A legendary voice. A gay director. An overlooked classic.
Welcome to Screen Gems, our weekend dive into queer and queer-adjacent titles of the past that deserve a watch or a re-watch.Seriously, when will we get a biopic of the great Paul Robeson?
Few performers have had careers as intriguing as that of Robeson, one of the first major African-American stars of the stage and screen.
Robeson’s silky bass voice and bear-like presence made him a thrill to watch. His activism for racial equality as an unapologetic Communist also made him a man surrounded by controversy.
Subsequent to his death in 1976, it was revealed that the CIA had targeted Robeson with Project MK-ULTRA, a mind-control experiment that set off two decades of ill health.Sound like the stuff of movies yet?Until we get a proper biopic of Mr.
