Dirk Bogarde Articles

Tyrone Power III: Gay Rumors, Errol Flynn So if Tyrone Power was off having gay liaisons while he was at Fox, it was in another part of the world in someone’s sub-sub-basement (while he was working 18 hours a day at Fox), because if Darryl Zanuck even had so much of a whiff of it, that would have been itsville. Case in point: William Eythe. [...]

Strangely, Dirk Bogarde never became a major star in the United States. I’m sure he was well known in the US in the ’50s and ’60s, but he wasn’t the superstar he was in Britain or the top star he was internationally. Perhaps Bogarde just didn’t care for Hollywood stardom — certainly not when in Europe he got to work for the likes of Joseph [...]

Joseph Losey at the bfi Schedule and film info from the bfi: Accident * 5 – 18 June Joseph Losey’s brilliant study of simmering class conflict, sexual tension and the British character. The Big Night * Thu 4 Jun 18:40 * Tue 9 Jun 18:20 Joseph Losey’s final American film co-scripted with novelist Stanley Ellin. Blind Date * Mon 1 Jun 20:40 * Tue 9 [...]

Dirk Bogarde, James Fox in The Servant (top); The Damned (bottom) "Among the greatest things that happened to British cinema were the arrival on our shores of the Korda brothers in the 30s, Losey in the 50s and Kubrick in the 60s," reads the introduction to an upcoming Joseph Losey series, which runs June 1-July 23 at the bfi Southbank in London. The Wisconsin-born (on [...]