Vincente minnelli gay

Just like her mother, Liza got an early start with alcohol and prescription pills and was a fixture of the New York City drug-fueled nightclub scene in the '70s. In the early s she would enter rehab at the Betty Ford Clinic. Growing up as a rising Hollywood starlet, Judy was harshly critiqued on her looks, being labeled ugly and fat.

Vincente Minnelli: the legendary director who hid his sexuality

Entertainment — Film and TV. Barrington cjubarrington March 14, Either Minnelli was bisexual all along, discovered or changed within himself over the course of his life and career, or the saddest option of all: that a director, artist, and human being adored across Hollywood lived the majority of his life hidden.

Minnelli the Mess

But when he came to Hollywood, I think he made the decision to repress that part of himself or to become bisexual. Louis , were brought together by matchmaker Don Loper , Arthur Freed's assistant and a gay friend of Minnelli's. Garland and Minnelli put aside their differences and were married.

He was, in other words, primarily a stylist, and in dealing with a stylist, at least a modicum of style is itself called for. Unfortunately, Mr. I t feels like it must have been hard being Vincente Minnelli. Certainly, his life compels a retrospective respect and admiration for the maturity and self-awareness of George Cukor—not really a stylist, and certainly a more self-effacing director, but an incomparably more self-aware man.