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Were Male Movie Stars of Hollywood's Golden Age Sexier than Today's Film Idols?

Although there are a lot of hotties today, there was a smoldering sexiness in some of yesteryear's biggest stars. Guy Madison, for instance - a beauty that transcends time.

What other classic stars made you horny when they appeared on screen?

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by Anonymousreply 555October 28, 2019 3:53 AM

George O'Brien (here with Janet Gaynor in 1927's "Sunrise") was sexy as hell.

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by Anonymousreply 1December 26, 2017 1:33 PM

All of them (except Mickey Rooney.)

by Anonymousreply 2December 26, 2017 1:41 PM

This shot of John Payne is still one of the sexiest I've ever seen.

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by Anonymousreply 3December 26, 2017 1:43 PM

Old movies were total artifice so you would think the men would seem more feminized or calculated. But no.

by Anonymousreply 4December 26, 2017 1:43 PM

John Gavin. God damn.

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by Anonymousreply 5December 26, 2017 1:46 PM

The John Payne shot is unforgettable and incomparable.

I'm shocked Vanity Fair has yet to try and recreate it with some flavor of the month.

by Anonymousreply 6December 26, 2017 1:47 PM

R6 No kidding. That picture exudes eroticism.

by Anonymousreply 7December 26, 2017 1:49 PM

Gary Cooper was very handsome, but for some reason serial and B movie actor Buster Crabbe makes me swoon!

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by Anonymousreply 8December 26, 2017 1:53 PM

Marlon Brando in his prime was pure sex.

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by Anonymousreply 9December 26, 2017 1:53 PM

R8 Those lips! Those eyes!

by Anonymousreply 10December 26, 2017 1:54 PM

Gene Kelly's athleticism and incredible muscle ass always did it for me!

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by Anonymousreply 11December 26, 2017 1:56 PM

No they weren't. Your nostalgia is taking over.

by Anonymousreply 12December 26, 2017 3:24 PM

Steve Cochran smolders in every scene.

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by Anonymousreply 13December 26, 2017 3:41 PM

Guy Madison was truly preternaturally beautiful. No one looked better in Navy blues than he.

by Anonymousreply 14December 26, 2017 3:46 PM

The truth was a lot of those men were from hard male backgrounds. They’d fought in wars and been in the forces. They were often picked by studios because of their looks, but had a genuine uneffected quality about themselves too. Brando clearly wasn’t vain. Notice how he never battled the weight gain and grew to the size of a house.

Most Male actors today are playing at everything. They like to make out they are super masculine, but they would all have been dancing around in the Glee clubs at High School.

by Anonymousreply 15December 26, 2017 3:54 PM

Every time I look at Robert Mitchum, I think of sex.

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by Anonymousreply 16December 26, 2017 3:58 PM

For me, the sexiness is less tied to vanity, which I find ultimately unmasculine and so calculated that it subtracts from any primal appeal, which in my case, supersedes everything else.

Look at Mitchum and his body. No trainer. Probably not much in the way of a gym. But he exudes sexuality from the way he moves and from even the look in his eyes.

I compare this to the contemporary actors who make me hot, highest on the list being Jon Bernthal, who forces me to sit through all of the violence of The Punisher just to see him swagger around on the screen. But even he has the predictable gym body required for a leading role like this.

Mitchum is just manly bulk and sexual energy.

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by Anonymousreply 17December 26, 2017 4:08 PM

I also came here to post Mitchum! The epitome of masculine.

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by Anonymousreply 18December 26, 2017 4:11 PM

[quote] For me, the sexiness is less tied to vanity, which I find ultimately unmasculine and so calculated that it subtracts from any primal appeal, which in my case, supersedes everything else.

Yes to all of this. Gym bodies are vain and almost prissy. I watched "Hell In the Pacific" a few weeks ago and both Lee Marvin and Toshiro Mifune had shirtless scenes. I marvelled that these were two of the biggest tough-guy action stars of their day, yet would be laughed out of a gym and/or DL today for not looking like 'roided up clones. And yet, you knew that these guys were actually strong as hell and could kick the asses of 10 IG gym hos without breaking a sweat.

(And yes, both of them are infinitely sexier than all of the Ryans, Zacs, and Bland Chrises in Hollywood today.)

by Anonymousreply 19December 26, 2017 4:17 PM

Even the character actor/villain types who weren't expected to be mega-masculine were sexier then. Witness Basil Rathbone or Conrad Veidt vs. Cumberbatch or Hiddleston.

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by Anonymousreply 20December 26, 2017 5:42 PM

R13 Cochran also was suppose to have possessed a 10" cock

Here's Errol Flynn

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by Anonymousreply 21December 26, 2017 5:51 PM

This is Errol's son Sean

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by Anonymousreply 22December 26, 2017 5:52 PM

& this is Errol's grandson Luke

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by Anonymousreply 23December 26, 2017 5:52 PM

Dana Andrews

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by Anonymousreply 24December 26, 2017 5:55 PM

Steve McQueen.

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by Anonymousreply 25December 26, 2017 6:08 PM

R22 R23 all hot!

by Anonymousreply 26December 26, 2017 6:08 PM

Buster Crabbe is stunning at R8. Beautiful yet very and self-assuredly masculine.

by Anonymousreply 27December 26, 2017 6:09 PM

[post redacted because linking to dailymail.co.uk clearly indicates that the poster is either a troll or an idiot (probably both, honestly.) Our advice is that you just ignore this poster but whatever you do, don't click on any link to this putrid rag.]

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by Anonymousreply 28December 26, 2017 6:12 PM

Paul Newman

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by Anonymousreply 29December 26, 2017 6:13 PM

Sean Flynn disappeared in Cambodia in 1970. At least he lived long enough to pass on those gorgeous Flynn genes.

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by Anonymousreply 30December 26, 2017 6:16 PM

Sean Connery

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by Anonymousreply 31December 26, 2017 6:16 PM

The male movie stars of today pale by comparison—in every way.

by Anonymousreply 32December 26, 2017 6:18 PM

You know who...

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by Anonymousreply 33December 26, 2017 6:19 PM

James Garner was one of the last of Hollywood's real men.

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by Anonymousreply 34December 26, 2017 6:21 PM

^^With an ass that wouldn’t quit.

by Anonymousreply 35December 26, 2017 6:21 PM

Who the heck is "you know who" at R33?

by Anonymousreply 36December 26, 2017 6:23 PM

Even tv stars back then were just the end-all, be-all. I watch LARAMIE everyday and John Smith and Robert Fuller consistently make me swoon. Smith had some of the biggest, most ever-present VPL I’ve ever seen, and Fuller had an ass you could balance two drinks on.

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by Anonymousreply 37December 26, 2017 6:24 PM

DL fave Jon Erik-Hexum, of course.

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by Anonymousreply 38December 26, 2017 6:26 PM

Jacques Sernas

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by Anonymousreply 39December 26, 2017 6:28 PM

R36

it's ROBERT CONRAD

by Anonymousreply 40December 26, 2017 6:28 PM

Steve Reeves

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by Anonymousreply 41December 26, 2017 6:29 PM

[quote]Who the heck is "you know who" at [R33]?

Are you kidding? That is Robert THE Conrad from the tv series The Wild Wild West, the man whose ass in tight pants was probably responsible for many a gay man’s early sexual awakening.

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by Anonymousreply 42December 26, 2017 6:29 PM

Steve Reeves as iconic Hercules.

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by Anonymousreply 43December 26, 2017 6:30 PM

Scott Eastwood

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by Anonymousreply 44December 26, 2017 6:31 PM

Reeves was beautiful

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by Anonymousreply 45December 26, 2017 6:32 PM

Ed Fury

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by Anonymousreply 46December 26, 2017 6:32 PM

as was Ed Fury, still living, now 89

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by Anonymousreply 47December 26, 2017 6:33 PM

Thanks, R40. Now I see it.

by Anonymousreply 48December 26, 2017 6:33 PM

DL doesn't show the full pic in preview windows anymore. Ed Fury

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by Anonymousreply 49December 26, 2017 6:34 PM

Thanks for the pic, R42. I'll never forget him again. Yum!

by Anonymousreply 50December 26, 2017 6:35 PM

Warren Beatty

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by Anonymousreply 51December 26, 2017 6:36 PM

Mike Henry

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by Anonymousreply 52December 26, 2017 6:37 PM

Chris Evans

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by Anonymousreply 53December 26, 2017 6:39 PM

jerry lewis

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by Anonymousreply 54December 26, 2017 6:43 PM

Many male stars used to look like MEN. They were tall and broad and solid. They looked like they could chop wood and change a tire. (Some of the pictures are of men (especially the short ones), not MEN, just men.) I’m not saying they looked like they were a brute, but they were masculine while so many men are not. For example, James Garner was all MAN. And, he was supposed to be a great person and was a liberal. My kind of MAN.

by Anonymousreply 55December 26, 2017 7:08 PM

Sterling Hayden makes me feel funny down there.

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by Anonymousreply 56December 26, 2017 7:14 PM

It's true, stars don't look like men anymore. They look like overdeveloped children and adolescents.

by Anonymousreply 57December 26, 2017 7:40 PM

There was the talent for acting and most were very attractive, but many were good looking in a "guy next door" way. In addition to that, they seemed to have a certain charm, a "folksiness".

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by Anonymousreply 58December 26, 2017 7:51 PM

Since when are Chris Evans and Scott Eastwood stars of Hollywood's Golden Age?

by Anonymousreply 59December 26, 2017 7:55 PM

Madison again

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by Anonymousreply 60December 26, 2017 8:00 PM

Basil Rathbone was kind of sexy.

by Anonymousreply 61December 26, 2017 8:12 PM

Lex Barker. He was a fucker, but he was very toothsome.

by Anonymousreply 62December 26, 2017 8:20 PM

If anyone is really interested in the Golden Age stars, I'd recommend a book of George Hurrell's photos. He was a genius and produced all those beautiful black and white photos and could make the relatively plain Jimmy Stewart and ugly James Cagney look elegant and handsome.

by Anonymousreply 63December 26, 2017 8:23 PM

All the way to 62 and no mention of...

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by Anonymousreply 64December 26, 2017 8:24 PM

...or

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by Anonymousreply 65December 26, 2017 8:25 PM

No. They all had dad bods mostly and some of them looked old as hell while playing opposite like 15 year old girls.

by Anonymousreply 66December 26, 2017 8:25 PM

Aren't there at least 10 Ratboy Chalamet threads where you'd feel more at home, R66?

by Anonymousreply 67December 26, 2017 8:28 PM

15 year old girls were not really cast into a lot of leading roles back then R66 and if they were they were paired with Mickey Rooney.

Don't forget Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.

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by Anonymousreply 68December 26, 2017 8:29 PM

I think you are right, R55. Some of them have extremely beautiful faces, like R56, but they are men.

by Anonymousreply 69December 26, 2017 8:30 PM

If you want the clueless here to get excited about Aldo Ray, r64, you're going to have to do better than that bland head shot.

by Anonymousreply 70December 26, 2017 8:30 PM

[quote]Since when are Chris Evans and Scott Eastwood stars of Hollywood's Golden Age?

I was wondering the same thing.

[quote]DL fave Jon Erik-Hexum, of course

He doesn’t belong here either.

Could people please include names? I have no idea who R64 or R65 are and I appreciate R36 asking who R33 is because I didn’t know that either.

by Anonymousreply 71December 26, 2017 8:34 PM

R65 is Cary Grant R71. Sheesh, surely you've heard of him??

by Anonymousreply 72December 26, 2017 8:36 PM

Ok, here's a non-bland head shot, R70:

by Anonymousreply 73December 26, 2017 8:37 PM

Ok, here's a non-bland head shot, R70:

by Anonymousreply 74December 26, 2017 8:37 PM

Ok, here's a non-bland head shot, R70:

by Anonymousreply 75December 26, 2017 8:37 PM

Yes, I know who Cary Grant is. Sorry, R72, I had several tabs open at once, he’s one of the people I did recognize.

by Anonymousreply 76December 26, 2017 8:39 PM

Sorry, DL must have had another of its many spaz attacks. Roll on non-bland head shot of Aldo Ray:

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by Anonymousreply 77December 26, 2017 8:41 PM

Dick Powell in all those early musicals seems as horny as a jack-rabbit.

by Anonymousreply 78December 26, 2017 8:45 PM

Topless in God's Little Acre-still hot in his downhill slide in the early 60s.

