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Together from 1957 to 2007: 50 years.
Christian William Miller born William Henry Miller (August 7, 1921 - July 5, 1995)
Otis Munro Bigelow III (June 2, 1920 - October 6, 2007)
Thierry Mahe

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Christian William Miller (August 7, 1921 – July 5, 1995) was an American artist and model who contemporaries qualified as "one of the most beautiful men" in the gay social scene of New York City in the 1940s.<ref name="OAC">cite web|title=Miller (Christian William) Photographs and Papers|url=https://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt9j49s426/|website=OAC - Online Archive of California|accessdate=30 July 2017</ref><ref name="Kaiser">cite book|last1=Kaiser|first1=Charles|title=The Gay Metropolis: The Landmark History of Gay Life in America|date=2007|publisher=Grove Press|url=https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Gay_Metropolis.html?id=HO7IKU79zgAC|accessdate=30 July 2017</ref>

Early life and education

William Henry Miller (in 1951 legally changed to Christian William Miller) was born in South Orange, New Jersey, on August 7, 1921.<ref name="OAC" />

From 1938 to 1941 Miller attended the Franklin School of Professional Arts in New York City, obtaining an advertising design major.<ref name="OAC" /> After his military career Miller attended The New School for Social Research, from 1947 to 1949, in New York City. In 1949 he enrolled at Dartmouth College, taking up liberal art studies.<ref name="Dartmouth">cite web|title=[Dartmouth Alumni Magazine article] by William H. Miller Jr|url=https://brbl-dl.library.yale.edu/vufind/Record/3566026|website=Glenway Wescott papers|accessdate=30 July 2017</ref> Also in 1949, Miller was awarded a Fulbright scholarship; an American scholarship program of competitive, merit-based grants. The scholarship lasted till 1951.<ref name="OAC" />

Career

From 1939 to 1941, while still a student at the School of Professional Arts, Miller worked as a designer for Datzenbach & Warren, Brunschwig & Fils, and the oldest luxury department store in the United States, Lord & Taylor.<ref name="OAC" /><ref name="MoMA">cite web|title=William H. Miller, Jr. Chair c. 1944|url=https://www.moma.org/collection/works/2880?locale=en|website=MoMA|accessdate=30 July 2017</ref> He designed fabrics, wallpaper, stage sets for summer theatres as well as freelance advertising and arranging window displays.<ref name="Dartmouth" />

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Miller enlisted in June 1942 in the United States Coast Guard and trained with the USS ''Berkshire County'' (LST-288). He was stationed at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, serving until 1946.<ref name="Kaiser" /> While following the SKAT Insect Repellent project (a malaria control project) in 1942 in Perth, Western Australia, Miller was assigned to a research project with Richard Delano, a cousin of Franklin D. Roosevelt, promoted by the Air-Sea Agency, to design a pocket-sized balloon-like water desalination device to be used by Navy and Army fliers, named Sunstill.<ref name="OAC" /><ref name="MoMA" /> Franklin D. Roosevelt displayed a model of Sunstill on his desk and Winston Churchill had one with him in his briefcase. The first Model A was in production in the summer of 1943.<ref name="Dartmouth" />

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While enlisted, Miller worked in a plastic laboratory, where he developed several plastic products:<ref name="Dartmouth" />

• a lightweight plastic hat-sunshade developed for the Quartermaster Corps (United States Army)
• a kayak-type plastic inflated boat, weighing only a few pounds and folding into a small suitcase
• an inflatable plastic chair, both comfortable and sturdy, which collapsed to the size of a briefcase, designed for travellers; it is now in the permanent collection at the Department of Architecture and Design, Museum of Modern Art. In 1944 ''The Times'' defined it "a chair whose fish-net seat (draped over a pneumatic, plastic doughnut) was surrealistically adapted to the most unsurrealistic sitter".<ref name="OAC" />^[1]

