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Magazine Articles About Jeffrey Hunter's Life....some written by him.
Plots and photos of Hunter Films
Articles in Retrospect - Written after his death...
Star Trek Articles
Interviews
Scrapbook - This section contains photos (some with captions) and various
                    other items which might be found in a scrapbook
.

Newspaper Clippings -  

Jeffrey Hunter, Hollywood's Most Handsome All-round Actor -
Written in the year 2000 by Gregor, a fan and admirer of Jeffrey Hunter from Austria.  This paper has not
 been published anywhere, but Gregor has consented to share it with us.  It is presented here in the German
 version and in an English version also.   (Many thanks to our friend Teddy for her hours of translation work for us.)
             Original German Version                    Translated English Version
 

 

 

 

1951:
      Short Takes -
August 1951 Movies Magazine
      You Chose These Stars - December 1951 Photoplay.  Readers voted to select their Stars of Tomorrow.
                                                                              Jeffrey got second behind Tony Dexter and Robert Wagner was third.

1952:
      Here's How it Happened - February 1952 Motion Picture and Television
      1st Anniversary - March 1952 Photoplay
      dreamboat's a-comin' - June 1952 Modern Screen
      Game for a Party? - July 1952 Movie World
      Infanticipatin' - August 1952 Movies Magazine
      Young Man With a Future - August 1952 Movie Spotlight
      To Barbara With Love - September 1952 Motion Picture and Television
      We Ham It Up At Home - October 1952 Filmland
      Private Life of Jeff Hunter - November 1952 Movie Stars Parade
                           
Pages 1-3     Pages 4-6
1953:
      You Belong To Me - April 1953 Modern Screen
      Darling, Wish You Were Here - May 1953 Photoplay
      He Made It - Single-Handed - July 1953 Picturegoer Weekly (British)
      Call Me Pop - July 1953 Motion Picture and Television
      Jeffrey Hunter: Return of the Hunter - July 1953 Screen Life
      The Role I Liked Best by Jeffrey Hunter - August 1, 1953 Saturday Evening Post
      The Most Exciting Men in Hollywood - August 1953 Movies Magazine
      Prevue's Guy of the Month August 1953 Prevue Magazine
      What Marriage Has Taught Me by Jeffrey Hunter October 1953 Movies Magazine
      Barbara's Guy - November 1953 Movie Stars Parade
      Hunters' Paradise - November 1953 Photoplay
      Looking Around by Jeffrey Hunter - 1953 Hollywood Album
      Father and... - 1953 Hollywood Men
1954:
      Papas are Made - Not Born! - February 1954 Hollywood Family Album
      No Divorce For Us! - March 1954 Movie Life
      People Stop and Stare - April 1954 Movie Pix
      His Heart's Desire - April 1954 Movie Stars Parade
      Towards the Sun by Jeffrey Hunter - May 1954 Modern Screen
      Acallin' on the Hunters - June 1954 Movie LIfe
      Barbara's Shining Hour - September 1954 Photoplay
      We're Not Afraid - September 1954 Motion Picture and Television Magazine
      Mexican Holiday - December 1954 Motion Picture Magazine
      They Don't Need a Crowd - 1954 Screen Annual
      How Jeffrey Hunter Keeps Physically Fit - 1954 Muscle Builder Magazine
      She Has Her Cake and Eats It Too - 1954 Movie Pix
1955:

      The House That's Really a Home - January 1955 Filmland
      Why Did It Happen? - January 1955 Motion Picture Magazine
      Just Lucky - June 1, 1955 Ranch Romances Magazine
      Las Vegas Lark
-  November 1955 Filmland
      The Young and the Beautiful - Movie Annual 1955
1956: 
      When They Were Sixteen - Feb-April 1956 Screen Album Magazine
      He Got Out From Behind the 8 Ball - July 1956 Photoplay
      Jeff Hunter Calls It Quits - September 1956 Screen Stars
      The Rebel With a Cause - September 1956
      Alone - But Not for Long - November 1956 Motion Picture Magazine
1957:
      Preparedness and Opportunity -
January 8, 1957 German FilmRevue Magazine
          Painstakingly translated to English from the original German for us by our friend TH Linck (Many thanks Teddy)
                                       Original German Article

