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One of the hottest scenes in movie history
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 1 | August 1, 2016 6:10 PM |
Pretty in his younger days, but an ugly, bitter racist in later life.
by Anonymous | reply 2 | August 1, 2016 6:12 PM |
Joan Collins had better taste for men in her affairs than in her marriages.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 5 | August 1, 2016 6:37 PM |
Joan Collins?
What about Joan Fontaine? She seemed to ogle at him.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 8 | August 1, 2016 6:47 PM |
Occasional instances of gay face.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 9 | August 1, 2016 6:48 PM |
I wanted him inside me. I can't deny that anymore.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 10 | August 1, 2016 6:50 PM |
Who decided to give him a 1930s movie queen photo session?
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 11 | August 1, 2016 6:59 PM |
R15, that rumor has floated for years. I doubt it's true, though.
He really had chemistry with the ladies, regardless.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 16 | August 1, 2016 7:50 PM |
They knew how to market him.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 18 | August 1, 2016 8:02 PM |
Open mouthed and open shirted.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 19 | August 1, 2016 8:05 PM |
With Sidney Poitier.
They both turn 90 next year!
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 20 | August 1, 2016 8:07 PM |
Harry was/is one of the most difficult and egotistical men in show business! Total bastard. That's why his movie career ended early.
by Anonymous | reply 22 | August 1, 2016 8:09 PM |
If I was Petula Clark i wouldn't just touch his hand - I'd suck his black schlong on live TV to prove racial equality.
by Anonymous | reply 24 | August 1, 2016 8:13 PM |
R2 is voting for Trump.
Obama's mom, Stanley Ann Dunham, told him Harry Belafonte was the most handsome man in the workd.
by Anonymous | reply 26 | August 1, 2016 9:46 PM |
Very handsome he makes Denzel look like boy scout.
by Anonymous | reply 27 | August 1, 2016 9:50 PM |
R23, he had an average body, but it was a different era.
His face is timeless.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 28 | August 1, 2016 9:55 PM |
> I thought he was gay.
He is/was definitely either gay or bisexual, and I know this for a fact... back in the early '80s, my then-boyfriend spoke of how he had once been propositioned by one of HB's handlers and subsequently turned down the offer (my ex would have then been around 20 years of age, and the great Harry Belafonte was in his 50s at the time, so I think we can safely assume that he liked his boys on the young-ish side)! Yup, true story...
by Anonymous | reply 29 | August 1, 2016 10:46 PM |
Belafonte studied with the legendary Erwin Piscator along with Brando, Poitier, Tony Curtis, Elaine Stritch and DL favorite Bea Arthur.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 32 | August 2, 2016 2:36 AM |
gorgeous.... never heard he was a "bastard". Any evidence please?
by Anonymous | reply 34 | August 2, 2016 3:23 AM |
No wonder Pet Clark touched him!
by Anonymous | reply 35 | August 2, 2016 3:25 AM |
Hairline goin' but he wear a toupee
by Anonymous | reply 36 | August 2, 2016 3:35 AM |
One of the most handsome men, ever.
by Anonymous | reply 37 | August 2, 2016 8:05 AM |
When he was younger he looked like Grace Jones.
I never found him to be very masculine. He was good looking but not a hunk, kind of bland, not handsome on the level of Brando, Beatty, Paul Newman and so many other actors of the era.
by Anonymous | reply 38 | August 2, 2016 9:23 AM |
Joan Collins said he had the softest, smoothest skin.
by Anonymous | reply 39 | August 2, 2016 10:06 AM |
Undeniably handsome but a real bastard in person. I had him on several flights into ALB of all places back in the early 90s.
by Anonymous | reply 40 | August 2, 2016 10:08 AM |
No one here seems to have seen him live in concert. One of the great entertainers of the era. Sublime voice.
by Anonymous | reply 41 | August 2, 2016 10:13 AM |
A now-defunct gossip site claimed he had a hot and heavy affair with Farley Granger of all people. But I think Farley would have mentioned it to someone if it were true. Now that would have been a beautiful couple!!
