I am a huge fan of Quentin Crisp’s commentary on the great goddesses of film that were compiled in his wonderful book How to Go to the Movies. In addition to being a phenomenal writer, Crisp’s…
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Gay Icon Quentin Crisp on Mae West
From How to Go to the Movies, by Quentin Crisp Miss West was a conspicuously round woman in a very square industry. Nevertheless, at the start of the 1930s, she took to Hollywood like…
Quentin Crisp on Jean Harlow
“As a rule, it is a great advantage for movie actresses to die young, but in Miss Harlow’s case, this was not so.” – Quentin Crisp
Gay Icon Quentin Crisp on Joan Crawford
From How to Go to the Movies, by Quentin Crisp As a writer and towering, eccentric figure of 20th-century queer New York, Quentin Crisp deserves to be remembered and respected both for his literary…
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