Tab Hunter Confidential

Hollywood's all-American boy had a secret.

Directed by Jeffrey Schwarz

Produced by Automat Pictures, Allan Glaser Productions

A candid first-person documentary about a Hollywood icon's lifelong struggle to reconcile his manufactured public image with his hidden identity, told with both vulnerability and reflection.

Throughout the 1950s, Tab Hunter reigned as Hollywood’s ultimate male heartthrob. But throughout his years of stardom, Tab had a secret. Tab Hunter was gay, and spent his Hollywood years in a precarious closet that repeatedly threatened to implode and destroy him. Tab Hunter himself shares first hand, for the first time, what it was like to be a studio manufactured movie star during the Golden Age of Hollywood and the consequences of being someone totally different from his studio manufactured image.