Old Hollywood

[Moondance]

Buster Crabbe

http://67.media.tumblr.com/8c0f2ad1df221c5a7e7fd84b529539c9/tumblr_o0xicnoD5j1qazanuo1_1280.jpg

 

Errol Flynn

http://www.doctormacro.com/Images/Flynn,%20Errol/Annex/Annex%20-%20Flynn,%20Errol_01.jpg

Johnny Weissmuller

http://www.photographersgallery.com/i/full/Johnny_Weissmuller_1932.jpg

 

Clark Gable

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_2hFkijXi_9o/S8Y8Vo5l_CI/AAAAAAAALgc/b577V0L4-2c/s1600/Annex+-+Gable,+Clark_06.jpg

Montgomery Clift

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-oE1RpRgmHjc/Ul-qrRP6DgI/AAAAAAABHnc/YRn36qL9p7I/s1600/Montgomery+Clift+bh.jpg

 

Robert Taylor

http://www.photographersgallery.com/i/full/Robert_Taylor_1936.jpg

 

James Dean

http://images4.fanpop.com/image/photos/16300000/James-Dean-james-dean-16395675-866-1094.jpg

 

Burt Lancaster

 

Marlon Brando

http://images5.fanpop.com/image/photos/30500000/Marlon-Brando-marlon-brando-30585285-880-1099.jpg

 

Tyrone Power

http://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/TrEAAOSwNgxWEjjC/s-l1600.jpg

 

Paul Newman

http://www.theplace2.ru/archive/paul_newman/img/3124_2803252865.jpg

 

Rock Hudson

 

Henry Fonda

http://theredlist.fr/media/database/muses/icon/cinematic_men/1940/henry-fonda/059-henry-fonda-theredlist.jpg

 

Joel McCrea

http://www.doctormacro.com/Images/McCrea,%20Joel/McCrea,%20Joel_02.jpg

 

Tony Curtis

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_znvx3T1YOl8/TKRpX4jrxSI/AAAAAAAAA4M/ltA8pxeVyKU/s1600/tony_curtis.jpg

 

Rudolph Valentino

http://www.fusemagazine.com.au/images/2014/features/rudolph_valentin.jpg

 

Guy Madison

http://www.manhuntdaily.com/files/Guy-Madison-actor-total-beefcake-5.jpg

 

Sterling Hayden

http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5018/5461481627_684a515047_b.jpg

 

Gary Cooper

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_4iB9RenE0XI/TEuhFTTPclI/AAAAAAAABTI/P0lT9d8U4vI/s1600/legendsbookphotos2.jpg

 

Gregory Peck

http://www.doctormacro.com/Images/Peck,%20Gregory/Annex/NRFPT/Annex%20-%20Peck,%20Gregory_NRFPT_01.jpg

Edited September 3, 2016 by Moondance

[TruthBTold]

One forgets how many absolutely handsome men Hollywood had. Thanks.

[+ Trebor]

Wonder how many of these Hot Hollywood Hunks were known or thought to be gay?!?!

[marylander1940]

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/01/23/24F5D85000000578-0-image-a-21_1421973538784.jpg

 

http://67.media.tumblr.com/a32232afe51c8ac71d63907680bc103c/tumblr_my2tipXdBB1rrb0e7o5_500.jpg

 

[+ Funguy]

These pix are nice.

Would that they were more than headshots . . .

[longtime lurker]

Gee, Moondance, on my computer your photos are always nice and BIG.

[Moondance]

Gee, Moondance, on my computer your photos are always nice and BIG.

Small is beautiful, but big is better.

[body2body]

Guy Madison was so beautiful. All these men were so beautiful. The art of the black and white studio portrait seems to be a lost art.

[body2body]

Johnny Weismuller won 3 Olympic Gold Medals in Swimming, and a bronze in Water Polo. Buster Crabbe was also a Gold Medalist in swimming.

[longtime lurker]

Small is beautiful, but big is better.

 

Just so he isn't left out ...from MGM's The Pagan, filmed late 1928 when Ramon Novarro was at his peak.

 

http://67.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m0eaxd2Xpy1qhep2vo2_400.gif

[Edward]

Thanks Moondancer. How everyone succumbs to Fatherthime/The Grim Reaper. Enjoy beauty when you can.

[Boink]

An amazing collection. Even without including the man who for a long time was (arguably) considered the most handsome of all...Cary Grant.

 

http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ly09ueI1Na1rnojy1o2_500.jpg

[Moondance]

Just so he isn't left out ...from MGM's The Pagan, filmed late 1928 when Ramon Novarro was at his peak.

 

http://67.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m0eaxd2Xpy1qhep2vo2_400.gif

More images of Ramon Novarro, who came from Mexico with his family to escape the Mexican Revolution in 1913, began his acting career in 1917 and was one of the top box office stars of the 1920s and 30s.

