Could Clifton Webb Have Been Homosexual?

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  • @AgeOfVintage
    @AgeOfVintage  Před rokem +3

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  • @robertdragoff6909
    @robertdragoff6909 Před rokem +39

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

    • @todslaughter2
      @todslaughter2 Před rokem +2

      It's even NOT a subject.

    • @jadezee6316
      @jadezee6316 Před rokem +4

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

    • @robertdragoff6909
      @robertdragoff6909 Před rokem +1

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

  • @markrichards6863
    @markrichards6863 Před rokem +24

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

  • @propriusly
    @propriusly Před rokem +12

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

  • @samadams6487
    @samadams6487 Před rokem +23

    That was never a conjecture; it is well-known

    • @AbbeBuck
      @AbbeBuck Před rokem +2

      It has been known forever! ❤

    • @omfug7148
      @omfug7148 Před rokem +2

      Noel Coward was a close friend, so yeah, LOL

    • @jadezee6316
      @jadezee6316 Před rokem

      @@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
      @omfug7148 Před rokem +1

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

  • @peaceful3250
    @peaceful3250 Před rokem +13

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

    • @paulamiles9559
      @paulamiles9559 Před rokem +1

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

  • @arlynpage7491
    @arlynpage7491 Před rokem +8

    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?!? 😖😖😖❗️

  • @stephaniehand503
    @stephaniehand503 Před rokem +6

    Clifford Webb was a great actor.

  • @neildickson5394
    @neildickson5394 Před rokem +7

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

  • @seattlebeard
    @seattlebeard Před rokem +5

    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)

  • @charliejdk
    @charliejdk Před rokem +4

    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.

  • @Markus_Blewish
    @Markus_Blewish Před rokem +12

    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
      @paulamiles9559 Před rokem +3

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

    • @Markus_Blewish
      @Markus_Blewish Před rokem +4

      @@paulamiles9559 🤣🤣 Hell Yass!!

    • @Markus_Blewish
      @Markus_Blewish Před rokem +2

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

  • @jamesmiller4184
    @jamesmiller4184 Před rokem +4

    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!)

  • @lanacampbell-moore6686
    @lanacampbell-moore6686 Před rokem +1

    Thanks AOV❤️

  • @michaelmcgee8543
    @michaelmcgee8543 Před rokem +1

    Thanks for the knowledge.

  • @rixx46
    @rixx46 Před rokem +10

    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
      @samadams6487 Před rokem

      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
      @akrenwinkle Před rokem

      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
      @akrenwinkle Před rokem

      @@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.

  • @headofcosmospictures1232

    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
    @michaelmcgee8543 Před rokem +4

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

  • @kimkranker6110
    @kimkranker6110 Před rokem +5

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

  • @AbbeBuck
    @AbbeBuck Před rokem +3

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

  • @jamesmooney8933
    @jamesmooney8933 Před rokem +2

    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.

  • @qwer123211
    @qwer123211 Před rokem +2

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

  • @jec1ny
    @jec1ny Před rokem +3

    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
      @jadezee6316 Před rokem +1

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

  • @anndonnelly6920
    @anndonnelly6920 Před rokem +3

    Love Clifton Webb brilliant actor

  • @carolcaponigro
    @carolcaponigro Před rokem +3

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

  • @jackieberisford7267
    @jackieberisford7267 Před rokem +5

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

  • @kellykilts6297
    @kellykilts6297 Před 2 měsíci

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

  • @Meme-dp9gn
    @Meme-dp9gn Před rokem +1

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

  • @LB-px9td
    @LB-px9td Před rokem +5

    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
      @paulamiles9559 Před rokem +2

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

    • @LB-px9td
      @LB-px9td Před rokem +3

      @@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
      @paulamiles9559 Před rokem +2

      @@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
      @LB-px9td Před rokem +3

      @@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
      @paulamiles9559 Před rokem +1

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

  • @pamelamccall5653
    @pamelamccall5653 Před rokem +6

    Of course he was homosexual!! Duh!

  • @maryellengrayberg9146
    @maryellengrayberg9146 Před rokem +1

    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
    @sallykohorst8803 Před rokem +4

    I want to hear Clifton's story. Thanks.

  • @JJJBRICE
    @JJJBRICE Před rokem

    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 ?

  • @nyckolaus
    @nyckolaus Před rokem +9

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

    • @rixx46
      @rixx46 Před rokem +2

      😆 me too!

    • @paulamiles9559
      @paulamiles9559 Před rokem +3

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

    • @mritzs5142
      @mritzs5142 Před rokem

      hugh?

  • @anthonyp6755
    @anthonyp6755 Před rokem

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

  • @stloupenbray
    @stloupenbray Před 3 měsíci

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

  • @debrajohnson382
    @debrajohnson382 Před rokem +3

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

  • @dalestaryk4803
    @dalestaryk4803 Před rokem +2

    The mustache is a giveaway

  • @jadezee6316
    @jadezee6316 Před rokem +1

    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

  • @anitaharrison2544
    @anitaharrison2544 Před rokem

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

  • @Marketoromagnolo
    @Marketoromagnolo Před rokem +2

    is any hollywood stars who is not gay or bisex?

