Always on Sunday - Movie - Festival QUEER

Always on Sunday

Connie B. de Mille (aka Ray Harrison)
Fiction : 8' / Drag, Camp, Comedy

Set on a Greek port, Always on Sunday is the first film directed by the Gay Girls Riding Club, starting off a series of future drag and camp parodies of film classics. Always on Sunday is a spoof of Jules Dassin’s Greek Classic Never on Sunday, starring Melina Mercouri.

/ EXHIBITION

Lisboa

September 19 | 19h30 | Cinemateca Portuguesa - Sala Luís de Pina Buy Tickets

September 21 | 21h30 | Cinemateca Portuguesa - Sala M. Félix Ribeiro Buy Tickets

Sections: Retrospective
+ Info: https://www.americangenrefilm.com

/ Details

Year: 1962

Country: USA

Language: english

Subtitles: portuguese

With: Melina Hoover, Sauroka Silva, Patti Paris, Gladys Cooper, Mable Meland, Michele Cavender, Loretta

/ Direction

Connie B. de Mille (aka Ray Harrison)

USA

Ray Harrison was an American filmmaker who signed some of his earlier films as Connie B. de Mille. He was a part of the 1960s underground film collective Gay Girls Riding Club, a group of gay men – some of them members of the industry -, who spoofed Hollywood movies in a series of elaborate amateur films. Rarely seen today, these films, made at a time when gay lives were universally portrayed as tragic in film, remain a unique document of a pre-Stonewall affirmative gay identity.

Filmography

1972 - All About Alice (Feature Film)
1969 - Les Boys (Short Film)
1967 - The Spy on the Fly (Short Film)
1963 - The Roman Springs on Mrs. Stone (Short Film)
1963 - What Really Happened to Baby Jane (Short Film)
1962 - Suddenly, Last Sunday (Short Film)

1962 - Always on Sunday (Short Film)