# Gayest "Photoplay" EVER **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 24, 2004, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gayest-photoplay-ever/281512 "2004-12-24T19:07:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2004, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gayest-photoplay-ever/281512/21 "2004-12-27T19:57:34Z")
> [@Walloon](#): > > But let me share another movie mag article with you, this one a pictorial on a Tab Hunter and Roddy McDowall get-together . . . And in turn, I have my July 1956 _Movie Life_ in front of my (Tab Hunter’s nuzzling Natalie Wood on the cover). Best article is “WHAT PHYLLIS FOUND OUT ABOUT ROCK,” subheaded, “Every husband is full of surprises, and Mr. Hudson is no exception!” ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2004, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gayest-photoplay-ever/281512/22 "2004-12-27T20:02:28Z")
> [@Otto](#): > > You mean William “Billy” Haines. Billy Haines’ career was pretty much “dead from natural causes” by the early 1930s anyway. He was gaining weight and losing hair, he’d passed his sell-by date, and his “brash young college fellah” persona was not aging well. I think it was a matter of “you’re not pulling in sufficient bucks for us to cover up for you anymore.” ---
**Author:** ![3894](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/3/f4b2a3/32.png) [@3894](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/3894)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2004, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gayest-photoplay-ever/281512/23 "2004-12-27T20:12:43Z")
> [@Eve](#): > > Caesar Romero . . . Now _this_ I did not know. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gayest-photoplay-ever/281512.md?page=1)