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New York City | Birthday Party
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Most Promising Newcomer Male | 1971 | Kenneth
Best Foreign Language Film | 1973 | William
Star of Tomorrow Male | 1971 | Cliff
Budget 5,500,000 USD
Box Office Collection 3,500,000 USD
Stars all of the same actors from the original play. Producer/author Mart Crowley insisted that the entire original cast of the off-Broadway production be used in the film.
Cliff Gorman and his wife took care of Robert La Tourneaux during his illness with AIDS until his death, June 3, 1986 at the age of 44.
Associate producer Kenneth Utt has 26 credits as associate producer, producer, or executive producer. Of those, the 26th and last film he produced prior to his death, was Philadelphia (1993) (coincidentally, a film about a gay man dying of AIDS). At the time of the release of Philadelphia (1993), five cast members from The Boys in the Band (1970) had succumbed to AIDS, the last - Kenneth Nelson, just two months before the release of Philadelphia (1993).
Famed producer Ray Stark first considered a film version of the play. When Mart Crowley insisted on using the original cast, Stark countered by wanting to fire all the actors who were gay in real life, and replace them with Hollywood stars. Crowley rejected Stark's offer.
Robert La Tourneaux, who plays the Cowboy, was first spotted by Mart Crowley at a party on Fire Island. La Tourneaux actually worked as a hustler at the time. As the role only features a handful of lines, Crowley and stage director Robert Moore cast La Tourneaux in the part despite not having prior acting experience. After re-creating his performance in the film version, La Tourneaux developed a heavy drug habit, and returned to hustling before his death due to AIDS, in 1986.
"Michael: You're stoned and you're late. You were supposed to arrive at this location at eight thirty dash nine o'clock. Harold: What I am, Michael, is a 32 year-old, ugly, pock marked Jew fairy, and if it takes me a little while to pull myself together, and if I smoke a little grass before I get up the nerve to show my face to the world, it's nobody's god-damned business but my own. And how are you this evening?"
"Harold: Who is she? Who was she? Who does she hope to be?"
