Film · Documentary, History
The Celluloid Closet (1996)
Exuberant, eye-opening movie that serves up a dazzling hundred-year history of the role of gay men and lesbians have had on the silver screen. Film contains fabulous footage from 120 films showing the changing face of cinema sexuality, from cruel stereotypes to covert love to the activist triumphs of the 1990s.
- Director
- Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman
- Writers
- Vito Russo, Sharon Wood, Rob Epstein
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Release date
- March 15, 1996
Cast
Lily TomlinNarrator (voice)
Tony CurtisSelf
Susan SarandonSelf
Gore VidalSelf
Whoopi GoldbergSelf
Antonio FargasSelf
Shirley MacLaineSelf
John SchlesingerSelf
Armistead MaupinSelf
Arthur LaurentsSelf
Tom HanksSelf
Farley GrangerSelf
Quentin CrispSelf
Harry HamlinSelf
Sharon StoneSelf
Susie BrightSelf- Mart CrowleySelf
Jay Presson AllenSelf- Richard DyerSelf
Jan OxenbergSelf
