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One simple lie destroyed everything they had.
A private school for young girls is scandalized when one spiteful student, Mary Tilford, accuses the two young women who run the school of having a lesbian relationship.
The Children's Hour
1961 Directed by William Wyler
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The Childrens Hour, 噂の二人, 아이들의 시간, Infamous!, The Infamous, La Rumeur, La Mentira Infame
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Moving relationship stories Underdogs and coming of age school, teacher, student, classroom or classmates homosexuality, sexuality, relationships, feelings or homophobic teenager, friendship, sad, adolescents or coming of age family, emotional, emotion, touching or kids emotion, emotional, moving, feelings or sadness Show All…
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Imagine what they must have thought fifty years ago, or more, seventy years ago when the play came out. Imagine the tut tutting heterosexuals identifying with Mrs. Tillford, or feeling bad not because someone is violently outed but because someone is slandered with being a lesbian. Imagine the vicious, homophobic response to this that thought this film was about gossip. (Imagine the vicious, homophobic intention to make this film about gossip.) Imagine what they must have told themselves as they made it, what those involved with this must have been saying to themselves as they made it. In Celluloid Closet, MacLaine tells us she and Hepburn didn't even discuss the queerness of their characters.
Certainly, the message about the destructive…
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the line "I have loved you the way they've said!" contained so much power it catapulted through time 58 years into the future and slapped me through my screen
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Crazy how a film made in 1961 confirmed two of life’s most important facts: Homosexuality is not unnatural and kids are indeed the worst.
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shirley maclaine: we look like a couple here
audrey hepburn: yeah, a couple of besties! -
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A PLOT ABOUT HOMOSEXUALITY FROM 1961 (!!!) BY WILLIAM WYLER, WITH AUDREY HEPBURN AND SHIRLEY MACLAINE
"What are we going to do? It's all so cold and unreal and awful. It's like that dark hour of the night, when half awake, you struggle through the black mess you've been dream.... But it's all a nightmare; there is no solid world."
(Audrey Hepburn as Karen)
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