Could Clifton Webb Have Been Homosexual?

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Жыл бұрын

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@AgeOfVintage Жыл бұрын

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@robertdragoff6909 Жыл бұрын

This subject has been covered before….. Wether or not he was gay is irrelevant to me, he was just a Damn great actor….

@todslaughter2 Жыл бұрын

It's even NOT a subject.

@jadezee6316 Жыл бұрын

Webb lived an openly gay life and every person in hollywood knew he was gay and knew he was a very decent man

@robertdragoff6909 Жыл бұрын

@@jadezee6316 Yes, I know, but for some reason this video was coy about it

@markrichards6863 Жыл бұрын

I don't even think you need good gaydar to sense that. He was a very good actor, always a strong supporting character.

@propriusly Жыл бұрын

All it took to make me think he was gay is when he spoke

@samadams6487 Жыл бұрын

That was never a conjecture; it is well-known

@AbbeBuck Жыл бұрын

It has been known forever! ❤

@omfug7148 Жыл бұрын

Noel Coward was a close friend, so yeah, LOL

@jadezee6316 Жыл бұрын

@@omfug7148 dude if i told you who were gay you would never believe it....because all you know are stereotypical images which you assume correct

@omfug7148 Жыл бұрын

@@jadezee6316 I grew up in LA around the business, believe me, I have good gaydar.

@peaceful3250 Жыл бұрын

Yes he was gay. Big deal. That was his business and I just don't get the fascination with other people's sexuality.

@paulamiles9559 Жыл бұрын

" Everyone's queer except me and thee, and even thou art a little queer " William Penn.

@arlynpage7491 Жыл бұрын

Clifton Webb was Wonderful as Waldo Lydecker in LAURA- tried to make an over the tub tray as he used whilst typing in the bath and ATTEMPTED to eat lasagna- you guessed it- spilled… swimming with eels?!? 😖😖😖❗️

@paulamiles9559 Жыл бұрын

😎😎😎

@stephaniehand503 Жыл бұрын

Clifford Webb was a great actor.

@neildickson5394 Жыл бұрын

I can't believe your asking such a well known rhetorical question.

@seattlebeard Жыл бұрын

The title of this video made me laugh out loud. A touching item: Fred Astaire penned a condolence letter following the death of Webb's mother. Postmarked October 19, 1960, it was sold online in 2006. Heritage Auctions still has a scan of it on their website. Wish I would have bid. :o)

@Markus_Blewish Жыл бұрын

Did i miss something? His mum was discussed a lot here, but not his sexuality. In any event, the more appropriate question is Could Clifton Webb have been anything else? Answer: No. Watch him in The Razor's Edge as a bitter loveable old queen. It was his best performance cuz it wasn't a performance. It was Clifton irl.

@paulamiles9559 Жыл бұрын

He was so wonderful! " Take this down, Mr Elliott Templeton regrets..."

@Markus_Blewish Жыл бұрын

@@paulamiles9559 🤣🤣 Hell Yass!!

@Markus_Blewish Жыл бұрын

Dawn breaks over Marblehead! Maybe that was the point. It's so obvious, no answer required.

@rixx46 Жыл бұрын

I can't believe you used the phrase "unless he was caught balls deep....! 😛" DUH! Clifton Web, NOT being gay is more of a shock. Sad that he, like so many, could not be out then. "Dandy," as you called him, is as close as this character type you could get as a descriptor. Hollywood never knew what to do with a leading actor (or actress) who did not fall into a sex symbol context. Unless they were 'fuckable' they did not know how to promote them.

@samadams6487 Жыл бұрын

Well the reason why they could not be out then is because we had morality then. Judeo-christianity was a thing it's eventually going to be as well. The shit that's going on now grooming of children with drag queen shows, trust me, as an engineer looking at system stability, we are heading for a major conflagration of an exceptionally violent nature and it may be the only thing that puts us on a course correction before we self-destruct. And we are on a self-destructive path but there will be a correction and that correction will be beyond anything I've ever experienced before.

