![]() ![]() Not about his sexuality - he knew who he was, and to whom he was attracted - but about his career. In the documentary, Hunter and many of the women he dated describe him at the time as a man deeply conflicted. ![]() It was enough to distract the Hollywood press from his relationships with champion figure skater Ronnie Robertson ("A lot of friends were ice skaters," says one of his former co-stars, meaningfully) and, later - after meeting at the pool of the Chateau Marmont, of course - with fellow up-and-coming actor Anthony Perkins. Very public dates with a bevy of starlets/co-stars followed: Natalie Wood, Debbie Reynolds, french ingenue Etchika Choureau, and more. Interviews Detailing Tab Hunter's Closeted Stardom Specifically, he'd underestimated studio president Jack Warner's ability to wage a spirited disinformation campaign. He hadn't counted on the still-potent power of the Hollywood studio system (he'd been one of the very last actors to get signed to an exclusive Warner Bros. Hunter's homosexuality was one of Hollywood's worst-kept secrets: His 1950 arrest for "disorderly conduct" when Los Angeles police raided a house party he'd been attending was made public five years later, when Hollywood scandal sheet Confidential plastered it on the front cover and referred to the get-together in question, with characteristic restraint, as a "limp-wristed pajama party."Īs Hunter related in both his 2005 autobiography, Tab Hunter Confidential: The Making of a Movie Star, as well as in Jeffrey Schwarz's excellent 2015 documentary, Tab Hunter Confidential (which is currently streaming on Netflix), he considered that the end of his nascent career. One can imagine moviegoers of the time - at least the ones who avidly read film magazines - exchanging sidelong looks upon hearing that breathless description. That's how one of his early movie trailers described Tab Hunter, the blue-eyed, blond-haired actor and recording artist possessed of a facial symmetry and bone structure so conventionally handsome they seemed preternatural. "Six feet of rugged manhood to stir the heart of every woman." Boy in the Sand: Tab Hunter, who died on July 8th, hits the beach, circa 1955. ![]()
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