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by Anonymousreply 79December 26, 2017 8:45 PM

He was a terrible ham (like his distant cousin Edward G Robinson, he came up in Yiddish theatre) but Paul Muni in Scarface crackles with sexual allure. One of Warner top stars all through the 30s.

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by Anonymousreply 80December 26, 2017 8:47 PM

Ben Gazara

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by Anonymousreply 81December 26, 2017 8:50 PM

People whose only knowledge of Henry Fonda was as Jane's dad in On Golden Pond probably have no idea what a babe he once was:

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by Anonymousreply 82December 26, 2017 8:55 PM

The problem these days is we don't have screen "idols" like they did back then.

by Anonymousreply 83December 26, 2017 8:58 PM

Not convinced by most of these posts. 25% at best are hot. Some are actually unattractive.

by Anonymousreply 84December 26, 2017 9:02 PM

Kerwin Mathews was handsome, and gay as well. Guy Madison was amazing.

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by Anonymousreply 85December 26, 2017 9:10 PM

Here's a picture of me and Jim Garner. You can't see me but I'm on the sand presenting the hole he's about to putt his balls into. A really fun, lighthearted day for us.

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by Anonymousreply 86December 26, 2017 9:56 PM

He wasn't so much a movie star, but "Cheyenne's" Clint Walker was so sexy in his prime, I want to climb him and ride him like a bronco.

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by Anonymousreply 87December 26, 2017 10:14 PM

Robert Mitchum

by Anonymousreply 88December 26, 2017 10:26 PM

88 posts before any mention of James Dean?

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by Anonymousreply 89December 26, 2017 11:23 PM

James Dean's career came and ended at the tail end of the Golden Age of Hollywood. Plus he was a pocket bi and played the bongos. Big no-nos for the DL.

by Anonymousreply 90December 26, 2017 11:31 PM

R30 Negative. Sean did not have any children. The grandson Luke was through one of Errol's daughters. Sean was Errol's only son.

by Anonymousreply 91December 26, 2017 11:46 PM

I made an effort to watch this film because it introduced Bob Moseley (aka the gorgeous Guy Madison).

He was the pretty boy and the other characters talked about how pretty he was.

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by Anonymousreply 92December 26, 2017 11:47 PM

Guy Madison's cameo appearance in Since You Went Away was not unlike Robert Wagner's in With a Song in My Heart.

Brief but unforgettable. A star is born!

by Anonymousreply 93December 27, 2017 12:01 AM

R92 and R93 - the story behind Guy Madison's appearance in that film is interesting. Gay agent Henry Willson (who was responsible for the careers of Rock Hudson, Farley Granger, Robert Wagner, and other hunks of the day) spotted Guy Madison in the audience of a theater. Guy was on leave during WWII. Henry was so struck by him that he put him in that small role, then Guy went back to serve out his military duty.

When the movie came out, the studio received thousands of letters asking who the handsome soldier in that bowling alley scene was. So Henry Willson contacted Guy, and when his tour of duty was up, Guy came to Hollywood and a movie star was born.

by Anonymousreply 94December 27, 2017 12:54 AM

^ He was impossibly gorgeous but the fools didn't know what to do with him. You don't need much acting skill to be in a movie. Gregory Peck was well-handled and became a star.

by Anonymousreply 95December 27, 2017 12:57 AM

Guy must have been the first of Willson's boys if he was discovered during WWII.

by Anonymousreply 96December 27, 2017 12:58 AM

R65 Aldo was sexy as hell in his prime:

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by Anonymousreply 97December 27, 2017 12:58 AM

Madison's 5 minutes in SINCE YOU WENT AWAY. He never became ore than a tolerable actor but what a great looking man !

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by Anonymousreply 98December 27, 2017 12:59 AM

This dream sequence featuring Aldo Ray in "The Marrying Kind" got me instantly horny. When his shirt rode up like that, I was in love:

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by Anonymousreply 99December 27, 2017 1:01 AM

There's a lot of tension between the guys that clip. They has probably hooked up earlier at the local bathhouse.

by Anonymousreply 100December 27, 2017 1:06 AM

R98 His acting was awful in that, but given the fact that he hadn't an ounce of acting experience and had never been in front of a camera before, it's understandable. Fortunately, he got better over time.

But that moment at 1:00 where he smiles and looks up at the ceiling...I mean, who wouldn't fall in love with him then?

by Anonymousreply 101December 27, 2017 1:10 AM

R101 yes, he looks little a young angel

by Anonymousreply 102December 27, 2017 1:14 AM

Guy's acting is terrible! That entire scene is so weird, like there's some agenda in it but I don't know what it could be.

And his sailor uniform looks like it was painted on him, it's so tight.

by Anonymousreply 103December 27, 2017 2:54 AM

We do this thread 2x a year. The thread title is just a pretext. It's pleasant enough. What will happened when all you geezers die and the new elder gays will post pictures of Brad Pitt from the great old days of cinema, the 1990's?

by Anonymousreply 104December 27, 2017 3:05 AM

[quote]Could people please include names? I have no idea who [R64] or [R65] are and I appreciate [R36] asking who [R33] is because I didn’t know that either.

Boy, are you CLUELESS!

by Anonymousreply 105December 27, 2017 5:24 AM

John Smith “Laramie” VPL

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by Anonymousreply 106December 27, 2017 5:28 AM

Ass and more VPL

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by Anonymousreply 107December 27, 2017 5:29 AM

Aldo Ray was a hot, hairy, beefy piece of ass, and his son Eric DaRe (Leo from “Twin Peaks”) took after him in all of those departments.

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by Anonymousreply 108December 27, 2017 5:33 AM

Guy Madison was one of those one in a billion beauties. I like Rory Calhoun a lot too.

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by Anonymousreply 109December 27, 2017 5:39 AM
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by Anonymousreply 110December 27, 2017 5:41 AM

Van Williams was sex

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by Anonymousreply 111December 27, 2017 5:43 AM

It seemed like there was a more "mature" sexiness. You still see it occasionally today, not not as much; not that there aren't plenty of good looking men. The lack of HD probably helped as well.

by Anonymousreply 112December 27, 2017 7:10 AM

Love him or hate him, prime Alec Baldwin had a lot of of that Golden Age look.

by Anonymousreply 113December 27, 2017 7:15 AM

It's interesting because all of these Golden Age photos are hot as hell and seem to speak to a difference in sexiness - less vain, less forced, more naturally masculine, more mature. Yet, as someone upthread said, the creation of stars and movies involved a great deal of artifice even back then.

by Anonymousreply 114December 27, 2017 7:18 AM

Guy got leathery fast. Was briefly married to poor beautiful Gail Russell, who died at 36 of alcoholism.

by Anonymousreply 115December 27, 2017 8:37 AM

I'm surprised there is no love for Clark Gable here. He was the King of Hollywood in the Golden Age. He had beautiful eyes, a gorgeous body and great masculine charisma.

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by Anonymousreply 116December 27, 2017 8:56 AM

More Gable

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by Anonymousreply 117December 27, 2017 9:07 AM

R114 true

by Anonymousreply 118December 27, 2017 9:21 AM

Gable is not sexy to men. Too smug, with weaselly features. Plus wore wooden false teeth.

by Anonymousreply 119December 27, 2017 9:25 AM

Gary Lockwood and Keir Dullea in Space Odyssey.

Dullea still looks good.

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by Anonymousreply 120December 27, 2017 9:29 AM

Sexy Steve McQueen always looks like he wanted his cock sucked. Wonder which mens got to do it on your knees

by Anonymousreply 121December 27, 2017 9:39 AM

'Golden Age,' R120. Not '1969.'

by Anonymousreply 122December 27, 2017 9:48 AM

In the Golden Age all men had dark hair.

by Anonymousreply 123December 27, 2017 9:51 AM

Op - there were truckloads of amazing looking, sexy leading men in the Golden Age of Hollywood - no denying it!

There was less plastic surgery then as well - so you were usually seeing the authentic, natural product (other than a lot of false teeth! Dentures were a lot more prevalent!).

But the downside was that they didn’t last as long. Hot young physiques turned into dad bods relatively quickly. And with the smoking, drinking and time spent in the sun - skin was damaged prematurely. Take a look at leads like Robert Taylor and Tyrone Power when they were in their mid twenties. By mid-late thirties - their looks really began to slide. Ditto Errol Flynn.

There’s still plenty of very handsome guys around in movies today. And lotsa sexy ones too. BUT there’s also a lot of youth worship and infantilising of pretty young things. So you get someone like Ryan Phillipe or Zac Efron. They look like pretty, non threatening teenage boys - even as they end up in their mid/late thirties and beyond.

There’s an anecdote about William Holden. He was really a hot young guy. But didn’t get many good roles or chances when young. When he bemoaned this, one of the directors told him he was too pretty and wouldn’t get better parts until his face got older and developed some character.

Completely different paradigm now. Smooth and line free is the goal. It’s just a different time and aesthetic.

by Anonymousreply 124December 27, 2017 11:22 AM

Good G-d, Guy Madison’s acting in that clip was terrible. But the motherfucker was emanating pure sex.

I can easily see how Henry Wilson scooped him out of a crowd.

by Anonymousreply 125December 27, 2017 12:07 PM

Shirtless Rory Calhoun.

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by Anonymousreply 126December 27, 2017 12:11 PM

R104 Well, thank god we'll all be dead and won't have to witness it.

by Anonymousreply 127December 27, 2017 12:30 PM

Tell that to Gene Raymond, R123.

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by Anonymousreply 128December 27, 2017 12:53 PM

R128 Love how he takes off his towel at the :30 mark, then stands there, arms akimbo, in front of the other guy, as if to say, "Come and get it!"

by Anonymousreply 129December 27, 2017 1:32 PM

R125 Yes, he was awful, but you forgive him because he was so beautiful. His acting got better in "Till the End of Time," and there's a great scene with him shirtless in bed. At the beginning of the scene, his bare leg is hanging out of the bed sheet. So damn hot.

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by Anonymousreply 130December 27, 2017 1:34 PM

R104

Pitt is trash

by Anonymousreply 131December 27, 2017 1:39 PM

Us geezers were too young or not even born when these guys were in their prime.

You'd have to move up to the actors of the 70s for that.

by Anonymousreply 132December 27, 2017 1:40 PM

R123 Guy Madison was blonde. You can see his blonde hair in the clip from "Since You Went Away." His hair was dyed brown for some of his other roles.

by Anonymousreply 133December 27, 2017 1:45 PM

Young hunk Don Defore in opening scenes of It Happened On Fifth Avenue. Gorge biceps and legs as he lies on a bed. Watch carefully and see s bit of balls when he shifts his legs.

by Anonymousreply 134December 27, 2017 1:50 PM

The standards for masculine beauty in terms of body have never been stricter, now being an actor means having a gym membership and 6-pack.

by Anonymousreply 135December 27, 2017 1:53 PM

R134, Don Defore, the dad from Hazel? Never realized he’d been in movies before that. Nice looking, but his character in Hazel was decidedly unsexy. The put-upon husband.

by Anonymousreply 136December 27, 2017 2:50 PM

Not only Don DeFore but also Lyle Talbot! They both played Ozzie Nelson's neighbors in the early 1960s and were quite dowdy.

But if you watch at Lyle in his early 1930's pre-code films he was incredibly sexy and rugged.

by Anonymousreply 137December 27, 2017 2:59 PM

Rory Calhoun had a gorgeous face and hair but looked better with his clothes on, preferably in a jacket with some shoulder pads. He had very weak narrow shoulders. Love him in How to Marry a Millionaire and With a Song in My Heart.

by Anonymousreply 138December 27, 2017 3:01 PM

I would venture to say that many of today's male stars would look more interesting to you all with 1940s/50s grooming and black and white photography.

by Anonymousreply 139December 27, 2017 3:02 PM

The great character actor, Robert Ryan. In real life he was a liberal and a pacifist.

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by Anonymousreply 140December 27, 2017 3:27 PM

Lex Barker was hot as fuck. He was a monster with a huge cock who actually put women and girls in the hospital with it though.

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by Anonymousreply 141December 27, 2017 5:33 PM

R136 in It Happened On Fifth Avenue, Don looks to be in his 20s and is handsome, not dowdy or fat like on Hazel. The glimpse of ball is noteworthy for the era.

by Anonymousreply 142December 27, 2017 5:53 PM

A young Mr. B. Back before I was letting his pants out more than the dog.