@akrenwinkle Жыл бұрын

Look at Tracy and Hepburn. Bogart. Cagney. Stanwyck. Bette Davis. David Niven. No sex symbols, not even particularly handsome/beautiful, and they worked steadily for decades. Often longer careers than the sexy ones of either gender.

@akrenwinkle Жыл бұрын

@@samadams6487 What the heck are you doing on this board, aside from spewing your ancient, self-serving nobler-than-thou tsk-tsking, informing us what's right or wrong? It's my impression that you, yourself, will wind up you-know-where in a handbasket for being such a judgmental clod.

@charliejdk Жыл бұрын

Unbelievably great actor. Funny as all get out in the Belvedere movies; moving in several roles. Loved his movies all my life, since early childhood.

@michaelmcgee8543 Жыл бұрын

If he was he kept it private and probably had a rule against getting together sexually with others in the same business.

@lanacampbell-moore6686 Жыл бұрын

Thanks AOV❤️

@kimkranker6110 Жыл бұрын

Everyone has known for ye now that he was gay. This comes as no surprise. A great actor, BTW!

@headofcosmospictures1232 Жыл бұрын

A topic that interests me is if Jack Paar might have been a homosexual.... You could make a video on it if you find any information.

@michaelmcgee8543 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the knowledge.

@jamesmooney8933 Жыл бұрын

Like John Wayne, he didn't act. The person on the screen was Clifton Webb. He was as good villain as hero. In comedy, he was the straight man to a comic world.

@AbbeBuck Жыл бұрын

You’re asking? Duh!!! He was as closeted as they come! I love him!

@jamesmiller4184 Жыл бұрын

Very good, informational and entertaining as usual but, might we now get-to THE subject of the genre it's self? Meaning as-in . . . Edward Everett Horton? We gossips require the full low-down here on this one. (Ha! He was my dad's valet in the Hottentot filming days. I consider myself most lucky to even exist!)

@jec1ny Жыл бұрын

Webb was an outstanding actor. As for his personal life, his preferences were a semi-open secret during his life and have been common knowledge among Hollywood movie buffs and biographers since his death.

@jadezee6316 Жыл бұрын

Webb never hid his gay life style lived basically open and everyone knew...

@LB-px9td Жыл бұрын

Where have you been. Clifton Webb it was well known in Hollywood , that he was gay. When he was picked for “Laura” the head of the studio was against him being cast because he felt Webb was too effeminate. I’m glad that he was still hired, because he did an excellent job in that movie. He was a very good actor and he could act in drama as well as comedy

@paulamiles9559 Жыл бұрын

Preminger insisted on casting him. It's hard to believe but it was Webb's first movie role.

@LB-px9td Жыл бұрын

@@paulamiles9559 yes but O’Selznick was really against him. I’m glad Preminger won that argument. I always enjoyed his movies, but although he did a beautiful job on dramas his comedies especially the Mr. Belvedere series were my favorites. He did do another movie where he played a pries, I believe co staring with William Holden. It was a good movie. Do you remember the name?

@paulamiles9559 Жыл бұрын

@@LB-px9td Ha! I so loved in Mr Belvedere Goes to College, where the pole vaulter chokes, and Mr Belvedere, in his freshman Beanie, steps in and breaks the previous record held by...Lynn Belvedere.

@LB-px9td Жыл бұрын

@@paulamiles9559 Yes I loved that one as well as Sitting Pretty when he went to baby sit the three kids. I believe that was the first Belvedere movie. He was great.

@paulamiles9559 Жыл бұрын

@@LB-px9td Yes it was so good. The priest movie you mentioned is Satan Never Sleeps. The beautiful France Nguyen was in it too.

@qwer123211 Жыл бұрын

Who cares, just watch the Mr. Belvedere movies and the movie "Laura" and you can witness pure acting genius. RIP Mr. Webb.