All these objects were exhibited at MoMA from May 24 to October 22, 1944 for its 15th-anniversary show, "Art in Progress".<ref name="Dartmouth" />^[2] The chair was again exhibited at the MoMa from May 6, 2009 to January 10, 2011, in the show "What Was Good Design? MoMA's Message 1944–56".<ref name="MoMA" />

Also a photographer, Miller documented his travels around the world and social life.<ref name="OAC" />

Gay social scene

Miller was a model, acquaintance and/or companion of many luminaries of the gay social scene of New York City in the 1940s: W. H. Auden, Paul Cadmus, Jean Cocteau, Noël Coward, George Cukor, Jean Genet, George Gallowhur, George Hoyningen-Huene, Christopher Isherwood, Alfred Kinsey (of whom he was a lover), Lincoln Kirstein, Dorothy Parker, Bernard Perlin ("Bill Miller was ga-ga-gorgeous"), George Platt Lynes (of whom he was a lover), Ralph Pomeroy ("Bill would go to a gallery and all the women and all the men would faint!"), W. Somerset Maugham, Jonathan Tichenor, Tom Tryon, Gore Vidal, Sam Wagstaff, Glenway Wescott and Monroe Wheeler (of whom he was a lover), Philip Wheelwright.<ref name="OAC" /><ref name="Kaiser" /><ref name="Leddick">cite book|last1=Leddick|first1=David|title=Intimate Companions: A Triography of George Platt Lynes, Paul Cadmus, Lincoln Kirstein, and Their Circle|date=2015|publisher=Macmillan|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8LCpCgAAQBAJ&pg=PT161|accessdate=30 July 2017</ref>^[3]

At one time, Miller was in a relationship with Otis Bigelow. Before meeting Miller, Bigelow was in a relationship with a businessman, George Gallowhur, president of Skol Company; Bigelow left Gallowhur but he had to go back to college, at the Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps program at Hamilton: while Bigelow was there, Miller started a relationship with Gallowhur.<ref name="Kaiser" /> Miller's chair and Sunstill were manufactured by Gallowhur Chemical Corp.<ref name="Dartmouth" /><ref name="MoMA" />

A group of three portraits of Miller by George Platt Lynes made from 1942 to 1946 went on sale at Sotheby's in 1982.^[4] In 1945 Miller and Platt Lynes, at the time lovers, went together to a masquerade ball hosted in Weston by Alice DeLamar; their costumes resemble the Commedia dell'Arte and Platt Lynes subsequently took a series of photographs of the two of them dressed in those costumes.<ref name="Leddick" />

In 1945 Paul Cadmus took a pencil and watercolor on grey paper of Miller, signed and inscribed "Bill Miller — Cadmus 1945," which in 1968 was in possession of Miller.^[5]

At the end of the 1940s, Christian William Miller, together with Charles "Chuck" Howard (another model who would later become a fashion designer), participated in the "on the field" research of Alfred Kinsey. They went to Bloomington and performed together for Kinsey. Miller's purpose was to "achieve greater social tolerance of homosexuality" (Wilf). Later Miller had a brief relationship with Kinsey.<ref name="Leddick" />^[6]

In 1952 Miller appeared in a photo shoot for ''Life''.<ref name="OAC" />

At a party hosted by John B. L. Goodwin in 1955, Bill Miller is listed by Christopher Isherwood among other guests, including Paul Cadmus, Tennessee Williams and Frank Merlo.^[7]

Personal life and death

With the savings from his military career, Bill Miller bought a house in Reading, Vermont, that he restored and redecorated. Later in life he owned a cottage at Saint Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands.<ref name="Dartmouth" /><ref name="OAC" />

Miller died on July 5, 1995.<ref name="OAC" />

Otis Munro Bigelow III (June 2, 1920 - October 6, 2007) was a Broadway actor, playwright, and stage manager. He was one of the best-looking men in Manhattan in the 1940s, and one of the first partners of Christian William Miller.<ref name="Hamilton College">cite web|title=Hamilton College|url=https://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/BIGELOW/2010-07/1278979163|accessdate=29 September 2017</ref>

