Tab Hunter Confidential: The Making of a Movie Star
by:
Tab Hunter (author)
Eddie Muller (author)
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781565124660 (1565124669)
Publish date: October 14th 2005
Publisher: Algonquin Books
Pages no: 408
Edition language: English
Tab Hunter (real name Arthur Gelien) was only vaguely known to me as an actor - his movie acting career was essentially over before I became aware of such things, and his TV appearances were too infrequent and minor to register. However, his name came up now and then, as I grew interested in figure ...
Rating: 3* of five The Publisher Says: Welcome to Hollywood, circa 1950, the end of the Golden Age. A remarkably handsome young boy, still a teenager, gets "discovered by a big-time movie agent. Because when he takes his shirt off young hearts beat faster, because he is the picture of innocen...
Rating: 3* of fiveThe Book Report: Memoir of 1950s movie heartthrob Tab Hunter, his Southern California sun-kissed boyhood, his coming of gay age, and the effects of being part of the star-maker machinery of Hollywood as it existed at that time on a modestly talented, very very pretty boy. It's obvi...