Too Gay for Television? How Charles Nelson Reilly Proved NBC Wrong
With 99 appearances on The Tonight Show, nearly two thousand game show episodes, and starring roles from Broadway to sitcoms to cartoons … for decades, Charles Nelson Reilly WAS television. But it almost never happened: At Charles’ first TV audition, an NBC executive took one look at him and said, "they don’t let queers on television.” So, how did Charles Nelson Reilly go from being too gay for broadcast to dominating the airwaves? This is the story of an iconic gay actor who went from selling his blood to make ends meet to being the most in-demand actor on television, thanks to a little help from Burt Reynolds, Broadway, and a haunted house.
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Видео Too Gay for Television? How Charles Nelson Reilly Proved NBC Wrong канала Matt Baume
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Watch The Life of Reilly: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL59B9706770CC4F27
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