The Silver Screen/Color Me Lavender is a film about the representations of gays in Hollywood movies, during the Golden Age of Hollywood before the words ′gay′ or ′representation′ were in anyone′s vocabulary-amply illustrated by literally hundreds of examples. In his latest film, Mark Rappaport shines a critical and gay light on Hollywood′s film heritage from the thirties to the sixties. By studying several genres, themes, characters and actors that lend themselves to an alternative view, the film reads gay significance into works that are very heterosexually oriented. From Bob Hope to Jerry Lewis, from comedies of the forties and fifties to post-Second World War he-man stereotypes, the film links together the many fragments it shows.