Hello and thank you for being a DL contributor. We are changing the login scheme for contributors for simpler login and to better support using multiple devices. Please click here to update your account with a username and password.
Hello. Some features on this site require registration. Please click here to register for free.
Hello and thank you for registering. Please complete the process by verifying your email address. If you can't find the email you can resend it here.
Hello. Some features on this site require a subscription. Please click here to get full access and no ads for $1.99 or less per month.
I just finished watching The Trials of Oscar Wilde, starring Peter Finch. It was quite daring for 1960.
In one scene, Oscar’s wife Constance says “It’s terrible when a man comes between a husband and his wife.”
Peter Finch was great, of course, but ultimately, I think he was miscast. The real revelation was the adorable John Fraser as Bosie. Fraser died just a few weeks ago at age 90, and was survived by his longtime companion.
Please name some other Oscar Wilde movies that are worth seeing.
| by Anonymous | reply 12 | November 28, 2020 9:43 PM |
Didn't we have a poster named "Bosie" in one thread or another, a few months back? He was annoying the fuck out of some other poster, and neither would let it go.
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | November 28, 2020 3:59 PM |
Lord Alfred (Bosie) was the third son of the Marquess of Queensbury. It is a widely known but little discussed fact that insanity runs in the Queensbury line.
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | November 28, 2020 4:12 PM |
Oscar Wilde played a prominent role in a British television series in 1978 called 'Lillie', which centered on Lillie Langtry, the famous mistress of the Prince of Wales and later, King Edward VII. As a royal mistress, for a time, she was the center of London society, and it seems counted Wilde among her close friends.
Here's a link to Episode 5 which includes the interaction of the two characters.
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | November 28, 2020 4:18 PM |
[quote] Peter Finch was great, of course, but ultimately, I think he was miscast.
True. I watched this film about a year ago for the first time, and while the dialogue was sharp (much of it Wilde’s words of course), I could not see Finch as Wilde. He was just a body mouthing his words, same as Rupert Everett.
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | November 28, 2020 4:27 PM |
They also released the Robert Morley film in 1960.
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | November 28, 2020 4:57 PM |
What happened with Bosie?
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | November 28, 2020 9:19 PM |
Bosie spent years trashing Oscar and denying any homosexual involvement with him whatever, though he softened his line later in life. Subsequently he married a woman, and fathered a son who died young in a sanitarium. Douglas became a noted anti-semite and crank who ended up in prison after slandering Winston Churchill.
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | November 28, 2020 9:30 PM |
What a wrong headed life. Thank you r9.
| by Anonymous | reply 10 | November 28, 2020 9:34 PM |
Here is the card Queensbury sent to Oscar. It says "For Oscar Wilde Posing as Somdomite [sic]".
| by Anonymous | reply 11 | November 28, 2020 9:37 PM |
watchin it now on youtube, looks fun, thx for the heads up
| by Anonymous | reply 12 | November 28, 2020 9:43 PM |
Yes indeed, we too use "cookies." Take a look at our privacy/terms or if you just want to see the damn site without all this bureaucratic nonsense, click ACCEPT. Otherwise, you'll just have to find some other site for your pointless bitchery needs.
Become a contributor - post when you want with no ads!
