Burt Lancaster's Good Looks Hid Darkness
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- čas přidán 10. 04. 2024
- Burt Lancaster caused a stir in Hollywood when he famously rolled around in the surf with Deborah Kerr in From Here to Eternity. His physique was impeccably sculpted, reminiscent of contemporary underwear models, a rarity for men in the conservative atmosphere of the 1950s. Speculations ran rampant: Why was Lancaster attending wild parties? Was he possibly a communist? The man himself said very little about his private affairs; instead, he let his actions speak for themselves.
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Regardless of his personal issues he was one of the most talented and dynamic actors ever to come out of hollywood !
Lancaster's personal life was his business. That's why it's called personal. He gave the world so much enjoyment.
then why click on it? You knew what it would be. smhavsp
@KarmicSalt Always curious to see to what depths CZcamsrs will sink.
Not when you sign on the dotted line and become studio property...everything you do either makes them money or not
@@loua1519 ...you proved your own contention about youtubers...
Well said.
Agree with u.
I think his best movie was "Come back little Sheba" with Shirley Booth.
Booth gave such a touching, moving performance!
A true classic.
Burt got to return to Circus when his company filmed TRAPEZE (1956). This is the best circus picture--I know, as I'm circus. My friend Fay Alexander did the flying for Tony Curtis, and said this: "Tony flitted around playing the movie star, but Burt talked to us like old friends. He was still a circus man, and kept all dialogue and atmosphere correct." The story had the young flyer learning the frabled triple somersault, which Fay actually did on camera. Burt later wrote to Alexander, saying they could not have made the picture without him.
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Thank you
Very interesting. Thank you.
Shelly Winters said that Lancaster told her he and his wife were broken up, not sleeping together. Then the wife popped up pregnant and Winters knew he had been lying to her. That is why she ended it.
The nerve of Shelly to get upset because Burt was having sex with his wife! 😆
Was it Lancaster's child
Hoover himself was light in the loafers..
Right. Hoover placed Clyde Tolson high up in the FBI, and their intense personal affair was a secret kept in dark whispers out of serious fear of Hoover--who could make or break anyone at will.
@@rogersmith4834 Hoover also was responsible for the smear campaigns against MLK and Marilyn Monroe.
Hoover hated the Kennedys as well, and was suspected of spreading rumors about RFK and Monroe having an affair, as well as Secretary Of State Dean Rusk visiting bordellos while in Vietnam.
Hoover was also a vindictive little B, and if you crossed him he would smear you like butter!
Are you trying to say Hoover was gay? Light in the loafers is such a bizarre code for gay men.
@@ATLmodK Nothing "bizarre" about it.
It's a common label.
This is a forum, not a proper etiquette class.
...and high heels!
He was a bisexual man who did marry and have two children which was hidden in the past unlike today. It seems that those wild parties which were filmed were encouraged by the studio heads to possibly keep their stars in line. If they became difficult these indiscretions were used against them. Seems like these situations have been in use for a very long time.
Indeed
An old-time gay circus clown I knew was on Burt's early circus tours, and said everyone knew he and Nick Cravat were intimate, but both roamed freely. Cravat's daughter said Nick enjoyed Burt for a girlfriend. This clown said he knew Burt VER-R-RY well, and that he was uncircumcised.
Precisely the type of stuff Putin holds over Trump!
@@JoanTarpley-hx9shso a recent troll, about a month right. Troll and activist what a combination.
@@rogersmith4834 k
J Edgar Hoover was one of the most demented leaders in law enforcement.
Wow, we find out that Burt Lancaster was human and not a perfect robot. Imagine that. J Edgar Hoover, of course, was absolutely perfect and what he said was the absolute truth.
I don't understand people like Hoover they worry about what other people do but can't see themselves
@@herminepursch2470 Welcome to humanity.
😂😂😂
And of course J Edgar Hoover never misspent even one penny of the taxpayers' money indulging his own private little vendettas....
@@habituallearner7680 You missed my sarcasm.
Elmer Gantry was his VERY BEST role.
That to me was his best role Simply magnificent
This fella is a legend of an actor, a great guy Rest In Peace 😊😊😊😊!
Read a book awhile ago about his sexual provilties . He was an intense Actor with many great films. I don’t want to know one’s personal life!! Just his Legacy!!
Not only do the dead not tell any tales, they cannot defend themselves if the living are lying about their alleged indiscretions!.
What lies??
