Tab Hunter Confidential

Tab Hunter Confidential is a 2015 American documentary feature film focusing on the American actor, singer, and author Tab Hunter, and is inspired by his autobiography of the same name. Produced by Allan Glaser in association with Automat Pictures, the film was 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.

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 tome set a new precedence for discussion of Hollywood’s golden era.

Following Hunter’s participation in Jeffrey Schwarz’s documentary I Am Divine. (about famed Baltimore drag queen Divine, with whom Hunter had appeared in several motion pictures), producer Allan Glaser approached Schwarz about the potential of adapting the Confidential book into a feature length documentary.

Filming began in 2011 conducting a series of new interviews with Hunter and associates in Los Angeles, New York, Paris and Santa Barbara., as well as culling archival footage of figures from Hollywood’s past discussing the star. Filming was completed in 2015.

Tab Hunter Confidential premiered at South by Southwest (SXSW) in 2015, and played over 100 film festivals and independent screenings.

The film was also given a theatrical release in October 2015, premiering in New York at The Village East and in Los Angeles at the Nuart Theater, playing theatrically in over 50 cities.

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