      Good Guys Sometimes Win - May 1957 Movieland Magazine
      Rising in the Spotlight - 1957 Photoplay Annual
1958
      My Wife's Love Saved My Life - December 1958 Movie Mirror
1959: 
      For Jeff Hunter, Divorce Changed Everything - March 1959 Movie Stars Closeups
1961:
      Dare I, A Sinner, Play Christ?  - January 1961 Modern Screen
      King of Kings - April 1961 British Photoplay
      The Man Who Plays Jesus - September 1961 British Photoplay
1962:
      Miracle of Faith - January 1962 Modern Screen
      Jeffrey Hunter:   A Man Reborn - January 1962 Screen Stories
      Actors Choice - April 1962 Films and Filming
1963:
     Hunter's Paradise - November 1963 Movieland and TV Time
1964:
      Ten Pushups and I Simmer Down  -   January 1964 TV Guide
     
I Was Only a Man Playing God - April 1964 Movie Mirror
      The Marriage That Almost Wasn't - June 1964 TV Radio Mirror
         
Jeffrey Hunter, un bandido con los ojos azules (a bandit with blue eyes)

                                     (in Spanish) - September 5, 1964 iHOLA!
      At Home on the Range - 1964 TV Radio Annual
1966:
      Jeffrey Hunter, un actor que habla poco de si mismo
                              (an actor who speaks little of himself)
 -
December 30, 1966 CINEavance
      He Wanted a Divorce for Xmas - 1966 Modern Screens Hollywood Yearbook

1967:
      Jeffrey Hunter: Du western sous tous les cieux
                               (western under all the skies)
(in French) - November 1967 Star-Cine Aventures

1969:
      The Wedding That Shocked Hollywood - May 1969 Inside Tv
      The Surprise Marriage of Emily McLaughlin and Jeff Hunter - June 1969 Movieland and TV Time
Unknown Source:
      I Spent Our Honeymoon With Our Best Man
     The Ladies Want to be His Consolation Prize
      I'm So Sorry About Barbara and Jeff

 

 

 

FILM Plots and Photos:

1951:
      Take Care of my Little Girl - July 1951 Screen Stories
1952:
      Belles on their Toes - June 1952 Screen Stories
      Dreamboat - August 1952 Screen Stories
        Lure of the Wilderness - October 1952 Picture Show and Film Pictorial
1954:
      Three Young Texans
-  March 1954 Screen Stories
      Princess of the Nile - May 1954 Screen Stories
1955:
      White Feather
-  March 1955 Screen Stories
           
Pages 1-3         Pages 4-6
        White Feather -
short writeup with photo from article "Movie Play Recommends," May 1955 Movie Play
1956:
      The Searchers - June 1956 Screen Stories
      Gun For a Coward - November 1956 Screen Stories
1957:
      The True Story of Jesse James
-  January 1957 Screen Stories
1958:
      The Last Hurrah
-  December 1958 Screen Stories
      In Love and War -  December 1958 Screen Stories
1960:
      Sergeant Rutledge
- June 1960 Screen Stories

 

 

ARTICLES IN RETROSPECT:

1969:
      Death Ends The Honeymoon - August 1969 TV Radio Mirror
      Jeffrey Hunter dies at 42, A New Life Cut Short - August 1969 Motion Picture
      Jeffrey Hunter Dies - August 1969 Photoplay
      Jeffrey Hunter Dies In Accident - August 1969 Tv Radio Show
      At The Height of Happiness - Death - September 1969 TV and Movie Screen
      They Never Even Said Goodbye - September 1969 Screenplay
      "I Know Jeff's Waiting for me on the Other Side" - September 1969 Tv Radio Talk
      Mystery Shrouds Jeffrey Hunter's Death - September 1969 TV Picture Life
      A Voice from Beyond the Grave October 1969 Tv Movie Parade
1970:
      Emily McLaughlin Tells the Truth
            About Her Husband'sTragic Death  -   June 1970 Movieland and Tv Times
      How Emily McLaughlin Fights Loneliness - Winter 1970 Daytime Tv Magazine
1972:
      All The Way Home - May 1972 TV Radio Mirror
1974:
      Love Brought My Late Husband Back to Me - June 1974 TV By Day
      Notes on Jeffrey Hunter and His Films - Filmograph 3rd Quarter 1974
                            
      Part I  - First Eight Pages
                       Part II - Last Eight Pages

1975:
      "I Came Through Heartbreak to Happiness" - May 1975  TV By Day
      Jeffrey Hunter: The Eyes Have It - July 1975 Nostalgia Illustrated Magazine
      He Taught Me The True Meaning of Love - October 1975 TV Radio Mirror
1984:
      A Friendship Remembered - December 1984 Milwaukee Magazine, written by Don Kreger
                     (Reprinted with permission of the author, a personal friend of Jeffrey Hunter.)  If you'd like to let
                    Don know your reaction to his article, he can be reached at donwriter@yahoo.com
      A Pretty Face May Have Been His Downfall - December 1984 Hollywood Studio Magazine
1989:
      Jeffrey Hunter: An American Dreamboat - August 1989 Hollywood Studio Magazine
      Jeffrey Hunter was Really Too Beautiful!
             