@@kw882what do you know about truth
@@herminepursch2470 your question makes no sense
@@kw882 because we don't know the truth about anything of course it makes no sense to you
@@herminepursch2470 you're lost probably can't identify your gender either 🤣🤣🤣
He hid his Bisexuality because it was Illegal to be in a same sex relationship and a death sentence to his career.
He was married 3 times and had 5 children, 3 daughters and 2 sons.
His children acknowledged that Burt had many affairs, with both males and females.
And Debra Kerr was well known for sleeping with her male costars on both sides of the pond.
Hoover was a fine one to be judgemental when he hid his orientation behind his cross dressing.
J. Edgar was also biracial which is so ironic, considering he made it his mission to destroy the same race he was a part of! Hypocrisy, ego, narcissistic behaviors, and mirrors are comical, considering he was EVERYTHING HE TRIED TO ERASE!
Both Roy Cohn and Hoover were self-loathing. The only reason they were buddies is because they had so much dirt on each other. The only option besides being pals, was for one to kill the other! The debauchery with underage boys they got up to on Cohn's yacht would curl the toes of Caligula. Hoover was a sick f*ck, as was Joe McCarthy. Hypocrisy at its most extreme.
Seems like most of Hollywood is gay and straight actors were the exception back then and definitely now..
Meanwhile Hollywood was full of gay men. 7:22
J Edgar. What a goose!
Lancaster in "The Leopard" based on the Italian novel "Il Leopardo" is a great showcase for his talent at an older age.
...i always thought it was his best film...
@@veseyvonveitinghofhe was just phantastic in it
@@christelwilk6166 ...absolutely...
"The Leopard" ? Strange translation, actually. In Italian it's "Il gattopardo", in Spanish it's "guepardo", in English I believe it's "cheetah" . Anyways, I LOVED that film. Visconti is a great director and Giovanni di Lampedusa an excellent writer.
Every time I hear Hoover's name come up, my stomach turns.
Mine too. Disgusting, despicable individual.
Your not alone there 👍
His movie “The Swimmer” or whatever it was called was one of the weirdest, most disturbing movies I’ve ever seen. I’ve been trying to figure it out ever since. Whoever wrote it must have had quite a strange side to them.
@A2D4 It's based on a short story by John Cheever.
That figures
Love that movie!
@@marinakaye8284 Me too - one of my favourites!
He was a man living in delusion. He seemed to have it all. Looks, wealthy friends, his own wealth, happy, carefree. Yet, it was all an act. His wife and family left him. His life in tatters. How many people are in that situation? That's my take.
1 has to wonder about the FBI director at that time his Lifestyle
Hoover was a cross dresser, and like Don Lemon today, he liked his spiked heels and fish net stockings; but unlike Lemon, Hoover didn't patron such clubs as the Pink Slipper(Anderson Cooper's hangout), and other gay establishments.
J. Edgar hoover! Nobody talks about just. Edgar
J Edgar was weird. Had “stuff” on every one while lying about his own life.
@@allan9603where you there? And what did you wear?
@@herminepursch2470 I was there, and saw you in a gorilla suit with a hula skirt, dancing to Don Ho's music.
To me his greatest performance was with Deborah Kerr, Rita Hayworth, and David Niven in _Table for One._
Loved that film
The film with David Niven, who won Best Actor, was SEPARATE TABLES.
To me he will always be Starbuck from "The Rainmaker". I loved that movie. His performance was bit over the top, but it was meant to be.
Could you do an episode about Claudine Longet? Her singing voice, stage presence and tragic story are fascinating and haunting to me. I don't think very many people remember her or knowwho she is.
I feel like my first grade teacher is reading to the class.
Versus how the current demographic runs its words together?
wait wat?@@phylliselizahb1041
LOCAL HERO IS A GREAT FILM FROM HIM!
Anohter brilliant video. I'm becoming addicted to your channel.
Welcome aboard!
Seems like no one can let the deceased rest in peace any more.They have to dig up dirt.
The truth is not dirt
well it is your choice to click on it . smhavsp
What is smhavsp?
@@kw882what is truth? And who's opinion of truth?
@@herminepursch2470 if you don't know what true and false is at this point in life I can't tell you
Hoover was gay too. 19:17
Hoover would have attacked Robin Hood too , " Rob the rich give to the poor" . Such theme of movies of that nature was under the eyes of FBI. Many stars like Lee Grant, Zero Mostel etc..were black listed, even if you attend a union orientation meeting between casts , production crew , and directors was being monitored by the FBI . I remember movie The Manchurian candidate , the first one , everyone on the set was looking over their shoulders. Am I safe from being blacklisted?