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by Anonymousreply 143December 27, 2017 6:06 PM

R143 are you sure that is Don? Does not look like him in the movie, unless he us a teenager in your picture?

by Anonymousreply 144December 27, 2017 6:14 PM

If you ever watch pre-code Tarzan movies with Weismueller you'll notice a bit of nudity especially in one scene where Tarzan and Jane are swimming. I think when the Hayes code kicked in they made Jane's outfit cover a lot more. The original was like a bra and loin cloth.

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by Anonymousreply 145December 27, 2017 6:15 PM

That's not Don Defore, R144.

According to Google reverse image search, the actor pictured at R143 is named Robert Lowrey.

[quote]He became the second actor to play DC Comics' Batman (succeeding Lewis Wilson), starring in a 1949's Batman and Robin serial.

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by Anonymousreply 146December 27, 2017 6:36 PM

Guy Madison was one of the most beautiful men to ever live. And the story is that Rory Calhoun had him, repeatedly.

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by Anonymousreply 147December 27, 2017 6:37 PM

Guy, again.

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by Anonymousreply 148December 27, 2017 6:37 PM

Sorry. Google wasn't up to its usual.

by Anonymousreply 149December 27, 2017 6:38 PM

Found a picture of young Don, he doesn't look much different than he did in the Hazel days.

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by Anonymousreply 150December 27, 2017 6:39 PM

And here's Don Defore a still/screenshot from "It Happened on Fifth Avenue"

I don't think he's anything special but to each his own.

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by Anonymousreply 151December 27, 2017 6:42 PM

Aldo Ray talked about his time on the casting couch when he first arrived in Hollywood.

He knew when a certain producer/director summoned Aldo to his private office what was expected of him. As soon as he entered the office he would lock the door behind him and stand there as he lowered his pants as the P/D advanced towards him on his knees. Aldo said he would think of other things as he was being serviced until the cum ran down the guy's throat. Done for the time being Aldo would pull up his pants, unlock the door and exit until the next call for his presence was made.

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by Anonymousreply 152December 27, 2017 6:47 PM

I remember seeing a publicity pic of a very young Katherine Hepburn with an equally young Joel Mcrea - sitting beside a pool or at the beach or something. The studio must’ve teamed them up as athletic, bright young stars...

He was gorgeous. A decade later - middle aged looking. Nice still - but definitely older than his years

by Anonymousreply 153December 27, 2017 6:53 PM

R152 Cukor? Ray does make a nice impression in a couple of George's films.

by Anonymousreply 154December 27, 2017 7:09 PM

Guy and Rory

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by Anonymousreply 155December 27, 2017 7:15 PM
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by Anonymousreply 156December 27, 2017 7:18 PM
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by Anonymousreply 157December 27, 2017 7:20 PM

R155 Guy really is stunningly beautiful! Do you think he would make it in today’s Hollywood?

by Anonymousreply 158December 27, 2017 7:29 PM

If he met a friendly producer, agent, or directory Guy would make it bigger today than he did then.

by Anonymousreply 159December 27, 2017 7:39 PM

Oh Daddy:

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by Anonymousreply 160December 27, 2017 8:07 PM

Hello:

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by Anonymousreply 161December 27, 2017 8:21 PM

A lot of it was just because he was so good looking but Guy's look really was timeless. He wouldn't have to change a thing to fit in today.

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by Anonymousreply 162December 27, 2017 8:33 PM
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by Anonymousreply 163December 27, 2017 8:34 PM

Hello, Rock Hudson anyone?

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by Anonymousreply 164December 27, 2017 8:43 PM

Lawerence Tierney was both handsome and sexy as hell. He was probably the most fucked up actor ever to be given a role. He was a fan favorite and consistently boiling right under becoming an A lister. It just got to the point the studios couldn't hide his behavior and he just couldn't be hired because of how fucked up he was. He was a very good actor too. He was a true psychopath and it comes through on his stills.

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by Anonymousreply 165December 27, 2017 8:45 PM

Is this the same person who has posted many dozens of photos of Guy Madison, who is indeed handsome but seriously.... stop!

by Anonymousreply 166December 27, 2017 8:46 PM

Another young Rock Hudson

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by Anonymousreply 167December 27, 2017 8:46 PM

Who is that in R160?

by Anonymousreply 168December 27, 2017 9:08 PM

Don Defore was a fat lisping Republican all of his life. I'll never forget the fat fug as a Reagan delegate back in 1980.

R141, you may think you're being funny, but Lex Barker was a perv and a child molester. Not funny.

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by Anonymousreply 169December 27, 2017 9:48 PM

I'm telling you, check out the young Lyle Talbot you DeFore naysayers!!

by Anonymousreply 170December 27, 2017 9:56 PM

Joel McCrea still looked incredibly handsome in The More the Merrier with Jean Arthur in 1944.

by Anonymousreply 171December 27, 2017 9:57 PM

Some eldergays have such long memories R169.

The future is about to eat us all up.

by Anonymousreply 172December 27, 2017 9:59 PM

Tierney's brother Scott Brady had a kind of "big lug" handsomeness.

John Derek was a sexy punk in his first flicks.

by Anonymousreply 173December 27, 2017 10:02 PM

R165, his brother Scott Brady was cuter and was in Johnny Guitar.

Guy Madison had an actor brother named Wayne Mallory, cute in his own way. He's 93.

by Anonymousreply 174December 27, 2017 10:12 PM

And of course we know the "Rory fucking Guy in a car" story, from the Willson bio. W. set up a date for Rory and Lana at some premiere, and her blondeness and his swarthiness make for striking pictures.

by Anonymousreply 175December 27, 2017 11:32 PM

I'm not the person R166 has referred to, but since he gave me order not to post further Guy Madison photos, I will. There. I said it.

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by Anonymousreply 176December 27, 2017 11:52 PM

curb your tongue, r166. this thread has introduced me to guy madison. more, more, more!

by Anonymousreply 177December 27, 2017 11:58 PM

Guy Madison’s beauty would probably make him a bigger star today than he was then. He’d be an Avenger or some kind of superhero. He looks so handsome, he’s almost a walking cartoon.

Lex Barker molested Lana Turner’s daughter, Cheryl Crane, the same one who later stabbed horse-hung Johnny Stompanato to death.

Cheryl Crane’s book, Detour, is one of the best Hollywood biographies I have ever read.

by Anonymousreply 178December 28, 2017 12:07 AM

Guy Madison wasn't much of a star and really not part of the golden age. Henry Willson's boys mostly couldn't act and were mostly for show.

by Anonymousreply 179December 28, 2017 12:12 AM

[quote]mostly couldn't act and were mostly for show.

I fail to see this as a problem.

by Anonymousreply 180December 28, 2017 12:14 AM

R178, As has been mentioned elsewhere, Arlene Dahl, one of Lex's ex's, dispute Cheryl's story. She says Lex was so big,that if he'd screwed the young Cheryl, she would have died.

by Anonymousreply 181December 28, 2017 12:17 AM

Given that the most of them wound up in movies about zipper-backed mutants, you can't really call them stars.

by Anonymousreply 182December 28, 2017 12:17 AM

R160 I love that part!

by Anonymousreply 183December 28, 2017 12:31 AM

^^Oops! I mean the R156 part!

by Anonymousreply 184December 28, 2017 12:32 AM

Guy Madison would have definitely been a big star today. Like a previous poster said, he had a "timeless" look and would be considered hot as hell today.

by Anonymousreply 185December 28, 2017 12:33 AM

R181, we had an entire thread about just that. Even DL thought Arlene Dahl’s comment was beyond the pale.

I just perused the thread and found one comment that particularly struck home. Then I realized that I had written it.

Sometimes I wish we could have a storage cloud full of all the threads we’d ever followed.

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by Anonymousreply 186December 28, 2017 12:43 AM

[quote] Joel McCrea still looked incredibly handsome in The More the Merrier with Jean Arthur in 1944.

A Total Babe in that movie. Especially the scene where he and Jean Arthur are walking down the street, talking. Watch what he's doing and her reactions.

McCrea was a native Californian and supposedly before he went in the movies, he was a kid who hung out at the beach. Many of the daughters of the studio heads thought he was to die for.

by Anonymousreply 187December 28, 2017 12:46 AM

Guy Madison's hotness hurts me.

by Anonymousreply 188December 28, 2017 12:49 AM

R186, funny about the "selfquote." If one does a Block on oneself, can't one then find all of the quotes from various threads? But locating that is tricky, so think before you block.

McCrea was married about 60 years to gorgeous Frances Dee. He was good with Rogers in the underknown "Primrose Path."

by Anonymousreply 189December 28, 2017 12:53 AM

I love how all Henry Wilsson's clients all knew what "the other guys" did to get ahead...but not them. John Saxon, Mike Connors, Tab Hunter, Guy Madison, Rory Calhoun, Rock Hudson, etc. So who exactly WAS putting out for Henry?

On a totally unrelated note, what ever happened to the O Henry candy bar?

by Anonymousreply 190December 28, 2017 12:55 AM

Henry was a good man totally concerned for his clients' welfare and asking for nothing in return.

It's the way Hollywood still works today.

by Anonymousreply 191December 28, 2017 1:00 AM

Troy Donohue?

by Anonymousreply 192December 28, 2017 1:07 AM

Datalounge needs a primer on what constitutes the Golden Age of Hollywood.

by Anonymousreply 193December 28, 2017 1:21 AM

Olivier. Well of course he was prettier when he was younger...bisexual too. Curtis wasn't my type but he was in good shape and like men on the side as well.

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by Anonymousreply 194December 28, 2017 1:31 AM

Lawrence Tierney on one of his nights out. He was such a good actor that when he returned to Hollywood for his comeback as an older actor he was welcomed back with open arms. He was still kind of the same but since he was older he was kind of limited on the damage he could do. He has an impressive list of credits as a newcomer then as an older actor. Rory Calhoun has a lot of rough stories too. He was an actual inmate for a while.

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by Anonymousreply 195December 28, 2017 1:40 AM

Lex Barker was a 3 pack a day smoker and dropped dead at 53.

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by Anonymousreply 196December 28, 2017 1:51 AM

O’Henry is still around, R190, just ask Sue Ellen Mischke, the braless O’Henry candy bar heiress.

[quote]O'Henry? That's one of our top-selling candy bars. It's got chocolate, peanuts, nougat, it's delicious, scrumptious, outstanding!

by Anonymousreply 197December 28, 2017 1:53 AM

Farley Granger.

by Anonymousreply 198December 28, 2017 1:53 AM

Lex looks like a young Alec Baldwin

by Anonymousreply 199December 28, 2017 1:57 AM

Golden Age. Check. Devastatingly handsome and sexy. Check. Amazing actor. Check.

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by Anonymousreply 200December 28, 2017 2:00 AM

R61. Definitely. Basil had that hot and cool quality. One a hell of a fencer too. The trainer responsible for teaching fencing to the stars of the swashbucklers said Basil was the best.

by Anonymousreply 201December 28, 2017 2:07 AM

Aldo Ray ended up doing a non-sexual role in a porno movie. I guess he was really hard up for money.

by Anonymousreply 202December 28, 2017 2:33 AM

Glamourous Heiress

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by Anonymousreply 203December 28, 2017 2:38 AM

Yes, OP. Today, a lot of producers/directors are living out their personal fantasies by having gorgeous actresses falling over leading men that at best look ordinary like themselves.

by Anonymousreply 204December 28, 2017 2:44 AM

I agree that there plenty of actors/stars today who you could do up in Golden Age attire and grooming (get them out of the juvenile clothes and youth-obsessed grooming) and shoot them in black and white and they'd look just as hot or nearly so. The big difference would be the gym bodies.

Also agree that there was a less vain, less forced, more natural masculinity and idea of attractiveness.

And, finally, I agree that while there were a lot of stunning Golden Age men, it often didn't last long. That's not to say that stars today look great forever, but many prevent the dad bod for a longer time. But, if you think about it, do they? There are plenty of "WTF happened?" cases even today.

by Anonymousreply 205December 28, 2017 3:07 AM

Grit cable TV has been showing mini-marathons of "Laramie" for the holidays. Wall to wall VPL's and high tight asses from the two stars , John Smith and Robert Fuller. One of the shows I watched earlier had the two of them fooling around and trying out different Japanese style takedowns and flippings in one of the bedrooms. John Smith was half nekkid and Fuller's shirt was open showing off his magnificent hairy chest as they grappled with one another. Highly Brokebackerish. I was riveted to the screen.

The same episode introduced us to the little boy who joined the cast with Spring Byington coming on board during the next episode.

Maybe TPTB decided two strapping gorgeous hunks living way out in the country all alone was just a little too Brokeback and brought in the cook/little boy to break that up.

