Allan Glaser

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Allan Glaser
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Glaser in 2019
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Education University of Southern California
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(m. 2013;died 2018)

Allan Glaser (born November 28, 1959) is an American film producer known for the feature films Lust in the Dust and Tab Hunter Confidential . [1]

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Production career and Tab Hunter

Glaser ultimately became director of acquisitions of feature films at 20th Century Fox. It was while in this position he met Tab Hunter. The two formed Fox Run Productions [2] and raised money to produce the film Lust in the Dust , [3] [4] released in 1985, starring Hunter, Divine, and Lainie Kazan. [5] [6] [7] Glaser's next film, Dark Horse , was based on a story by Hunter. [8] The feature starred Mimi Rogers and Ed Begley, Jr. [9] It premiered at the Cannes Film Festival. [10]

Glaser talked Hunter into writing his autobiography, Tab Hunter Confidential , which became a New York Times bestseller. [11] [12] Glaser turned the book into a documentary in 2015, also entitled Tab Hunter Confidential. [13] [14] In June 2018, The Hollywood Reporter announced that Glaser would produce a feature film for Paramount Pictures based on the documentary with Bad Robot Productions/J. J. Abrams tentatively entitled Tab & Tony. [15]

Personal life

Glaser and Tab Hunter began a relationship in 1983 and remained together for the next 35 years until Hunter's death in July 2018. They were married in 2013. [16] [17]

References

  1. Hunter, Tab (2006-09-08). Tab Hunter Confidential: The Making of a Movie Star. Little, Brown. ISBN   978-1-56512-846-0.
  2. Jay, Bernard (1994-08-10). Not Simply Divine. Simon and Schuster. ISBN   978-0-671-88467-3.
  3. Summers, Claude (2012-04-24). The Queer Encyclopedia of Film and Television. Cleis Press Start. ISBN   978-1-57344-882-6.
  4. Chirico, Millie De; Murry, Quatoyiah (2022-10-25). TCM Underground: 50 Must-See Films from the World of Classic Cult and Late-Night Cinema. Running Press. ISBN   978-0-7624-8001-2.
  5. "Fox Run Productions". British Film Institute . Archived from the original on September 12, 2018. Retrieved May 3, 2019.
  6. Canby, Vincent (March 1, 1985). "SCREEN: BARREL'S 'LUST IN THE DUST'". The New York Times.
  7. Duralde, Alonso (July 9, 2018). "Tab Hunter Appreciation: A Star Who Survived Both the Studio System and Hollywood Homophobia". TheWrap .
  8. Hunter, Tab; Muller, Eddie (January 1, 2005). Tab Hunter Confidential: The Making of a Movie Star. Algonquin Books. p. 337-332. ISBN   978-1565124660.
  9. "Dark Horse (1992) - Movie Review". Common Sense Media. 6 March 2016.
  10. "Dark House". Variety.[ dead link ]
  11. Schulman, Michael (October 16, 2015). "Tab Hunter's Secrets". The New Yorker . Retrieved May 3, 2019.
  12. "Tab Hunter Confidential". NPR . 25 November 2024.
  13. Henderson, Odie. "Tab Hunter Confidential Movie Review (2015)". www.rogerebert.com.
  14. Weldon, Glen (2018-07-10). "Hollywood And Tab Hunter: The Marriage That Ended Amicably". NPR. Retrieved 2025-05-26.
  15. Feinberg, Scott; Kit, Borys (June 6, 2018). "Tab Hunter, Anthony Perkins Forbidden Love Drama in the Works From J. J. Abrams, Zachary Quinto (Exclusive)". The Hollywood Reporter .
  16. "Tab Hunter, 86, 1950s Hollywood Heartthrob, Is Dead". The New York Times. July 9, 2018.
  17. Malone, Aubrey (2019-11-11). Queer Cinema in America: An Encyclopedia of LGBTQ Films, Characters, and Stories. Bloomsbury Publishing USA. ISBN   979-8-216-13474-9.