WKyHovL9jAc8pizBSYZ5kYXiAo.jpg' alt='Watch Tab Hunter Confidential Streaming' title='Watch Tab Hunter Confidential Streaming' />NASA astronaut and biochemist Peggy Whitson will return to Earth as the planets new record holder for longest time cumulatively spent on space by an American or a. Get the latest news on celebrity scandals, engagements, and divorces Check out our breaking stories on Hollywoods hottest starsTab Hunter Biography IMDb. Dreamy Tab Hunter stands out in film history as one of the hottest teen idols of the 1. With blond, tanned, surfer boy good looks, he was artificially groomed and nicknamed The Sigh Guy by the Hollywood studio system, yet managed to continue his career long after his golden boy prime. Hunter was born Arthur Kelm on July 1. New York City, to Gertrude Gelien and Charles Kelm. His mother was a German Catholic immigrant, and his father was Jewish. Following his parents divorce, Hunter grew up in California with his mother, older brother Walter, and maternal grandparents, Ida Sonnenfleth and John Henry Gelien. His mother changed her sons surnames to her maiden name, Gelien. Leaving school and joining the Coast Guard at age 1. Returning home, his life long passion for horseback riding led to a job with a riding academy. Hunters fetching handsomeness and trim, athletic physique eventually steered the Californian toward the idea of acting. An introduction to famed agent Henry Willson had Tab signing on the dotted line and what emerged, along with a major career, was the stage moniker of Tab Hunter. Willson was also responsible with pointing hopeful Roy Fitzgerald towards stardom under the pseudonym Rock Hudson. With no previous experience Tab made his first, albeit minor, film debut in the racially trenchant drama The Lawless 1. Gail Russell and Macdonald Carey. His only line in the movie was eventually cut upon release. It didnt seem to make a difference for he co starred in his very next film, the British made Saturday Island 1. Linda Darnell, which was set during WWII on a deserted, tropical South Seas isle. His shirt remained off for a good portion of the film, which certainly did not go unnoticed by his ever growing legion of female and male fans. Signed by Warner Bros., stardom was clinched a few years later with another WWII epic Battle Cry 1. Leon Uris novel, in which he again played a boyish soldier sharing torrid scenes with an older woman this time Dorothy Malone, playing a love starved Navy wife. Thoroughly primed as one of Hollywoods top beefcake commodities, the tabloid magazines had a field day initiating an aggressive campaign to out Hunter as gay, which would have ruined him. To combat the destructive tactics, Tab was seen escorting a number of Hollywoods lovelies at premieres and parties. In the meantime he was seldom out of his military fatigues on film, keeping his fans satisfied in such popular dramas as The Sea Chase 1. The Burning Hills 1. The Girl He Left Behind 1. Natalie Wood. At around this time, Hunter managed to parlay his boy next door film celebrity into a singing career. He topped the charts for over a month with the single Young Love in 1. Like other fortunate celebrity based singers such as Shelley Fabares and Paul Petersen, his musical reign was brief. Out of it, however, came the most notable success of his film career top billing as baseball fan Joe Hardy in the classic Faustian musical Damn Yankees Gwen Verdon and Ray Walston, who recreated their devil making Broadway roles. Musically Tab may have been overshadowed but he brought with him major star power and the film became a crowd pleaser. He continued on with the William A. Watch Tab Hunter Confidential Streaming' title='Watch Tab Hunter Confidential Streaming' />News, Sports, Weather, Traffic and the Best Of Houston. Wellman directed Lafayette Escadrille 1. World War I. More spicy love scenes came with That Kind of Woman 1. Hunter and va va voom mistress Sophia Loren demonstrating some sexual chemistry on a train. Seldom a favorite with the film critics, the 1. Tab. He begged out of his restrictive contract with Warners and ultimately paid the price. With no studio to protect him, he was at the mercy of several trumped up lawsuits. Worse yet, handsome Troy Donahue had replaced him as the new beefcake on the block. With no film offers coming his way, he starred in his own series The Tab Hunter Show 1. The series last only one season. On the positive side he clocked in with over 2. TV programs over the long stretch and was nominated for an Emmy award for his outstanding performance opposite Geraldine Page in a Playhouse 9. Following the sparkling film comedy The Pleasure of His Company 1. Debbie Reynolds, the quality of his films fell off drastically as he found himself top lining such innocuous fare as Operation Bikini 1. Ride the Wild Surf 1. The City Under the Sea 1. War Gods of the Deep, and Birds Do It 1. As for stage, a brief chance to star on Broadway happened in 1. Tallulah Bankhead in Tennessee Williamss The Milk Train Doesnt Stop Here Anymore. It lasted five performances. He then started to travel the dinner theater circuit. Enduring a severe lull, Tab bounced back in the 1. He gamely spoofed his old clean cut image by appearing in delightfully tasteless John Waters films as a romantic dangling carrot to heavyset transvestite actress Divine. Polyester 1. 98. Waters and Tab went on to team up with Allan Glaser to co produce and co star a Waters like western spoof Lust in the Dust 1. He is still working as a film producer at age 7. Southern California. Tab also came out with a tell all memoir on his Hollywood years in October of 2. IMDb Mini Biography By. Gary Brumburgh gr homepacbell. Was once arrested following an L. A. raid on a pajama party in Walnut Park in 1. Tab was eventually fined 5. Had a lifelong love for horses. He was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Recording at 6. Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California. Was Warner Bros. Records first signee. He was the younger of two boys. His brother, Walter John Gelien born August 1. Vietnam on October 2. James Dean at age 2. New York stage and television actor, was put under contract by Warner Brothers, arriving in Los Angeles with Dick Clayton acting as his agent. James Dean and Tab Hunter were the youngest male stars under contract at Warner Bros. Studio. The Warner Brothers feature in preliminary casting of the film Rebel Without A Cause originally considered Tab Hunter and Debbie Reynolds, which the studio ultimately cast James Dean and Natalie Wood in the films lead roles. Agent actor Dick Clayton brought the newly arrived New York actor James Dean to the Warner Bros. Burbank lot, first introducing him to Tab Hunter on his first studio introduction tour. Dean frequently waited beside Hunters studio lot portable dressing room trailer, sitting on the step up, catching Hunter between his film set up shots to talk, to learn about, to discuss Tabs film experiences, acting challenges on film movie studio and location sets Upon being discharged from the U. S. Coast Guard Service, Art Gilien returned to Los Angeles, sharing a rented room in Hollywood with his brother Walt. During his absence serving in the U. S. Coast Guard, their mother had moved back to San Francisco. Dick Clayton, after returning from New York, began working in the mail room at Famous Artists Agency. His boss, Charlie Feldman, one of the most respected agents in the film industry, and his colleagues encouraged Dick to become a sub agent. Dick encouraged Art to pick up his education. Art enrolled in the Del Powers Professional School. The school, just off Wilcox Avenue in Hollywood, was run by actress Mala Powerss mother and was crammed with kids who wanted to be in movies. Art graduated with a high school diploma. Art supported a new athletic course, figure skating, where he lived at the Polar Palace, an ice rink on Van Ness near Melrose in Hollywood. Besides horse training, Art began training to be a professional ice skater, gaining trophies on his ice skating abilities and talents. In this new endeavor, he met an entirely new group of people, who became his extended family of friends. 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