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Tab Hunter Confidential
''Tab Hunter Confidential'' is a 2015 American documentary film focusing on the American actor, singer, and author Tab Hunter. It is inspired by his autobiography of the same name. The film was produced by Allan Glaser and directed by Jeffrey Schwarz. The film features extensive interviews with Hunter, as well as contemporaries and associates, including John Waters, Clint Eastwood, Debbie Reynolds, and more. Background In 2005, Hunter's autobiography, ''Tab Hunter Confidential: The Making of a Movie Star'' (2005), co-written with Eddie Muller, became a ''New York Times'' best-seller, and again topped the charts when it was released in paperback in 2007, as well as in 2015, following the release of the documentary. The book served as Hunter's first person account of his rise to Hollywood heartthrob status in the 1950s, as well as his personal struggle with revealing his sexuality over the course of his career. Acknowledging he was gay in the book, the tone set a new precedent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeffrey Schwarz
Jeffrey Schwarz is an American Emmy Awards, Emmy Award-winning film producer, director, and editor. He is known for an extensive body of documentary work including ''Boulevard! A Hollywood Story'', ''The Fabulous Allan Carr'', ''Tab Hunter Confidential'', ''I Am Divine'', ''Vito (film), Vito'', ''Wrangler: Anatomy of an Icon'' and ''Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story.'' Schwarz was born in New York City and is a graduate of State University of New York at Purchase, SUNY Purchase Film Department. His senior thesis documentary was ''Al Lewis in the Flesh'', a short film profiling actor Al Lewis (actor), Al Lewis, famous for playing Grampa on the television series ''The Munsters''. The film observes Lewis as he interacts with the public at his Bleecker Street restaurant, Grampa's Bella Gente. Schwarz' first job in the film industry was as an apprentice editor on ''The Celluloid Closet'', Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman (filmmaker), Jeffrey Friedman's film adaptation of Vito ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marilyn Erskine
Marilyn Erskine (born April 24, 1926) is an American actress who started performing at the age of three on radio, and has since appeared in radio, theater, film and television roles from the 1920s through the 1970s. Personal life Erskine was born in Rochester, New York on April 24, 1926, and starred in movies from early childhood. Erskine married Hollywood producer and director Stanley Kramer in May 1945. The marriage was annulled two months later. She later remarried, to insurance executive Charles Curland in 1955, and had two children. Their home in Brentwood, California was featured in an article in the Fall 1958 issue of ''Architectural Digest''.Rense, Paige (editor), "Architectural Digest Fall 1958" (Vol. 15, No. 3), John C. Brasfield Publishing Corp. Radio career Erskine started her performing career at the age of three years, appearing on a local radio show in Buffalo, New York. She also appeared on the nationwide CBS radio show ''Let's Pretend'' sometime between 1929 and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Connie Stevens
Connie Stevens (born Concetta Rosalie Ann Ingolia; August 8, 1938) is an American actress and singer. Born in Brooklyn, New York City to musician parents, Stevens was raised there until age 12, when she was sent to live with family friends in rural Missouri after she witnessed a murder in the city. In 1953, at age 15, Stevens relocated with her father to Los Angeles, California. She began her career in 1957, making her feature film debut in ''Young and Dangerous'', before releasing her debut album, ''Concetta'', the following year. She subsequently had a supporting role in the musical comedy ''Rock-A-Bye Baby'' (1958) opposite Jerry Lewis, followed by the drama film ''The Party Crashers'' (also 1958) opposite Frances Farmer. Stevens gained widespread recognition for her portrayal of "Cricket" Blake on the network television series '' Hawaiian Eye'', beginning in 1959. She garnered concurrent musical success when her single "Sixteen Reasons" became a radio hit, peaking at numbe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lainie Kazan
Lainie Kazan (born Lainie Levine; May 15, 1940) is an American actress and singer. She was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series for '' St. Elsewhere'' and the 1993 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical for ''My Favorite Year''. She was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for her role in ''My Favorite Year'' (1982). Kazan played Maria Portokalos in ''My Big Fat Greek Wedding'' and its sequel film ''My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2''. She also starred in ''You Don't Mess with the Zohan'' (2008). Early life Kazan was born Lainie Levine in Brooklyn, the daughter of Carole and Ben Levine. She is of Ashkenazi Jewish and Sephardic Jewish descent. Some of her grandparents lived in Israel before moving to Manchester, England and settling in Brooklyn. Kazan has described her mother as "neurotic, fragile and artistic." Kazan attended Brooklyn's Erasmus Hall High School with Barbra Streisand, for whom she would later understudy. She gr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dolores Hart