@jackieberisford7267 Жыл бұрын

Great video and so much information.He had is own style of acting.l never thought about him being gay.

@samadams6487 Жыл бұрын

It was obvious and I'm straight

@pamelamccall5653 Жыл бұрын

Of course he was homosexual!! Duh!

@Meme-dp9gn Жыл бұрын

Even as a child watching space family Robinson , I took this as a given I cannot imagine anyone not being cognisant of this

@carolcaponigro Жыл бұрын

Of course he was, he never hid it or denied it. Old news.

@anndonnelly6920 Жыл бұрын

Love Clifton Webb brilliant actor

@maryellengrayberg9146 Жыл бұрын

Did not know there was a question about his sexual preference! However, he was a good actor and I am sure he would be out today.I believe most here would know his attachment and close relationship with his mother.

@sallykohorst8803 Жыл бұрын

I want to hear Clifton's story. Thanks.

@kellykilts6297 4 ай бұрын

Flaming, you could tell in one sentence. Living with mommy all your life is icing on the cake.

@nyckolaus Жыл бұрын

You are mistaken. Clifton Webb did not die of a heart attack; he died on the titanic. I know. I saw him.

@rixx46 Жыл бұрын

😆 me too!

@paulamiles9559 Жыл бұрын

How could Lynn Belvedere die? He must be around here somewhere...o I know! Dana Andrews shot him.

@mritzs5142 Жыл бұрын

hugh?

@anthonyp6755 Жыл бұрын

…he was never caught “balls deep”!! 🤣🤣🤣

@JJJBRICE Жыл бұрын

It is amazing to me that Webb and Fred Astaire never made a movie together since Webb was a singer and dancer , He made a non singing/dancing movie with Ginger Rogers . I think of the The Band Wagon, instead of the similar Jack Buchanan . I also read somewhere that in their earlier days on Broadway Webb and William Frawley of later ILL fame had some type of disagreement and Frawley punched Webb in the nose . Everyone knows of the famous picture taken of Clifton Webb seemingly minding his business while Jayne Mansfield is showing up Sophia Loren at that dinner , but where is the picture of Webb eating candy with Marilyn Monroe and the third lady from ?

@stloupenbray 6 ай бұрын

How silly to ask! I assumed that the title here was chosen in irony.

@Marketoromagnolo Жыл бұрын

is any hollywood stars who is not gay or bisex?

@debrajohnson382 Жыл бұрын

It seems many were. Rock Hydson was macho but he was gay.

@anitaharrison2544 Жыл бұрын

Didn't know anything about that but all I can say is that somebody took him out of his closet case

@robertdoherty2001 Жыл бұрын

When Jonathan Harris first appeared on ‘’Lost in Space’’ I thought it was Webb, although I didn’t know the actors name - I was only 10.

@rogerlewis7770 Жыл бұрын

Omg me 2 Lol 🤣🤣🤣🤣 plus I had no idea that Harris wz born in the Bronx I thought he wz English

@dalestaryk4803 Жыл бұрын

The mustache is a giveaway

@robertdragoff6909 Жыл бұрын

Like Tom Selleck?

@alexanderzaphir721 Жыл бұрын

@@robertdragoff6909 exactly

@vixtex Жыл бұрын

I love❤️Clifton Webb!

@jadezee6316 Жыл бұрын

dude.....Clifton Webb...lived an OPENLY gay life and lived with his mom all his life...he is a favorite actor of mine...but ALL of Hollywood knew Webb a great party giver and a very decent man was gay.....any bio of the time will inform you of that

@manuelrichardson6943 Жыл бұрын

Probably.....he was in the theatre wasn't he?

@felixnorman9562 Жыл бұрын

" no clue"!