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by Anonymousreply 206December 28, 2017 3:15 AM

“Laramie” was truly the original “Brokeback Mountain”. John Smith and Robert Fuller were both drop dead gorgeous. John’s long bow legs were sexy as fuck, as were his lips and that tiny scar on his left cheek. He was also one of Henry Wilsson’s clients. Wilsson foolishly made him adopt the bland stage name when his real name, Robert Errol Van Orden, was much more interesting. John married twice, the second union being a very short one, and never had kids despite some sources online saying he had a daughter. His first wife, the actress Luana Patten, said one of the reasons they divorced was that he often disappeared for days on end without explanation. He later said that if he could’ve changed anything about his life, he would’ve stayed single. I often wonder if he was slipping away so frequently for a little “male companionship.”

After “Laramie” ended, he was handpicked by John Wayne to star opposite him in the film “Ciircus World”. The director reportedly disliked John so much that he vowed to ruin his career, which could be the reason his career petered off afterwards. John was also a heavy drinker, an addiction he inherited and one that led to his later-in-life health issues.

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by Anonymousreply 207December 28, 2017 3:27 AM

Robert Fuller’s bodacious ass gave Robert Conrad’s a run for its money...

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by Anonymousreply 208December 28, 2017 3:35 AM

R196, when informed of his death, Lana Turner said, "What took him so long. "

by Anonymousreply 209December 28, 2017 3:42 AM

Dear R194 I agree that Larry was prettier when he was younger but you need to disabuse yourself that he was bisexual. All this has spread from a ridiculous piece of second hand gossip put out by a foolish American Catholic muckraker who heard that Olivier, John Mills and a big-nosed American comedian spent 3 hours locked in a hotel room rehearsing a comic-dance routine for a charity fund-raising concert .

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by Anonymousreply 210December 28, 2017 3:44 AM

R160

That's Guy Madison at about age 50-55.

by Anonymousreply 211December 28, 2017 5:03 AM

Joseph Schildkraut

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by Anonymousreply 212December 28, 2017 6:00 AM

rock hudson hit on my dad in an antique store on santa monica...

he alwys regretted not doing it.

dad was fun!

by Anonymousreply 213December 28, 2017 6:09 AM

R212 Mr Schildkraut's popularity dissipated somewhat during the Total War of 1939 to '45

by Anonymousreply 214December 28, 2017 6:48 AM

R168: an older Guy Madison.

by Anonymousreply 215December 28, 2017 8:34 AM

Handsome Lex:

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by Anonymousreply 216December 28, 2017 8:43 AM

Male beauty. Today it’s 6-pack, no complains here but I wish Hollywood would bring out all kinds of male beauty.

by Anonymousreply 217December 28, 2017 10:17 AM

R194 you've got to be kidding that Sir Larry wasn't bisexual.

Before anything was said openly about him and Kaye Michael Korda was talking about it. And if anybody knew anything about the British acting colony it was him.

Also everybody thought Brett, Bates and Sir Alec were straight. Ha! Guinness made a fool of himself over Glenn Ford and was arrested for soliciting in a men's room. Tell that to Star Wars fans!

My only thought was what interest did Larry have in Kaye. Yuck.

Also Olivier tried to dissuade Brett strongly from leaving his company to go to the US to do MFL. What was that about?

by Anonymousreply 218December 28, 2017 11:59 AM

R218, R194 said Olivier was bisexual. Look at the post again:

"Olivier. Well of course he was prettier when he was younger...bisexual too."

by Anonymousreply 219December 28, 2017 1:56 PM

Late to the thread. Haven't read through whole thing. If no one else has mentioned this - r30, Sean Flynn had no children. Luke Flynn is the son of one of Errol's daughters (Arnella - her mother was Errol's third wife Patrice Wymore).

by Anonymousreply 220December 28, 2017 2:49 PM

R220

SEE R91

by Anonymousreply 221December 28, 2017 3:59 PM

They were masculine and glamorous, not an easy thing to do. And most of them had marvelous voices.

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by Anonymousreply 222December 28, 2017 4:36 PM

I always thought that Jeff Chandler (born Ira Grossel in 1918) was sexy. He died in 1961.

Fun Fact: One of his earliest roles was as Eve Arden's "crush" - Mr. Boynton, the Biology teacher, on the radio version of Our Miss Brooks. Another actor took the part on the tv series. -

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by Anonymousreply 223December 28, 2017 5:25 PM

R195.....years later, Lawrence Tierney was a hoot as Elaine’s no-nonsense father on Seinfeld.

by Anonymousreply 224December 28, 2017 7:41 PM

I apologize, I meant that for R210 I think.

After awhile if you include poster numbers things sometimes get confusing.

by Anonymousreply 225December 28, 2017 7:50 PM

Lawrence Tierney reminds me of Don Draper.

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by Anonymousreply 226December 28, 2017 7:55 PM

I remember reading - thinking of the post about them all having sexy voices - that some actor back in the fifties was told to go up into the hills, in the middle of nowhere, and scream himself hoarse with the intention of damaging his voice to add "Texture" and "depth" to his vocals. Must have been quite fucking scary for the deer and squirrel hearing a twink shrieking for its life...

by Anonymousreply 227December 28, 2017 7:58 PM

They smoked for that.

by Anonymousreply 228December 28, 2017 8:45 PM

Gregory Peck was beautiful.

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by Anonymousreply 229December 28, 2017 8:53 PM

Peck was male model.

It would have been divine to see Greg and Monty do CMBYN.

by Anonymousreply 230December 28, 2017 8:56 PM

And Peck's voice was deep and sexy masculine.

by Anonymousreply 231December 28, 2017 11:58 PM

Peck was unusually pretty for that time. That look doesn't age well and it didn't with him either. Other than Brando, Paul Newman and the YOUNG Gary Cooper, Clift and Robert Taylor - none of these golden age male stars were as handsome or hot as the dudes of today. I suspect this thread is mostly that weird KELT dude contributions and other gay men over 70. There is nothing sexy about soft bodies, bad teeth and pale skin. Mitchum had it going on for a minute tho. Who was he?

by Anonymousreply 232December 29, 2017 12:15 AM

Lawrence Tierney was a nutjob according to the cast of Seinfeld.

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by Anonymousreply 233December 29, 2017 12:31 AM

Gregory Peck's grandson, Ethan, is very handsome. Genes are genes, y'know.

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by Anonymousreply 234December 29, 2017 12:39 AM

You're nuts if you think Peck didn't age well. He kept it for a long, long time.

by Anonymousreply 235December 29, 2017 12:43 AM

R235 Amen to that! Peck was an exceptionally handsome older man.

by Anonymousreply 236December 29, 2017 12:48 AM

Many of DL would consider Gregory Peck an elder: he was 46 in 'To Kill a Mockingbird' and 53 in 'I Walk the Line'. I'd have thrown my hat on the bed for either of those guys (yeah, some of you will know the scene). And he was a wonderful actor, too. The acting gig holds up longer than the sex idol thing, which is why he continued to work for so long (if anyone recognizes you as an actor, which can be difficult).

by Anonymousreply 237December 29, 2017 12:54 AM

Peck's Tom Rath character in The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit was who Don Draper was based on.

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by Anonymousreply 238December 29, 2017 12:57 AM

Peck not sexy. Silk socks and no sex. And not that handsome after his youth.

by Anonymousreply 239December 29, 2017 1:00 AM

For one thing, they were men and not boys. Robert Mitchum was born in 1917 and was 30 when he starred in Out of the Past. In that photo of Paul Newman, he was probably 40 or more. Now, these actors all think they should win Oscars by the time they are 25.

by Anonymousreply 240December 29, 2017 1:05 AM

The Man in the Grey Flannel Suit is a dreadfully dull film. I watched it as research about 1950s Madison Ave. and was very disappointed, considering it was supposed to be such an iconic and seminal film.

by Anonymousreply 241December 29, 2017 1:07 AM

It was a dreadfully boring film but it was a very good dreadfully boring film.

by Anonymousreply 242December 29, 2017 1:08 AM

I love Jeff Chandler! He really deserves his own thread. Gorgeous hunk.

Do any of you here believe Esther Williams' accusations of transvestism against him? So unfair as they can never be unproven.

by Anonymousreply 243December 29, 2017 1:09 AM

I prefer the Esther William's stories about Buster Crabbe

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by Anonymousreply 244December 29, 2017 1:15 AM

The photo at R244 looks like Hilary Swank.

by Anonymousreply 245December 29, 2017 1:20 AM

Dewey Martin looked like the shy boy next door who could throw down a good fuck.

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by Anonymousreply 246December 29, 2017 1:52 AM

Apt description R246.

by Anonymousreply 247December 29, 2017 4:52 AM

OP, Guy Madison was extremely hot. For about four years.

He shriveled up like a dried prune by 1950-1951, thanks to heavy, heavy smoking.

by Anonymousreply 248December 29, 2017 5:05 AM

I wish John Payne wasn't wearing that diaper:

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by Anonymousreply 249December 29, 2017 11:03 AM

I thought Don Murray was hot and wholesome all at the same time. He was sexy as hell in Bus Stop. It's hard to believe he played the first real gay character (who, of course , slits his own throat) in Advise and Consent.

by Anonymousreply 250December 30, 2017 1:38 AM

r227 You might be thinking of Rock Hudson. He apparently had a very effeminate voice and Henry Willson took him to see someone who told him to wait till he had a cold and then to scream for hours or something like that. It sounds horrific but I guess it worked. I always wondered if Guy Madison did something similar as his voice on film was always unnaturally deep, like it didn't sound like it was his natural voice. That might also explain his poor acting, as he was probably focusing his attention not on the job in hand but rather on trying not to sound like Liberace.

by Anonymousreply 251December 30, 2017 9:18 AM

Lauren Bacall was the one who, upon Howard Hawk's instructions, retreated to the hills above Hollywood and screamed at the top of her lungs for hours each day until she developed that husky voice.

by Anonymousreply 252December 30, 2017 9:30 AM

That is one BIG package Martin Milner is sporting:

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by Anonymousreply 253December 30, 2017 12:11 PM

I don't know about the face, but the rear view of Buster Crabbe as Tarzan was pretty nice!

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by Anonymousreply 254December 30, 2017 12:14 PM

R156 I believe this is the part where, in the 1940s, you looked at Guy and "swooned."

by Anonymousreply 255December 30, 2017 1:27 PM

As a kid I watched reruns of Wild Bill Hickok on TV and never felt anything special for Guy Madison. So I was shocked years later when I re-encountered him in his early films from the late 1940s. Not that he looked homely as Hickok, but he certainly lost that youthful bloom quickly.

by Anonymousreply 256December 30, 2017 2:53 PM

What was Esther Williams’ comment on Buster Crabbe.

I watched a few Flash Gordon serials not so long ago, and was completely knocked out by his beauty and the sexiness he brought to the show.

Outstanding in a loincloth as well.

I don’t think he was much of a thespian, and he didn’t ever break out of b- or c-list status, but he was gorgeous.

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by Anonymousreply 257December 30, 2017 4:55 PM

When men were MEN!

by Anonymousreply 258December 30, 2017 4:57 PM

Even Buster Crabbe’s doll was hot.

I love the arched eyebrow.

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by Anonymousreply 259December 30, 2017 4:59 PM

Buster Crabbe during the 1932 Olympics...

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by Anonymousreply 260December 30, 2017 5:00 PM

Johnny Weissmuller was easy on the eyes.

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by Anonymousreply 261December 30, 2017 5:06 PM

Esther went into great details about Buster and the size of his schlong and how he fucked anything that stood still long enough.

by Anonymousreply 262December 30, 2017 5:36 PM

Buster was really ridiculously hot.

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by Anonymousreply 263December 30, 2017 5:41 PM

As a kid in the 1950s we would go to the Concord Hotel, a resort in the Catskills, and Buster was on display there as a kind of Social Director. I only knew of him from a TV series he did about the Foreign Legion and by then he was mostly past his youthful beauty.

by Anonymousreply 264December 30, 2017 5:42 PM

Too much sun, chlorine, and smoking for Buster to stay beautiful for to long. Yes an Olympic champ who smoked. Still cracks me up.

by Anonymousreply 265December 30, 2017 5:45 PM

Buster in a locker room scene from 1934, lots of nudity from about 8:00 on...

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by Anonymousreply 266December 30, 2017 5:46 PM

Buster Crabbe and Johnny Weismuller are a testament to the appeal of the swimmer’s build.

