Welcome to Screen Gems, our weekend dive into queer and queer-adjacent titles of the past that deserve a watch or a re-watch.Sir John Gielgud appears on just about every list of the Greatest Shakespearean Actors of All Time, often near the tip-top.
How ironic, then, that his biggest success in Hollywood would come in a slapstick comedy about drunkenness, opposite a loony comic and a gay icon.Arthur casts Gielgud as Hobson, the snooty butler of Arthur Bach, the titular character.
Though a grown man, Arthur acts more like a drunken 10-year-old, reveling in his inherited billions of dollars and constantly boozing as he stumbles around New York City.