Old Hollywood

[Moondance]

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

A side note about Sal Mineo for those who may not know this: he was the model for the painting, The New Adam, regarded as one of the great nudes in American art...

 

Harold Stevenson

The New Adam

Visitors to the Galerie Iris Clert, Paris, in early 1963 were hardly prepared for the painting that greeted them: a colossal, 40-foot-long male nude, precisely and sensually rendered in full anatomical detail. In Paris and later in New York, Chicago, and L.A., the work was greeted with “shock,” recalls Harold Stevenson, who conceived The New Adam as an homage to his lover, Lord Timothy Willoughby (though the actor Sal Mineo was his model). Spread over nine panels and initially installed as a three-wall wraparound, the work presents a vast, seemingly unbounded ocean of flesh. Art historian and Guggenheim curator Robert Rosenblum has located it within the American tradition of “Gigantism,” which ranges from sublime 19th-century landscapes of the West to the sprawling abstractions of Barnett Newman and Clyfford Still. The work bears a particular relationship to James Rosenquist’s monumental, multipanel, Realist wraparound, F-111 (1964–65), which it predates. It also engages a much older tradition in art, recalling countless female odalisques, as well as Michelangelo’s iconic image of Adam, whose pointing gesture Stevenson redirects inward, toward the body. The New Adam was once considered for inclusion in Six Painters and the Object (1963), an important early Pop exhibition at the Guggenheim, but it was judged to distract from the thesis of the show. Over 40 years later, the Guggenheim Museum is honored to have this landmark of art history join its permanent collection.

[+ friendofsheila]

I think a lot of those in the first post are the work of photographer George Hurrell, who made almost any man look beautiful. Too bad he photographed so many more women.

[+ friendofsheila]

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

 

Excellent addition! He seemed to be in shorts, swimwear and tights a lot back in the 1920's.

[+ bashful]

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

 

 

The guy just to the left of Don Rickles is Peter Lupus who was in the Mission Impossible TV series.

[body2body]

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

Who cares if it's a stretch. It's a chance to look at Steve Reeves- who for my money was just about as perfect a combination of handsome face and muscular body to ever grace the screen.

[Moondance]

Guy Madison was so beautiful...

He sure was. Here are half a dozen more images of him...

http://www.guymadison.com/images/831_NAVYPROFILE05.jpg

 

http://65.media.tumblr.com/14c875cd2808b9f0c04bb4d409d2297a/tumblr_n0ozw7okJn1s92ta7o1_1280.jpghttp://images2.fanpop.com/images/photos/8200000/Guy-Madison-guy-madison-8236933-409-500.jpg

 

http://www.memomine.com/images/lobbycards/HardManLc3.jpg

 

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/10/30/article-2480024-191494B800000578-348_964x566.jpg

[Moondance]

Nils Asther, "The Male Garbo"

 

http://a142.idata.over-blog.com/1/39/45/90/Photos158/12Nils-Asther---the-male-Greta-Garbo---1929.jpghttp://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HupwQ480-7g/Td-_wXn9yFI/AAAAAAAAALU/obnfSlGswvc/s1600/nils+asther+card+austrian+series.jpg

 

Yul Brynner

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-HRQg9blmQUA/UCz2JyBRXZI/AAAAAAAAT4A/mMFta_t-JBs/s1600/yul_brynner_lynes.jpg http://www.cancertodaymag.org/Winter2011/PublishingImages/YulYoung300x329web.jpg

http://wfiles.brothersoft.com/y/yul_brynner_58337-1280x1024.jpg

 

 

Laurence Olivier

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mbuszpv4e71r0a4hso1_500.jpg http://gonet.cz/~tri65dnigalerie/porad/600/5/5fec512653666c345f133b7c91bedf70.jpg

 

 

 

Lew Ayres

http://www.fanphobia.net/uploads/actors/372/9566_Lew_Ayres_American_Actor.png

 

 

Francis Lederer

http://www.eaumg.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/francis_lederer2.jpghttp://prettycleverfilms.com/files/2013/03/6533015943_b7f0fe1baa_z.jpg

 

http://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/dracula/images/9/9b/Francis_Lederer.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20121210223047

 

 

Richard Cromwell

http://67.media.tumblr.com/a93593b750fa7aaf8af018a8941af4aa/tumblr_mqujj1lsAn1r1p7nfo1_1280.jpg

 

 

Brian Aherne

http://40.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4pqq1JmWZ1qeu6ilo1_500.jpg

 

Edited September 4, 2016 by Moondance

[Phil_musc]

Is it me (and if so, that's okay) or does anybody else think that the expandable shot of Yul Brynner looks a little like Adam Russo?

 

By the way. thanks for this post - so much beauty, I'm verklempt.

