The Celluloid Closet
Overview
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.
- Revenue
- $1,400,591
- Production
- ZDF, ARTE, Brillstein-Grey Entertainment, HBO, Telling Pictures, Channel 4 Television
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Cast
Lily Tomlin
Narrator (voice)
Tony Curtis
Self
Susan Sarandon
Self
Gore Vidal
Self
Whoopi Goldberg
Self
Antonio Fargas
Self
Shirley MacLaine
Self
John Schlesinger
Self
Armistead Maupin
Self
Arthur Laurents
Self
Tom Hanks
Self
Farley Granger
Self
Quentin Crisp
Self
Harry Hamlin
Self
Sharon Stone
Self
Susie Bright
Self
Jay Presson Allen
Self
Jan Oxenberg
Self
Paul Rudnick
Self
Ron Nyswaner
Self
Crew
- Director
- Rob Epstein,Jeffrey Friedman
- Cinematography
- Nancy Schreiber
- Composer
- Carter Burwell
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CinemaSerf
November 17, 2025
Ok, so perhaps some of the claims made in the narration about some of the stars featured here are a bit optimistically speculative, but it still manages to use some very well researched archive and the benefit of hindsight to portray a sort of “Hollywood Babylon” approach to a century of gay Hollywood film-making. Starting way back, pre-code, with films from the likes of Cecil B. DeMille, it presents and engaging analysis of cinematic history that includes some of the talked-about regulars like …