Ryan Lochte would be a movie star if he were around in the 1930s. A lower echelon star, an incredibly dumb star, a wholly untalented star, but a star.

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by Anonymousreply 267December 30, 2017 5:46 PM

Johnny Weissmuller in his Olympic attire.

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by Anonymousreply 268December 30, 2017 5:48 PM

R268 Tarzan. Big.

by Anonymousreply 269December 30, 2017 6:40 PM

Sexy daddy!

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by Anonymousreply 270December 30, 2017 6:48 PM

Yul Brynner

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by Anonymousreply 271December 30, 2017 7:02 PM

I like this one of Yul better:

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by Anonymousreply 272December 30, 2017 7:23 PM

Honestly these bodies we're seeing now of these older actors are so much sexier than the gym bodies of today.

That picture of John Payne is phenomenal but I still love the moodiness of his boxing ring photo.

by Anonymousreply 273December 30, 2017 7:53 PM

Clark Gable

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by Anonymousreply 274December 30, 2017 8:04 PM

Truly if there ever was a man who was beautiful in looks, it was Tyrone Power

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by Anonymousreply 275December 30, 2017 8:20 PM

Yum.

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by Anonymousreply 276December 30, 2017 8:33 PM

R276 I'll go swimming with you, Cary! You like my swimsuit?

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by Anonymousreply 277December 30, 2017 8:43 PM

Can I join you, John and Cary?

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by Anonymousreply 278December 30, 2017 8:46 PM

Come on in and take a dip with us. We'll have a gay old time!

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by Anonymousreply 279December 30, 2017 8:50 PM

Burt!

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by Anonymousreply 280December 30, 2017 8:54 PM

We’ll be at the pool too!

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by Anonymousreply 281December 30, 2017 8:58 PM

I've definitely noticed that there's a big difference in Americans' bodies now and when I was a teenager. The teenage boys and young men tended to be much leaner: you rarely sought bulky guys except for guys who were really into weight lifting. Now, it seems like both men and women are much bigger. It's been explained to me that it's probably a side effect of the different growth hormones we almost all seem to consume in our foods.

by Anonymousreply 282December 30, 2017 8:59 PM

A better picture of Burt.

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by Anonymousreply 283December 30, 2017 9:00 PM

R281 Don't forget about us! We'll bring he wienies!

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by Anonymousreply 284December 30, 2017 9:01 PM

R283 So what's the story on this stud muffin Burt Lancaster? I've read he was all over the place sexually, including having sex with men and underage kids. Anyone else ever here this?

by Anonymousreply 285December 30, 2017 9:03 PM

^^ I mean, "hear" this?

by Anonymousreply 286December 30, 2017 9:03 PM

R283 - It shows his dick, which is nice. But the photo at R280 is a better one.

by Anonymousreply 287December 30, 2017 9:03 PM

Burt Lancaster enjoyed having a man's tongue up his ass, but wouldn't go all the way with a cock up there.

by Anonymousreply 288December 30, 2017 9:04 PM

Can I come?

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by Anonymousreply 289December 30, 2017 9:05 PM

R289 Only if I can watch!

by Anonymousreply 290December 30, 2017 9:07 PM

The movie 'The Naked Prey' made such an impression on me.

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by Anonymousreply 291December 30, 2017 9:07 PM

R289 Only if I can watch!

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by Anonymousreply 292December 30, 2017 9:07 PM

I bet Gene Kelly was a hot fuck.

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by Anonymousreply 293December 30, 2017 9:11 PM

This is Ken Clark. He played Stewpot in the film of South Pacific. He spent most of his career in B pictures and Italian sword-and-sandal peplums along with some TV work. But he also posed as an "undraped" model for art school students and did some physique photography, as seen here. I've looked in vain for any full frontal shots.

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by Anonymousreply 294December 30, 2017 9:15 PM

R293 Gene Kelly had one of the most athletic bodies and amazing asses of any movie star back in the day. I still drool when I watch his movies and see that muscle butt of his.

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by Anonymousreply 295December 30, 2017 9:16 PM

R294 - Love the hairy body.

by Anonymousreply 296December 30, 2017 9:16 PM

R294 Damn! Hot furry muscle daddy!

by Anonymousreply 297December 30, 2017 9:17 PM

Ken Clark doesn't need full frontal because of his outspoken (so to say) VPL, outlined for us on this web page:

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by Anonymousreply 298December 30, 2017 9:19 PM

R298. Whoa! So those bulge shots are from "Attack of the Giant Leeches." I'm assuming one of those giant leeches was in his pants.

by Anonymousreply 299December 30, 2017 9:22 PM

A young Sean Connery

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by Anonymousreply 300December 30, 2017 9:24 PM

Ken Clark had some YUMMY VPL in South Pacific

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by Anonymousreply 301December 30, 2017 9:24 PM

Did someone say Ken Clark?

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by Anonymousreply 302December 30, 2017 9:25 PM

Sean Connery had been an amateur bodybuilder, which got him cast as a Seabee in a British production of South Pacific. It was his first job in The Show Business.

by Anonymousreply 303December 30, 2017 9:28 PM

R301 I remember that guy now! He was hot in South Pacific!

by Anonymousreply 304December 30, 2017 9:30 PM

Hey, do I count?

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by Anonymousreply 305December 30, 2017 9:45 PM

R167, I do not know who that is, but it's definitely NOT Rock Hudson.

by Anonymousreply 306December 30, 2017 9:52 PM

We need a Hall of DL Patron Saints and Henry Wilson and Joshua Logan need to be in it.

by Anonymousreply 307December 30, 2017 9:53 PM

robert conrad/ wild wild west

and robert horton/wagon train

my first 2 crushes as child

ooh and uncle alvin

by Anonymousreply 308December 30, 2017 10:43 PM

Thomas Tryon (before the writing thing.)

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by Anonymousreply 309December 30, 2017 10:47 PM

R310 Hot father Ron Randell

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by Anonymousreply 310December 30, 2017 10:48 PM

Yowsah!

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by Anonymousreply 311December 30, 2017 10:52 PM

Can someone post some photos of Keith Andes? He definitely belongs in this thread. With that name I wonder if he was one of Henry Willson's boys?

by Anonymousreply 312December 30, 2017 10:57 PM

When I was a little boy and they were both stars, I couldn't really tell Tom Tryon and John Gavin apart. I often confused them. But I knew in my little gay heart I wanted either of them. Badly in bad ways.

Anyone want to google young Jeffrey Hunter, or John Agar, Shirley Temple's first husband? Temple divorced Agar because he used to beat her.

by Anonymousreply 313December 30, 2017 10:59 PM

Keith Andes

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by Anonymousreply 314December 30, 2017 10:59 PM

Even Leslie Nielsen had a hot phase.

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by Anonymousreply 315December 30, 2017 11:01 PM

"Damn it, I was kind of hot for awhile."

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by Anonymousreply 316December 30, 2017 11:03 PM

It's amusing now to think of all the humiliation Clint Eastwood must have endured as a himbo in his early years in Hollywood.

by Anonymousreply 317December 30, 2017 11:05 PM

Yes, R312, Willson is alleged to have "discovered" Rock Hudson, Guy Madison, Rory Calhoun, Clint Walker, Clint Ritchie, Craig Stevens, Chad Everett, John Saxon, Mike Connors, John Derek, John Smith, Nick Adams, Keith Andes, Dack Rambo, Guy Williams, Grant Williams, Van Williams, Robert Wagner, Nick Nolte, John Gavin and Alain Delon.

by Anonymousreply 318December 30, 2017 11:17 PM

Is op's pic a young Professor from Gilligan's Island?

by Anonymousreply 319December 30, 2017 11:20 PM

And Tab Hunter and Troy ue

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by Anonymousreply 320December 30, 2017 11:23 PM

If Troy Donahue can be a movie star, then I can be a movie star....

by Anonymousreply 321December 30, 2017 11:25 PM

Speaking of hairy daddies.

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by Anonymousreply 322December 30, 2017 11:27 PM

Ben-Hur.

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by Anonymousreply 323December 30, 2017 11:28 PM

R319, No, OP's photo is Guy Madison. Here's Russell Johnson (I can see the resemblance).

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by Anonymousreply 324December 30, 2017 11:49 PM

R212 - here is a sexier photo of Joseph Schildkraut.

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by Anonymousreply 325December 31, 2017 12:03 AM

Charlton Heston in a publicity shot from that film he did about a football player. Film had shower room scene. No frontal, just backal.

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by Anonymousreply 326December 31, 2017 12:16 AM

Heston gets a bum rap because of his opinions due to early Alzheimer's but he was one friggin hot guy and an exhibitionist.

No better combo.

by Anonymousreply 327December 31, 2017 12:17 AM

An exhibitionist, indeed, r327. Consummate pro, understood all his assets and not afraid to show them. He loved being a star.

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by Anonymousreply 328December 31, 2017 12:23 AM

Check out Chuck Heston's appearance on What's My Line? in 1956 at the time of the premiere of The Ten Commandments.

Though fully clothed, he couldn't be any hotter. Or dimmer.

by Anonymousreply 329December 31, 2017 12:26 AM

So he was in a film currently playing on Broadway?

by Anonymousreply 330December 31, 2017 12:28 AM

Yes! In one of the big picture houses, r330!!

by Anonymousreply 331December 31, 2017 12:31 AM

Nielsen bulge

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by Anonymousreply 332December 31, 2017 12:32 AM

6’6” Chuck Connors was a tall, lean dish and such a rascal.

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by Anonymousreply 333December 31, 2017 12:35 AM

Chucky had a potty mouth and a dirty sense of humor too

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by Anonymousreply 334December 31, 2017 12:36 AM

The Crawford brothers (Johnny and Bobby) grew up to be cuties

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by Anonymousreply 335December 31, 2017 12:38 AM

Sexy till they day they died! Agree about -

Robert Mitchum

Steve McQueen

James Garner

and especially

Paul Newman

by Anonymousreply 336December 31, 2017 12:46 AM

If I remember correctly, Clint Eastwood was never really passed around. He was discovered by a prominent LA director or producer (maybe Clint Hill?) who became his sugar daddy. He then quickly became a huge overnight success on Rawhide and didn't have to play that game anymore.

by Anonymousreply 337December 31, 2017 12:49 AM

R337, you're right, Eastwood wasn't passed around much due to his sugar daddy *Chuck* Hill but he did spend a few years doing bit parts in both TV and films before he broke out in Rawhide.

by Anonymousreply 338December 31, 2017 1:12 AM

So he didn't have to give any more blow jobs. Well that's a relief.

by Anonymousreply 339December 31, 2017 1:15 AM

Well, for all you guys who like to dish, here's a story involving Chuck Connors, Johnny Crawford, and Charlton Heston. I find it difficult to believe, myself.

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by Anonymousreply 340December 31, 2017 1:29 AM

R313, Jeffrey Hunter

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by Anonymousreply 341December 31, 2017 1:32 AM

R313, John Agar

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by Anonymousreply 342December 31, 2017 1:33 AM

Thank goodness Arthur Freed showed Shirley what to expect so she wouldn't laugh at her husband's big reveal. God knows what he would have done to her then.

by Anonymousreply 343December 31, 2017 1:36 AM

I'm becoming the Buster Crabbe troll but I was so taken by some of his pictures. Here he is as a teen with his younger brother. He grew up in Hawaii. This must have been taken in about 1925. It must have been an idyllic time to grow up in Hawaii.

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by Anonymousreply 344December 31, 2017 2:08 AM

Chuck Connors, "The Rifleman" first became well known in Hollywood for a gay porn loop he made when he first arrived in LA. The "plot" is a sailor standing in front of some bushes cruises cruises a marine. Then they go back into the bushes and fuck the shit out of each other.

Like the alleged Monroe and Crawford (among others) pornos there is (or used to be) much debate about it's authenticity. I saw it. It's very, very obviously Connors. Dates from the late 1940s.

Connors had been a college athlete, primarily a college baseball player. There is a nude photo alleged to be of him after he entered the pro minor leagues. It's obviously not him but sometimes presented as proof it's not him in the porn loop.

It's him.

Meanwhile, here's the cover of a "Rifleman" comic magazine presented without comment. Click to view in full.

