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Get out under the name of LGBTQ + as an actor is not necessarily easy, even in 2023. But in the Hollywood golden age , there was even more secret around the subject. The delay Tab (Born Arthur Kelm) was only a gay actor who spent his closed career. The hearts of the 1950s and 60s did not release publicly before 2005, more than a decade after his retirement. Even then, it was not entirely his choice - Hunter told Slant in 2015 that he had heard his partner Allan Glaser that there was A revealing book about him in the works, which prompted him to advance him and tell his own story in his memories, Tab Hunter Confidential: the creation of a movie star , which was then transformed into a documentary. By taking control of his own story, the actor also opened on the discreet love he had with other stars, including a relationship with Anthony Perkins of Psycho fame. Read the rest to discover what Hunter said about their romance, the secret in which they were forced and how it all ended with injured feelings.

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Hunter wrote in his memoirs that he was initially discovered by the agent and the former actor Dick Clayton After being returned from the Coast Guard to enlist minors. Type of Boy-Oxt-Tyext holder in the clean and American appearance, the hunter was taken by Henry Willson , the same agent who also represented the Rock Hudson , and soon played in the years 1954 Back to Treasure Island . His sexuality was sort of a policeman's secret in Hollywood, and Hunter had narrow calls. In 2015 interview he did with THE Hollywood Reporter Explain, when Hunter left Willson to be represented by his old friend Clayton, Willson gave the Gossip magazine Confidential A story on Hunter being present - and stopped at - a party for homosexuals, in order to kill a story on Hudson. This did not do much damage to his career, fortunately, and Hunter played a role in films including the years 1958 Damn Yankees and 1963 Bikini operation .

It was in 1956 that Hunter met Perkins at Château Marmont. Talk to Attitude For an article published a few weeks before his death in 2018, the actor recalled their meeting , "He was there with a singer-songwriter, and they were all around the pool. He had just filmed Friendly persuasion with Gary Cooper And Dorothy McGuire . I went swimming, and when I got out, my friend Venetia Stevenson said, "Oh, I want you to meet Tony - Do you know him?" ""

Hunter already knew who was Perkins. But Friendly persuasion It was only the second feature film by Perkins, he had obtained a Golden Globe for the new most promising coming and an Oscar appointment for the best support actor. And, although it was not published publicly, Perkins had a level of notoriety within the community of LGBTQ + actors for having played in a production of Broadway of the game Tea and sympathy In 1954 as Tom Lee, a gay character. Like Hunter, he was marketed with fans as a healthy heart; The two booming stars, who were almost the same age, came out of pop music in the late 1950s.

"We have just discussed and climbing, and soon we are starting to see ourselves," said Hunter Attitude of the first stages of their relationship. However, they quickly discovered that they had different attitudes towards their work as an actor. "I loved being part of the cinema industry, but Tony was more focused on the career than me," said Hunter. "Despite the opposition, we continued to see ourselves. I remember a summer, we took a small beach house with his family and friends; it was quite wonderful. But it was always out of my eyes public."

With hindsight, Hunter admitted that it was not the best time for him and Perkins to have started a relationship, because their two careers take off in 1956. "It was not difficult; we could not simply dinner together or go See a film because we became so popular at the time, "he said Attitude . "I haven't talked about my personal life to anyone at the time. From the way I saw it, it was no one [explained]."

It was also the time when the studios contracted actors to make exclusively films for their studios. Hunter was contracted with Warner Bros., who seemed to take the same position as him on the relationship. ("Warner Brothers never said a word about my sexuality, and that's how I wanted it," said the actor.) But Perkins was contracted in Paramount, and it was another story.

"However, Paramount had something to say about my relationship with Tony, and they told him that they didn't want him to see me," said Hunter in 2018. He was not surprised, explaining, "each Studio was managed by a framework that had its own policies and their own ways of doing things. And Paramount directed a really tight ship. "

Perkins and Hunter end up separating not because of the interference of the studios or having to stay outside the eyes of the public, but because of a career move. Hunter explained to Attitude that he "launched [Warner Bros.] for a film entitled Fear gets up About a famous baseball player. "He had even played his head - a fictitious version of the major league player Jimmy Piersall —An a television adaptation of 1955 of the autobiography of Piersall which was part of the anthology series Climax!. But, as he explained in 2018, "Tony has become essential to buy [the functionality version] and opted for the role."

Fear gets up , released in 1957, was Perkin's next film after Friendly Persuasion , and that helped establish it as a young interpreter who could attack serious material. The film represented Piersall bipolar disorder And his complicated relationship with his father. Hunter saw an opportunity in the role to prove himself as a dramatic actor, and perkins slide his blow. "It made a difference in our relationship," he said Attitude . "I felt betrayed; I was really disappointed with that." Although they did not immediately break up, their relationship has never recovered.

"We are sort of separated, I suppose that we have just surpassing each other, then we have lost contact for a while," he recalls.

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Two years after their separation, Alfred Hitchcock Psycho came, transforming Perkins into a familiar name. As detailed in the 1999 documentary, Anthony Perkins: a life in the shadows , subsequently, the star bought himself outside his primordial contract and spent the coming years making films in Europe. However, rumors about his sexuality continued to circulate. In 1972, Perkins married the photographer Berry Berenson After she got pregnant with her child. According Charles Winecoff 1996 Posthumous biography, Divided image: the life of Anthony Perkins , the actor had also gone to an analyst in the hope of "healing" his homosexuality. However, according to most accounts, Berenson and Perkin had a happy family life, welcoming the sons Osgood And Elvis .

The hunter said Attitude He did not judge Perkins for having married a woman. "The choices we make in life are very important," he said. "He made this choice, and for him, it was the right decision."

Long after their breakup, former lovers met in 1984, while Hunter made the 1985 film Lust in dust . "I called him, I went home and sat with the family," he recalls. "It was the first time that I had seen him for years. I was very happy to see that he had a wonderful family."

Although he was reported before his death, Perkins was diagnosed as HIV + In 1990, and for two years, he hid his condition, even if he continued to work. The actor died on September 12, 1992 at 60 years of pneumonia linked to AIDS. In a Declaration he had written in his last days which was released by Berenson to Los Angeles Times After his death, Perkins said, "I chose not to make public because, to target Casablanca , "I am not very good at being noble", but it does not take much to see that the problems of an old actor do not represent a hill of beans in this crazy world. "" AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB

Perkins keeping his private state also meant that Hunter did not know that something was wrong until it was too late. "I heard that he was sick; I called and I was told that he had just died," he said Attitude . "I never had the chance to see him again." However, Hunter never had a grudge on how his only boyfriend chose to live his life, saying: "Who should I decide - to discuss even - what was good for him? It was his own choice. "

As for Hunter, he married Glaser in 2013, as soon as he was legal, after 30 years together. He died on July 8, 2018 After taking a cardiac arrest.