Arts & Entertainment
New documentary claims Carey Grant was bisexual
film says actor was in a relationship with costume designer
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A new documentary claims Hollywood icon Carey Grant had a long time relationship with Australian costume designer Orry-Kelly.
“Women He’s Undressed” chronicles Kelly’s life and career creating costumes for many popular films, most notably Marilyn Monroe’s dress in “Some Like It Hot.” The documentary, based on Kelly’s memoir “Women I’ve Undressed,” also outright claims Grant was a bisexual man who had an intimate relationship with Kelly.
According to the documentary Kelly met Grant, real name Archibald Leach, while they were both struggling financially in New York in 1925. The pair moved in together and eventually moved to Hollywood before Grant moved in with friend and fellow actor Randolph Scott in 1932.
“It (New York) was a city of bachelors. You were surrounded by men who were openly living in ways you couldn’t imagine back home,” film historian William J. Mann says in the documentary.
Grant would eventually go on to be married five times throughout his life.
Kelly’s memoir does not explicitly state that they were lovers but does hint at a close relationship between the two. The costume designer notes Grant’s interest in women, but says “he always comes home to me.”
The New York Post reports that the memoir also describes a violent and volatile relationship between the two men, something that Katherine Thompson, the documentary’s writer, told the New York Post was not uncommon for the time.
“The physical violence between the men [was] not uncommon between homosexual men of the period,’’ Thompson told the New York Post.“A combination of self-loathing and confusion was manifested in a punch-up or, on another occasion, Grant throwing Kelly out of a moving vehicle.’’
“Women He’s Undressed” is now available on DVD and video on demand.
Celebrity News
Madonna announces release date for new album
‘Confessions II’ marks return to the dance floor
Pop icon Madonna on Wednesday announced that her 15th studio album will be released on July 3.
Titled “Confessions II,” the new album is a sequel to 2005’s “Confessions on a Dance Floor,” an Abba and disco-infused hit.
The new album reunites Madonna with producer Stuart Price, who also helmed the original “Confessions” album. It’s her first album of new material since 2019’s “Madame X.”
“We must dance, celebrate, and pray with our bodies,” Madonna said in a press release. “These are things that we’ve been doing for thousands of years — they really are spiritual practices. After all, the dance floor is a ritualistic space. It’s a place where you connect — with your wounds, with your fragility. To rave is an art. It’s about pushing your limits and connecting to a community of like-minded people,” continued the statement. “Sound, light, and vibration reshape our perceptions. Pulling us into a trance-like state. The repetition of the bass, we don’t just hear it but we feel it. Altering our consciousness and dissolving ego and time.”
Denali (@denalifoxx) of “RuPaul’s Drag Race” performed at Pitchers DC on April 9 for the Thirst Trap Thursday drag show. Other performers included Cake Pop!, Brooke N Hymen, Stacy Monique-Max and Silver Ware Sidora.
(Washington Blade photos by Michael Key)
Arts & Entertainment
In an act of artistic defiance, Baltimore Center Stage stays focused on DEI
‘Maybe it’s a triple-down’
By LESLIE GRAY STREETER | I’m always tickled when people complain about artists “going political.” The inherent nature of art, of creation and free expression, is political. This becomes obvious when entire governments try to threaten it out of existence, like in 2025, when the brand-new presidential administration demanded organizations halt so-called diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programming or risk federal funding.
Baltimore Center Stage’s response? A resounding and hearty “Nah.” A year later, they’re still doubling down on diversity.
“Maybe it’s a triple-down,” said Ken-Matt Martin, the theater’s producing director, chuckling.
The rest of this article can be found on the Baltimore Banner’s website.
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