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by Anonymousreply 345December 31, 2017 2:19 AM

Hot story R340!

by Anonymousreply 346December 31, 2017 2:20 AM

I saw stills from the Connor's flick.

by Anonymousreply 347December 31, 2017 2:22 AM
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by Anonymousreply 348December 31, 2017 2:23 AM

The Connors movie used to be online but I can’t find it anymore.

by Anonymousreply 349December 31, 2017 2:26 AM

R349 Ask and ye shall receive:

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by Anonymousreply 350December 31, 2017 2:28 AM

Plus there are just regular nudes of connors out there. No interaction just him nude.

by Anonymousreply 351December 31, 2017 2:29 AM

^^thanks R350!

by Anonymousreply 352December 31, 2017 2:30 AM

Darn, the Chuck porn link doesn’t work.

by Anonymousreply 353December 31, 2017 2:31 AM
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by Anonymousreply 354December 31, 2017 2:31 AM

R340 I believe it. I'm 99% sure it's Chuck Connors in that porn loop, so it would make perfect sense he'd host a gay sex party,

by Anonymousreply 355December 31, 2017 2:36 AM

R353 Try this one:

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by Anonymousreply 356December 31, 2017 2:38 AM

I'm surprised there's no Burt Lancaster porn rolling around out there. That guy fucked EVERYTHING. Apparently sometimes it didn't matter if the participants were willing. He was a real shit head.

by Anonymousreply 357December 31, 2017 2:38 AM

R357, see R285.

by Anonymousreply 358December 31, 2017 2:40 AM

I saw Connors' gay porno back in the 1970s in a clear 16mm print, long before the internet. No doubt it was him as opposed to the blurred internet copies.

by Anonymousreply 359December 31, 2017 2:40 AM

R353 That looks a lot like Connors.

by Anonymousreply 360December 31, 2017 2:41 AM

From the silent era: Rudolph Valentino.

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by Anonymousreply 361December 31, 2017 2:41 AM

Wallace Reid is considered to be Hollywood's first male sex symbol.

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by Anonymousreply 362December 31, 2017 2:45 AM

Publicity photo of the bisexual Rudolph Valentino. Click to reveal the full glory.

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by Anonymousreply 363December 31, 2017 2:49 AM

R362 He'd be beautiful today!

by Anonymousreply 364December 31, 2017 2:50 AM

That Chuck Connors porn loop is totally convincing. The only things that would make me believe it’s not him are the hands (Chuck had long, bony, oddly shaped fingers and the man in the loop doesn’t) and the guy doesn’t seem as tall as CC. Other than that, the face is totally Chuck.

by Anonymousreply 365December 31, 2017 2:52 AM

Johnny Crawford nude

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by Anonymousreply 366December 31, 2017 2:53 AM

R365 I definitely think it's Chuck, and not wishful-thinking-wise. It's the face - Chuck Connor's face was very distinctive, and the guy in the loop looks exactly like him. As far as the fingers, Chuck's could have become misshapen with age (arthritis), but as a young guy, they may have been perfectly fine.

by Anonymousreply 367December 31, 2017 2:55 AM

R366 Johnny had some amazing abs!

by Anonymousreply 368December 31, 2017 2:56 AM

Robert Fuller has a cute lookalike son named Patrick...

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by Anonymousreply 369December 31, 2017 3:00 AM

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by Anonymousreply 370December 31, 2017 3:01 AM

Wallace Reid 1912. I always found the silent era in Hollywood to be the most interesting. It's too bad so much of its history is lost.

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by Anonymousreply 371December 31, 2017 3:03 AM

George O'Brien. One of the few silent film stars that were able to transfer to talkies.

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by Anonymousreply 372December 31, 2017 3:09 AM

O'Brien and Reed both had looks that would work today - transcendent. Just beautiful.

by Anonymousreply 373December 31, 2017 3:11 AM

Wallace Reid was one of the first, if not the first, American male film sex symbols. Impossibly gorgeous. Unfortunately he became addicted to morphine after recovering from an onset accident and eventually died of an overdose despite having entered rehab. Some sources say he was the original Arrow Collar Man as depicted by J.C. Leyendecker but other sources don't acknowledge this.

Typical but not first Arrow Collar Man. Oh, Daddy:

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by Anonymousreply 374December 31, 2017 3:11 AM

George was a hot slab of beef.

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by Anonymousreply 375December 31, 2017 3:13 AM

George O'Brien semi-nude. Lot's of others out there if you want to Google.

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by Anonymousreply 376December 31, 2017 3:15 AM

Cal Bolder!

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by Anonymousreply 377December 31, 2017 3:16 AM

Edson Stroll

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by Anonymousreply 378December 31, 2017 3:17 AM

If you believe Esther, she enjoyed a parade of gorgeous huge cocks.

by Anonymousreply 379December 31, 2017 3:18 AM

Though nearly forgotten like all of the silent film start, though not the first sex symbol, Francis X. Bushman was considered the first "superstar". Pretty much no one knows him today. He was an early bodybuilder. He posed for a ton of statues that are still on display in NYC. Alas pretty much totally forgotten.

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by Anonymousreply 380December 31, 2017 3:18 AM

R253, why do you think that they called his show "Adam 12"?

by Anonymousreply 381December 31, 2017 3:26 AM

Joe Bonomo. Early 20th century weight lifter and professional strongman. Became a stuntman and bit player in early Hollywod.

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by Anonymousreply 382December 31, 2017 3:29 AM

Joe Bonomo.

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by Anonymousreply 383December 31, 2017 3:30 AM

r362 is George O'Brien, not Wallace Reid, FWIW.

Edson Stroll! Now that's a great addition to this thread. Can I tell you how many hours of the insufferable McHale's Navy I watched just to get a weekly glimpse of the shirtless Edson? Somebody behind the scenes on that series sure knew how to lure the young gaylings in.

by Anonymousreply 384December 31, 2017 3:31 AM

Joe Bonomo. Bought this at The Strand bookstore back in the early 1970s and fapped to the pictures many times. Pre-internet or even Times Square dirty bookstore, dontcha know.

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by Anonymousreply 385December 31, 2017 3:39 AM

Francis X. Bushman and Ramon Navarro in the original silent version of Ben Hur for r380. Navarro was famously murdered by street hustler brothers he picked up decades later, although the Valentino-gifted dildo story is mostly untrue.

Bushman was indeed a fabulous hunk and one of the greatest stage matinee idols of his day. I have seen much more revealing photos of him but they don't show up on Google. He was a favorite of legendary early silent director D.W. Griffith.

by Anonymousreply 386December 31, 2017 4:02 AM

^ Sorry, forgot the pic link.

by Anonymousreply 387December 31, 2017 4:04 AM

Well, sorry, one more time:

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by Anonymousreply 388December 31, 2017 4:06 AM

^ I love Francis' hat.

by Anonymousreply 389December 31, 2017 4:07 AM

Paul Newman

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by Anonymousreply 390December 31, 2017 4:25 AM

"Damn I was hot."

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by Anonymousreply 391December 31, 2017 4:26 AM

Another photo of Francis X. Bushman. This one shows off his physique better. Those arms!

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by Anonymousreply 392December 31, 2017 4:28 AM

Nice arms but he's wearing more mascara than Theda Bara!

by Anonymousreply 393December 31, 2017 4:29 AM

They had to wear lots of mascara back in those days because lighting was so primitive.

And (as you know) sets showing the interior of a house were filmed outdoors in California because sunlight was more reliable than the expensive arc lamps.

by Anonymousreply 394December 31, 2017 4:34 AM

R393, But so tastefully applied. He was Messala in the first "Ben Hur," opposite gay Ramon Navarro. Stephen Boyd was in the second one, with the gay subtext.

by Anonymousreply 395December 31, 2017 4:36 AM

Some Bushman statues

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by Anonymousreply 396December 31, 2017 4:43 AM

I knew someone many years who claimed he tricked for Navarro. This was in the early 80s and the guy was in his 30s so if he was a teenage hustler it works out.

Said he was a sweetheart, knew the hustlers who killed him and they were scum and I asked him if Navarro and Rudolf had been lovers and he said yes.

by Anonymousreply 397December 31, 2017 6:23 AM

Tyrone Power and Henry Fonda in Jesse James. They had great male candy in that movie. Randolph Scott was the sheriff.

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by Anonymousreply 398December 31, 2017 7:52 AM

Joel McCrae was a real cutie.

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by Anonymousreply 399December 31, 2017 7:57 AM

I love this picture of Van Williams...

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by Anonymousreply 400December 31, 2017 9:50 AM

If only his wife/manager gave him permission to sign on with Star Trek, we wouldn't have been stuck with hambone Shatner for the run of the series.

The wife argued that Hunter was a "movie star" and should not do TV like a peon. Great advice, he eventually did neither.

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by Anonymousreply 401December 31, 2017 10:42 AM

Sorry, bad link at r401,try this one.

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by Anonymousreply 402December 31, 2017 10:46 AM

R377 Cal Bolder was another Henry Willson discovery - his real name was E.C. Craver. He was a CHP officer when Willson spotted him and was impressed by his height and massive build. Thus "Cal Bolder" was born.

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by Anonymousreply 403December 31, 2017 12:20 PM

R378 Edson Stroll - yum! Not only do I remember him from McHale's Navy, but he was also in that iconic Twilight Episode with Donna Douglas, where she plays the "ugly" woman on a planet of full of people with pig faces. She's paired up with another "ugly" person, Edson Stroll, and they go off together to live happily ever after.

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by Anonymousreply 404December 31, 2017 12:25 PM

Great thread! Back then onkh the most handsome beautiful guys would make their way to the stardom. I saw a document where people said back then the streets were full the most handsome and beautiful people trying to get into the business.

by Anonymousreply 405December 31, 2017 12:32 PM

R405 Have you ever read the book "Full Service," by Scotty Bowers? It's pretty poorly written, and I'm not sure all the stories he tells in it are true, but he talks about all the hot WWII servicemen coming to California after the war and hanging out on Hollywood Boulevard, hoping to be discovered.

Rock Hudson would apparently stand in front of his truck in front of the Paramount studio gates all day on his days off from his job, hoping someone studio bigwig would notice him. When Henry Willson did notice, Willson asked him, "What do you wanna be?" Hudson said, "I wanna be a movie star." Willson said he signed him for that very reason. Had Hudson said he wanted to be an "actor," Willson would've passed.

by Anonymousreply 406December 31, 2017 12:39 PM

R400 Yum!

by Anonymousreply 407December 31, 2017 1:42 PM

But R399, Frances called to say he was Europe!

by Anonymousreply 408December 31, 2017 1:55 PM

Yes R404, such a wacky TZ episode! In fact, it just aired on cable here a couple of weeks ago and I recorded it. Edson was so beautiful, and remained handsome as he aged.

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by Anonymousreply 409December 31, 2017 1:59 PM

Francis at R392 has that same “look” that all silent film stars had. I know they wore a ton of makeup, but it’s almost like people in general just looked facially different back then. I think it’s the eyes and the thin lips.

by Anonymousreply 410December 31, 2017 2:01 PM

Van Williams and Bruce Lee horsing around...

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by Anonymousreply 411December 31, 2017 2:07 PM

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by Anonymousreply 412December 31, 2017 2:08 PM

Van and Robert Conrad fucking...err...horsing around...

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by Anonymousreply 413December 31, 2017 2:15 PM

....

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by Anonymousreply 414December 31, 2017 2:15 PM

Hairy chested Kent McCord

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by Anonymousreply 415December 31, 2017 2:23 PM

You want a piece of McQueen.

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by Anonymousreply 416December 31, 2017 2:25 PM

Jack Carson

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by Anonymousreply 417December 31, 2017 2:29 PM

"Thanks for remembering my sweet ass."

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by Anonymousreply 418December 31, 2017 2:33 PM

Me!

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by Anonymousreply 419December 31, 2017 2:36 PM

Robert Reed was dreamy.

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by Anonymousreply 420December 31, 2017 2:48 PM

Reed in uniform.

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by Anonymousreply 421December 31, 2017 2:52 PM

I wish this really was Edson Stroll and Elaine Stritch.

I am going to think that it is.

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by Anonymousreply 422December 31, 2017 3:08 PM

Admit it. I was hot.

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by Anonymousreply 423December 31, 2017 3:14 PM

Funny you should bring up Dennis Weaver, r423. I just happened to come across him as a guest panelist (not the Mystery Guest!) on What's My Line?, filmed in the late 1950s, and was pleasantly shocked to see how dreamy Mr. Weaver was back then.

