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counted among her friends and acquaintances many well-known names from literature and the cinema. In Rome she met Bette Davis
and Dirk Bogarde
. In New York she met director Alain Resnais
and producers...
Publishing
Molly Keane
Her last two M. J. Farrell novels were Loving Without Tears (1951) and Treasure Hunt (1952). The 1988 and 1990 Virago
reprints of Loving Without Tears and Treasure Hunt had introductions by Russell Harty
and...
Textual Production
Harold Pinter
Pinter was highly productive as a writer of screenplays, beginning with The Servant in 1963. This film, adapted from a novella by Robin Maugham
and dealing with an employer (Dirk Bogarde
) who is...
Timeline
August 1961: Four years after the Wolfenden report recommended...
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August 1961
Four years after the Wolfenden
report recommended legalizing homosexuality, and six before its principal recommendations became law, the pioneering film Victim featured Dirk Bogarde
as a married barrister blackmailed for a homosexual relationship.
The Internet Movie Database (IMDb). http://www.imdb.com.
Bailey, Paul. Three Queer Lives: An Alternative Biography of Fred Barnes, Naomi Jacob and Arthur Marshall. Hamish Hamilton (Penguin), 2001.
