Like any self respecting gay, I always have TCM on in the background

I dont have cable, but the Movies! channel is amazing (for a free antenna thing). Always on here, usually muted. Last month they played Rebel Without a Cause all the time.

Hugh O'Brian (on the left) could Get It.

One more Hugh.

Scha-WING.

[quote]I have to admit, some of those old stars were really handsome in their heyday.

I was thinking that the other day while watching TCM and The Twilight Zone marathon on SyFy. So many GD handsome men back in the day, many of whom I'd never heard of, like William Reynolds who popped up on an episode of TTZ.

Why helllo, Guy Madison.

[quote]Like any self respecting gay, I always have TCM on in the background

Pfft. Like I ever pretended to respect myself.

R4. Wow!!! Good find. Wikipedia says he is still alive. Married to his wife 42 years until her death.

Robert Mitchum looked like he could throw a good fuck, but no cuddling.

Sterling Hayden. Gorgeous, big manly man. Ex-Marine. Great career, great body. Last time I saw him in a film, Michael Corleone shot him in the forehead in a restaurant.

George O'Brien was beautiful.

Agree - TCM and Movies! are the best. Though Movies! seems to play the same 5-10 films repeatedly - like Giant which I love but can only watch once very few months.

Last night TCM had a NYC in the 70s night. Awesome but too short - Panic in Needle Park, Pelham 123, Klute...then I fell asleep. Wish they kept going.

[quote]and a comedic turn as the CEO in "Nine to Five" (1980). He often expressed his dislike for acting, stating that he only acted to pay for his sailing

Wonder if La Fonda raised his mizzenmast.

Look at this guy. Dear sweet Baby Jesus Mamapolooza! His name is Jeffery Hunter. That's even a hot name.

OP, you’re stuck in 1991, dude

I guess Movies! rotates new stuff in every month, R11 (although it seems like Baby Jane has been on all year). Giant was on a lot this month, for sure.

1991 isn't looking so bad, R14. Apart from the AIDS situation, it compares favorably to now. Harder to get porn back then too.

George Brent makes this cinephile's mussy moister than a snack cake.

John Payne WAS the Miracle on 34th Street!

Yes, please.

Robert Ryan -- He had a rough quality about him, like Mitchum, but better looking. Big manly man, big dick face.

Another recent discovery: James Ellison, who turned up in an old Lucille Ball movie on TCM the other day. I was looking him up on google and in still pictures he looks kind of dorky, but in moving pictures he was very goodlooking.

He is the shirtless one in the shot:

That pic of Payne sitting in his ring corner is pretty hot, but for preternatural beauty you DO have to hand it to Guy Madison(thank you r5 for posting it) His hottest photo, at least fully-clothed, is him in Navy Winter blues with the iconic white hat. Drool- AND sponge-worthy.

Love this thread, but it's pretty telling that some posters here don't know how to link a photo properly.

Darn new-fangled technology! Hee.

The yummy Sterling Hayden, below.

Yum.

Farley Granger

More Guy Madison.

Because handsome.

the men of that time were more attractive. because their bodies were not overly done. they were fit, but not freaks.

this was the case up until the 70s. something happened in the 80s (action hero movies? weren't they always there, to some degree?) and even "normal" men became overbuff to an extreme.

this is why we all love Jon Hammbone so much: he looks like he comes straight out of those times, when one had to have the full *cough* package, instead of just a roided out looking set of muscles.

Hello, David Manners.

Still mad that Comcast moved TCM to a more expensive "Sports and Entertainment" package that I'm not willing to pay for. I can still access the TCM schedule, though, so I can see what I'm missing. Thankfully, the couple of TCM movies I have on my DVR still play.

Gay (allegedly) Charles Farrell was dreamy.

John Ericson was a minor actor - he was in Rhapsody and Pretty Boy Floyd - but I found him really, well, pretty to look at.

R27, you mistake your minority preferences as universal. Younger people much more prefer today’s hot buff dudes. Facts

[quote] His name is Jeffery Hunter. That's even a hot name.

Aren't you a Golden Age movie publicist's dream pigeon!

His real name was Henry Herman "Hank" McKinnies, Jr.

Are you crazy, R17? George Brent?!?!?!?

The eternal drip in all those Bette Davis weepies are Warner’s?

He defines milquetoast.

