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The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 07:00, 13 November 2020 (UTC)
Sailor's Luck
- ... that Raoul Walsh's 1933 film Sailor's Luck openly depicted homosexuality in the form of a gay swimming-pool attendant? Source: "What were called "queer flashes" and "mauve characters" sashayed through Calvacade (1933), Our Betters (1932), and Sailor's Luck (1933) in the figures of hand-holding girls, a flitty dance instructor, and a gay swimming pool attendant" (Pre-Code Hollywood)
- ALT1:... that Victor Jory's first major screen role as a lecherous landlord in the 1933 film Sailor's Luck was praised as "deliciously slimy" and "insanely funny"? Source: "...Sally enters a marathon dance contest promoted by her lecherous landlord Baron Portola (played by a deliciously slimy Victor Jory in his first major screen role)" (Military Comedy Films); "...in an insanely funny performance as Baron Bartolo..." (Leonard Maltin's Movie Encyclopedia)
5x expanded by Yoninah (talk). Self-nominated at 18:12, 3 November 2020 (UTC).
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buidhe 21:09, 3 November 2020 (UTC)
Interesting article! (t · c) buidhe 21:09, 3 November 2020 (UTC)