1933 Myrt And Marge Lobby Card with Eddie Foy Jr  
 
Try to find 1933's MYRT AND MARGE (Universal), based on the same-named radio serial. One of the characters is a gay costume designer, billed only as 
"Clarence" (played by the guy who portrayed him on radio, 
Ray Hedge).It's one of the most blatant gay characters I've ever seen in a 1930s film, though not a limp-wristed stereotype. Clarence is waspish and witty in 
the manner of the characters in BOYS IN THE BAND, some forty years later. 
Also: The relationship between wife-murderer Basil Rathbone and his partner in crime Martin Kosleck in 1941's THE MAD DOCTOR is, in the words of 
William K. Everson,"more than just good buddies." (Ironically, Kosleck really was gay, which is among the reasons he fled Nazi Germany in the early 1930s).  
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Myrt and Marge is a 1933 American Pre-Code Universal Studios feature film, starring Myrtle Vail and Donna Damerel. The film is noteworthy today 
because it co-stars Ted Healy and his Stooges, shortly before the trio split from him and became the Three Stooges (Curly Howard, Moe Howard and Larry 
Fine). The team included Bonnie Bonnell, who was a short-lived female Stooge.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myrt_and_Marge_(film)#:~:text=Myrt%20and%20Marge%20is%20a,Moe%20Howard%20and%20Larry%20Fine). 
 
Film adaptation of the popular 1930s radio serial. Myrt Spear's (Myrtle Vail) touring vaudeville revue is full of talent and bound for Broadway, but low on 
funds. Conniving and lecherous producer Mr. Jackson (Thomas Jackson) helps the show so he can romance the young star, Marge Minter (Donna Damerel). 
Myrt, and Marge's boyfriend Eddie Hanley (Eddie Foy, Jr.), step in to save the revue and Marge. Ted Healy, Moe, Larry and Curly are stagehands with 
hopes to join the show, but mostly deal with the antics of backstage crasher Bonnie. Also carrying over from the radio show was the comic-relief "pansy" 
character Clarence, played by Ray Hedge. 
   