Early life

Otis Munro Bigelow III was born on June 2, 1920 in Exeter, New Hampshire. He was the only child of Otis Munro Bigelow II (1881-1932), professor of Romance languages at Phillips Exeter Academy, and Ruth Lillian Spalding (1885-1937). His grandfather, Otis Munro Bigelow I (d. 1939) was the president of the Baldwinsville State Bank.<ref name="Hamilton College" />^[8]

He attended Rumsey Hall School, in Washington, Connecticut, where he had his first sexual experiences with classmates.<ref name="Kaiser" /> In 1934 he transferred to Phillips Exeter Academy, where he was the lead actor in theatrical productions at the Old Farragut Playhouse, Rye Beach, New Hampshire.<ref name="Lebanon Daily News 1961" /> One newspaper said: "Otis Bigelow as "Corey Masters" did a very fine job and should be mentioned as one of the outstanding members of the cast."^[9] After high school he lost his father and his uncle Robert W. Keyes of Utica, New York, who had married his aunt, Olivia Bigelow Keyes (1894-1982), became his guardian. He entered Hamilton College in 1939 joining the Naval Reserve Officer Training.<ref name="Kaiser" /> At Hamilton College, Bigelow had lead roles in the Charlatans productions and was managing editor of ''The Continental'' (a student-run magazine) and co-editor of ''Hamiltonews''. He was a member of the Publications Board and of Pi Delta Epsilon, a journalism fraternity. He was part of the Theta Delta Chi fraternity. He sang in the College Choir and fenced for the Coach Glas. When he graduated in 1943, ''The Hamiltonian'' said that he was "the seniors' most diversified artist."<ref name="Hamilton College" />

Career

At the beginning of his career, he acted and danced on Broadway. He later became a playwright and theatrical agent.<ref name="Hamilton College" />

In 1941 he was writing songs, like "Seems like yesterday".^[10]

While he was at Hamilton College, Bigelow wrote a play that John C. Wilson optioned for Broadway and in 1942 he asked Bigelow to come back to Broadway and rewrite it.<ref name="Kaiser" />

He was a Reservist for the U.S. Navy and served during World War II as an officer aboard minesweepers in both the Atlantic and the Pacific. After two years of active duty he was released in 1945 as a lieutenant.<ref name="Hamilton College" />

He was in the cast of ''Red Letter'', a hit in London, made his debut on Broadway as the sailor in ''Dear Ruth''.<ref name="Hamilton College" /><ref name="Lebanon Daily News 1961" /> In 1945 he was in the cast of ''Fifty-fifty'' by Andrew Rosenthal at the Sayville Playhouse, Sayville, New York, starring Margaret Bannerman.^[11]

In 1947 he made an audition at Warner Brothers in Hollywood, but was signed as screenwriter.<ref name="Hamilton College" />^[12]<ref name="Lebanon Daily News 1961" /> He collaborated with Robert Richards for ''One Sunday Afternoon'' starring Dennis Morgan.^[13]

In 1948 he went to Paris "to get my mind straightened after Hollywood", and took odd jobs in French movies, from acting to translating and devising English subtitles.<ref name="Hamilton College" /> He appeared in films with Danielle Darrieux, Jean Pierre Aumont and Gene Kelly.<ref name="Lebanon Daily News 1961" /> In 1949 he was in the cast of ''Peg O' My Heart'', starring Academy Award winner Peggy Ann Garner with the Chevy Chase Summer Theater in Wheeling, Illinois; a newspaper said: "The talented resident company, Paula Laurence, Martin Kingsley, Will Kuluva and Otis Bigelow, again will be turning in the excellent performances that marked last week's comedy starrting Buster Keaton."^[14]