So what was the darkness.
Even though l enjoyed this the title is a bit of clickbait. It's not like he was a Soviet spy or may have been involved in a murder (sorry Kirk) the horrible dark secret was that he may have been bisexual? Like he's the only actor ever suspected of that. Like most people l could care less. Even into his senior years he made some great movies. Thanks Burt
He had a tremendous magnetism about him and he took it into all his acting roles he could make me cry at the drop of a hat a great actor rip mr lancaster❤🎉
Lancaster and Kirk Douglas were funny in the 1986 movie “Tough Guys”. They played career criminals, just released after a 30 year stretch, who find it difficult to re-adjust to society and avoid crime.While that is a serious subject, the movie was lighthearted and played for laughs. Good escapist fare.
His personal life was just that. He was a great actor, a great ass to women, and not a communist. These are my personal thoughts on some of the things in the video but iI did enjoy learning his background a bit more. Thank you for sharing
One of my favorite actors. He was a natural. I read Shelley Winters book, was so interesting, couldn’t put it down. She was obsessed with him. “Valdez is Coming “ was one of my favorites. I believe he was just friendly with everyone. Don’t believe he was gay.
Oh my gosh, I love Burt Lancaster. He was so gorgeous. Don't forget to mention The Bird Man of Alcatraz. Great movie.
Montgomery and Burt were powerful performers
both loved by their timeless characters in their film gallery
Forever artefacts of a special time in film.
I'm sorry you didn't mention Lancaster's work in Europe, where he was the main character in Luchino Visconti's film "Il gattopardo", in which he co-starred with Claudia Cardinale, Alain Delon and Paolo Stoppa. Or "Novecento", directed by Bertolucci. Great movies.
Love burt Lancaster. Now days you can read tabloids about the actors. A lot of them are gay and the women are made of plastic, which looks unnatural. Burt was a damn good actor. Loved watching him in from here to eternity.
Some of the shots supposedly of Shelley Winters are of Shirley Jones
Yep - and one or two were Deborah Kerr (when they were indicating Shelly) - but in contrast, this video acually did that a Lot Less than most others of this genre🙂 whatcha gonna do
why the obsessive repeating of his name?..wierd
Just as always, with everyone...it is all none of anyone else's d#$ned business.
and yet you clicked....smhavsp
@@KarmicSaltWhat's your obsession with this? I've read a stack of comments and you've replied the same thing over and over again to different people.
Do you have nothing better to do?
@@KarmicSaltI like to read I don't agree with a lot of it. But so what l have my own opinion
Burt Lancaster has been my favorite actor since I was a child and saw him in The Birdman of Alcatraz. His personal life had nothing to do with his exceptional performances.
"The Birdman of Alcatraz" I read the book he didn't miss a thing.
Except isn't wasn't an accurate portrayal of the real Robert Stroud, who was a wicked pedophile and a murderer in real life.
Great presentation.
He was great, ❤
Greatest picture Seven Days in May🎉
The fact that Lancaster was “the only male after” to go to Rock Hudson’s funeral is beyond sad.
Im sure he was watching Burty, Hoover was a twinkle toes himself!😂
Great video,thank you 👍
Glad you enjoyed it
Hoover was an odd man. The 1950's and 60's were very challenging for many people, and a lot of it comes down to Hoover and the CIA. I have it on good word, that Hoover himself liked to visit the 'Swish Alps' once in a while. He was likely very envious that he couldn't join Lancaster, Hudson and others in some of their escapades and parties. Just one of those odd facts here in the US.
He Lancaster, brought us so much amazing entertainment from his movies he was in fact, a great actor, in a class by himself hoover, and the first, Cia, govt etc. Had no business in his life he was a great humanitarian and always fought for individuals rights he was no hypocrite, and believed he had the right to live his life as he chose he was, no doubt, one of the greatest actors of his time, and a very humble and good human being his ability to emote on screen, was what made him such a great actor in his more dramatic roles, he always made me cry no doubt, a great actor rip mr lancaster❤
Really apparently you don’t know about the government, the man made a movie that showed how the government planned and the covered up the assassination of JFK
Waar is de darkness😂ik hou van die man😊
You mentioned that Burt had a stroke in 1980. I'm pretty sure that you meant to say 1990. This was a good video. I love it when channels align with those who have 'evocative' details in their lives and openly acknowledge the lives of hidden 'love.' Someone's personal life is their own and what they decide makes them happy should be respected without judgment
The man was a LEGEND...enough said...
