The movie is full of lavish production numbers, melodrama, and even a brief same-sex dance gag in which a man asks a couple if he can cut into their dance, and, while the woman says Sure, he dances away with her partner!
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Director James Whale’s masterpiece is as close to Susan Sontag’s definition of high camp as the movies can deliver.
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The Best of the Astaire-Rogers movies. Cinematography: David Abel. Production Design: Carroll Clark/Van Nest Polglase. Songs: Irving Berlin.
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Both gay and trans, Sylvia/Sylvester set the bar impossibly high for years to come. One of the great financial disasters of the 1930s, it resulted in Hepburn being labelled box office poison.
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“Dodsworth”: William Wyler’s masterpiece, the best movie ever made about the fear of growing old. It was Wyler’s first Oscar nomination.
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