Looked up some other youtube clips of him to find he was a lanky decathlon athlete in college and he was even sexier with a mustache in his 1970s TV series McCloud. He also appeared to be a well-adjusted and all-around liberal nice guy.

by Anonymousreply 424December 31, 2017 3:23 PM

R424 - Agreed. He looked great with the 'stache.

by Anonymousreply 425December 31, 2017 3:26 PM

Weaver was in hot in his middle age in Spielberg’s DUEL

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by Anonymousreply 426December 31, 2017 3:36 PM

The more famous stars were, the less sexy (my theory!)

I loved Steve Cochran, Van Williams, Edson Stroll, Larry Pennell (Dash Riprock on Beverly Hillbillies).

Two questions: Was Edson the one who was suspected of child porn ,or was it another cast member of McHale's Navy? And weren't there nude photos of Paul Mantee from "Robinson Crusoe On Mars"?

by Anonymousreply 427December 31, 2017 3:52 PM

Edson Stroll played Prince Charming in The Three Stooges Meet Snow White.

by Anonymousreply 428December 31, 2017 4:06 PM

Here you go, R427.

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by Anonymousreply 429December 31, 2017 4:09 PM

Young John Barrymore was so incredibly handsome. He wasn't bad looking into middle age, but unfortunately his drinking caught up with him and it aged him quickly at the end of his life.

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by Anonymousreply 430December 31, 2017 4:15 PM

Barrymore and Errol Flynn were best friends and drinking buddies, with Barrymore often acting as a father figure and mentor to the younger Flynn. They often got into much trouble together, usually fueled by nights of drinking.

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by Anonymousreply 431December 31, 2017 4:17 PM

Just my opinion but I think John Barrymore (even at the height of his "beauty") is the perfect example of a man whose looks DON'T transcend time.

Maybe with modern styling and photography I'd be proved wrong.

by Anonymousreply 432December 31, 2017 4:20 PM

Gilbert Roland generated heat.

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by Anonymousreply 433December 31, 2017 4:23 PM

Joel McCrea was indeed a handsome hunk.

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by Anonymousreply 434December 31, 2017 4:25 PM

Gilbert Roland was HOT well into late middle-age.

by Anonymousreply 435December 31, 2017 4:27 PM

Ricardo Montalban wasn't too shabby.

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by Anonymousreply 436December 31, 2017 4:27 PM

Ray Danton was very handsome.

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by Anonymousreply 437December 31, 2017 4:33 PM

Another one of Joel McCrea

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by Anonymousreply 438December 31, 2017 4:37 PM

This should work

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by Anonymousreply 439December 31, 2017 4:40 PM

Jeffrey Hunter was gorgeous

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by Anonymousreply 440December 31, 2017 4:41 PM

Ray was such a handsome man.

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by Anonymousreply 441December 31, 2017 4:44 PM

But what about Buster Crabbe's son, Cuffy?

by Anonymousreply 442December 31, 2017 4:51 PM

A few I was crazy about as a kid from late 1950s/early 1960s TV who have, as yet, not been mentioned but deserve a little love:

Vince Edwards (Ben Casey)

Rober Horton (Wagon Train) when he recently dies, suddenly there were rumors that he was gay

James Franciscus (Mr. Novak)

Edd Byrnes (Kookie from 77 Sunset Strip)

Lee Patterson (the other brunette hunk on Surfside 6)

Gary Lockwood and Robert Logan (Follow the Sun)

Doug McClure (Checkmate)

Ronnie Burns (George and Gracie's kid)

Will Hutchins (Sugarfoot)

Ty Hardin (Bronco)

And the best beef cake ever CLINT WALKER (Cheyenne); how can we have gotten this far without him being mentioned??

by Anonymousreply 443December 31, 2017 4:52 PM

Not really. They weren't as accessible as today's leading men. It was easier to create a mystique, an image in those years before the internet. That's all. They weren't necessarily more physically attractive.

by Anonymousreply 444December 31, 2017 5:06 PM

Was Edson Stroll gay? Impossibly handsome, beautiful body, never married.

I love this picture - is that Stella Stevens between Edson and the other guy? She's down there at crotch level, wanting what they're packing in their trunks, but the guys only have eyes for each other.

And who's the other hunk?

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by Anonymousreply 445December 31, 2017 5:14 PM

R420 Robert Reed did have beautiful blue eyes.

by Anonymousreply 446December 31, 2017 5:15 PM

R443, Clint Walker was mentioned at R87.

by Anonymousreply 447December 31, 2017 5:24 PM

Gardner McKay, "Adventures in Paradise"

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by Anonymousreply 448December 31, 2017 5:31 PM

How did those nylon trunks smell, there at R445? I remember they could work up a fragrant stank.

by Anonymousreply 449December 31, 2017 5:33 PM

My favorite picture of Buster Keaton...great arms. (With Roscoe Arbuckle and Al St. John.)

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by Anonymousreply 450December 31, 2017 5:33 PM

Gardner McKay is another odd career. Picked randomly because someone with connections saw him and liked his looks. He came from money and quit Hollywood right when he was positioned to become an A lister. He left to concentrate on his photography, sailing around the world, and sculpture I believe.

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by Anonymousreply 451December 31, 2017 5:43 PM

Damn sexy.

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by Anonymousreply 452December 31, 2017 5:48 PM

R406 Thanks for info. Need to read it. I did know there were guys wanting to play in westerns waiting for work outside studios every morning. It means LA was full of young good looking guys waiting to be found. R451 He is really good looking.

by Anonymousreply 453December 31, 2017 6:22 PM

Gardner McKay was a male model who had signed with MGM when Dominick Dunne spotted him and suggested him for his new tv series, Adventures in Paradise. The show ran for several seasons from 1959-1962. Marilyn Monroe handpicked him to play "Adam" to her "Eve," her fellow South Pacific island castaway in Something's Got to Give. This would've been hilarious since his Adventure in Paradise character, Adam Troy, sailed his schooner through the South Pacific. But, alas, Gardner declined and the movie was never completed.

Here's McKay with '50s supermodel Suzy Parker by Richard Avedon:

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by Anonymousreply 454December 31, 2017 6:24 PM

Who was cast as "Adam" opposite MM's "Eve"? Was it Clint Walker? I don't know if any scenes were shot before MM was fired and the film scrapped.

I do know that Chuck Connors ultimately played the role opposite Doris Day when the film was retitled and shot.

by Anonymousreply 455December 31, 2017 6:58 PM

Another of handsome Ray.

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by Anonymousreply 456December 31, 2017 7:03 PM

Clayton Moore aka The Lone Ranger, exhibiting the full basket for Lupe Velez. He was quite the looker behind that mask.

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by Anonymousreply 457December 31, 2017 7:18 PM

Repping for the black men, actor William Marshall (BLACULA) was a looker...

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by Anonymousreply 458December 31, 2017 7:27 PM

R455, the part went to Tom Tryon, and the scene where Dean Martin first spots "Adam" at the yacht club was shot.

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by Anonymousreply 459December 31, 2017 7:30 PM

George Peppard was hot

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by Anonymousreply 460December 31, 2017 7:39 PM

Harry Belafonte

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by Anonymousreply 461December 31, 2017 7:46 PM

They are all plastic, hairless man-boy children now.

by Anonymousreply 462December 31, 2017 7:54 PM

I had never heard of or seen Ray Danton until a few years ago when I took A Majority of One out of the library.

Even with his glasses I was wondering who the hell is that unbelievably gorgeous guy.

He must have driven Guinness bonkers especially during the swimming pool scene on the ship.

by Anonymousreply 463December 31, 2017 7:55 PM

I never heard of Ray Denton until this thread. Wow.

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by Anonymousreply 464December 31, 2017 7:58 PM

The late Sir Alec was discreet.

99% of the population knew nothing of his THREE indiscretions until three years after his passing.

by Anonymousreply 465December 31, 2017 8:02 PM

Yes unlike Gielgud's arrest for soliciting which became public news Sir Alec was able to keep his arrest quiet.

by Anonymousreply 466December 31, 2017 8:11 PM

James Edwards, Poitier's precursor, would have been worth some jail time. Edwards' alleged affair with Lana Turner derailed his career.

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by Anonymousreply 467December 31, 2017 8:35 PM

Harry was better before his nose job. But his hairline was always problematic.

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by Anonymousreply 468December 31, 2017 8:47 PM

Speaking of Shari Belafonte...

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by Anonymousreply 469December 31, 2017 9:05 PM

Ray was just my type of guy physically. I had never known of him until a couple of years ago as well.

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by Anonymousreply 470December 31, 2017 9:08 PM

We all know Sam Elliott is gorgeous with a mustache. Who knew he was so hot when he was young and clean shaven?

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by Anonymousreply 471December 31, 2017 9:32 PM

Mickey Hargitay was a real doll. Hot!

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by Anonymousreply 472December 31, 2017 9:40 PM

And that body. Yum!

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by Anonymousreply 473December 31, 2017 9:41 PM

Speaking of Ray Danton, has anyone seen that awful The Beat Generation, with Ray as the beatnik baddie, opposite Mamie Van Doren and hot dish Steven Cochran?

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by Anonymousreply 474December 31, 2017 9:41 PM

Jayne got this big slab of beef all to herself. Bitch!

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by Anonymousreply 475December 31, 2017 9:48 PM

Ray Danton and wife Julie Adams were the B-movie glamour couple on the Universal lot. Despite both landing lead roles in major pictures during their lengthy careers, neither broke through to the A-list like fellow Universal players Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh.

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by Anonymousreply 476December 31, 2017 10:01 PM

Ray Danton was unquestionably hot but his look and demeanor always came off a little too "gangster greasy" to afford him leading man status in the America of the 1950s. He might have had better success had he started out in the 1970s under the directorial guidance of Scorsese and Coppola.

by Anonymousreply 477December 31, 2017 10:33 PM

Danton really looks like Alec Baldwin.

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by Anonymousreply 478December 31, 2017 10:37 PM

It was probably the roles he played because in Majority of One and having no knowledge of him beforehand in no way does he come off like that.

He's really very good in it despite his devastatingly good looks being a bit of a distraction.

by Anonymousreply 479December 31, 2017 11:06 PM

R471 you are so late!

by Anonymousreply 480December 31, 2017 11:16 PM

R33, You would enjoy this "Columbo":

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by Anonymousreply 481January 1, 2018 11:51 AM

R481 Conrad was hot even in middle age. That Columbo episode is just one big homoerotic love letter to his fans.

by Anonymousreply 482January 1, 2018 11:56 AM

Goodness! How old was Conrad in that Columbo? He still looked mighty fine.

by Anonymousreply 483January 1, 2018 1:52 PM

Victor Mature in his Coast Guard barracks during WWII. No, it's real, not shopped. It's been around for decades. I first saw it back in the 1970s.

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by Anonymousreply 484January 1, 2018 2:29 PM

Yul Brynner has the hottest balls in Hollywood. Victor Mature runs a close second.

by Anonymousreply 485January 1, 2018 2:52 PM

R484 Love this picture! What I wouldn't have given to be on the bottom bunk.

by Anonymousreply 486January 1, 2018 4:58 PM

Anthony Perkins had some sexy moments.

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by Anonymousreply 487January 1, 2018 5:11 PM

Wasn’t Liz Taylor fucking Victor Mature way back?

I thought I remembered some raunchy quote or story from her. I think I read it right here on DL. Can anyone help me with this piece of forgotten history?

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by Anonymousreply 488January 1, 2018 5:13 PM

Fred MacMurray could turn a head or two in his younger days.

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by Anonymousreply 489January 1, 2018 5:15 PM

Fred MacMurray had a big gun.

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by Anonymousreply 490January 1, 2018 5:19 PM

R491 I met Fred MacMurray way back in 1982. He was in his 70s then, but still very handsome.

by Anonymousreply 491January 1, 2018 5:47 PM

R487 I bet Anthony Perkins got passed around to a lot of casting couches during his young, twink stage.

by Anonymousreply 492January 1, 2018 5:48 PM

Liz was a well known size queen so I can believe her having a fling with Victor Mature. People who were puzzled by her relationships with Larry Fortensky and that short Mexican guy, among others, just didn't get it: SIZEMEAT.

by Anonymousreply 493January 1, 2018 5:59 PM

Anthony Perkins was a handsome and ambitious young actor who landed some A-plus roles in Hollywood pictures and on the Broadway stage. His dad Osgood being an established and respected stage and screen actor may have gotten his foot in the door. The casting couch may have sealed the deal.

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by Anonymousreply 494January 1, 2018 6:04 PM

R494 Nice package!

by Anonymousreply 495January 1, 2018 6:09 PM

This photo of Tony Perkins taken by then boyfriend Tab Hunter is everything. That cheshire cat grin makes one think of all the salacious things they were up to that night.

