Tab Hunter Confidential

Tab Hunter Confidential

2015 · 91 min · EN · 7.2 (60 votes)
Dir. Jeffrey Schwarz · Starring Tab Hunter, Debbie Reynolds, Robert Wagner, John Waters, George Takei, Clint Eastwood · Music Michael Cudahy

“Hollywood's all-American boy had a secret.”

Documentary

Throughout the 1950s, Tab Hunter reigned as Hollywood’s ultimate male heartthrob. But throughout his years of stardom, Tab had a secret. Tab Hunter was gay, and spent his Hollywood years in a precarious closet that repeatedly threatened to implode and destroy him. Tab Hunter himself shares first hand, for the first time, what it was like to be a studio manufactured movie star during the Golden Age of Hollywood and the consequences of being someone totally different from his studio manufactured image.

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A tender, revealing look at a Hollywood icon's hidden life. It's a journey through the golden age of cinema, filled with warmth, vulnerability, and the quiet strength of a man finally embracing his truth.

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