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!
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 40 | May 18, 2020 7:57 PM
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He looks like he'd take you behind the gas station and lick your asshole.
by Anonymous | reply 2 | May 17, 2020 7:05 PM
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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."
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 4 | May 17, 2020 7:13 PM
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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 Anonymous | reply 5 | May 17, 2020 7:16 PM
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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 Anonymous | reply 6 | May 17, 2020 7:25 PM
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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.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 7 | May 17, 2020 7:30 PM
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Break me off a piece of that.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 8 | May 17, 2020 7:35 PM
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I’ve always love the blue eye-dark hair combination. He was so sexy. Physique mag posing using a nom de homo-appeal.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 9 | May 17, 2020 7:38 PM
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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.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 10 | May 17, 2020 7:38 PM
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He has a Robert Conrad vibe...
by Anonymous | reply 11 | May 17, 2020 7:39 PM
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I love James Shigeta. I’d take both please.
by Anonymous | reply 12 | May 17, 2020 7:40 PM
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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 Anonymous | reply 13 | May 17, 2020 7:46 PM
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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 Anonymous | reply 15 | May 17, 2020 8:58 PM
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[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
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 17 | May 17, 2020 9:41 PM
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r10=The delicate, some would say flower-like, Miyoshi Umeki.
by Anonymous | reply 18 | May 17, 2020 10:01 PM
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Thanks, R7 -- now I know where I know him from.
by Anonymous | reply 19 | May 17, 2020 10:32 PM
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R17 The Bitter Tea of General Yen with Barbara Stanwyck (1932): "A Chinese warlord and an engaged Christian missionary fall in love." (IMDB)
by Anonymous | reply 20 | May 17, 2020 10:48 PM
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R20 Except the guy who played General Yen was from Denmark.
by Anonymous | reply 21 | May 17, 2020 10:51 PM
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The plot remains the same. Maybe not many Chinese leading men available in 1932?
by Anonymous | reply 22 | May 17, 2020 10:53 PM
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R7, he looked like a Thunderbird.
by Anonymous | reply 23 | May 17, 2020 10:54 PM
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Glenn Corbett was gorgeous. I didn't realize he was a 'physique' model. I love that term!
by Anonymous | reply 24 | May 17, 2020 10:55 PM
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Smoked himself to an early grave, many of his generation did.
by Anonymous | reply 25 | May 17, 2020 11:01 PM
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KIMONO my house, Glenn Corbett, and Momma will show you something crimson!
And moister than a snack cake.
by Anonymous | reply 26 | May 17, 2020 11:03 PM
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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 Anonymous | reply 27 | May 17, 2020 11:52 PM
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Can we focus on hotty Corbett?
Start your own thread about Asian actors, Attention Deficit queens.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 28 | May 18, 2020 12:52 AM
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Thank you R28. I was about to say the same thing.
by Anonymous | reply 29 | May 18, 2020 12:53 AM
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I have read two blogs now claiming Corbett was bisexual. Does anyone know the source of this info?
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 30 | May 18, 2020 1:16 AM
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Wow a total hottie , guys named Glenn are usually trolls.
by Anonymous | reply 32 | May 18, 2020 1:19 AM
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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 Anonymous | reply 33 | May 18, 2020 1:24 AM
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One could take beefcake pics without sucking dick
by Anonymous | reply 34 | May 18, 2020 1:46 AM
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R34 One could, but probably didn't.
by Anonymous | reply 35 | May 18, 2020 3:27 AM
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He probably 'supplemented' his income early on his career. So what of it?
by Anonymous | reply 36 | May 18, 2020 6:25 AM
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I would have gladly helped him supplement his income.
by Anonymous | reply 37 | May 18, 2020 1:07 PM
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He appears to have had insouciant buttocks.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 38 | May 18, 2020 6:06 PM
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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 Anonymous | reply 39 | May 18, 2020 7:15 PM
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[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 Anonymous | reply 40 | May 18, 2020 7:57 PM
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