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Vintage Stud Glenn Corbett - How Did I Miss This Guy?

Was watching an old noir movie on TCM this morning called "The Crimson Kimono" and was drooling over its male lead, Glenn Corbett. Damn, he was sexy! Turns out he started out as a "physique model," too.

Damn, how did I know know about him?

He died at just 59 years of age. Damn. What a waste!

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by Anonymousreply 40May 18, 2020 7:57 PM

Yummy!

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by Anonymousreply 1May 17, 2020 7:02 PM

He looks like he'd take you behind the gas station and lick your asshole.

by Anonymousreply 2May 17, 2020 7:05 PM

Route 69

by Anonymousreply 3May 17, 2020 7:11 PM

That movie was on TCM while I was preoccupied with telecommuting activities, and I had to do a double take when he showed up onscreen. Gorgeous man. Glenn replaced George Maharis on "Route 66."

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by Anonymousreply 4May 17, 2020 7:13 PM

R4 He does have a George Maharis look. When I first saw him in the movie, I thought it was George Maharis.

His eyes were gorgeous.

by Anonymousreply 5May 17, 2020 7:16 PM

I yelled at my TV screen at the end of the movie when the female lead dumps him for the Japanese guy. I'm like, "What the hell are you thinking, bitch?!"

by Anonymousreply 6May 17, 2020 7:25 PM

He was also on one of my favorite episodes of Star Trek. I always thought he was a very handsome man, and definitely had the killer blue eyes.

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by Anonymousreply 7May 17, 2020 7:30 PM

Break me off a piece of that.

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by Anonymousreply 8May 17, 2020 7:35 PM

I’ve always love the blue eye-dark hair combination. He was so sexy. Physique mag posing using a nom de homo-appeal.

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by Anonymousreply 9May 17, 2020 7:38 PM

R6, Well, that Japanese-American guy was James Shigeta, who was a matinee idol dreamboat for many Asian Americans. That movie was a trailblazer for depicting an Asian male-Caucasian female pairing.

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by Anonymousreply 10May 17, 2020 7:38 PM

He has a Robert Conrad vibe...

by Anonymousreply 11May 17, 2020 7:39 PM

I love James Shigeta. I’d take both please.

by Anonymousreply 12May 17, 2020 7:40 PM

R10 Don't get me wrong. James Shigeta was handsome, but Corbett was a stud. You just know he could throw a mean fuck.

by Anonymousreply 13May 17, 2020 7:46 PM

Dreamy.

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by Anonymousreply 14May 17, 2020 8:33 PM

He replaced gay actor and pioneer hair piece wearer George Maharis in Route 66 but didn’t catch on. Show cancelled a year and half later.

by Anonymousreply 15May 17, 2020 8:58 PM

Hot top or pushy bottom?

by Anonymousreply 16May 17, 2020 9:19 PM

[quote]That movie was a trailblazer for depicting an Asian male-Caucasian female pairing.

That trail was blazed 30 years earlier by matinee idol Sessue Hayakawa

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by Anonymousreply 17May 17, 2020 9:41 PM

r10=The delicate, some would say flower-like, Miyoshi Umeki.

by Anonymousreply 18May 17, 2020 10:01 PM

Thanks, R7 -- now I know where I know him from.

by Anonymousreply 19May 17, 2020 10:32 PM

R17 The Bitter Tea of General Yen with Barbara Stanwyck (1932): "A Chinese warlord and an engaged Christian missionary fall in love." (IMDB)

by Anonymousreply 20May 17, 2020 10:48 PM

R20 Except the guy who played General Yen was from Denmark.

by Anonymousreply 21May 17, 2020 10:51 PM

The plot remains the same. Maybe not many Chinese leading men available in 1932?

by Anonymousreply 22May 17, 2020 10:53 PM

R7, he looked like a Thunderbird.

by Anonymousreply 23May 17, 2020 10:54 PM

Glenn Corbett was gorgeous. I didn't realize he was a 'physique' model. I love that term!

by Anonymousreply 24May 17, 2020 10:55 PM

Smoked himself to an early grave, many of his generation did.

by Anonymousreply 25May 17, 2020 11:01 PM

KIMONO my house, Glenn Corbett, and Momma will show you something crimson!

And moister than a snack cake.

by Anonymousreply 26May 17, 2020 11:03 PM

R17, true, but after the Chinese Exclusion Act Amendments of 1924, the Filipino Exclusion Act of 1934, and WWII, Asian men were desexualized in American media and portrayed as myopic, bucktoothed, slant-eyed, robotic caricatures, deserving of ridicule and scorn. It took several decades and perhaps the influence of Kurosawa's films to see Asian men as romantic leads again, and that was only in niche films.

by Anonymousreply 27May 17, 2020 11:52 PM

Can we focus on hotty Corbett?

Start your own thread about Asian actors, Attention Deficit queens.

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by Anonymousreply 28May 18, 2020 12:52 AM

Thank you R28. I was about to say the same thing.

by Anonymousreply 29May 18, 2020 12:53 AM

I have read two blogs now claiming Corbett was bisexual. Does anyone know the source of this info?

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by Anonymousreply 30May 18, 2020 1:16 AM

so fucking handsome

by Anonymousreply 31May 18, 2020 1:18 AM

Wow a total hottie , guys named Glenn are usually trolls.

by Anonymousreply 32May 18, 2020 1:19 AM

R30 If you were doing beefcake modeling back then, the audience and ambience was gay men. You put out for money and connections. A guy did what he had to do.

by Anonymousreply 33May 18, 2020 1:24 AM

One could take beefcake pics without sucking dick

by Anonymousreply 34May 18, 2020 1:46 AM

R34 One could, but probably didn't.

by Anonymousreply 35May 18, 2020 3:27 AM

He probably 'supplemented' his income early on his career. So what of it?

by Anonymousreply 36May 18, 2020 6:25 AM

I would have gladly helped him supplement his income.

by Anonymousreply 37May 18, 2020 1:07 PM

He appears to have had insouciant buttocks.

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by Anonymousreply 38May 18, 2020 6:06 PM

According to his biography, Glenn Corbett was married to the same woman from 1957 until his death. That's a remarkable achievement for an actor. He was a very handsome and fit man. With those "physique" photographs, he undoubtedly knew their appeal to gay men in the 1950s. I doubt, though, that he partook in gay sex. Probably was just more than glad to shed his clothes for photographs to pay the rent as a struggling actor. I'm sure there were actors who were "gay for pay," but for some reason I don't believe this man was.

by Anonymousreply 39May 18, 2020 7:15 PM

[quote] I doubt, though, that he partook in gay sex.

You have no understanding of the era or the ambience.

You didn't didn't go to SAG or Equity casting calls for this work.

You were targeted, recruited by gay men.

by Anonymousreply 40May 18, 2020 7:57 PM
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