Showing posts with label Wings. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Wings. Show all posts

Friday, June 6, 2025

Celebrating Gay Pride: Wings one of the first same-sex kiss on screen 1927



Academy Award-winning movie Wings, which premiered May 19, 1927 in San Antonio, Texas, has one of the first on-screen same-sex kiss between two men.  Charles 'Buddy' Rogers played Jack Powell, and Richard Arlen played David Armstrong, two fighter pilots in WWI.  During David's death scene, Jack kisses David on the cheek before David passes away.

Although the two characters are not gay and spend the movie fighting over the same women, the scene is touching with the two men caressing and holding each other in their arms. 

Saturday, May 16, 2020

The 1st Academy Awards held 1929


The very first Academy Awards ceremony was held May 16, 1929 at the Roosevelt Hotel in Los Angeles, California.  It honored the movies, cast and crew of the films released in 1927-1928.  Sunrise and 7th Heaven were the big winners with three Oscars each.  Wings took home the award for Best Picture.

The ceremony lasted 15 minutes.