Hunter himself appears content with his present and at peace with his past-which is wonderful for him, if sometimes less than gripping in a movie. Tab Hunter, a star of screen, stage, and television, has appeared in more than fifty films, including Damn Yankees, Battle Cry, and Polyester. In the memoir, Hunter not only discusses his career and his relationship with Anthony Perkins, but also reveals that he and Glaser have been life partners as well as business associates for many years.

But while there’s interesting material in Hunter’s clandestine relationships-including with Anthony Perkins-both the details of his pre-celebrity life and the ebbs and flows of his career hold far less interest, except as an example of how so many celebrities deal with becoming “where are they now” items. In 2005, Hunter published a memoir, Tab Hunter Confidential: The Making of a Movie Star, co-authored with Eddie Muller. That’s where the film is at its most fascinating, digging into the promotional machine that paired rising stars together to create a fantasy for the public, while doing everything possible to keep dirty secrets out of the public eye. The undercurrent throughout the narrative is how the boy who was Art Gelien was turned by the Hollywood studio system into something fully manufactured and marketed-including hiding his homosexuality. Tab Hunter Confidential Official Trailer 1 (2015) - Tab Hunter Documentary HD Rotten Tomatoes Indie 2.19M subscribers Subscribe 828 135K views 7 years ago Subscribe to INDIE & FILM. And, perhaps predictably, some parts of that life are far more compelling than others. In the 1950s, Tab Hunter was a heartthrob - a blond, clean-cut matinee idol who made the covers of all the movie magazines. Director Jeffrey Schwarz mostly just lets his subject-1950s “All-American boy” heartthrob Tab Hunter-open up and talk about his own life. Hollywood actor Tab Hunter died Sunday at age 86. What its about: Tab Hunter was one of the biggest Hollywood heartthrobs back in the 50s, and he was also in the closet.

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