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Tab Hunter Confidential

The Making of a Movie Star

By Tab Hunter, Eddie Muller

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| Hardcover | 9781565124660

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He became an instant star and a #1 box office attraction, recorded a #1 hit song, and survived a major sex scandal—all by the time he was twenty-five. Five years later, new stars had been developed to meet the demands of fickle fans, and Tab Hunter found himself scrambling to find work, struggContinue

He became an instant star and a #1 box office attraction, recorded a #1 hit song, and survived a major sex scandal—all by the time he was twenty-five. Five years later, new stars had been developed to meet the demands of fickle fans, and Tab Hunter found himself scrambling to find work, struggling just to survive. Yet survive he did, re-creating himself as a cult star and film producer in a career that spans five decades and more than fifty films, from Island of Desire to Lust in the Dust.

But first, he was Art Gelien, an introverted and extremely attractive young boy who was discovered by a Hollywood agent and transformed—with the help of studio publicity hacks—into Tab Hunter, Movie Star. This book tells how it all happened, and what it felt like to be created, packaged, and sold to the American public. How it felt to appear on-screen, off-screen, and on every newsstand in America with the biggest leading ladies of the day—Linda Darnell, Natalie Wood, Debbie Reynolds, Lana Turner, and Rita Hayworth—while dealing with the reality of being gay in a time when the word didn’t exist. It’s his story of how he kept his bearings when he was suddenly no longer the boy-next-door heartthrob, no longer under the protective wing of the Warner Bros. publicity department, no longer in demand as a “star.” It is his story of how he soldiered on—with perseverance, determination, and faith. And, like the best-loved Hollywood movies, it has a happy ending.

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  • Tab Hunter Confidential: The Making of a Movie Star By Hunter and Eddie Muller

    Art Gelien certainly understood the elusive nature of stardom. He was struggling to become a professional ice skater when he was put through the star-making machinery of the 1950s. Renamed Tab Hunter, and promoted as the Sigh Guy, the blonde and hand ... (read full critics)

    bookpage published on Wed, 15 Sep 2010

  • Tab Hunter Confidential: The Making of a Movie Star, By Tab Hunter, with Eddie Muller

    Algonquin Books, $34.95, 356 pp, hardcover. Despite the book's title, Tab Hunter was not a movie star. He was a teen idol-big difference, as Tab Hunter, born Arthur Gelien, makes clear in this thoroughly entertaining and offhandedly informative memoi ... (read full critics)

    straight published on Mon, 30 Aug 2010

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  • English Books
  • Hardcover 408 Pages
  • ISBN-10: 1565124669
  • ISBN-13: 9781565124660
  • Publisher: Algonquin Books
  • Pub date: Oct 14, 2005
  • Dimensions: 1484 mm x 1032 mm x 258 mm Just how big is that?
  • Also available as: Paperback
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