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#FranklinPangborn and his 'boyfriend' in #OnlyYesterday (1933)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZY1Nrw_8HO0

Ya know who makes everything better? Franklin Pangborn, that's who.

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TODAY IN QUEER TV HISTORY

PRIVATE SECRETARY - 5/27/1956, CBS

Comic actor Franklin Pangborn (1889–1958) specialized in gay-coded roles: he made a career of playing fussy, giddy men from the 1930s to 50s. Movies and TV weren't allowed to acknowledge homosexuality back then, but they could sure hint broadly using stereotypes.

In a few episodes of PRIVATE SECRETARY (a 1950s sitcom), he guest stars as Henry Hollis, originally seen as a secretary though here he has opened a photo studio and changed his name to Armond. Henry was the type of "prissy, polite, elegant, highly energetic, often officious, fastidious, somewhat nervous" roles that Pangborn played for years, "prone to becoming flustered but essentially upbeat." (That's from the Wikipedia article about him.) He appears in this scene with series star Ann Sothern. The episode is "Susie's Crusade."

https://youtu.be/FpUINewy5m8 #MediaStudies #gay #queer #LGBTQ #GayCoded #FranklinPangborn #AnnSothern #PrivateSecretary