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Becoming Clifton Webb: A Queer Star in Mid-Century Hollywood
- Cinema Journal
- University of Texas Press
- 47, Number 3, Spring 2008
- pp. 3-28
- 10.1353/cj.0.0005
- Article
- Additional Information
Attentive to a wide range of signs that mark queerness, “Becoming Clifton Webb” not only shows that Webb was perceived as queer in the mid-twentieth century but argues that, coincident with Sexual Behavior and the Human Male (1948), he helped introduce moviegoers to the “new” homosexual of the postwar era.