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Tab Hunter Confidential

Name: Tab Hunter Confidential
Director: Jeffrey Schwarz
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2015-03-15
Cast: Tab Hunter, Debbie Reynolds, Robert Wagner, John Waters, George Takei

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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Cast

Tab HunterDebbie ReynoldsRobert WagnerJohn WatersGeorge TakeiClint EastwoodPortia De RossiNoah WyleLainie KazanConnie StevensLiz TorresDolores Hart

Director

Jeffrey Schwarz

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