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The Burning Hills was a western, a genre in which it was rare to cast two bright young things, but the studio hoped that it would entice teenagers away from their TV sets. In 1956, he was teamed up for two films with the 18-year-old Natalie Wood. Libel and obscenity charges were successfully brought against the magazine, and Hunter’s career did not suffer. In a 1955 article, the scandal sheet Confidential dragged the story out again, calling him one of Hollywood’s “limp-wristed lads” and noting his presence at a “swish party” attended by “two dozen of the gayest guys the vice squad has ever seen”. He was eventually fined $50 for a reduced “disorderly conduct” charge, having originally been charged with “idle, lewd or dissolute conduct”. He claimed in public that he was there out of naivety, and had no idea what kind of party it was. In October 1950, he had been arrested with others after a gay pyjama party in Beverly Hills, an incident that was reported in the press.
Hunter’s popularity survived despite the story that had pursued him since he started out in film. In The Sea Chase (1955), as a German sailor, he goes swimming with his best friend ( Richard Davalos), who gets bitten by a shark, and then has a touching scene at the dying boy’s bedside. Hunter also stood out in Raoul Walsh’s Battle Cry (1955), as an idealistic recruit who is seduced by a lonely navy wife ( Dorothy Malone).Įverything was done to get the teen idol to expose what were called his “beefcake” charms – here he has to shed his uniform, made itchy because of straw from a hayride, and replace it with swimming trunks. The first of these was in William Wellman’s Track of the Cat (1954) as Robert Mitchum’s younger, sensitive brother, in a film celebrated for its low-key cinematography, in which Mitchum’s red jacket and Tab’s blond mop stood out against the white, snowy background.
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In 2005, Hunter came out officially with his memoir, Tab Hunter Confidential: The Making of a Movie Star, in which he mentioned past lovers such as Anthony Perkins. Tab Hunter in Polyester, 1981, with Divine. He followed this with juvenile leads in three B-movies, his acting increasing in confidence with each one – The Steel Lady (1953), Gun Belt (1953) and Return to Treasure Island (1954) – before gaining a lucrative contract with Warner Bros, and meatier roles. However, he shot to stardom with his second film, Island of Desire (1952), in which he and Linda Darnell appeared in a state of decorous undress on a desert island. Without any drama lessons or acting experience, Hunter made his film debut in a bit part in Joseph Losey’s social drama The Lawless (1950). It was Willson who turned Roy Fitzgerald into Rock Hudson, Robert Mosely into Guy Madison, Merle Johnson Jr into Troy Donahue, Francis McCown into Rory Calhoun and Arthur Gelien into Tab Hunter. Willson had an eye for good-looking men whom he would rename and get into films, sometimes in return for sexual favours. But an introduction to the actors’ agent Henry Willson changed his life. On his return home, he took a job at a riding academy. He was not discharged until almost a year later, when the deception was discovered. Following his parents’ divorce, his mother moved the children to California to get away from her abusive husband, and they took her maiden surname.Īt 15, young Arthur ran away from home to join the US Coast Guard, lying about his age.
(His older brother was killed in Vietnam in 1965.) His mother was a German Roman Catholic immigrant, and his father was Jewish.
Hunter was born Arthur Kelm in New York City, the younger of two sons of Charles Kelm and Gertrude Gelien. Tab Hunter and Sophia Loren in That Kind of Woman, 1959.
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