Back to New York City, he concentrated on writing, but was not able to support himself.<ref name="Hamilton College" /> ''To Dorothy, a Son'', by Roger MacDougal in collaboration with Bigelow, was a success for more than one year in London, directed by Herman Shumlin and was brought over to Broadway in 1952. Starring was Ronald Howard, the son of Leslie Howard.^[15]

Bigelow took ballet lessons and became a dancer in for ''The King and I'' on Broadway for three years;<ref name="Lebanon Daily News 1961" /> he was the Siamese slave and remained with the production for two years.<ref name="Hamilton College" />

In 1953 he joined the dance group Musical Americana, made of 20 men and women, and went on a tour which covered 33 states and 25,000 miles in four months.^[16][17]<ref name="Lebanon Daily News 1961" /> He then spent a summer with the José Limón Company. In 1955 he then joined the cast of ''The Teahouse of the August Moon'', produced by Maurice Evans (he was the young Okinawa suitor of the geisha girl)^[18] and in 1957 of ''Auntie Mame'', starring Connie Bennett (he was the school teacher).<ref name="Hamilton College" /><ref name="Pasadena Independent 1957" /><ref name="Lebanon Daily News 1961" />^[19]

In 1957 he played the role of a Set Designer in the movie ''Designing Woman'' by Vincente Minnelli with Gregory Peck and Lauren Bacall.^[20]

In the late 1950s he was resident company lead for the Cherry County Playhouse in Traverse City, Michigan:

• In June 1959 he played the lead role in ''The Drunkard'', "on of the most played favorites in the show business history".^[21]
• In July 1959 he was in the cast of ''The Happy Time'', starring Greta Thyssen; a newspaper said: "Kay Coulter and Otis Bigelow were wonderful as the parents."^[22]
• In July 1959 he was Max Hollyday in the cast of ''Dial M for Murder''.^[23]
• In July 1959 he was Wesley Cartwright, lead role in the cast of "Post Road", starring ZaSu Pitts. Of Bigelow they said "The most was gotten out of a difficult role by Otis Bigelow, a very versatile actor."^[24]

• In August 1959 he was Newman in the cast of ''Yes Man'', starring Jack Barry, a TV personality; about Bigelow, a newspaper said "they can search high and low, on Broadway or down alleys, but they'll never find a man who can do a better job of playing the robot part than Otis Bigelow. Absolutely fascinating."^[25]
• In August 1959 he was Tom MacKenzie in the cast of ''Seven Year Itch'', starring Gene Raymond, popular stage, screen and television actor.^[26]
• In June 1960 he was in the cast of ''The Curious Savage'' by John Patrick, starring ZaSu Pitts. A newspaper said: "As the widow's daughter and sons, Suzanne Kaaren, Otis Bigelow, and Jim MacRoslie create a wonderfully unappetizing trio of characters."^[27]
• In August 1960 he was Harry King, the father of the lead, in the cast of ''Belvedere'', starring veteran star of movie and TV Charlie Ruggles.^[28]
• In August 1960 he was Morris Dixon in the cast of Noel Coward's ''Present Laughter'', starring Reginald Gardiner, movie and stage star.^[29]
• In August 1960 he was Orlov in the cast of ''Who Was That Lady I Saw You With'', starring Julius LaRosa, again a TV personality.^[30]
• In August 1960 he was Bradford in the cast of ''Ballots Up'', starring Marvin Miller, TV and radio personality.^[31]
• In August 1960 he was Jackson Eldredge in the cast of ''The Golden Fleecing'', starring Eddie Bracken.^[32]