My Life with the Stars by Joan Mac Trevor - October 1989 Cine Tele Revue Magazine (French)
1990:
      Heaven on the Face - Dreamboats: Hollywood Hunks of the '50s by Maria Ciaccia
               (Reprinted with permission of the author.)  Click here to order her book .....   DREAMBOATS
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0:
      Temple Houston: The Story Behind a Forgotten Western
(by Glenn A. Mosley) -
               Wildest Westerns Magazine, Collectors Issue No. 2
               To visit the Wildest Westerns Magazine website, click here.
2002:
      Strange Days: Jeffrey Hunter - March 2002 Uncut Magazine

Unknown Source/Date:
      Jeffrey Hunter Death
      Untitled Article - Unknown Date - Tv Radio Show Magazine
     He Had Changed So Much
      "I Only Say Thank You"


Famous Wisconsin Film Stars by Kristin Gilpatrick.
Made available here with permission of the author.  This book is available at Amazon.com and also at the
Website http://www.badgerbooks.com/books/fwfs.shtml.  It also includes chapters on many other great
film stars such as Spencer Tracy, Agnes Moorehead, Orson Welles, Fred MacMurray, Don Ameche, Pat O'Brien
to name a few.

Too Nice - by Don Kreger.
An interview with Bob and Katie Head, childhood friends of Hank McKinnies.


JOURNEY INTO FEAR:  A lost Eric Ambler Story - by Glenn A. Mosley
Previously unpublished, this wonderful article was donated to us by the author.  Thank you, Glenn!

 

INTERVIEWS:

1965:
      Male Call - January 30, 1965 Los Angeles Citizen News
       Happy In Hollywood - July 4, 1965 The Milwaukee Journal

 

 

 

SCRAPBOOK:

            
 

 
                With Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie

 

                                    The above photo clippings are from unknown sources.

     Biography of Jeffrey Hunter - Written by Harry Brand, Director of Publicity, 20th Century Fox.
     Photoplay Annual 1953 - This is from a feature Photoplay did called Now and Then which compared
                                        the stars of 1953 with stars of yesteryear.  Jeffrey Hunter was compared with Richard Barthelmess.
     Photoplay January 1953 - A feature color photo from Photoplay.
     Photoplay October 1953 - Color photo with caption
     Photoplay May 1954 - Color photo with caption from a feature Photoplay did called Hollywood Holiday.
     Movie Spotlight June 1955 - Photo and mini-article from feature called Hollywood's Unhappy "Bachelors"
     Movieland September 1955 - First page from feature called "Hollywood's Most Wanted Men"
     Movieland May 1956 - More than 1/2 page with photo excerpted from larger article, subtitled "Courtly Jeff Hunter"

     Movie Stars Parade August 1956 - First page, with two photos, of  feature called Who Is Hollywood's Most
                                                                                                                                      Exciting Bachelor?

     Photoplay June 1956 - Photo and caption from feature called Pretenders to the Throne of Beefcake Kings
     Movie Stars Tv Closeups April 1959 - Photo and caption from feature called The Men
                                                                                                                  with the Muscles.
     Screen Parade January 1960 - Photo and caption from Earl Leaf's Star Parade feature.
     Modern Screen's Hollywood Yearbook 1961 - Photo and caption from the Top Performances
                                                                                                                                       of 1961 feature - King of Kings.

       
Excerpts from Bob Arthur Fan Club Magazine - Dated December, 1952
       (Bob played Frank Gilbreth in Belles on Their Toes)

    Clipping with picture of Jeffrey and Barbara - Unknown source

 

 

NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS:

      New Orleans Times - Picayune - March 24, 1954
      New Orleans Times - Picayune - March 28, 1954
      The Milwaukee Journal - September 22, 1954
      The L.A. Times - Wednesday May 28, 1969
      The Milwaukee Journal - Wednesday May 28, 1969
      The New York Times - Wednesday May 28, 1969

 

 

STAR TREK ARTICLES:

1984:
      The Menagerie
- January 1984 Enterprise Incidents, Special Collector's edition #2
                               Pages 1-5     Pages 6-10      Pages 11-14
      The First Captain - a bio

1985:   Three Articles written by John Peel from "The Star Trek Files" magazine
              A Biography
              Character Profile:  Christopher Pike
              The Cage

1996:
      The Unknown Captain
(by Glenn A. Mosley) - October 1996 Starlog