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Our Betters is a film directed by George Cukor.
Pearl (Constance Bennett) is an American woman, heir to a lot of "hardware wealth", who at the launch of the film is getting married to Lord George Grayston. Pearl is still wearing her wedding dress when she finds out that not only did George marry her for her money, he still has a lover, whom he has no intention of giving up.
Cut forward five years. Pearl and George are still married but in name only, and hardly ever see each other. Pearl had made the best of her situation, becoming a queen of the London social scene. She hangs out with a lot of upper-class fops and goofballs, like Duchess Minnie, a divorcee with a boy toy named Pepi who has the hots for Pearl; Arthur Fenwick, an American businessman who also has the hots for pearl; and Thornton Clay, who personifies I Am Very British despite the fact he was born and raised in Ohio; and Princess Flora, another American who misses home.
Pearl is hosting her younger sister Bessie, who has been in England for six months. She is intending to compare him up with Lord Harry Bleane, a
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Since its origin, the film industry has had a distant and bumpy journey with representing lgbtq+ men. Early Hollywood, with its keen women and emotionally complex gangsters, openly represented homosexuality. However, these “pre-code” depictions of gay men mostly cited the “sissy” archetype, one-dimensionally utilizing high-pitched voices and superficial plot lines.
Tyrell Davis playing the archetypal “sissy” in George Cukor&#;s Our Betters ()
This conflicted relationship heightened in when Hollywood officially enforced the censorship of itself. The Hays Code was the brainchild of Will H. Hays who loathed Hollywood’s on and off screen foul play. “No picture shall be produced which will decrease the moral standards of those who see it” was the Hays Code cornerstone. In evidence, Hays aimed for films made under the code to go so far as to proper the standards of society.
Hays’ off-limits material list included nothing short of smuggling, suggestive dancing, ridicule of religion, miscegenation (mixed race relationships), white slavery, scenes of passion, and saying the pos “pregn
Proof That It&#;s a Pre-Code Film
- &#;Are you making affectionate to me?&#;
&#;That&#;s nothing new, is it?&#;
- &#;I didn&#;t believe such language could emanate from a woman&#;s throat!&#;
- This film&#;s final line is infamous.
&#;It&#;s wonderful how you&#;ve made your way, Pearl.&#;
&#;Shall I tell you how I&#;ve done it? Through force of ethics, wit, unscrupulousness, and push.&#;
&#;You&#;re very frank.&#;
&#;It&#;s always been my pose.&#;
Our Betters throws you for a loop. Many of Constance Bennett&#;s roles in the pre-Code era were tales of lascivious women and the sins they pay for. This one starts with doe-eyed heiress Bennett heading to the altar with the man of her dreams, only to overhear him on their wedding night as he tells the woman he&#;s really in love with that he&#;ll now have enough money to keep them together. Constance gets a title and an entryway into British society&#; spurned, she decides to build the most of it.
No such thing as too much Connie Bennett.
We select up the story a few years later, and Bennett&#;s Pearl has flourished as on
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Tyrell Davis (September 29, - December 8, ) was a British motion picture actor,[1][2] Cambridge educated, who appeared on the West End and Broadway stage, as well as in British and American films.[3]
Tyrell Davis was born on September 29, in Surbiton, Surrey, England as Harry Davis. He was an actor, known for Strictly Unconventional (), Allow Us Be Gay () and Paid (). He was married to Lota B. Cheek.
In George Cukor's Out Betters (), Tyrell Davis played one of the swishiest lesbian of them all. He appears just in the last minutes of the film, waltzing into the drawing room of Constance Bennett, his wrists limp, his nose in the air, his painted lips pursed as it for a kiss. "You must excuse me for coming in my town clothes," he lisps, "but your chauffeur said there wasn't a moment to deprive, so I came just as I am!" Our Betters was based on a script by Cukor's good friend, W. Somerset Maugham, and was all about rewriting sexual mores. When Bennett kisses her rival, Violet Kemble Cooper, on the lips, Mr Ernest clasp