Tea and Sympathy (1956)

Synopsis: An adaptation of the Broadway play about a sensitive boy accused of being a homosexual. Tim Robinson Lee is a delicate, artistically-inclined youth who doesn't engage in the libidinally-charged... An adaptation of the Broadway play about a sensitive boy accused of being a homosexual. Tim Robinson Lee is a delicate, artistically-inclined youth who doesn't engage in the libidinally-charged activities of his teenage classmates. As a result, he becomes the target of derision and misunderstanding -- attitudes that extend to the school's macho housemaster and the boy's own father. Only the wife of the housemaster, Laura Reynolds, has the heart and intelligence to see beyond the obvious and extend her friendship and sympathy to the boy. [More]

Starring: Deborah Kerr, Leif Erickson, John Kerr, Edward Andrews

Starring: Deborah Kerr, Leif Erickson, John Kerr, Edward Andrews, Darryl Hickman, Dean Jones, Norma Crane, Jacqueline De Wit, Tom Laughlin, Peter Votrian, Steve Terrell, Kip King, Richard Tyler

Director: Vincente Minnelli

Director: Vincente Minnelli
Producer: Pandro S. Berman
Composer: Adolph Deutsch

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