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by Anonymousreply 496January 1, 2018 6:20 PM

Package aside (and it IS nice), his entire lower half is shaped just like a woman’s. Who knew that Tony had a coke bottle figure?

by Anonymousreply 497January 1, 2018 6:20 PM

I agree with you about Perkins' child-bearing hips R497.

He needed a skilled photographer to catch the attractive parts of his face, jawline etc but disguise his skinny torso.

by Anonymousreply 498January 1, 2018 8:51 PM

I suppose Victor Mature's large genitals got him employment the corrupt world of Hollywood because I have always considers him to be as unnattractive as Sylvester Stallone. With the same incompetent acting skill as Stallone.

by Anonymousreply 499January 1, 2018 8:58 PM

Victor Mature was a favorite fling of Esther Williams and she goes into detail about him in her bio Million Dollar Mermaid. The film they made together was also called Million Dollar Mermaid, about the career of Olympic swimmer Gertrude Ederle, first woman to swim the English Channel.

by Anonymousreply 500January 1, 2018 9:14 PM

Did any of these men have proper wiping skills?

by Anonymousreply 501January 1, 2018 9:14 PM

In that era looks were more important, they didn't care if you were a great actor if you were big box office. Nowadays, there are more movie stars that are better actors but not as hot.

by Anonymousreply 502January 1, 2018 10:03 PM

Never too crazy about Victor Mature in his younger days....there was something just a little too bloated and sleazy about him. But he was fabulous parodying his image in a hilarious Peter Sellers 60s comedy called After the Fox.

by Anonymousreply 503January 1, 2018 10:06 PM

"I was a bit fey, yet sexy at times."

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by Anonymousreply 504January 1, 2018 10:10 PM

^ That soft-focus helps the gangly Hungarian Jewish immigrant, Leslie Howard Stainer, though he did have a nice speaking voice.

by Anonymousreply 505January 1, 2018 10:14 PM

[quote]I'm no actor, and I've got 64 pictures to prove it.

[quote]Actually, I am a golfer. That is my real occupation. I never was an actor. Ask anybody, particularly the critics.

R499, What's funny is that Victor Mature was very aware of his limitations, and joked about them.

by Anonymousreply 506January 1, 2018 10:19 PM

[post redacted because linking to dailymail.co.uk clearly indicates that the poster is either a troll or an idiot (probably both, honestly.) Our advice is that you just ignore this poster but whatever you do, don't click on any link to this putrid rag.]

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by Anonymousreply 507January 1, 2018 10:19 PM

R507 - Gee, thanks!

by Anonymousreply 508January 1, 2018 10:24 PM

I always thought Tony Perkins was a fascinating young actor pre-Psycho. There was no one like him.

But looking at him in those Roddy MacDowell home movies, he seems so mean and paranoid. Very creepy nasty vibe, unfortunately.

by Anonymousreply 509January 1, 2018 10:35 PM

R509 - why do you think I cast him?

by Anonymousreply 510January 1, 2018 10:38 PM

I just posted about watching the documentary with Christopher Isherwoods now old, formerly very young lover. He spoke about their friend Perkins and said it was TRAGIC he was going to daily psychotherapy to not be gay and they (openly gay couple with scandalous age difference) just found it cowardly and sad. Remember, Isherwood was politicized in Weimar Germany with the arrival of the Nazis and their stamping out the liberal society that had bloomed. Its clear they had no patience or respect for the closet in Hollywood USofA.

by Anonymousreply 511January 1, 2018 10:38 PM

Young Walter Pidgeon was somewhat fuckable.

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by Anonymousreply 512January 1, 2018 11:05 PM

I love that sexual predator supreme Burt Lancaster had no problem signing his nudes for his gay fans.

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by Anonymousreply 513January 1, 2018 11:31 PM

Let's not forget doe-eyed Roddy McDowell (and his monster dick of death.)

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by Anonymousreply 514January 1, 2018 11:39 PM

tell us more r514!

by Anonymousreply 515January 2, 2018 3:34 AM

IIRC, gossipy straight actor Frank Langella wrote about encountering Tony Perkins backstage after a performance and he asked Frank point blank how big his dick was. Tony then proceeded to invite him to an unnamed actor's tent for an orgy. Frank stopped short of saying whether he accepted the invitation.

by Anonymousreply 516January 2, 2018 3:51 AM

R505 has multiple posts in this thread and has made racist remarks in the Dave Chapelle thread. Please put him on IGNORE.

by Anonymousreply 517January 2, 2018 4:13 AM

Mature is indeed a terrible actor and I don't find his looks at all attractive even with that dick.

Million Dollar Mermaid except for one eye-popping Busby Berkeley number, the one with the swings and smoke, is a total snooze.

And even the no nonsense Ederle didn't like it. The ending though is creepy for those who like horrible accidents.

But as said by another poster Mature is wonderful sending himself up in the very funny After the Fox the Peter Sellers/Neil Simon/Vittorio de Sica spoof of pretentious European art films of the 60s.

by Anonymousreply 518January 2, 2018 12:38 PM

For my generation John Wayne was the epitome of rugged American masculinity.

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by Anonymousreply 519January 2, 2018 1:36 PM
by Anonymousreply 520January 3, 2018 7:06 AM

R417

I totally agree with you. I always thought jack Carson was incredibly hot in movies. For some reason his still photos do not show how handsome he is. His attractiveness must also be due to the way he carried himself and his masculine style and delivery as well.

by Anonymousreply 521January 3, 2018 12:27 PM

Definitely, R417 and R521. I always thought Jack Carson was sexy, especially in Mildred Pierce. There was just something magnetic and sexy about him.

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by Anonymousreply 522January 3, 2018 1:11 PM

R505, you are one sick misinformed fuck. Leslie Howard Steiner was born in London. His father was Hungarian, and Jewish, and had emigrated to Great Britain. Howard's mother was British and Christian. Her paternal grandfather had emigrated from Prussia to the Great Britain sixty years before Leslie's birth. He married a British woman, assimilated, and raised six children in the Church of England.

Howard's mother was not Jewish, not culturally or by Jewish law, and so neither was Howard.

I'll say a prayer for Muriel to block your sorry ass from this place.

by Anonymousreply 523January 3, 2018 1:18 PM

^Good on you! That piece of trash was making racist remarks in another thread as well.

by Anonymousreply 524January 3, 2018 6:16 PM

^ "racist" remarks or factual remarks? Are you terrified of the truth, snowflake?

by Anonymousreply 525January 3, 2018 6:20 PM

^I meant what I said. Don’t think that you can go on and on with your blatant hatred. You won’t get away with it.

by Anonymousreply 526January 3, 2018 6:27 PM

Old time stars were more attractive because they retained a sense of mystery, dressed better and had nicer hairstyles.

by Anonymousreply 527January 3, 2018 6:34 PM

r500 r518 "Million Dollar Mermaid" was about Annette Kellerman, not Gertrude Ederle.

by Anonymousreply 528January 3, 2018 11:12 PM

Shit.You are right. I should have known that.

Still it's a lousy movie yet very popular. Or was.

by Anonymousreply 529January 3, 2018 11:23 PM

I'm the one who first mentioned Gertrude Ederle. I do apologize!

Now what was Annette Kellerman famous for that Esther made a movie about her?

by Anonymousreply 530January 4, 2018 12:07 AM

The one piece bathing suit for women and channel surfing.

by Anonymousreply 531January 4, 2018 12:19 AM

R530 Kellerman made about 6 silent movies in the South Pacific. She wasn't pretty. She appeared in NY music halls in the 20s. She had a long retirement and briefly had a health food shop somewhere near the beach at LA in the 40s[?].

Most of her 6 movies are lost. I saw a 15 minute except but it's all very primitive with miming underwater.

by Anonymousreply 532January 4, 2018 12:40 AM

Ray Danton was married to actress Julie Adams (CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON). The couple had two sons. Adams, btw, is still living.

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by Anonymousreply 533January 4, 2018 3:59 AM

Actor William Smith was incredibly hot.

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by Anonymousreply 534January 4, 2018 4:10 AM

William Smith again

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by Anonymousreply 535January 4, 2018 4:14 AM

How does somebody who looks like Ray Danton die of something like renal failure? It sounds so plebian.

And why does he have a piece of paper stuck to his ear that says ebay on it?

It looks like 1958. Is this one of those aliens time travel things?

by Anonymousreply 536January 4, 2018 4:23 AM

This is a super fun thread. So I suppose it does not matter that the historical referent "Golden Age" has been stretched into meaninglessness.

by Anonymousreply 537January 4, 2018 6:44 PM

R524 - looks like he missed leg day. Every week.

by Anonymousreply 538January 4, 2018 7:12 PM

[R534] - looks like he missed leg day. Every week.

by Anonymousreply 539January 4, 2018 7:12 PM

The eyes of Jeffrey Hunter.

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by Anonymousreply 540January 4, 2018 7:33 PM

Not especially sexy by today's standards, but jaw-droppingly handsome: DAVID MANNERS.

by Anonymousreply 541January 4, 2018 8:11 PM

Op, you asked if the 'Male Movie Stars of Hollywood's Golden Age were Sexier than Today's Film Idols?'.

I have to say no. There are sexy and less-sexy in every decade.

by Anonymousreply 542January 6, 2018 10:05 PM

Sterling Hayden had the "it" factor.

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by Anonymousreply 543January 8, 2018 11:51 PM

I second that emotion.

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by Anonymousreply 544January 8, 2018 11:56 PM

Van Williams sizzling in TALL STORY

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by Anonymousreply 545January 18, 2018 10:12 PM

If I'm not mistaken , didn't Tom Laughlin (later of those moronic "Billy Jack" films) have a shirtless scene in "Tall Story"? He was VERY hot in a jock-ish kind of way in his youth.

by Anonymousreply 546January 19, 2018 1:00 AM

If you've seen pictures of Manners working shirtless at his dessert home I'd say he was still pretty damn sexy for today.

He also looked great modeling those two piece bathing suits men used to wear. Or were they one piece which also covered the top?

In the wonderful pacifist early talkie The Last Flight he is one of the most handsome men I've seen in a movie.

by Anonymousreply 547January 19, 2018 2:27 AM

TV and film actor Paul Carr had an ass that was on a Robert Conrad level. He even showed noticeable VPL in some of his tv appearances

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by Anonymousreply 548January 21, 2018 7:38 PM

Sensitive tough guy Scott Marlowe (drool). Gay, too.

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by Anonymousreply 549January 21, 2018 7:44 PM

The OP is asking about "Movie Stars of Hollywood's Golden Age".... not 1960s TV stars, but even those were sexier than the movie stars of today.

It was all about the jaw-line. You just don't see those square jaws and dimpled chins today. Big thick necks. The men exuded testosterone.

Look at someone like Ryan Gosling. In the past he would have been a character actor playing the dumb hayseed. An Edward Everett Horton type...not a leading man.

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by Anonymousreply 550January 21, 2018 7:55 PM

R548: I'm amazed that anyone remembers Paul Carr, but you're right...he was very sexy, and actually did a semi-nude scene in some biker flick.

R549: I could be wrong, but I think Scott Marlowe was the real-life boyfriend of another 50's or 60s actor.

by Anonymousreply 551January 22, 2018 3:06 AM

[quote][R548]: I'm amazed that anyone remembers Paul Carr, but you're right...he was very sexy, and actually did a semi-nude scene in some biker flick.

I’ve seen him in a couple of Rifleman episodes and took note of his amazing ass and VPL, and was watching tv last night and caught him in an episode of Land of the Giants and was surprised that his ass was still perfect all those years later...

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by Anonymousreply 552January 22, 2018 4:49 AM

Douglas Fairbanks in The Thief of Bagdad is just dreamy.

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by Anonymousreply 553February 1, 2018 9:59 PM

I first saw David Manners on TCM in a film with Barbara Stanwyck, he played a blind WWI veteran. It was called The Miracle Woman. I immediately went "Wow who is THAT!" and had to look him up. (Also for some reason I thought he vaguely resembled Tom Mison, who was on the TV show Sleepy Hollow and wanted to see if they were related somehow)

by Anonymousreply 554February 2, 2018 3:18 AM

yes guy madison is super super hot, but only when he shaved his chest

Also, sean flynn was rumoured to have been gay and his death was tinged with a suicidal death wish cloud........... given it was 1970 I find this all a fairly credible hypothesis

by Anonymousreply 555October 28, 2019 3:53 AM
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