Hollywood loves to re-make movies. The first Spider-Man film premiered in 2002, and after three films they are already rebooting the series with an entirely new cast set to debut in 2012.
The movie, A Star is Born, is now being re-made for the fourth time. The first film came in 1937 and starred Janet Gaynor. Judy Garland’s version followed in 1954. Barbra Streisand made her mark in 1976, and a new version starring Beyonce Knowles and directed by Clint Eastwood will debut next year.
What I can’t understand is why A Star is Born deserves four versions, but for some reason the Hollywood of today has shown no interest in re-making any of the following films:
The Gay Vagabond (1941)
The Gay Shoe Clerk (1903)
The Gay Falcon (1941)
The Gay Cavalier (1946)
The Gay Dog (1954)
Felix the Gay Dog (1921)
The Great Gay Road (1920, 1931)
The Gay Masquerade (1958)
The Gay Deception (1935)
The Gay Sisters (1942)
The Gay Lord Quex (1917, 1919)
The Gay Parisian (1941)
The Gay Divorcee (1934)
Give these films another chance, Hollywood. I’m no marketing expert, but I have a hunch that a 2012 version of The Gay Deception would generate all sorts of free publicity.
The Good Greatsby 
Spectra
August 2, 2011
That would be so Gay of them if they didn’t remake these films!
The Good Greatsby
August 2, 2011
Come on, Hollywood! Don’t make another A Star is Born until The Gay Shoe Clerk has been re-made.
Spectra
August 3, 2011
Exactly!
Brown Road Chronicles
August 3, 2011
LOL!!
Thomas Stazyk
August 2, 2011
Don’t forget Zorro The Gay Blade!
The Good Greatsby
August 2, 2011
That was certainly the gayest of the Zorro films.
EllieAnn
August 3, 2011
Oh yes!! That movie is hilarious.
joehoover
August 2, 2011
They Gay Vagabond would be an oxymoron.
The Gay Shoe Clerk, would just be called The Shoe Clerk
The Great Gay Road, would be a documentary of London’s Old Compton Street (or insert your own local gaybourhood)
The Gay Masquerade would be a biopic of Tom Cruise’s life
The Good Greatsby
August 2, 2011
Zing! Zing! Zing!
ryoko861
August 2, 2011
I could see “The Gay Divorcee” being redone. It could star Joe Pesci and Will Ferrel. Has potential.
The Good Greatsby
August 2, 2011
Those two would have great chemistry.
gerknoop
August 2, 2011
My vote is for the “Gay Sisters”…they look like a happy bunch….and re-make worthy!
The Good Greatsby
August 2, 2011
They truly look happy and gay on the movie poster.
stuffialmostbought
August 2, 2011
Clint Eastwood directing a re- make of ” A star is born”… that is so wrong – Judy would be turning in her grave!! I never much cared for “The Gay Divorcee”… however I did love “Swing time”!
The Good Greatsby
August 2, 2011
I’m intrigued to see what Clint thinks he can help Beyonce bring to the table that Judy Garland and Barbra Streisand couldn’t.
thelifeofjamie
August 2, 2011
I didn’t realize the use of Gay as Happy was so prevalent in old movies.
The Good Greatsby
August 2, 2011
Life was a lot gayer back then.
Beach Bum
August 2, 2011
Clint is directing another “A Star is Born”? Damn, that man has far too much time on his hands. Jesus, what would it take to get another Dirty Harry made.
The Good Greatsby
August 2, 2011
I was just thinking the other day how much fun another Dirty Harry movie would be with Clint in his late seventies.
nancyfrancis
August 2, 2011
Hahahah.. they used to state on Movie posters that something was filmed in ‘Gayest Colour’
The Good Greatsby
August 3, 2011
Ask anyone who lived during that time period and they will often describe colors as being much gayer than today.
mommylisa
August 2, 2011
We are gay caballeros, three gay caballeros….
hee hee.
educlaytion
August 2, 2011
Everything was so gay in the 1930s, even the animals. Although, who names a dog Felix? That’s so a cat name. I guess he had major identity issues and just didn’t know who he really was. I might have to check with my animals to find out if they’re gay or not. Regardless, I hope to have a really gay day. You have yourself one too.
The Good Greatsby
August 3, 2011
Felix will always be a cat’s name, no matter gay or not.
Bridgesburning Chris King
August 2, 2011
I think they should redo all of them and hopefully by then with world will get passed it’s obsession with words like ‘gay’ meaning just one thing..it’s time people had themselves a gay old time again!!! All across the land!,
Kim Pugliano
August 2, 2011
Don’t ask don’t tell. Oh wait…
thesinglecell
August 2, 2011
I know several gay divorcees. Maybe they could remake that as a reality tv series instead of a film.
pegoleg
August 2, 2011
The Gay Lord Quex: wasn’t that the title given to Elton John when he was knighted?
cooper
August 2, 2011
Maybe because none of the would be anywhere near as gay as the Twilight films…
spilledinkguy
August 3, 2011
I love movie posters…
have you made any for your play, Mr. J?!
Amy
August 3, 2011
Hollywood’s gaydar ain’t what it used to be.
gmom
August 3, 2011
Twistin’ the Night Away – Sam Cooke (1962)
Let me tell you ’bout a place
somewhere up New York way
where the people are so gay
twistin’ the night away
How about “Hey, Bartender”
I went balling the other night
I started drinking and got real tight
I blew each and all my friends
I felt so good I had to blow ’em again
I said, “Hey bartender
“Hey man, lookie here
“A draw one, draw two, draw three, four glasses of beer!”
(“Blow” once meant “to treat,” “to buy for,” as in, “Sure, Mike, if you’ll blow me to a pail of suds!”)
Thanks Greatsby for stretching and blowing our minds once again. I gotta go take a gay nap now.
Lorna's Voice
August 3, 2011
You are one clever man. Did you attend an absolutely swell party, have a gay old time and come up with this idea?
subWOW
August 3, 2011
Hear hear!!!
Hippie Cahier
August 3, 2011
I wonder if one might find these re-makes in the special Grown-ups Only section at the video store.
Brown Road Chronicles
August 3, 2011
Wow, there were actually two movies about gay dogs? I didn’t know there was such a thing. And the Gay Falcon? They could redo that one and make it a football movie?
savesprinkles1234
August 3, 2011
You are one gay blogger! 🙂
Renee Schuls-Jacobson
August 3, 2011
My husband would like to see the Gay Brokeback Mountain. Should I be concerned?
Binky
August 3, 2011
Those films should be a lot of fun.
Mary M
August 3, 2011
My guess is that “The Gay Sisters” would be wildly popular
Lenore Diane
August 3, 2011
What about A Gay Star is Born?
HoaiPhai
August 4, 2011
Didn’t Hollywood adopt a “don’t ask, don’t swish” policy right around the Sputnik era? That’s why we still see a lot of light-in-the-loafers content but without the rainbow-coloured titles.
Rachael Black
August 4, 2011
Judy Garland version is the best of the
star is Born versions. what’s sad is that they won’t remake ‘the gay divorcee’ since it was a classic Astaire/Rogers movie.
It isn’t as though movies made from books or stories have their titles changed.
How about ‘the Happily divorced Divorced Woman Who Found a Straight Man to Dance With’