Lest We Forget: Tab Hunter

July 11, 2018

Image result for damn yankees tab hunterTab who?

Shoeless Joe from Hannibal, MO.

Hunter, a heartthrob in the 1950s and 60s, played the character of Joe Hardy in Damn Yankees, one of the great musicals of all time.

Of course, Hunter, who died on Sunday at the age of 86, played in many other movies, but for the purposes of this blog, Shoeless Joe is the only one that matters.

Here’s his obituary from The New York Times.

And here are a couple of iconic songs from the production, the first of which was considered very racy at the time:

And just fort fun, here’s a little “inside baseball” on Damn Yankees.

The 1955 play 1955 was based on the book The Year the Yankees Won the Pennant, by Douglass Wallop. It was released as a movie in 1958 and received an Oscar nomination for best musical score.

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