Looks like Deborah Kerr is on top there, with Burt Lancaster taking the submissive female role. How much gayer can you get?

You mean Monty Clift WASN'T playing a wiry little gay whore?

princess tiny cock whose dick reportedly resembled a tiny green acorn would have had no career as a boy whore --

MM, the article you linked to sez it was the character played by Frank Sinatra, Angelo Maggio, talking casually about his john to Robert Prewitt, after the latter said he didn't like the idea of being "blowed" by men. So it was Monty who'd have played straight (complete with oh-so-manly grammatical lapses) and Frankie who'd have had an expanded definition of "broad." Irony, justice, or secret history?

Sorry, I misread the linked piece. You're right, it's actually the Sinatra character who turns tricks with rich gay men. That's even better!!!

This is an utterly fascinating story. I do hope this leads to the publication of an unexpurgated "From Here To Eternity."

The Ernest Borgnine character's hatred of Sinatra's Maggio made little sense. Now it does, as Sinatra's virtual murder at Borgnine's hands is a pure hate crime.

As for Monty's cock, Jack Larson never had any complaints about it.

And Sinatra was allegedly very well endowed...

Now there is a scene from the movie I would've liked to have seen: Palm trees swaying in the night breeze. Glenn Miller's orchestra playing Moonlight Serenade in some distant place. Camera pans down to a close up of Sinatra's face alternating between boredom an surprised pleasure as he smokes a cigarette. The camera continues down to see his other hand on the head of his john....

And of course there would have to be the scene with Donna Reed where they compare notes!

Of course even if it WAS in the book, the gay stuff would have surely been cut out of the movie version.

Does Aaron Hicklin know about this???!!!

hold the phone musto. I'm a vet & in 10 yrs active & reserve never saw any gay stuff.

well, not counting that one time in the steamy shower...

...or the endless discussions of masturbation...

la dolce and daily neglects to mention that this all comes from The Guardian, that nest of antisemitic queer morons -- the online editor lists his only other professional experience as contributor to "Butt Magazine" which is a pretentious, highbrow, very Brit publication, yes, of butt-worshipers -- with this band of dizzy idiot commie queens, anything is possible, so the whole thing becomes subject to fact-checking from other, more reliable sources -- why doesn;t Musto ask his good pal Nancy Sinatra if her dad ever sucked cock, or if the characters he played ever did? Never believe anything you read in that shitrag the Guardian!

The whole film version of The Lost Weekend cut out the gay story-line.

I really thought Prewitt and Maggio would have done it together. The idea that Prewitt was more like the Donna Reed character not just seems out of character.

Now I can see Maggio being the gay one. A hate crime at the hands of Borgnine.

Oh and in the Godfather the Johnny Fontaine character is based on Sinatra and the horse's head in the producer's bed was the get Johnny the role, based on Sinatra's From Here To Eternity, because the character was just like him. I wonder now about Frankie.

old Ernie Borgnine still cannot get over being made into a gay joke by his marriage to La Merm -- he famously refused to even watch Brokeback Mountain, that outdated and ridiculously grim version of a faux-"tragic" love story with its 1950s sensibility of that old archiac closet queen voyeur Ang Lee, and Ernie led the campaign to make sure Brokeback got no Oscars, which went instead to that piece of shit "Crash" -- so Borgnine's homophobia is so longstanding that it might be worth a doctoral thesis in itself in a cinema history class!

Whatever you think of the Guardian, they did an interview with James Jones's daughter and that's where this info came from!

Well, which is it, Parlez Moi de Musto? If you thought BBM was a piece of 50's era crap, then you shouldn't have a problem that it didn't win Best Picture. Maybe the Oscar voters just shared your la-dee-da tastes which should have you celebrating. And do you really think Ernest Borgnine (of ALL people) carries that much sway in the Academy?? Puh-leeze.

Borgnine just represents the old guard who seem to never die off and have the Academy by the throat and make just bizarre decisions that are incredibly subjective and incoherent. Just like the same Academy that gave him that Oscar for Marty.

@ Mark
And Sinatra was allegedly very well endowed...

Venturi contributed to the legend that Sinatra was hugely well endowed sexually.

"There's only ten pounds of Frank, but there's 110 pounds of cock," Ava Gardner once told a British diplomat at a social function.

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/article520603.ece

I don't think that at the time the movie came out the public was ready to place gay scenes in movies. So it was better that took it out.