[Moondance]

John Derek

http://cdn-media-1.hollywood.com/images/772x1000/2020346.jpg

 

John Gavin

http://static1.1.sqspcdn.com/static/f/999009/14390263/1317271053493/BEAUTIFUL+MEN+GAVIN.jpg?token=5IrTu7T1JTAZtPstUDd%2B5SXo1UM%3D

 

John Wayne

 

Lex Barker

http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMTM2MDc5OTM5NV5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwMTAxOTUyOA@@._V1._SX640_SY765_.jpg

 

 

Jeffrey Hunter

 

Jeff Chandler

http://www.doctormacro.com/Images/Chandler,%20Jeff/Annex/NRFPT/Annex%20-%20Chandler,%20Jeff_NRFPT_03.jpg

 

http://www.oldtimeradiodownloads.com/assets/img/serie/img_jeff-chandler-as-michael-shayne.gif

 

Rock Hudson and George Nader

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-kjNUFaq2dWQ/UHV1B5FoDUI/AAAAAAAAWLk/MbMqj_W_eGE/s1600/george-nader-rock-hudson.jpg

 

Jon Hall

 

Cary Grant and Randolph Scott

[longtime lurker]

... and in a vintage Technicolor MGM short...

 

Pirate Party On Catalina Isle (1935)

 

http://i592.photobucket.com/albums/tt8/MovieJoe/MovieJoe006/89e86aaa-ed44-4cc4-bbdc-330d89da100f_zpsbfd24b65.jpg

 

It seems that Hollywood was an oasis for the period. Despite the bigger stars being forced into "lavender marriages" (just to please the magazines and avoid scandal), there was plenty of tolerance there that was not found anywhere else in the country. Keep in mind that a great many involved BEHIND the cameras were also "non-heterosexual" as well. Actresses had more flexibility; apparently there was little concern for Marlene Dietrich or Claudette Colbert's "knitting circles" like there was for William Haines getting caught with sailors. Part of this may be due to how many Jews were involved in the business as well... and being Jewish was not all that socially acceptable in the 1930s either.

Edited September 6, 2016 by longtime lurker

[BabyBoomer]

Mr. Derek certainly had a knack for marrying beautiful women.... Ursula, Linda & Bo.

 

~ Boomer ~

[+ WilliamM]

,./

 

Complete Change, sorry.

 

Yul Brynner would almost certainly not have been cast in "The King and I" on Broadway & the film without Mary Martin's close friendship with Rodgers and Hammerstein. Martin, Brynner and Nancy Davis Reagan did a musical on Broadway called "Lute Song." Mary Martin, "I just know Yul could play the king in the King and I.""

 

Martin was not thought about as a strong business woman. Brynner seldom won very important roles with the help of woman. I know this thread is all male, but roles are won and lost in very complex ways.

[Moondance]

Sean Connery

http://cdn.ipernity.com/121/31/43/12343143.3532a843.640.jpg?r2

http://www.bestmoviesbyfarr.com.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/L3dijx/images/2-2yrcl8.png

 

John Hodiak

http://waytofamous.com/images/john-hodiak-01.jpg

 

Vincent Price

http://i.imgur.com/fcj8ESJ.jpg

 

 

 

John Payne

http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMTE5ODYxNDYzMF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTYwNjY4NzM2._V1_UY1200_CR168,0,630,1200_AL_.jpg

 

http://classiccinemagold.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/John-Payne-May-23-1912-%E2%80%93-December-6-1989.jpg

 

Louis Jourdan

[body2body]

[quote="Moondance, post: 1150840, member: 12206

Francis Lederer

http://www.eaumg.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/francis_lederer2.jpghttp://prettycleverfilms.com/files/2013/03/6533015943_b7f0fe1baa_z.jpg

In Otto Friederich's Before the Deluge about Berlin between the wars, he says that in that very crazy period immediately following WW 1 Francis Lederer was a highly sought after male prostitute.

[+ Charlie]

You are the only other person I have ever encountered who knows that book!

[quote="Moondance, post: 1150840, member: 12206

Francis Lederer

http://www.eaumg.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/francis_lederer2.jpghttp://prettycleverfilms.com/files/2013/03/6533015943_b7f0fe1baa_z.jpg

In Otto Friederich's Before the Deluge about Berlin between the wars, he says that in that very crazy period immediately following WW 1 Francis Lederer was a highly sought after male prostitute.

[body2body]

You are the only other person I have ever encountered who knows that book!

I read it years ago, but found it fascinating. In light of the topic of this thread, if you enjoyed Before the Deluge you should try his wonderful book about Hollywood in the 1940s City of Nets. It really opened my eyes. I'm a 4th generation native of LA and I had no idea about everything that happened at that time.

[+ E.T.Bass]

[+ E.T.Bass]

[+ friendofsheila]

Any idea who these are? I think the first is James Dean.

[Geoman]

Any idea who these are? I think the first is James Dean.

In second picture, on the right looks like Robert Conrad of Wild Wild West fame.

[Geoman]

In second picture, on the right looks like Robert Conrad of Wild Wild West fame.

Gentleman on the left looks like Van Williams from Green Hornet tv show.

[Boink]

Gentleman on the left looks like Van Williams from Green Hornet tv show.

 

Correct on both counts, Geoman. Here's another....

[+ E.T.Bass]

[+ friendofsheila]

Correct on both counts, Geoman. Here's another....

 

If you likes the feets, this is for you!

[Danny-Darko]

Marlon Brando