bitter69uk: archivedeathdrive:Helmut Berger in Visconti’s The Damned, 1969 Born on this d
bitter69uk: archivedeathdrive:Helmut Berger in Visconti’s The Damned, 1969 Born on this day 78 years ago: kinky, dissolute and sexually ambiguous Austrian heartthrob of sixties and seventies European art cinema, Helmut Berger (né Helmut Steinberger, 29 May 1944). Berger’s wayward career encompassed collaborations with his then-lover Italian director Luchino Visconti (most notably, The Damned (1969) (pictured). In one eye-popping sequence, Berger drags up as Marlene Dietrich), portraying Oscar Wilde’s titular character in Dorian Gray (1970) and co-starring as Elizabeth Taylor’s younger studmuffin in Ash Wednesday (1973). In the 1980s, he even cropped up in a recurring role in TV soap opera Dynasty! Berger’s reported lovers are a who’s who of the international jet set, numbering Rudolf Nureyev, Ursula Andress, Tab Hunter, Jerry Hall – and Mick AND Bianca Jagger! -- source link