Don Bachardy

...in Los Angeles, California, Bachardy was the life partner of writer Christopher Isherwood, whom he met on Valentine's Day 1953, when he was eighteen and Isherwood was forty-eight, until Isherwood's death in 1986. A number of paperback...

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...life, career and relationship with Isherwood. This interview originally aired July 9, 2008. 'Chris And Don': An Extraordinary Couple Don Bachardy painted an extensive series of portraits of his partner Chris Isherwood. Zeitgeist...

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JACK SHEAR PHOTO Don Bachardy painting Christopher Isherwood in the early 1980s. Isherwood remained smitten until his death in 1986. Chris & Don: A Love Story may be the most blissful film about artists ever Dec 04, 2008 04:30 AM Don...

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On Valentine's Day in 1953, a Los Angeles teenager named Don Bachardy met the 48-year-old British author Christopher Isherwood on a Malibu beach. On the surface, Bachardy, a movie fan who specialized in having his picture taken with stars...

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..."Chris & Don" chronicles the lifelong love story of Hollywood couple Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy. Christopher Isherwood, left, and Don Bachardy in the late 1970s, subjects of the documentary "Chris & Don: A Love Story."

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'Chris And Don': An Extraordinary Couple Don Bachardy painted an extensive series of portraits of his partner Chris Isherwood. Zeitgeist Films Bachardy's May-December romance with Isherwood struck many as unconventional during the...

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...years, talks about some of those challenges. He was subjected to considerable homophobia in Hollywood, he says, directed pointedly at him rather than Isherwood, who was protected by his celebrity status. And Evelyn Hooker, the...

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...Aldous Huxley, E. M. Forster and Tennessee Williams (glimpsed in marvelous home movies), who dismissed him as a pretty appendage to the novelist. Bachardy, now in his 70s and a major portrait artist, is the film's presiding spirit, a witty...

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...in the aerospace industry - made for a relationship fraught with power imbalances. Until Mr. Bachardy established himself as a gifted artist, he was dismissed or simply ignored by many of his older partner's famous friends, including...

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...such blase acceptance that it never seems decadent. The word "pedophilia" is not in his vocabulary. And so, through his tutor-guru-guide, Don entered the world beyond the claustrophobic confines of working-class Los Angeles. He rubbed...

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