Tab Hunter Returns to Film, This Time with His Own Story
The Business
KCRW
4.5 • 699 Ratings
🗓️ 4 July 2015
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Tab Hunter was the ultimate 1950's Hollywood heartthrob. Blond hair, blue eyes, stunning smile...and also gay. The multifaceted star, now nearly 84, tells his story in the new documentary Tab Hunter Confidential, directed by Jeffrey Schwarz.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, I'm Josh Barrow, your new host of Left, Right, and Center. |
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| 0:17.9 | From KCRW and KCRW.com, I'm Kim Masters, and this is the business. |
| 0:24.9 | Once in a while the studio would say, oh, we have a young gal here under contract. |
| 0:28.9 | Would you take her? |
| 0:29.9 | Would you do this? |
| 0:30.6 | Or would you do that? |
| 0:31.2 | I'd say, sure. |
| 0:32.2 | But that's your job. |
| 0:34.7 | In the 1950s, Tab Hunter made teenage girls across the country swoon. Blonde and gorgeous, he was |
| 0:41.5 | seen around town with Natalie Wood and Debbie Reynolds. Behind the scenes, he was with men, including |
| 0:47.4 | psycho star Tony Perkins. In the new documentary, Tab Hunter Confidential, the star looks at the business |
| 0:53.5 | then and now. He and the |
| 0:55.4 | film's director, Jeffrey Schwartz, join us. But first on the news banter, the upfronts are |
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| 1:17.3 | I am joined by my partner in banter, Michael Schneider of TV Guide magazine. |
| 1:21.3 | Hello, Mike. |
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