I just watched this on Apple and wanted to say, Bravo! An incredible story so sensitively told. As a lover of musicals, I hope to see either Sunset Boulevard or Swanson on Sunset onstage in my lifetime. Question- are you adapting this story into a screenplay? I know there are severals layers of meta to negotiate but the love triangle, the echoes of of the story come to life and the themes of regret, memory and missed opportunity are timeless. Can't wait to see what you do next.

What a lovely strong respectable lady

So articulate ! A story that still resonates. He should be very proud of what he helped his wife achieve. It really is life changing in the best way possible.

Cari Beauchamp....I can almost smell the stale smoke and nicotine through the screen. 😳

OMG I love her so much now. What a beautiful wonderful woman

Jim J.., should have done more sitcoms after Too Close... Talented guy❤😂🎉

thank you for this video

Strong genes, granddaughter lovely like her GMa.

This was good! Her granddaughter is a carbon copy, I swear. She even speaks the same way, same voice. Swanson really had something, in movies and as a person. Her interviews are really good in that she projects her own character in a way that creates interest in herself that most actors never do. She seems so interesting.

Great interview 😊

What a great man to stand behind her through it all

Just heard about this guy. Watching on Tubi right now. You got Waters to interview! Sign me up

Rona's first sexual experience was with a donkey.

Earl Holliman is 95 years old as of May 2024. He can also sing! He can speak French fluently! For years he was described as a "confirmed bachelor," which was code for gay. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/a51nhdKLzs-YdaM.html

How the hell has he not aged at all? Remove the glasses and the goatee and he’s still Monroe from the 80’s!

How I wish time machines were real

Elizabeth Glazier was such a gift to humanity. Training, advocacy, research.

It’s one of the many reasons I adore this woman, you too Bette. ❤❤❤❤❤

This is a great interview !!

Great video! I met Curtis in 1985 and he impressed me as a fascinating character with lots of interesting tales to tell. One only had to step into his Hollywood Hills home to recognize that he was not the typical L.A. gay man. On my first visit, I told him his home reminded me of a haunted house, which seemed to put a smile on his face. The stuffed black raven perched in the dimly lit living room stands out in my memory. He was kind enough to invite me to a couple dinner parties at his home, which always included a fascinating collection of creatives -- I'm an artist/photographer/videographer, which is no doubt what got me those invitations. It was very cool to see the footage of teenage Curtis. I had no idea he was so cute in his youth!

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AIDS was unheard of until they started injecting gay men with an experimental vaccine for hepatitis B in the 1970s .After that men started developing horrific side effects which destroyed their immune system.Just like the vaxxine is doing to people now

when Fred Astaire came for the first time in Hollywood ,he see 2 limousines upholstered with leopard with two chauffeurs one for her dogs and the other for herself 😁

Rest in peace Roger Corman 1926-2024

I used to own this on vhs and cannot locate it. When I find scenes or the movie, the FINAL scene isn't there. Its when the Dad watches his son suck Fred Halstead. Anyone have the whole film or recall the scene?

I've always enjoyed Earl's acting. He's been in so many tv shows and movies, a truly great actor. I'm so glad we still have Earl with us, he sure looks great in this video. Stay healthy Earl, keep going for well over 100!

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À good, brave man, more than just a daring and charismatic actor.

Watched it last night on MSNBC. Brought back a lot of memories. We owe our lives to these people and the Hollywood community.

It's a great documentary ! People forget who helped and THOSE WHO DIDN'T WANT TO BOTHER !

Thank you for uploading this!

I saw "Commitment to Life" today and remembered how terrible that time was, but more that that my daughter, age 19 then, changed my understanding of what it really was to be Christian. She was on a Seattle bus when a very ill man tried to get off at an aides clinic and fell; she got off the bus and help him into the clinic and made sure he was attended to. Later that day she phoned to share what had happened. It was 1988 and I immediately became concerned and questioned her judgement and insisted she take every precaution I could come up with, until I finally asked her why she would do such a risky thing. She hesitated and then she replied "because that's what you taught us." Then she said "Why did we spend so much time in church if you didn't believe?" Life lessons come in all forms; I did not become an aides activist I lived in a very small town, but I knew aides as another plague and not punishment. I started to use discernment in what version of the love of God I adopted and it was never again punishment or exclusion and I prayed for a cure to that plague and any others that might come. The volume of deaths is still overwhelming and the fact that the government was so willing to let so many die before taking action is still horrendous and makes me know we must guard against the of governance of exclusion and punishment.

