If there's anyone who typifies traditional Hollywood and all its paradoxes, it's Tab Hunter. Born Arthur Gelien, he was discovered in his teens, renamed by beefcake agent extraordinaire Henry Willson, and molded almost overnight into a smoldering, cornfed leading-man dreamboat. Frequently shirtless, tanned and broad-shouldered in early movies like Battle Cry and Island of Desire, Hunter oozed sex appeal opposite everyone from Natalie Wood to Lana Turner to Sophia Loren. Unbeknownst to millions of... more ›