The Celluloid Closet
Exuberant, eye-opening movie that serves up a dazzling hundred-year history of the role of gay men and lesbians have had on the silver screen. Film contains fabulous footage from 120 films showing the changing face of cinema sexuality, from cruel stereotypes to covert love to the activist triumphs of the 1990s.
- Director
- Rob Epstein
- Director
- Jeffrey Friedman
- Writer
- Armistead Maupin
- Producer
- Caroline Spry
- Producer
- Rob Epstein
- Producer
- Jeffrey Friedman
- Original Music Composer
- Carter Burwell
- Director of Photography
- Nancy Schreiber
Trailer
Cast
Lily Tomlin
Narrator (voice)
Tony Curtis
Self
Susan Sarandon
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Gore Vidal
Self
Whoopi Goldberg
Self
Antonio Fargas
Self
Shirley MacLaine
Self
John Schlesinger
Self
Armistead Maupin
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Arthur Laurents
Self
Tom Hanks
Self
Farley Granger
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Quentin Crisp
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Harry Hamlin
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Sharon Stone
Self
Susie Bright
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