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!

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

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."

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.

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?!"

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.

Break me off a piece of that.

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

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.

He has a Robert Conrad vibe...

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

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

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.

[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

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

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

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

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

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

R7, he looked like a Thunderbird.

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

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

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

And moister than a snack cake.

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.

Can we focus on hotty Corbett?

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

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

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

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

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.

One could take beefcake pics without sucking dick

R34 One could, but probably didn't.

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

I would have gladly helped him supplement his income.

He appears to have had insouciant buttocks.

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.

[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.

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