by Anonymous | reply 42 | August 2, 2016 10:53 AM |
I liked him as a singer in his younger days. Not a nice man and turned bat-shit crazy.
by Anonymous | reply 43 | August 2, 2016 1:22 PM |
R42, that was the A List.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 44 | August 2, 2016 1:29 PM |
Pics in r6 and r16 show why he was a star. The camera loved him and he really knew how to work his angles.
by Anonymous | reply 45 | August 2, 2016 3:48 PM |
Belafonte was reputed to be very 'comfortable' in the presence of known homosexuals. I've never heard that he was involved in any same-sex shenanigans but it's clear that he loved to be admired. He was known to screw every woman who crossed his path. He favored white women but would occasionally hook-up with one of his fair skin contemporaries -- Dorothy Dandridge, Eartha Kitt, Ellen Holly, etc. One of his co-stars on "Carmen Jones" said that on the studio lot white women would be "lined up around the block" for a chance to meet him.
by Anonymous | reply 46 | August 2, 2016 4:14 PM |
HB always had gay face and moved like a dancer I bet he could really work a pole.
This article makes it sound as if Lena H wasn't particularly hateful toward HB but oh gurl she surely got under Ethel Waters' skin.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 47 | August 2, 2016 5:17 PM |
still not one damn story about him being a "bastard"
by Anonymous | reply 48 | August 2, 2016 5:43 PM |
r46 I didn't read anything about him sleeping with women, and e.g. he didn't like talking about women in one of the few interviews I read of him. He was called an FOD on the A-list, a site from back in the days which had really good and pretty credible gossip, they also covered the rumor that he married Farley Granger in the 50s. The internet is way too infested with PR and media control.
by Anonymous | reply 50 | August 2, 2016 6:17 PM |
I've seen him on a list or two...or seven
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 51 | August 2, 2016 6:25 PM |
R47, in the last decade of her life, Lena denied that she had ever been friends with Harry, he was an "acquaintance." They had been on the outs for more than 15 years. He didn't even bother to attend her funeral in 2010. Don't be naive enough to ask if they ever had an affair, lol.
The story of how she helped Belafonte find a NYC apt is total fiction. In reality, he was denied a rental in the bldg (300 West Eve Ave), then bought the building and sold the units as co-ops in the 1950s. Lena was the first to buy in, supposedly a ten room penthouse apt. She created the fictional story in the 1960s. Why, I have no idea. So she could paint herself as his rescuer?
by Anonymous | reply 52 | August 2, 2016 9:40 PM |
BTW, R47, that isn't a link to an "article" - it's a msg board like this one.
by Anonymous | reply 53 | August 2, 2016 9:43 PM |
Not gay but definitely bi. I used to be friendly with a stagehand who worked at a venue in Toronto where H.B. performed. It was well known that he wanted & received a blow job before every performance to "relax" him. Evidently there was no shortage of willing gentlemen back stage who would gladly assist.
by Anonymous | reply 54 | August 2, 2016 10:27 PM |
He and Brando studied together? Hmm...
by Anonymous | reply 55 | August 2, 2016 10:50 PM |
Total revisionist BS. Everyone in old Hollywood wasn't gay. At most, Belafonte was trade at the start of his career but his many liaisons with women are well-known and somewhat notorious.
by Anonymous | reply 56 | August 3, 2016 8:36 PM |
Notorious? Example, please.
by Anonymous | reply 57 | August 3, 2016 8:52 PM |
People keep saying his liaisons with women are notorious but I haven't heard of any. However, in the late 80s or early 90s I was on a cruise in the Caribbean and the tour guide for the island where he has a home, St. Martin I believe, had no qualms laughing that he was gay to the bus. Of course he was a has been at the time but we all kind of laughed how they would out their island celebrity but no one on the bus was too shocked that he might be gay. He really does ping. And anyone we asked on the island made offhand remarks about him and men but never said he was a nice person. Now that I know more about him I admire the work he did in civil rights but since then I thought he was gay and apparently a real asshole to people on the island since they didn't want to cover it for him.
by Anonymous | reply 58 | August 3, 2016 8:54 PM |
I don't think Belafonte was ever a "has-been."
by Anonymous | reply 59 | August 3, 2016 9:03 PM |
Compared to what he was at the beginning of his career, R59, he's been a has been since 1969.
