Lonelyhearts and Misfits (The Bisexuals, Part 7)
Monty’s cataclysmic car accident throws a wrench in his stardom, his mental and physical health, and his relationship with Libby, who begins to see Mo...
Monty and Libby in Love (The Bisexuals, Part 6)
Monty’s arc as a tragic romantic figure continues with I Confess and Terminal Station – even as his relationship with Libby becomes all consuming, in ...
Was Libby Holman the Real Norma Desmond? (The Bisexuals, Part 5)
With Red River, Montgomery Clift becomes a new kind of movie star, projecting a new kind of sexuality – while still figuring out how he wants to expre...
Integrating Music and Queering Hollywood (The Bisexuals, Part 4)
Montgomery Clift enters the chat as a teenage acting prodigy who immediately attracts 34 year-old Libby’s attention. Through her sometime-lover Nichol...
Starring Jean Harlow as Libby Holman (The Bisexuals, Part 3)
While the racist, antisemitic Southern authorities try to indict a pregnant Libby for the murder of her husband, the national media effectively puts h...
A Yankee Jewess in the Deep South (The Bisexuals, Part 2)
While riding a crest of Broadway stardom – and in a serious romance with a woman – Libby is pursued by Zachary Smith Reynolds, the reckless, emotional...
Broadway Blackface & Harlem Sex Tourism (The Bisexuals, Part 1)
Libby Holman, a Jewish girl from Cincinnati, arrives in Manhattan in 1925 and begins to make a name for herself as a torch singer, trading on her raci...
Trailer: The Bisexuals
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