13:27 that’s one hell of a party.
In the Kentukian running across the swamp to save his son was legendary not many like Burt these days
Well, Burt...nuce comment about the film, Marty. Actually, this is an i credible film, and Borgnones acting chops are tops.
I saw "Atlantic City" when I was about 17. I'm sure I knew Burt Lancaster from films I had seen on TV, and I'm pretty sure "Elmer Gantry" was one. I really liked "Local Hero" too which was released in the early 1980s a few years later. I did see a lot of his best roles until many years later, but I have respect for him as an actor. Don't really care about his personal life, but I guess speculation about movie stars comes with the territory.
I would like to imagine BL and Shirley Jones having an affair, but Shirley was probably faithful to her hubbie Jack Cassidy. Lancaster and Jones were white hot in "Elmer Gantry." Jones won an Oscar for her performance.
His private should be his PRIVATE LIFE!! Leave him alone!
THEN DON'T CLICK...smhavsp
So sad that some people couldn’t be their true selves 😢 took a long time to change
A certain political faction is trying to take us back to that kind of sick society. Hate crimes against the gay community are increasing, since 2016.
Burt was the only male star at Rock Hudson's funeral, chapeau. This and his civil rights activities says more about him as a person than any seedy FBI innuendo.
Man! Wasn't Hoover Gay, Himself??!!
GREAT ACTOR. .
It is rather shocking for me to think he had sexual affairs with men, then again I'm making that judgment based on his roles as an actor. Obviously I didn't know Burt Lancaster at all.
I wouldn't give up my successful career with something I love for ONE finger. Maybe my hand, but not for a finger
I'm not judging his choice, it's HIS finger and HIS career, I'm just confused on why the narrator said it was such an obvious choice
Error in listing the year of his stroke. You say it was 1980. And also maybe Hoover wanted him as his boy toy. LOL. RIP Burt. We still love your movies today.
Vera Cruz. Talk about signposting it.
First lines of the video is Lancaster seem too good to be true. Hate to break it to your sister, but no one‘s perfect. As a matter of fact, the dirtbag Hoover that had files on both Lancaster and others himself had things that he wanted to hide away from the world. Hoover also persecuted people whether there was evidence of them doing wrong or not. And even if they were in the communist party, there was no legal or moral reason for them to be persecuted. America is supposed to be the land of the free where you don’t hide from your government and fear retribution for having your own opinion. It’s all included in the first amendment. Freedom of assembly freedom of speech freedom from reprisals freedom of religion and freedom of the press. I don’t care what your sexuality is it doesn’t matter, nor should it. However, I do find it ironic that Hoover was rumoured to be cross dresser, I’m not saying that to insult cross dressers I’m merely pointing that out because it makes him a hypocrite.
great legend of an actor! his personal life? that was his business, iv'e no interest in the latter.
Am I the only one who noticed the inconsistencies in the timeline, ie. he somehow died in 1984 AND 1994?! Pretty sloppy work by the narrator/editor/scriptwriter 🙄
What abou5 Local Hero ?
I could see Burt and Rock together as a couple.
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The narrator sounds ok to me.
Big deal. Old news. Theres nude photo of him too.
never liked him
I WISH A CLIP WITH THE ACTOR VOICE WOULD BE PUT IN AT LEAST ONCE IN YOUR VIDEOS !!!!!!!!!!!!++!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
J.E. Hoover was pure American Poison. Lancaster was always a brilliant Anomaly. 🌿🪖🇺🇸🪖🌿
@starcrib ❤🌈💞For the sake of us all and whatever the names we give you,please Great Universal Soul grant us more "brilliant anomalies"!Grant us more Lancaster,Hepburn(dear Queen K!),Gielgud,Wilde,Garcia Lorca,Leonardo,Michelangelo,and so many others!Grant us in time of doubt some Colonel Lawrence and in time of need some Alan Turing - this one my most deeply(and sadly)revered because my DOB is 1950 and I know what we all owe him.Loves everybody and be sure love instead of hate is the good choice,whoever you choose to love!🌈🙏❣️👵🐈⬛.
@@meryemadam1860 "BRILLIANT ANOMALIES " °•○▪︎....🪷🪷🪷🪷 ALWAYS
I think you mean J. Edgar Hoover. Of course, Herbert was no prize, either, but that was in the 1930s.
J Edgar Hoover! I did know that! I think a lot of folks knew. The hypocrisy was huge!