A large part of why no one ever seriously went after Belafonte, or Lena Horne for that matter, was because of his activities and status in the 1960s Civil Rights Movement - he was considered untouchable. Both he and Horne were/are bitchy divas. Her perfect marriage to a white conductor was far from perfect and over in the early 1960s; his second marriage to a white woman was open. Not a hint of this ever in the press, not even the movie magazines.
by Anonymous | reply 60 | August 3, 2016 9:09 PM |
Remember all the PDA with Danny Glover!
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 61 | August 5, 2016 7:05 PM |
I like his daughter Shari
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 65 | August 5, 2016 7:27 PM |
She's his spitting image.
by Anonymous | reply 66 | August 5, 2016 7:28 PM |
Again, no stories of him being a bastard.
by Anonymous | reply 67 | August 5, 2016 7:36 PM |
He was quite harmfully ignorant about efforts to help women in the developing world gain access to family planning. Despite the fact that these women were clamoring for effective birth control and faced paternalistic and cultural barriers. Belafonte labeled these efforts to secure health and human rights for women as genocidal.
by Anonymous | reply 68 | August 5, 2016 7:53 PM |
I picture him having a long gross pencil dick.
by Anonymous | reply 70 | August 6, 2016 4:06 AM |
Do any of you remember his daughter Shari Belafonte's Calvin Klein jeans commercials? I still remember this song.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 72 | August 6, 2016 5:00 AM |
I never saw that commercial, or at least I don't remember it.
I do recall her on the shit series Hotel.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 73 | August 6, 2016 2:07 PM |
Shari Belafonte was sooooo butch.
by Anonymous | reply 74 | August 6, 2016 3:13 PM |
I just saw a movie with him and I must say that he kind of reminds me of Tab Hunter when he smiles.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 75 | May 27, 2018 2:14 PM |
^ it's the I'll suck your dick, whose baking cookies, eyes!
by Anonymous | reply 76 | May 27, 2018 2:15 PM |
A good looking white guy dipped in caramel.
by Anonymous | reply 77 | May 27, 2018 2:18 PM |
He was a key figure in the civil rights movement. He often put up the bail money for MLK when he got arrested. I've only heard wonderful things about him.
by Anonymous | reply 78 | May 27, 2018 2:19 PM |
Love him... always will. He is not racist...he calls out people on their intolerance and bigotry and hates poverty...
by Anonymous | reply 79 | May 27, 2018 2:44 PM |
I had to stop listening to him after he made ignorant statements that birth control for women in Africa was genocide. Of course the women in Africa who were walking days to get to health clinic camps for their birth control and desperately wanting to control their fertility and their own bodies felt otherwise. But, hey, this fool needed to mansplain women's health concerns and turn it political. Fuck him.
by Anonymous | reply 80 | May 28, 2018 7:16 AM |
The Diahann Carroll thread lead me here. Eldergays, I had no idea Harry B was such queen and a diva. And he propositioned the young mens lol
by Anonymous | reply 81 | October 10, 2019 3:22 AM |
welcome to DL, everyone here is gay, as were all actors, singers, and stars of any kind
by Anonymous | reply 82 | October 10, 2019 3:32 AM |
[Quote]The Diahann Carroll thread lead me here.
What, she didn't like him, either?
by Anonymous | reply 83 | October 10, 2019 3:55 AM |
[Quote]He favored white women but would occasionally hook-up with one of his fair skin contemporaries -- Dorothy Dandridge, Eartha Kitt, Ellen Holly, etc.
So, does that mean he didn't fuck Pearl Bailey?
by Anonymous | reply 84 | October 10, 2019 3:59 AM |
Pearl Bailey didn't like black men, romantically. She always had white husbands.
by Anonymous | reply 85 | October 10, 2019 4:05 AM |
Nothing takes me back to the early 80s more than seeing Shari Belafonte's striking looks and short hair. She was butch but chic.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 86 | October 10, 2019 4:09 AM |
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