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Integrating Music and Queering Hollywood (The Bisexuals, Part 4)
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Montgomery Clift enters the chat as a teenage acting prodigy who immediately attracts 34 year-old Libby’s attention. Through her sometime-lover Nicholas Ray, Libby starts exploring Black folk music, launching a new singing career in collaboration with guitarist Josh White (“One Meatball”). Plus Libby’s old friend Clifton Webb becomes a late-in-life, closeted movie star, and Tallulah – effectively banished from Hollywood a decade earlier due to her refusal to be discreet about her sexuality – triumphantly returns to the screen thanks to Alfred Hitchcock.(00:00) Libby and Monty “Under the Sheets”(03:51) Appreciation or Cultural Appropriation?(06:23) Nicholas Ray, Leadbelly, Josh White(13:24)…