HUNTER, Tab; Eddie Muller.
Tab Hunter Confidential: The Making of a Movie Star.
"This is no fairy tale. It does, however, start out like one": First Edition of Tab Hunter Confidential: The Making of a Movie Star; inscribed by Tab Hunter
Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2006.
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First paperback edition of this New York Times bestselling autobiography of American actor Tab Hunter. Octavo, original pictorial wrappers, illustrated with black and white photographs. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "To Karen enjoy - Tab Hunter." In very good condition.
Tab Hunter (1931–2018) was an American film and television actor, singer, and later producer whose career illuminates both the allure and constraints of Hollywood stardom in the 1950s. Marketed by Warner Bros. as the archetypal clean-cut matinee idol, he rose to fame in films such as Battle Cry (1955) and Damn Yankees! (1958), while also achieving success as a pop vocalist with the chart-topping single “Young Love.” Behind this carefully constructed image, however, Hunter privately navigated life as a closeted gay man at a time when the studio system rigorously enforced heteronormative ideals and sought to suppress scandals that might compromise star capital. Tab Hunter Confidential: The Making of a Movie Star (2005), co-written by Tab Hunter and Eddie Muller, recounts Hunter’s rise as a 1950s Hollywood heartthrob while exposing the mechanisms of studio-era star construction.
Tab Hunter Confidential: The Making of a Movie Star.
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