERA).

the very thought of Lee Dixon is revolting..........

Oh, I don't know...I always thought of Lee Dixon as Warner's answer to Buddy Ebsen, only a LOT less annoying...

Your gaze is a bit gay-isized.

Don't you mean "gay"-ze?