Dolores Hart, O.S.B. (born Dolores Hicks; October 20, 1938) is an American Roman Catholic Benedictine nun who was a prominent actress. Following her movie debut with Elvis Presley in '' Loving You'' (1957), she made ten films in five years, including ''Wild Is the Wind'' (1957), ''King Creole'' (1958), and ''Where the Boys Are'' (1960). By the early 1960s an established leading lady, she "stunned Hollywood" by announcing that she would forgo her life as an actress, leaving behind her career to enter the Abbey of Regina Laudis monastery in Connecticut. Background Born Dolores Hicks, she was the only child of actor Bert Hicks and Harriett Hicks, who separated when she was three years old, and ultimately divorced. She stated, "As a child I was precocious. My parents married when they were 16 and 17 and both were beautiful people. Moss Hart offered my mother, Harriett, a contract but by then they had me and my father, Bert Hicks, a bit player, definitely a Clark Gable type, had mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Wagner
Robert John Wagner Jr. (born February 10, 1930) is an American actor of stage, screen, and television. He is known for starring in the television shows '' It Takes a Thief'' (1968–1970), ''Switch'' (1975–1978), and ''Hart to Hart'' (1979–1984). He later had a recurring role as Teddy Leopold in the TV sitcom ''Two and a Half Men'' (2007–2008) and made twelve guest appearances (2010–2019) as Anthony DiNozzo Sr. in the police procedural '' NCIS''. In films, Wagner is known for his role as Number 2 in the ''Austin Powers'' trilogy of films (1997, 1999, 2002), as well as for '' A Kiss Before Dying'' (1956), ''The Pink Panther'' (1963), ''Harper'' (1966), ''The Towering Inferno'' (1974), '' The Concorde ... Airport '79'' (1979) and many more. Early life Wagner was born on February 10, 1930, in Detroit, Michigan. He is the son of Hazel Alvera (''née'' Boe), a telephone operator, and Robert John Wagner, a travelling salesman who worked for the Ford Motor Company. Robert ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Takei
George Takei (; ja, ジョージ・タケイ; born Hosato Takei (武井 穂郷), April 20, 1937) is an American actor, author and activist known for his role as Hikaru Sulu, helmsman of the fictional starship USS ''Enterprise'' in the television series ''Star Trek'' and subsequent films. Takei was born to Japanese American parents, with whom he lived in U.S.-run internment camps during World War II. He began pursuing acting in college, which led in 1965 to the role of Sulu, to which he returned periodically into the 1990s. Upon coming out as gay in 2005, he became a prominent proponent of LGBT rights and active in state and local politics. He has been a vocal advocate of the rights of immigrants, in part through his work on the 2012 Broadway show ''Allegiance'', about the internment experience. Although Takei was born and raised in California, he spoke both English and Japanese growing up and remains fluent in both languages. He has won several awards and accolades for his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Noah Wyle
Noah Strausser Speer Wyle (; born June 4, 1971) is an American actor. He is best known for his role as John Carter (ER), John Carter in the television series ''ER (TV series), ER'' (1994–2009), which earned him nominations for three Golden Globe Awards and five Primetime Emmy Awards. He is also known for his roles as List of The Librarian characters#Recurring characters, Flynn Carsen in The Librarian (franchise), ''The Librarian'' franchise including three TV movies ''The Librarian: Quest for the Spear'' (2004), ''The Librarian: Return to King Solomon's Mine'' (2006), and ''The Librarian: Curse of the Judas Chalice'' (2008) then returning for the television series (2013–2018) and Tom Mason (Falling Skies), Tom Mason in the television series ''Falling Skies'' (2011–2015). He has appeared in films such as ''A Few Good Men'' (1992), ''Pirates of Silicon Valley'' (1999), ''Donnie Darko'' (2001), and ''W. (film), W.'' (2008). Wyle was nominated for a Critics' Choice Television A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Portia De Rossi
Portia Lee James DeGeneres (born Amanda Lee Rogers; 31 January 1973), known professionally as Portia de Rossi, is an Australian-American former actress. She played Nelle Porter on the American drama series '' Ally McBeal'' (1998–2002), for which she won a Screen Actors Guild Award, Lindsay Bluth Fünke on the American television sitcom ''Arrested Development'' (2003–2006, 2013, 2018–2019), and Elizabeth North on the American political thriller series ''Scandal'' (2014–2017). She is the founder and CEO of the art company General Public. She also portrayed Olivia Lord on the American television drama series ''Nip/Tuck'' (2007–2009) and Veronica Palmer on the American television sitcom ''Better Off Ted'' (2009–2010). De Rossi is married to comedian, actress, and television host Ellen DeGeneres. Early life Portia de Rossi was born Amanda Lee Rogers in Horsham, Victoria, Australia, the daughter of Margaret, a medical receptionist, and Barry Rogers. Her father died ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nuart Theater
The Nuart Theatre is an art house movie theater in Los Angeles, California, United States. It is the flagship location of the Landmark Theatres chain in the United States. Location The Nuart is on Santa Monica Boulevard, one block from the 405 Freeway. It hosts a weekly Saturday midnight movie showing of ''The Rocky Horror Picture Show'' featuring Sins O' The Flesh. History The Nuart was built in 1929. The Nuart was bought by Landmark Theatres in 1974 and was the first Landmark theater, soon joined by others including the UC Theater in Berkeley. The theater was remodeled in 2006 and currently seats 303 people. In Popular Culture The theater was used in the Chevy Chase– Goldie Hawn comedy film '' Foul Play'', although the film is set in San Francisco. John Waters starred in a "No Smoking" theatrical trailer projected first at the Nuart Theatre in which he advises patrons to 'smoke anyway'. In addition Mr. Waters also stars in a Nuart specific theatrical trailer in appr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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