Trying to find something I can stick with in the Summer Romance selection.
Gidget isn't happy that shes being dragged to the beach on a "manhunt". She's 16 and will be a "social outcast" if she doesn't get a boyfriend during summer break.
I only lasted like 15 minutes into this movie.
Her one friend, with the short hair & jeans, is exempt because she has a sorority pin.
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TODAY IN QUEER TV HISTORY
HERE'S LUCY: "Lucy and Eva Gabor Are Hospital Roomies" - 9/18/1972, CBS
Do you think *maybe* we're supposed to read this character as gay? (R.G. Brown plays Walter, personal assistant to guest star Eva Gabor.)
TODAY IN QUEER TV HISTORY
PRIVATE SECRETARY - 5/27/1956, CBS
Comic actor Franklin Pangborn (1889β1958) 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
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