@fabergeegg1722 Жыл бұрын

He seems like he was petrified to have a fling with another man for fear someone might find out he was gay. Robert Wagner said Webb was going to marry when he was a young guy, but Webb's mother was too overbearing, so the wedding was squashed. I think that was bull becuase Robert Wagner was a friend of Clifton Webb's, and I think Robert Wagner is trying to protect Webb's image. Many of the movie stars of the golden era of Hollywood who were alive in recent times, would still never reveal fellow movie stars who were in the closet even though the actor or actress has been long dead.

@PatriciaPageMosaicArtsCrafts Жыл бұрын

I could care less, all I know I enjoyed his acting.

@akrenwinkle Жыл бұрын

If you really didn't care, you wouldn't have clicked because of the lurid title of this video.

@johnduignan3866 Жыл бұрын

Bent as a 2 Bob watch

@bamberdelver7897 Жыл бұрын

Was Marilyn Monroe straight? > rather dull questions.

@TuesdayWells27 8 күн бұрын

It's nobody's business.

@a.m.hatfield9734 Жыл бұрын

Sorry. I could not listen to this to the end, although I enjoyed the part of the video when you were discussing Webb's career and his relationship with his mother. All the talk of ghostly sightings however, bored me to tears. Such things have never been my experience and furthermore, the use of psychics and the contacting of 'spirits' of the dead, smacks to me of the demonic. Such matters instinctively invoke a visceral response of disgust in me. That being said, I respected Webb as an actor and perhaps my favourite role of his was in "The Razor's Edge".

@1Yardbird757VA. 4 ай бұрын

Who cares if he was homosexual? He was loved by millions. Me being one of them. And yes I'm a female. 💯

@kellyowen49 Жыл бұрын

Ya think?

@fredwild2166 11 ай бұрын

DUH?!

@maureencora1 Жыл бұрын

Hollywood On the Down Low.

@earth2006 Жыл бұрын

He's been dead a very long time. Most likely anyone who knew him is also toes up. Speculation isn't cool.

@walkerpantera Жыл бұрын

"he wasnt caught balls-deep in another actor"???? that was a pretty crude description. 🧐

@bwr1948 Жыл бұрын

Is the Pope Catholic ?

@NDLieberwitz Жыл бұрын

Yeeeeesssssss

@MsBackstager Жыл бұрын

Regardless, he was a dandy actor.

@Nursebakr Жыл бұрын

Good actor.

@bullirish Жыл бұрын

Does a bear shit in the woods?

@flaviasousa6808 Жыл бұрын

A carta que mandei pra suferir um comercial do omo com a foto da Iolanda sentada no tanque com a Inês no colo.

@victorsilvester78 Жыл бұрын

Good grief, it's a common fact that Clifton Webb was Gay.

@bluey7007 Жыл бұрын

Everyone knew he was

@genek64 Жыл бұрын

If he wasn't gay, neither am I...not that it matters. He played some roles that only he could play.

@rubymcclain5078 Жыл бұрын

Could he have been? Ask his male lovers 😮

@maggiefraz7694 Жыл бұрын

Clifton was a great actor . Who cares if he was gay . The guy was a very good actor. His private life was his private life . RIP

@carlosesquivel6253 Жыл бұрын

Protector de su novio James Dean!!!.

@flaviasousa6808 Жыл бұрын

Nunca me responderam

@Vejur9000 Жыл бұрын

If you’re using the word, “homosexual”, in the year 2023…

@mediterraneandiet2483 Жыл бұрын

Incidentally, who decides on what words can or cannot be used?

@WLM596 Жыл бұрын

I do every day and I am one...

@akrenwinkle Жыл бұрын

@@mediterraneandiet2483 "Homosexual" is a slur now and has been for a long time. It's passive-aggressive targeting gay people, using a clinical word that for years denoted a mental illness. If you deny using that word doesn't have an anti-gay agenda, you're being coy.

@mediterraneandiet2483 Жыл бұрын

@@akrenwinkle The word Heterosexual is still used in everyday speech.