How very very sad a person has to lie about who they truly are...Shame on society....
I seriously hope that rumors, stories and allegations about Burt's so-called bisexuality are unfounded. In this day and age where nearly everyone like to flit around and suggest they are gay because it's now chic to be so, it would ruin his image for many of his fans, myself included. We will never know the truth because the only man that CAN provide the truth is unable.
Click bait bs, I love him always have always will I don’t care for your 2024 bs against a Great Actor 😊
I would really not know about their sexuality, ACTUALLY !
It is rather sad to hear those things about Bert Lancaster, and sadder still that you felt the need to disclose those things that you did. Is it not enough to tell us Bert Lancaster participated in the March on Washington, D.C. without speculating on the possibility of his homosexuality? Was it necessary to go there? I am a straight white male and yet I still find it rarher sinister to refer to his private life as "darkness" which is very negative and really none of anyone's damn business and if you believe it was necessary to reveal this about him, I wonder why.
Good company?
What absolute nonsense about having to prove yourself as an actor before becoming a producer. Get your facts straight before making your videos.
Really tired of the fad of people claiming everyone in Hollywood was gay or bi.
Get. A. Life.
The more I watch these mini biographies, the more I realize Hollywood truly IS Hollyweird. Yeah, yeah, yeah...........Burt Lancaster was notoriously bisexual. It is actually common knowledge. But, that's between him and God now.
We are all weird
Without the Hollywood soft lighting and makeup, his face was quite spotty, which is clear in any close-up shot.
Funny how the standards for what we call good-looking change over the decades. I think Lancaster had pretty eyes, but his chin looked like it could stop a Mack truck.
Off topic, but only made it through 15 minutes of this episode because of the monotonous background music.
He had no issues. Are you people ever going to grow up?
nothing dark here. decent enough biography, nice to hear a real voice (not a bot), that is pleasant to listen to and pronounces & enunciates well. too bad that it seemed necessary to use the clickbait technique in the title. guessing it's something that youtube forces upon the producers if they want to 'keep' their channels. sigh
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Tittilating though it may sound, it's actually really prurient. WGAF.... he was the best at what he did, a true great, an icon, and he's a drop dead gorgeous human being, the perfect example, whatever sex or sexual preference you may have, it don't matter, the man was just fanfuckingtastic. Burt Lancaster it don't get any better, his name alone is a superlative
Most actors were gay in those days ..... 8:15
I don’t think so 😂
Yes, a good many were closeted. My late, great uncle was close to the "scene" in those days.
In those days people were not perfect today everyone is perfect 😊❤😊 aren't you happy. I would say gay but you would get the wrong impression
I can't stand videos about people when they are dead. We have that much 💩 being thrown around today and knuckleheads want to bring up the past when they weren't there to witness it. Hoover was gay himself the damn hipocrite & kept files on everyone to protect the FBI & of course himself. Whoever has not sinned go ahead and throw the 1st stone or 💩 if you prefer. How about putting up videos that bring us together.
Don't you think your being a hypocrite, by saying Hoover was gay, unless you was there to witness it, just saying!🤔
Bullshitting.
The narrator speaks far too slowly. Her delivery comes across as slow and stilted. Please speed up the pace and stop placing artificial emotional stress on words. A faster, more natural approach would be much better.
Don't tell people to stop being themselves...oops.
@@Dr.Pepper001The narrator is working! Constructive criticism doesn’t hurt…. It keeps the channel going!
I agree!
I agree most narrators on these videos on CZcams are absolutely horrible! most are artificial intelligence narrators and aren't even real people..
Yes. This series needs a more professionally mature narrator.
BURT is ok by me .
Please use proper grammar.
This is sick🤮
Great actor! Leave it at that🤮
The most obvious issue is completely ignored. WTF was the criminal FBI building an illegal file on each citizen? That these crimes went unpunished screams for justice. Its long list of crimes continues. Lancaster had no business being a target and that his illegal file is now public fodder is staggering Fascistic public destruction. There is no excuse for this type of video.
Clearly you all don't know a thing about our history, and the inescapable fact that Jane Fonda was very vocal about the war in Vietnam, thereby putting our boys in grave danger. And, although I like Barbra Streisand's vocal talents as a renowned singer, I cannot stand her idiotic politics. And, after this so-called biography about Burt Lancaster, I don't like him much either. Sounded like a real jerk, about so many things.
That's your opinion and to many others I don't think you are the kind of person I would like to be around you believe other people and don't have your own mind