In 1960 he appeared in the San Juan Drama Festival, in Puerto Rico.<ref name="Lebanon Daily News 1961" /> In June 1961 he had the lead role in ''Marriage-Go-Round'' with the Gretna Playhouse, in Lebanon, Pennsylvania.<ref name="Lebanon Daily News 1961">cite journal|title=Has Role of Husband in "Marriage-Go-Round" - 06 Jun 1961, Tue • Page 21|journal=Lebanon Daily News|date=1961|page=21|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/14074072/lebanon_daily_news/|accessdate=29 September 2017</ref> He was then Hogan in ''Under The Yum Yum Tree''.^[33] Later in the month, he was in the cast of ''Make a Million'';^[34] a newspaper said: "He moves like a dancer with purpose and grace does Otis Bigelow who has leading roles at the Gretna Play."^[35] And in July 1961 he was in the cast of ''Plain Betsy''.^[36] In late 1961 he was in a Broadway production, ''A Cook for Mr. General''.^[37] In June 1962 he was back with the Gretna Play for ''Everybody Loves Opal'' starring Kay MacDonald,^[38] and the week after he was in the cast of "Write Me a Murder", starring Leonard Frey and Joseph Masiell.^[39] In 1965 he was in the cast of ''Never Too Late'' with Maureen O'Sullivan and Arthur Godfrey, produced on Broadway and then Palm Beach, Florida.^[40]

Later in life he moved to stage management for off-Broadway and summer tour productions. He worked for Mart Crowley's ''The Boys in the Band'' (1968) and for the Williamstown Theatre Festival and the Bucks County Playhouse.<ref name="Hamilton College" /> He was also a professor at Dartmouth College.<ref name="Bennington Banner 1968" />

He retired in 1984.<ref name="Hamilton College" />

Written plays

• ''My Fair Lady'' performed:<ref name="Pasadena Independent 1957">cite journal|title=23 Nov 1957, Sat • Page 8|journal=Pasadena Independent|date=1957|page=8|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/14073615/pasadena_independent/|accessdate=29 September 2017</ref>
  • in 1947 at Broadway and in Bridgeport, Connecticut, starring Alexander Kirkland.^[41]
• ''The Marriner Method'' performed:
  • in 1957 at Broadway, produced by Maurice Evans^[42]
  • in 1958 in London and New York City, produced by Robert Morley and Robin Fox and in association with David Merrick in New York, starring Morley and Margaret Rutherford^[43]
• ''The Peacock Season'' performed:
  • in 1960 in Jones Beach, New York, directed by Jose Ferrer^[44]
  • in 1961 at Broadway, starring George Grizzard^[45]<ref name="Lebanon Daily News 1961" />
  • in 1971 in Los Angeles, California.^[46]
  • in 1972 in Chicago, Illinois, directed by Tony Randall^[47]
  • in 1972 (till 1974) in St. Louis, Missouri^[48][49]
  • in January 1975 in Stonington, Connecticut^[50]
  • in December 1975 (and again in 1985) in Marshfield, Wisconsin^[51][52]
  • in 1981 in Charlotte, South Carolina^[53]
  • in 1983 in Columbus, Nebraska^[54]
  • in 1991 in Santa Clarita, California^[55]
• ''The Giant's Dance'' performed:
  • in 1964 in New York City at the Cherry Lane Theater, produced by Richard Barr and Clinton Wilder^[56][57]
  • in 1967 in Pocatello, Idaho^[58]
  • in June 1968 in Indianapolis, Indiana.^[59]
  • in December 1968 in North Hollywood, California^[60]
  • in February 1970 in Beckley, West Virginia^[61]
  • in 1970 in Fairbanks, Alaska^[62]
  • in 1970 (till 1976) in Orlando, Florida, starring Dale Carpenter^{[63][64][65][66]}
  • in 1972 in Los Angeles, California, starring Bennye Gatteys^[67]
  • in 1974 in Nashville, Tennessee^[68]
  • in 1977 in Columbus, Nebraska^[69]
  • in January 1978 in Asbury Park, New Jerse.^[70]
  • in April 1978 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania^[71]
  • in October 1981 in Great Falls, Montana^[72]
  • in November 1981 in Antioch, Illinois^[73]
  • in 1983 in Wilmington, Delaware^[74]
  • in 1994 in Clute, Texas^[75]
  • in 1997 in Saugus, California^[76]
• ''A.M.'' performed:
  • in 1965 in Westport, Connecticut, starring Leonard Frey and Alice Drummond^[77][78]
  • in 1973 in Los Angeles, California^[79]
• ''The Morning After'' performed:
  • in 1968 in Manchester, Vermont<ref name="Bennington Banner 1968">cite journal|title=Manchester - 29 Apr 1968, Mon • Page 6|journal=Bennington Banner|date=1968|page=6|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/14076263/bennington_banner/|accessdate=29 September 2017</ref>
• ''The Prevalence of Mrs. Seal'' performed:<ref name="Hamilton College" />
  • in 1974 in Foster City, California^[80]
  • in 1982 in Green Bay, Wisconsin^[81]
  • in 1997 in Saugus, California^[82]
  • in 2005 in Jackson, Tennessee^[83]
• ''The Unicorns'' performed:
  • in 1978 in Poughkeepsie, New York^[84]

