People who succumb to coitus are punished by having children and Burns’s first, Elizabeth (“Bess”), was foisted on his mother’s servant, Elizabeth Paton, all while he was getting involved with the ...

Welcome back to our queer film retrospective, “ A Gay Old Time .” In this week’s column, with late closeted film star Dirk Bogarde in the news, let’s revisit one of his great roles, 1963’s The Servant ...