Cass’s Reviews > Out Spoken: A Vito Russo Reader, Reel One > Status Update

"When British character actress Beryl Reid came to America in 1968 to promote The Killing of Sister George, she was asked point-blank by Johnny Carson on “The Tonight Show” if she was a lesbian. This was the role that Angela Lansbury had turned down because, as she said to a producer in 1967, “Who could play such women? Do you know what they do?”"