It’s hard to believe he killed men in real life when he was in the IRA before coming to Hollywood.

Older Guy Madison was still a hot granddaddy. Ooof, what a sexy beast!

Aldo Ray was a former Navy frogman--he had a great furry muscular chest.

Surprisingly, he was a very fine actor, and garnered extremely good notices for a comedy-drama with Judy Holliday, THE MARRYING KIND.

Meh

Lex Barker thru a mean fuck.

Aldo Ray got his start via director George Cukor.

Rumor was that young Aldo was not beyond letting Cukor service him regularly as part of the mentoring process.

A job is a job is a job.

Aldo Ray looks better here:

An enormous raw talent!

I agree with R27, I like a leaner build.

The explanation I often run across for the bodybuilder thing is that it was a reaction to AIDS - aggressively, undeniably healthy became the desirable look. But then again, its not like everyone wasn't jacking it to physique mags back in the day, so....

One aspect that's often overlooked about these hunks of yesteryear...

The VOICE.

Most of these actors had wonderful low, deep, intensely masculine speaking voices. If their voices didn't start out that way, the studios and acting coaches trained them. Speak low, slow, and clear.

That kind of training is a lost discipline. Young actors now don't get it. Many of them have terrible mumbly diction and shallow, poorly placed, light voices with no resonance at all. Gay or straight, they're all lacking an essential element of masculinity, and part of what makes these older dudes so timelessly appealing.

Gardner McKay choice cut

Well, to an old queen such as yourself, that is, r43.

A lot of us elderqueens weren't even alive when these guys became popular. They were even before our time. We were not swooning and sighing in some movie palace when their movies came out. Ok maybe a few of us but not most.

I'm cheap so I no longer have TCM, but I do have the Criterion Channel streaming service. This month they're celebrating Toshiro Mifune's 100th birthday! Hot damn.

An older Ty Hardin, although he basically lost it once he left movies.

Jeff Richards, never a major star but made nearly 20 films at Metro in 6 years

Tab Hunter, of course

Steve Cochran

OP, I always say "if you don't want a Richard Egan performance, don't hire Richard Egan!" He is the same in every movie, whether it be the innocence of Pollyanna or the tawdry Revolt of Mamie Stover or the overheated A Summer Place. Swashbucklers taking place centuries ago or westerns set in the early 20th century, he's still Richard Egan. And that's a good thing because you know what you're going to get. He's a solid, earnest, un-showy, believable actor, and he was in on the joke. He was masculine enough to make the screen's toughest dames still seem feminine and desirable, playing opposite nearly all the great ladies of the screen from that era in one picture or another...like late-career Lana Turner in The Big Cube.

And apparently he could do theatre too, touring as so many of the studio stars did after the film career concluded. Though I can't imagine him in I Ought To Be In Pictures, apparently he did it. He was also on the soap Capitol later on.

Check him out as the cuckolded husband in Violent Saturday.

He was a 6' tall Catholic who had five kids, stayed married to the same woman for 30 years, and probably never wore a condom in his life. And he had a brain: University of San Francisco for undergrad and Stanford for grad school, plus he taught at Northwestern a bit. He served in the Army in World War II and could do judo and fight with a bayonet.

So while you're fantasizing, one would guess that yes, he probably really could've put it to you if he wanted. And isn't that a little bit of what movies are all about?

Another Twilight Zone hunk: this handsome, hairy-chested daddy with a country accent caught my eye the other day. It was none other than James Best, who went on to play Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane on "The Dukes of Hazzard."

Gay actor and later fiction writer George Nader. When he had a good script (not that often), he could be a more than decent actor. Was thrown under the bus by the studios when Confidential Magazine got dirt on Rock Hudson for being gay and they offered Nader as the sacrificial lamb to take one for the Rock. Hudson always supported and protected Nader after that.

That's Roscoe P. Coltrane?!?!?

Damn, daddy!

And not a tat in sight.

Cornell WIlde.

Barry Coe. So many pretty boys who never quite hit the big leagues.

Bump - AIKC

Male beauty is timeless.

Special salute to my gayling golden age crushes: Jeffrey Hunter and Sterling Hayden

David Manners was adorable.

Rock Hudson- even though we know his end- still the best looking man.

You would totally let him put it in you balls deep.

Thanks, R5. Guy Madison had to be the actor on whom the Simon Baker character was based in LA Confidential.