Synopsis
One simple lie destroyed everything they had.
An unruly student at a private all-girls boarding school scandalously accuses the two women who run it of having a romantic relationship.
An unruly student at a private all-girls boarding school scandalously accuses the two women who run it of having a romantic relationship.
The Childrens Hour, 噂の二人, 아이들의 시간, Infamous!, The Infamous, La Rumeur, La Mentira Infame, La calumnia, Infam, Huhu, Quelle due, 双姝怨, Végzetes rágalom, A Infame Mentira, Детский час, Οι Ψίθυροι, Sladder, Infâmia, Niewiniątka, Dětská hodinka, Vaikų valanda, Детски час, Дитяча година, La calúmnia, 雙姝怨, ბავშვების საათი, Ryktet
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…
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.
shirley maclaine: we look like a couple here
audrey hepburn: yeah, a couple of besties!