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Tab Hunter confidential : the making of a movie star
- Title
- Tab Hunter confidential : the making of a movie star / Tab Hunter, with Eddie Muller.
- Author
- Hunter, Tab, 1931-2018
- Publication
- Chapel Hill, N.C. : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2005.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | PN2287.H82 A3 2005 | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Muller, Eddie
- Description
- 378 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- He became a #1 box office attraction, recorded a #1 hit song, and survived a major sex scandal--all by the time he was 25. Five years later, new stars had been developed, 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. This book tells what it felt like to be created, packaged, and sold to the American public; to appear on-screen, off-screen, and on every newsstand in America with the biggest leading ladies of the day, 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 under the protective wing of the Warner Bros. publicity department, no longer in demand as a "star."--From publisher description.
- Subject
- Hunter, Tab, 1931-2018
- Hunter, Tab, 1931-2018
- Motion picture actors and actresses > United States > Biography
- Gay motion picture actors and actresses > United States > Biography
- Gay motion picture actors and actresses
- Motion picture actors and actresses
- Actors > Biography
- Skådespelare
- Självbiografier
- United States
- Genre/Form
- Autobiography.
- Autobiography
- autobiographies (literary works)
- Autobiographies
- Biographies
- Autobiographies.
- Note
- Includes index
- Contents
- Male Kelm -- Saddle up -- Bless me, father -- At sea -- Henry's boys -- That's the boy I want -- Manufacturing a movie star -- Fame's waiting room -- "Don't worry--it'll only play drive-ins" -- Battle Cry -- Breakdown -- Breakthrough -- Success and scandal -- The ideal couple -- Fever pitch -- Out of the blue -- Young love -- Europa, Europa -- The deep freeze -- Don't fence me in -- Renaissance -- Damn Yankees -- Who does he remind you of? -- The price of freedom -- Menace to society -- Searching for open doors -- Train wreck -- Ride the Wild Surf -- Trivia and tragedy -- Limbo -- The idle rich -- Panhandling -- Joanie Pony -- Locomotion -- Divine intervention -- Lust -- The new Hollywood -- A horse of a different color -- Happy to be forgotten.
- ISBN
- 9781565124660
- 1565124669
- 1565125487
- 9781565125483
- LCCN
- 2005045335
- 9781565124660
- OCLC
- ocm59148116
- 59148116
- SCSB-1448619
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library