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  Review by {Todd} ★★★★

  I am glad he is happy with his life now. This film provides the fascinating biography of a secretly gay male heart-throb in 50s and 60s cinema.

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  Review by eely ★★★

  thinking about tab’s husband saying the only thing that brings tab pleasure on a daily basis is his horse.

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  Review by Madison 🎭 ★★★½

  anthony perkins stealing his role in fear strikes back..... gay love and even friendships really do b like that huh

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  Review by Armando Maggi ★★★★½ 1

  Tab Hunter, the 'heart-throb,' all-American beauty of the fifties, speaks about his (to a certain extent) secret homosexuality, the creation of his famous persona, and self-acceptance when he finally left the movie industry and withdrew from the limelight with his lover, the producer of this documentary, who is thirty years younger.

  In hindsight, it is immensely ironic that this object of so many girls' (and guys') fantasy and the symbol of the perfect American male beauty (his perfect facial features, beautiful blond hair, his open and childlike smile), which led his admirers to give him also all the cliched qualities of the American honesty and 'goodness,' was a homosexual who ended up working with John Waters in 'Polyester' and having…

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  Review by Noah Thompson ★★★½

  Well, I'm honest, but I'm dumb too.

  Hollywood was and still is quite the business, isn't it? I went into this thinking it was more specifically about Tab Hunter being in the closet for so long and his experience with that, but instead this was an entire career retrospective on him as an actor and how he evolved as a person. Honestly, I'm glad that I got that. On top of seeming like a nice guy, the story of Tab is interesting even beyond him being a heartthrob that had to hide the fact that he was gay. Here is this all-american boy roped into this business. He's brought in, makes a living, is chewed up, he gets spit out,…

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  Review by Millie De Chirico ★★★½

  "limp wristed pajama party"

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  Review by adelaideblair ★★★★

  Tab Hunter buys a hat!

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  Review by Elia05 ★★★★ 4

  “I’ve never been as open with anyone as I am with you.”

  Four years ago, on July 8, 2018, Tab Hunter passed away at the age of 86, just three days shy of his birthday. His 2015 documentary, Tab Hunter Confidential, was set to make its premiere on TCM to mark his birthday, and he was to co-host it along with the co-author of his 2005 autobiography, Eddie Muller; it was instead pushed until 2019, and Tab’s partner and husband of 35 years, Allan Glaser, took his place. This came just a month after Zachary Quinto and JJ Abrams announced that they’d be producing a biopic, Tab & Tony, following Tab’s four-year romance with fellow actor Tony Perkins—and what inspired them…

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  Review by 🐱Andrew Chrzanowski🐱 ★★★½ 2

  ☆"He was the kind of boy every mother would have wanted married into the family."☆

  Jeffrey Schwarz's revealing documentary Tab Hunter: Confidential is one a handful that is now almost a subgenre: tell-all biodocs about striking leading men in Hollywood who were actually gay. Many of these actors' lives are now no longer secret, but it's worth seeing stories from an era where homosexuality brought shame and derision and the strength of these men to come out in time.

  Serving as both a traditional biographical documentary and a dive into a secretive Hollywood culture of concealing orientation, Hunter also narrates the film, released in 2015, based on his stories which were also compiled in his best-selling book Tab Hunter Confidential:…

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  Review by robbie james whitmore

  good to know tab hunter is a horse girl

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  Review by Kennedy 1

  i love my boyfriend tony perkins

  Pros:
  - tab hunter was v charismatic
  - the lil graphic animations were cute
  - random clint eastwood??????
  - thank u for not condemning anthony perkins for marrying a woman

  Cons:
  - some of the interviewees were really random and felt rather unnecessary in the grand scheme of things

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  Review by Zā ★★★★ 1

  The passing of Tab made me pretty sad today so I figured I'd watch the documentary that made me interested in his career and his story. I really wanted to watch Polyester, but that's like the only John Waters film I don't own.

  Once I get done with my current book, I'm going to read Tab's book of the same name.

  RIP Tab, a spectacular star in this world.