THE CELLULOID CLOSET (SPECIAL EDITION) [IMPORT]

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• Release Year: 1996
• Genre: Documentary
• Plot: What That's Entertainment did for movie musicals, THE CELLULOID CLOSET does for Hollywood homosexuality, as this exuberant, eye-opening movie serves up a dazzling hundred-year history of the role of gay men and lesbians on the silver screen.; ; Lily Tomlin narrates as Oscar®-winning moviemaker Rob Epstein (The Times of Harvey Milk and Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt) and Jeffrey Friedman assemble 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. Tom Hanks, Susan Sarandon, Whoopi Goldberg, Tony Curtis, Harvey Fierstein and Gore Vidal are just a few of the many actors, writers and commentators who provide funny and insightful anecdotes.
• Cast: Tom Hanks, Antonio Banderas, Susan Sarandon, Charles Chaplin, Lily Tomlin, Tony Curtis, Susie Bright, Arthur Laurents, Armistead Maupin, Whoopi Goldberg, Jan Oxenberg, Harvey Fierstein, Quentin Crisp, Richard Dyer, Jay Presson Allen, Mrs. Gustav Ketterer, Gore Vidal, Will H. Hays, Farley Granger, Paul Rudnick, Shirley Maclaine, Barry Sandler, Mart Crowley, Antonio Fargas, Ron Nyswaner, Daniel Melnick, Harry Hamlin, John Schlesinger, Demetrius Alexis, Judith Anderson, Richard Arlen, Joseph Breen, Steve Buscemi, Eric Campbell, Margery Chapin, Marguerite Churchill, Gary Cooper, Tyrell Davis, Sandy Dennis, Marlene Dietrich, Divine, Joan Fontaine, Gloria Holden, Edward Everett Horton, Al Jolson, John Marlowe, Josephine McKim, Liza Minnelli, Dermot Mulroney, Maureen O'Sullivan, Dick Powell, Edna Purviance, Charles 'Buddy' Rogers, Stewart Stern, Sharon Stone, Johnny Weissmuller, Michael York, Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman, Vito Russo, Sharon Wood
• Director: Rob Epstein
• Runtime: 1:41
• Company: Home Box Office, Telling Pictures Production, Channel 4, Columbia Tristar Home Entertainment
• Media Format: Movie