Upcoming documentary The Sons of Tennessee Williams shows us some of the history of gay culture in New Orleans. Looks like it’s an interesting look at a point in gay history – due for release later this year.
This biography takes us through the life of Jack Wrangler with a series of interviews with Jack Wrangler, various actors, filmmakers and celebrities. We go fromhis early life in Beverly Hills as the son of a filmmaker father and a former model, to his early childhood in show business through his time as an actor first in gay and then in straight porn until the present. Wrangler had a series of small parts in legitimate theatre, TV, and movies, even an appearance on “The Dating Game”. Eventually working his way to be a stripper, despite the fact that he couldn’t dance, he takes a role in a play with a nude scene and from there moves into gay porn. Eventually, he switched to straight porn for the money, despite being gay. Also explored is his romance with singer Margaret Whiting to whom he eventually married. All in all, an interesting movie; nice to see a porn actor who made it through AIDS, drugs, and other perils of the adult film industry.