 

http://m.kino-teatr.ru/acter/photo/6/6/140266/248737.jpg http://www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Ramon-Novarro.jpg

 

http://www.garboforever.com/Bilder/Filmpartner/Ramon_Novarro-02.jpg

 

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ExmpAoLBn_E/Val_fSRtFZI/AAAAAAAAOlA/NXy2tO6IQas/s640/8f4f88canovarro.jpeg

 

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-_Gx9fDGCuJ4/UgPdnM3S8lI/AAAAAAAARz4/PLlypkfi_zQ/s1600/ramon+novarro+8.jpg

 

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-BwR-56fkMIE/VWCd0pgIJPI/AAAAAAAAJdo/-ibemhUBTZo/s1600/ramon.jpg

[Moondance]

Ray Milland

http://www.classicmoviefavorites.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/ray-milland-1934-everett.jpg

 

Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.

http://www.doctormacro.com/Images/Fairbanks%20Jr.,%20Douglas/Annex/Annex%20-%20Fairbanks%20Jr.,%20Douglas_02.jpg

 

Charles Farrell

http://static.tumblr.com/4229d9df8d53cc0a719052dc8665acbd/nm2weg8/3Eumx585i/tumblr_static_city-girl-hair-charles-farrell245.gif

 

Glenn Ford

http://theredlist.com/media/database/muses/icon/cinematic_men/1940/glenn-ford/007-glenn-ford-theredlist.jpg

 

William Holden

 

Rory Calhoun

 

Tab Hunter

http://static.rogerebert.com/uploads/review/primary_image/reviews/tab-hunter-confidential-2015/hero_Tab-Hunter-Confidential-2.jpg

 

http://www.newyorker.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Schulman-TabHuntersSecrets-1200.jpg

 

[LADoug1]

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/01/23/24F5D85000000578-0-image-a-21_1421973538784.jpg

 

http://67.media.tumblr.com/a32232afe51c8ac71d63907680bc103c/tumblr_my2tipXdBB1rrb0e7o5_500.jpg

 

Wish there was a "dislike" choice.

[longtime lurker]

 

I have read that book. He had a rather discreet and relatively quiet life. Although he had some brushes with the law in regards to drunk driving charges, few knew of his relationships with other men until AFTER he was murdered on Halloween Eve, 1968. Then the trial the following summer became front page news as "scandalous", ironically the same summer that the Stonewall riots was mostly being suppressed in mainstream news reporting as just a bunch of "queers" causing trouble with authorities. The world was a very different place then, certainly one that Mike Pence, Mike Huckabee, Ted Cruz and others of their kind would prefer over today.

 

Curious coincidence that isn't discussed much...

 

MIDNIGHT COWBOY would become the first (and last so far) Best Picture Oscar winner to be X-rated (although hardly deserving of a PG today). Today, film historians view it "of its time" because the urban world of male hustling looks foreign today on account of how much sex life (both hetero and otherwise) was kept private and the main characters have plenty of "inner homophobia" expressed. (Key scene: Brenda Vacarro's character asks "Joe" Jon Voight if he is "gay" and that horrible thought is what allows him to prove his manhood with her as a "normal" heterosexual and earn his much needed twenty bucks. Note how he never makes an income doing things the more "sinful" way, especially with the lonely teenager in the theater.) Its filming was in 1968 and its release to theaters in May 1969, only a month before Stonewall in June and the Novarro murder trial beginning in early July, exposing his very secret life... a life so many others from Rock Hudson to Richard Chamberlain were still keeping secret. Since the bulk of MIDNIGHT COWBOY's filming was completed before the Novarro murder, I have often wondered of the actual timing of that scene of Joe strangling the devout Catholic sixty-something businessman (although they don't make it clear if he was actually murdered despite Dustin Hoffman's Rico questioning on the bus later). Of course, the scene is quite different than the Novarro situation in many ways, but the character has some of the same issues, even not going through The Act with Joe because he considered it such a horrible "sin".

 

Although MIDNIGHT COWBOY might be judged as a rather timid film by today's standards, it still broke some barriers and director John Schlesinger later went on to make SUNDAY BLOODY SUNDAY.

Edited September 3, 2016 by longtime lurker

[Moondance]

MIDNIGHT COWBOY would become the first (and last so far) Best Picture Oscar winner to be X-rated (although hardly deserving of a PG today). Today, film historians view it "of its time" because the urban world of male hustling looks foreign today... .

A visual to accompany your post, LL ... Joe Buck (Jon Voight), pants at his ankles, follows Cass (Sylvia Miles) into the boudoir of the apartment from Kitsch Hell...

 

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-1HdxbBJWUlE/UUZNoLfIJQI/AAAAAAAAHo4/YH4GpUarroc/s1600/Jon+Voight+06.jpg

[longtime lurker]

I see two pictures with the poodle on the left. Ha ha! One with that other man in her life, only she needed Joe to deliver what he hadn't lately.

 

Edited September 3, 2016 by longtime lurker

[longtime lurker]

 

James Dean

http://images4.fanpop.com/image/photos/16300000/James-Dean-james-dean-16395675-866-1094.jpg

 

Couldn't resist with another clip. "Say hello to your mother"

 

[+ Charlie]

In later life, Charles Farrell became the mayor of Palm Springs. (So did Sonny Bono, but he wasn't one of those dream guys.)

Edited September 3, 2016 by Charlie

[BabyBoomer]

In later life, Charles Farrell became the mayor of Palm Springs. (So did Sonny Bono, but he wasn't one of those dream guys.)

 

In the 1950's Farrell played the father of My Little Margie.

 

~ Boomer ~

[maninsoma]

No thread about old Hollywood hunks is complete without a photo of Sal Mineo.

 

http://www.mancrushes.com/sites/default/files/sal-mineo-movies-3.jpg

[maninsoma]

Maybe someone else knows the names of the various hunks in these screen captures from the Frankie and Annette film, Muscle Beach Party.

 

[maninsoma]

Steve Reeves (okay, I know it's a stretch since he isn't particularly tied to old Hollywood)

 

http://forum.bodybuilding.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=6352283&d=1383858584 http://www.musclememory.com/images/vintage/ReevesSteve_2.jpg

[maninsoma]

A video clip of Reeves on the Burns and Allen show.