His entire personality in this film suggests he's gay. Anyone else have that thought?
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Nah, he's just kind of scared of commitment.
In the end, he did seem to fall for Judy.
The ratio of people to cake is too big.
I didn't think that at all, even knowing ahead of time that Kaye himself was bi. I didn't see it in the character at all.
shareHis dalliance with Sir Laurence Olivier has been well-documented. Joan Plowright, who was married to Olivier, has been amusingly blasé about the whole thing. It didn't seem to have mattered much to her. It just amazes me that anyone cares about such things in this day and age.
shareHe's just in his 40s, single, and neat.
shareYou may be projecting his real life onto his performance in this movie. He was certainly not as manly as many actors of his time, but he was certainly not flamboyantly gay either.
shareI don't think Phil is "supposed" to be Gay, in that the writers intended him to be (although they may have slyly been putting one over on the censors and the studio); but when the possibility of Phil being Gay occurred to me years ago, it certainly added an interesting homoerotic subtext to a lot of Phil's scenes.
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I didn't think his character was. He was gay with excitement to be prominently aligned with the talented Bing act.
Of course Kaye's nervy response to the sister's engagement talk and bum rush had me in ribbons, with how he couldn't deny her fast enough, trying to back away and out!
The engagement plot did suggest to me that he was gay. But that whole sequence was bizarre. Judy was acting like their infatuation would have to be real even for a fake engagement. It should have been a much more businesslike interaction.
shareThe engagement plot did suggest to me that he was gay.