The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender (1997)

5.1/10 100 min History Documentary

Overview

A film scrapbook, images, phrases from our past, hiding their meanings behind veils. Let's lift those veils, one by one, to find how images, at one time seeming innocent, have revealed, after decades, to have homosexual overtones.

Cast

Dan Butler

Host / Narrator

Don Ameche

Self (archive footage)

Johnny Arthur

Self (archive footage)

Lucille Ball

Self (archive footage)

Noah Beery Jr.

Self (archive footage)

Eric Blore

Self (archive footage)

Humphrey Bogart

Self (archive footage)

Walter Brennan

Self (archive footage)

Montgomery Clift

Self (archive footage)

Claudette Colbert

Self (archive footage)

Gary Cooper

Self (archive footage)

John Dall

Self (archive footage)

Bette Davis

Self (archive footage)

Alain Delon

Self (archive footage)

W.C. Fields

Self (archive footage)

Errol Flynn

Self (archive footage)

John Garfield

Self (archive footage)

Cary Grant

Self (archive footage)

Bob Hope

Self (archive footage)

Edward Everett Horton

Self (archive footage)

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