Amazing how no one cared about those inflicted with HIV. We even had a president that wouldn't even utter the word AIDS. When Rock Hudson became the unwilling face of AIDS, he went to his close long time friends, Nancy and Ronald Reagan for help. They wouldn't return his call. They acted as if they never knew him ! The phony, lying, hippocritical EVANGELICAL MINISTER JERRY FALWELL, who was close friends with President Reagan, told him, "DON'T DO ANYTHING! THESE PEOPLE DESERVE WHAT'S HAPPENING TO THEM!" SOME stars like Elton John and Joan Rivers,started to draw attention to the cause. It took a star of such magnitude, like ELIZABETH TAYLOR to literally got to WASHINGTON and then ask REAGAN TO DO SOMETHING ! "DO IT FOR ME!" she said. SHE FORMED THE ELIZABETH TAYLOR AIDS FOUNDATION and never took a penny for her efforts and NEVER LOOKED BACK. HER love for Rock Hudson was her driving force and unfortunately couldn't even save him. When Hollywood moguls like Geffen stepped up, amazing things started to happen. It seems REPUBLICANS and EVANGELICAL CHRISTIANS would rather see you dead and gone rather than to try and be a CHRISTIAN the way JESUS TEACHES.

20 years being a fan and I’d never seen this before! Thank you so much!!

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Great interview, and bio..Gloria, admittedly was not one of my favorite precode stars, however I have grown to like and admire the women she was...I liked William Powell, Edward G Robinson, Franchot Tone who came from the stage, and I also liked Joan Crawford, Kay Francis.

Can I use some of this footage for a video I’m working on?

Mickey was one of the kindest people I never really met. I had a few conversations with him on the phone. When I was in my early 20s, it was Mickey who pulled together an opportunity for me to interview the late River Phoenix regarding the 1991 film, MY OWN PRIVATE IDAHO (to be published in Empire Magazine, in the UK). Nevermind the story behind why I didn't fly to Florida for this dream-come-true but Mickey was very sweet and supportive. He called me one day and said: Oh, by the way, River says you should stay with him at "the ranch'," in (or something like that, in Gainesville, FL where the actor lived. I asked "for how long?" I didn't know if the interview would take thirty minutes or split into a couple of days. Mickey replied: River, says "for as long as you need." Whaaaaaat? 🤯😃 I will always remember Mickey's kindness and efforts, for helping this movie-loving boy from Iran. May he rest in peace. ❤ Henrick Vartanian

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This was excellent. I recently read her Swanson on Swanson autobiography and Michael Shearer’s biography about Gloria Swanson. These interviews are like icing on the cake for me.

3:35 white people vs "third world people".

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Elizabeth was a hero. I have always wished Steven Spielberg would make a movie of her life and that of the family. If anyone knows him please ask him.

This was BEAUTIFUL. Funny and extremely touching. First I watched Madonna's speech, and then this one. These women mean SO MUCH to generations of Gay men. Do you think they will ever know how much they meant to us? They are our QUEENS AND DEFENDERS, our INSPIRATIONS and our HOPES. Thank you for sharing these videos. ❤️

Randy is a bad cat. That fake crap of VW, what is touted as VP, more like Fake VP, will never be able to touch that original line up.

Vito Russo, Michael Callen, Charles Jurrist, Bill Burke and Diego Lopez were dead from AIDS. Only Larry Kramer survived to the plague...

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What is being denied is that gay men were incredibly promiscuous and having sex with strangers. Sorry, but you reap what you sow.

I wish people spoke like this.

I can’t describe how comforting this is. ❤