The Truth (1960 film) box office hit in France, Bardot's biggest ever success at the box office and the third most popular film of the year (after "Ben Hur" and "Le Bossu"). The "Los Angeles Times" called the film "an amazing picture, a tour de force from all concerned. It is at once immoral, amoral and strangely moral." The Truth (1960 film) The Truth () is a 1960 French film directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot and starring Brigitte Bardot. The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Dominique Marceau is a young Frenchwoman on trial for killing her lover, Gilbert.
Ramon Novarro homosexuality. His life-long struggle with alcoholism is often traced to these problems. In the early 1920s, Novarro had a romantic relationship with composer Harry Partch, who was working as an usher at the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the time, but Novarro broke off the affair as his acting career began to become successful. MGM mogul Louis B. Mayer reportedly tried to coerce Novarro into a "lavender marriage", which he refused. He was romantically involved with journalist Herbert Howe, who was also his publicist in the late 1920s, and with a wealthy man from San Francisco, Noël Sullivan. Along with Dolores