  • @vixtex
    @vixtex Před rokem +1

    I love❤️Clifton Webb!

  • @fabergeegg1722
    @fabergeegg1722 Před rokem +1

    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.

  • @bamberdelver7897
    @bamberdelver7897 Před rokem +1

    Was Marilyn Monroe straight? > rather dull questions.

  • @felixnorman9562
    @felixnorman9562 Před rokem

    " no clue"!

  • @robertdoherty2001
    @robertdoherty2001 Před rokem

    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
      @rogerlewis7770 Před rokem

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

  • @a.m.hatfield9734
    @a.m.hatfield9734 Před rokem +1

    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".

  • @manuelrichardson6943
    @manuelrichardson6943 Před rokem +1

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

  • @1Yardbird757VA.
    @1Yardbird757VA. Před 2 měsíci

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

  • @johnduignan3866
    @johnduignan3866 Před rokem

    Bent as a 2 Bob watch

  • @earth2006
    @earth2006 Před rokem

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

  • @PatriciaPageMosaicArtsCrafts

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

    • @akrenwinkle
      @akrenwinkle Před rokem

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

  • @walkerpantera
    @walkerpantera Před rokem

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

  • @maureencora1
    @maureencora1 Před rokem

    Hollywood On the Down Low.

  • @fredwild2166
    @fredwild2166 Před 9 měsíci

    DUH?!

  • @flaviasousa6808
    @flaviasousa6808 Před rokem

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

  • @bwr1948
    @bwr1948 Před rokem +2

    Is the Pope Catholic ?

  • @victorsilvester78
    @victorsilvester78 Před rokem

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

  • @genek64
    @genek64 Před rokem

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

  • @MsBackstager
    @MsBackstager Před rokem

    Regardless, he was a dandy actor.

  • @rubymcclain5078
    @rubymcclain5078 Před rokem

    Could he have been? Ask his male lovers 😮

  • @kellyowen49
    @kellyowen49 Před rokem

    Ya think?

  • @bullirish
    @bullirish Před rokem

    Does a bear shit in the woods?

  • @ruthellenhudson9270
    @ruthellenhudson9270 Před rokem

    Good actor.

  • @flaviasousa6808
    @flaviasousa6808 Před rokem

    Nunca me responderam

  • @maggiefraz7694
    @maggiefraz7694 Před rokem +2

    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

  • @NDLieberwitz
    @NDLieberwitz Před rokem

    Yeeeeesssssss

  • @bluey7007
    @bluey7007 Před rokem

    Everyone knew he was

  • @carlosesquivel6253
    @carlosesquivel6253 Před rokem

    Protector de su novio James Dean!!!.

  • @babasheeny3634
    @babasheeny3634 Před rokem +1

    Oh my gosh, who cares and why the obsession with knowing???? He was a wonderful actor!! Get a life!!!!

  • @edramirez1240
    @edramirez1240 Před rokem

    The man is dead, so does it make difference today?

  • @sallyclay1974
    @sallyclay1974 Před rokem

    Yes! He was gay! So was Rock Hudson.

  • @Vejur9000
    @Vejur9000 Před rokem +1

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

    • @mediterraneandiet2483
      @mediterraneandiet2483 Před rokem +2

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

    • @WLM596
      @WLM596 Před rokem

      I do every day and I am one...

    • @akrenwinkle
      @akrenwinkle Před rokem

      @@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
      @mediterraneandiet2483 Před rokem

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

  • @todslaughter2
    @todslaughter2 Před rokem

    Is this really important ? We are in 2023.

  • @mediterraneandiet2483

    Is this a joke? Could he have been heterosexual would be shocking!

  • @SeanLTobin-qr8bm
    @SeanLTobin-qr8bm Před rokem

    Who cares, today?

  • @colettatech6083
    @colettatech6083 Před rokem

    Why are you so interested in actor’s sexual orientation?

  • @BrokenneckYgor
    @BrokenneckYgor Před rokem

    Valentino was Gay

  • @hannahcarvalho8664
    @hannahcarvalho8664 Před rokem

    No gay!! Stop!!

  • @chubbs678
    @chubbs678 Před rokem +1

    Clifton Webb was all man. 100% How dare you.

  • @texbeaumont8134
    @texbeaumont8134 Před rokem

    Not a chance. He was as manly as James Arness.

  • @rachelsremedies2602
    @rachelsremedies2602 Před rokem

    That is an awful Thumbnail😡😡😡

  • @willoneil1456
    @willoneil1456 Před rokem

    He Was ? So What.

  • @jeffscheiner1553
    @jeffscheiner1553 Před rokem

    Ya think?