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 Nicholas Ray, Libby starts exploring Black folk music, launching a new singing career in collaboration with guitarist Josh White (“One Meatball”). Plus Libby’s old friend Clifton Webb becomes a late-in-life, closeted movie star, and Tallulah – effectively banished from Hollywood a decade earlier due to her refusal to be discreet about her sexuality – triumphantly returns to the screen thanks to Alfred Hitchcock.

(00:00) Libby and Monty “Under the Sheets”

(03:51) Appreciation or Cultural Appropriation?

(06:23) Nicholas Ray, Leadbelly, Josh White

(13:24) No White Person Has Ever Sung Them in Public

(22:02) Everybody is in Love With Monty

(28:44) Tallulah Bankhead in Movie Jail

(36:13) Lifeboat

(40:20) Clifton Webb’s Queer Success Story

(45:46) Libby Lashes Out at Older Women

(51:08) The Black Widow and Josh White

(58:45) Libby’s Only Movie