''Screened Out: Gay Images in Film'' was a June 2007
film festival
A film festival is an organized, extended presentation of films in one or more cinemas or screening venues, usually in a single city or region. Increasingly, film festivals show some films outdoors. Films may be of recent date and, depending up ...
broadcast on
Turner Classic Movies
Turner Classic Movies (TCM) is an American movie-oriented pay-TV network owned by Warner Bros. Discovery. Launched in 1994, Turner Classic Movies is headquartered at Turner's Techwood broadcasting campus in the Midtown business district of ...
. The festival, based on the book ''Screened Out: Playing Gay in Hollywood'' by
Richard Barrios, examined the history of homosexual images in American cinema. ''Screened Outs June schedule coincided with
Gay and Lesbian Pride Month.
The series focused not just on films in which homosexual themes or characters were obvious but on those which, because of the
Motion Picture Production Code
The Motion Picture Production Code was a set of industry guidelines for the self-censorship of content that was applied to most motion pictures released by major studios in the United States from 1934 to 1968. It is also popularly known as the ...
, were concealed or "coded". ''Screened Out'' sought out films that were rarely seen and not necessarily included in TCM's film library. The
Library of Congress
The Library of Congress (LOC) is the research library that officially serves the United States Congress and is the ''de facto'' national library of the United States. It is the oldest federal cultural institution in the country. The librar ...
served as the source for one film, 1912's ''
Algie the Miner''.
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Films
Each night of the festival spotlighted a different Hollywood era or theme.
The Early Years
* '' Algie the Miner''
* '' The Monster''
* '' Exit Smiling''
* ''The Broadway Melody
''The Broadway Melody'', also known as ''The Broadway Melody of 1929'', is a 1929 American pre-Code musical film and the first sound film to win an Academy Award for Best Picture. It was one of the first musicals to feature a Technicolor sequen ...
''
* '' Way Out West''
* '' The Office Wife''
* '' Stage Mother''
Gays Before the Code
* '' The Sign of the Cross''
* '' Our Betters''
* '' Double Harness''
* '' Queen Christina''
* ''Wonder Bar
''Wonder Bar'' is a 1934 American pre-Code film adaptation of a Broadway musical of the same name directed by Lloyd Bacon with musical numbers created by Busby Berkeley.
It stars Al Jolson, Kay Francis, Dolores del Río, Ricardo Cortez, Dick ...
''
* '' The Sport Parade''
Men and Women Behind Bars
* '' Hell's Highway (1932)''
* ''Ladies They Talk About
''Ladies They Talk About'' is a 1933 pre-Code American crime drama directed by Howard Bretherton and William Keighley, and starring Barbara Stanwyck, Preston Foster, and Lyle Talbot. The film is about an attractive woman who is a member of a ban ...
''
* '' Caged''
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* ''The Strange One
''The Strange One'' is a 1957 American film noir about students faced with an ethical dilemma in a military college in the Southern United States. It was directed by Jack Garfein, produced by Sam Spiegel, and was adapted from a novel and st ...
''
* ''Women's Prison
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''
The Dark Side: Film Noir & Crime
* ''The Big Combo
''The Big Combo'' is a 1955 American film noir crime film directed by Joseph H. Lewis, written by Philip Yordan and photographed by cinematographer John Alton, with music by David Raksin. The film stars Cornel Wilde, Richard Conte and Brian Donlev ...
''
* ''Suddenly, Last Summer
''Suddenly Last Summer'' is a one-act play by Tennessee Williams, written in New York in 1957. It opened off Broadway on January 7, 1958, as part of a double bill with another of Williams' one-acts, '' Something Unspoken'' (written in London i ...
''
* '' Reflections in a Golden Eye''
* ''Gilda
''Gilda'' is a 1946 American film noir directed by Charles Vidor and starring Rita Hayworth in her signature role and Glenn Ford. The film is known for cinematographer Rudolph Maté's lush photography, costume designer Jean Louis's wardrobe fo ...
''
* '' The Maltese Falcon''
Horror Films
* '' The Uninvited''
* ''The Picture of Dorian Gray
''The Picture of Dorian Gray'' is a philosophical fiction, philosophical novel by Irish writer Oscar Wilde. A shorter novella-length version was published in the July 1890 issue of the American periodical ''Lippincott's Monthly Magazine''.''Th ...
''
* ''Voodoo Island
Voodoo Island is a 1957 American horror film directed by Reginald Le Borg and written by Richard H. Landau. The film stars Boris Karloff, with a cast including Elisha Cook Jr., Beverly Tyler and Rhodes Reason. It is set in the South Pacific and ...
''
* '' The Haunting''
* ''The Seventh Victim
''The Seventh Victim'' is a 1943 American horror film noir directed by Mark Robson and starring Tom Conway, Jean Brooks, Isabel Jewell, Kim Hunter, and Hugh Beaumont. Written by DeWitt Bodeen and Charles O'Neal, and produced by Val Lewton fo ...
''
Comedies
* ''Manhattan Parade
''Manhattan Parade '' is a 1931 American pre-Code musical comedy film photographed entirely in Technicolor. It was originally intended to be released, in the United States, early in 1931, but was shelved due to public apathy towards musicals. De ...
''
* '' Sylvia Scarlett''
* '' Turnabout''
* ''That Touch of Mink
''That Touch of Mink'' is a 1962 American romantic comedy film directed by Delbert Mann and starring Cary Grant, Doris Day, Gig Young, and Audrey Meadows.
Plot
Cathy Timberlake, an unemployed New York City career woman, goes to the unemplo ...
''
* '' The Producers''
* ''Designing Woman
''Designing Woman'' is a 1957 American Metrocolor romantic comedy film, in CinemaScope, about two young, whirlwind-romanced newlywed professionals and their misadventures in adjusting to each other's lifestyles. Vincente Minnelli directed the fi ...
''
Code Busters
* '' Tea and Sympathy''
* ''Advise and Consent
Advice and consent is an English phrase frequently used in enacting formulae of bills and in other legal or constitutional contexts. It describes either of two situations: where a weak executive branch of a government enacts something previ ...
''
* '' The Children's Hour''
* '' Walk on the Wild Side''
* '' Victim''
Out and Open
* '' Staircase''
* '' The Fox''
* '' The Boys in the Band''
* ''The Killing of Sister George
''The Killing of Sister George'' is a 1964 play by Frank Marcus that was later adapted into a 1968 film directed by Robert Aldrich.
Stage version
Sister George is a beloved character in the popular radio series ''Applehurst'', a district nurse ...
''
References
External links
''Screened Out'' official site
LGBT film festivals in the United States
Turner Classic Movies original programming
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