Personal life

While acting in a summer production in Rye Beach, New Hampshire, Bigelow met Gordon Merrick. They shared an apartment in New York, on East 54th Street, and Richard Barr joined them. When Merrick wrote his gay romance ''The Lord Won't Mind'', he modeled one of the characters after Bigelow.<ref name="Kaiser" />

In New York City in the 1940s, Bigelow became a prominent figure in the gay society. He was interviewed by Alfred Kinsey for his research on Sexual Behavior.<ref name="Hamilton College" /> He was in a relationship with millionaire George Gallowhur, but he left Gallowhur when he fell in love with Bill Miller.<ref name="Kaiser">cite book|last1=Kaiser|first1=Charles|title=The Gay Metropolis: The Landmark History of Gay Life in America|date=2007|publisher=Grove Press|url=https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Gay_Metropolis.html?id=HO7IKU79zgAC|accessdate=30 July 2017</ref>

He was friends with Maury Paul, the original Cholly Knickerbocker who wrote a society columnist for Hearst.<ref name="Kaiser" />

After retirement Bigelow resided in New York City with his long-term partner of more than 50 years, Thierry Mahe. He had a summer house on Fire Island, New York, and traveled often to France. He collected Art Nouveau glass and fin-de-sicle posters.<ref name="Hamilton College" />

He died on October 6, 2007 in New York City.<ref name="Hamilton College" />

References

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References:

The Gay Metropolis: The Landmark History of Gay Life in America Paperback – June 4, 2019 by Charles Kaiser

Intimate Companions - A Triography of George Platt Lynes, Paul Cadmus, Lincoln Kirstein, and Their Circle Paperback – August 25, 2020 by David Leddick

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• ^ cite journal|title=Gardiner Pace Excellent Cast in Coward Comedy - 10 Aug 1960, Wed • Page 11|journal=Traverse City Record-Eagle|date=1960|page=11|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/14073144/traverse_city_recordeagle/|accessdate=29 September 2017
• ^ cite journal|title=LaRosa Shines in Slam-Bang Comedy - 17 Aug 1960, Wed • Page 13|journal=Traverse City Record-Eagle|date=1960|page=13|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/14072879/traverse_city_recordeagle/|accessdate=29 September 2017
• ^ cite journal|title="Ballots Up" Premiere Rated a Success - 24 Aug 1960, Wed • Page 8|journal=Traverse City Record-Eagle|date=1960|page=8|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/14073075/traverse_city_recordeagle/|accessdate=29 September 2017
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• ^ cite journal|title="Yum Yum Tree" Opens At Gretna Playhouse - 23 Jun 1961, Fri • Page 19|journal=Lebanon Daily News|date=1961|page=19|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/14078600/lebanon_daily_news/|accessdate=29 September 2017
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