Harry Belafonte

May 2024 ยท 11 minute read

One of the hottest scenes in movie history

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by Anonymousreply 1August 1, 2016 6:10 PM

Pretty in his younger days, but an ugly, bitter racist in later life.

by Anonymousreply 2August 1, 2016 6:12 PM

Joan Collins had better taste for men in her affairs than in her marriages.

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by Anonymousreply 5August 1, 2016 6:37 PM

Joan Collins?

What about Joan Fontaine? She seemed to ogle at him.

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by Anonymousreply 8August 1, 2016 6:47 PM

Occasional instances of gay face.

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by Anonymousreply 9August 1, 2016 6:48 PM

I wanted him inside me. I can't deny that anymore.

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by Anonymousreply 10August 1, 2016 6:50 PM

Who decided to give him a 1930s movie queen photo session?

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by Anonymousreply 11August 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.

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by Anonymousreply 16August 1, 2016 7:50 PM

They knew how to market him.

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by Anonymousreply 18August 1, 2016 8:02 PM

Open mouthed and open shirted.

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by Anonymousreply 19August 1, 2016 8:05 PM

With Sidney Poitier.

They both turn 90 next year!

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by Anonymousreply 20August 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 Anonymousreply 22August 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 Anonymousreply 24August 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 Anonymousreply 26August 1, 2016 9:46 PM

Very handsome he makes Denzel look like boy scout.

by Anonymousreply 27August 1, 2016 9:50 PM

R23, he had an average body, but it was a different era.

His face is timeless.

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by Anonymousreply 28August 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 Anonymousreply 29August 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.

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by Anonymousreply 32August 2, 2016 2:36 AM

gorgeous.... never heard he was a "bastard". Any evidence please?

by Anonymousreply 34August 2, 2016 3:23 AM

No wonder Pet Clark touched him!

by Anonymousreply 35August 2, 2016 3:25 AM

Hairline goin' but he wear a toupee

by Anonymousreply 36August 2, 2016 3:35 AM

One of the most handsome men, ever.

by Anonymousreply 37August 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 Anonymousreply 38August 2, 2016 9:23 AM

Joan Collins said he had the softest, smoothest skin.

by Anonymousreply 39August 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 Anonymousreply 40August 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 Anonymousreply 41August 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 Anonymousreply 42August 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 Anonymousreply 43August 2, 2016 1:22 PM

R42, that was the A List.

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by Anonymousreply 44August 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 Anonymousreply 45August 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 Anonymousreply 46August 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.

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by Anonymousreply 47August 2, 2016 5:17 PM

still not one damn story about him being a "bastard"

by Anonymousreply 48August 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 Anonymousreply 50August 2, 2016 6:17 PM

I've seen him on a list or two...or seven

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by Anonymousreply 51August 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 Anonymousreply 52August 2, 2016 9:40 PM

BTW, R47, that isn't a link to an "article" - it's a msg board like this one.

by Anonymousreply 53August 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 Anonymousreply 54August 2, 2016 10:27 PM

He and Brando studied together? Hmm...

by Anonymousreply 55August 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 Anonymousreply 56August 3, 2016 8:36 PM

Notorious? Example, please.

by Anonymousreply 57August 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 Anonymousreply 58August 3, 2016 8:54 PM

I don't think Belafonte was ever a "has-been."

by Anonymousreply 59August 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 Anonymousreply 60August 3, 2016 9:09 PM

Remember all the PDA with Danny Glover!

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by Anonymousreply 61August 5, 2016 7:05 PM

I like his daughter Shari

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by Anonymousreply 65August 5, 2016 7:27 PM

She's his spitting image.

by Anonymousreply 66August 5, 2016 7:28 PM

Again, no stories of him being a bastard.

by Anonymousreply 67August 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 Anonymousreply 68August 5, 2016 7:53 PM

I picture him having a long gross pencil dick.

by Anonymousreply 70August 6, 2016 4:06 AM

Do any of you remember his daughter Shari Belafonte's Calvin Klein jeans commercials? I still remember this song.

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by Anonymousreply 72August 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.

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by Anonymousreply 73August 6, 2016 2:07 PM

Shari Belafonte was sooooo butch.

by Anonymousreply 74August 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.

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by Anonymousreply 75May 27, 2018 2:14 PM

^ it's the I'll suck your dick, whose baking cookies, eyes!

by Anonymousreply 76May 27, 2018 2:15 PM

A good looking white guy dipped in caramel.

by Anonymousreply 77May 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 Anonymousreply 78May 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 Anonymousreply 79May 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 Anonymousreply 80May 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 Anonymousreply 81October 10, 2019 3:22 AM

welcome to DL, everyone here is gay, as were all actors, singers, and stars of any kind

by Anonymousreply 82October 10, 2019 3:32 AM

[Quote]The Diahann Carroll thread lead me here.

What, she didn't like him, either?

by Anonymousreply 83October 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 Anonymousreply 84October 10, 2019 3:59 AM

Pearl Bailey didn't like black men, romantically. She always had white husbands.

by Anonymousreply 85October 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.

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by Anonymousreply 86October 10, 2019 4:09 AM

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