Clifton Webb Was A Repugnant Racist Queen. Along With Helen Broderick and Marilyn Miller
And if you wish to answer this thread, don’t give me that, “well, it was era, blah, blah.”
Irving Berlin wanted Ethel Waters in his musical “As Thousands Cheer.” She was a smash hit in the show and became a star overnight. She introduced “Heat Wave.” The three clowns above refused to take a bow with her. Shit heads. And this was 1933! 1933!! Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Jimmy Lunceford, Fletcher Henderson, Cab Calloway, and Josephine Baker were established black performers, for christ’s sake beloved by white audiences. Fortunately, Irving defused the issue by agreeing that should these clowns refuse to take a bow with Ethel, he quite understood, and since that was the case, there would be no curtain call at all. Good for him.
I’m in show biz, but far, far from my cookie-cutter liberal brethren. For the sake of theatre history, this snub is intolerable and abhorrent, no matter what the year.
| by Anonymous | reply 17 | September 2, 2022 5:47 AM
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We only knew that Clifton Webb had a repugnant secret inside Laura's clock cabinet.
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | September 1, 2022 8:14 AM
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It was what? 1939? Who actually gives a fuck?
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | September 1, 2022 10:26 PM
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My wife, the actress, Coral Browne, had nothing but good things to say about these fellows.
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | September 1, 2022 10:27 PM
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Only on this board can there be apoplectic outrage at an obscure slight 90 years in the past. Lay off the box wine, OP!
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | September 1, 2022 11:16 PM
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And she was so wonderful in Some Like It Hot.
| by Anonymous | reply 11 | September 1, 2022 11:31 PM
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You people are mean! He was a perfect son! He never left my side- ever.
| by Anonymous | reply 12 | September 1, 2022 11:50 PM
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In that Ziegfeld TV movie, Miller was depicted as a total cunt.
| by Anonymous | reply 13 | September 1, 2022 11:54 PM
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"Look at me! Look at how righteous I am! Watch me perform outrage over something that happened nearly 90 years ago and involves 'celebs' 95% of people alive today have never heard of!"
| by Anonymous | reply 14 | September 1, 2022 11:59 PM
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Unfortunately, OP, racism towards Blacks back then was the social norm. Josephine Baker remained in France because of it, despite hoping to become an American success during her occasional work trips back in the US. Fanny Brice allegedly called her a nigger.
[Quote]On her infrequent forays back to America, Baker would be appalled by the nation’s continuing inequality and injustice. While appearing in Ziegfeld Follies in 1936, she was devastated that her white back up-dancers were not allowed to touch her onstage. According to The Hungry Heart, she was also verbally abused by her Follies co-star Fanny Brice, who snapped, “‘Ah, you n-gger, why don’t you talk the way your mouth was born?’”
Fanny was angered that the American-born Josephine would sometimes lapse into French.
| by Anonymous | reply 15 | September 2, 2022 12:38 AM
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I'll punch you in your fucking fag mug for calling my mom a racist. 10-4
| by Anonymous | reply 16 | September 2, 2022 5:41 AM
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The USA always has and always will be a racist shithole.
| by Anonymous | reply 17 | September 2, 2022 5:47 AM
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