Emanuel Levy
Cinema 24/7
Research in Progress (May 23, 2021)
Sexual Repression: Women
A Streetcar Named Desire, Vivien Leigh
Tea and Sympathy, Deborah Kerr
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, 1958, Elizabeth Taylor
All three women were involved with gay men
Streetcar, her first husband was gay
Tea, her first husband might have been gay; she sleeps with Tom (gay boy)
Cat, Brick accuses Maggie of sleeping with his best (dead) friend, who was gay.
Movie Cycles: Sexual Repression, Femme-Dominated Melodramas
Research in Progress (May 23, 2021)
Sexual Repression: Women
A Streetcar Named Desire, Vivien Leigh
Tea and Sympathy, Deborah Kerr
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, 1958, Elizabeth Taylor
All three women were involved with gay men
Streetcar, her first husband was gay
Tea, her first husband might have been gay; she sleeps with Tom (gay boy)
Cat, Brick accuses Maggie of sleeping with his best (dead) friend, who was gay.