Although most critics have been less than generous regarding his acting talent, I have found him to be quite a competent actor - not that that really matters considering his incredible sex appeal. He made quite a few westerns and action-type films, and also starred in a TV series "The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickock" in the early 1950s.
Best role I've seen him in: "Till the End of Time" (1946), as a GI returning home to San Diego, having a hard time finding his place in civilian life after fighting in World War II. [Although not released to DVD (yet?) there may still be some old copies of this movie floating around on VHS.]
Now, here's Guy...
Oh my. Did things just get a bit hotter in here? Thank you so much for pointing this sexy man out to me. I'm fairly sure that I've never seen any of his work before (though I know about the Wild Bill Hickock television show, just never watched). There is little I would not do to rub my hands over that chest of his.
ReplyDeleteI have to go cool down now.
-Ace
Same here, Ace.
ReplyDeleteMark,I think I'm in love with this sexy handsome man!..I was feeling cold but now I'm HOT!Just looking st him.
ReplyDeleteHe goes to the top of my sexy handsome men list.. wish I can say that I have seen his movies but can not recall,though I do recall the Bill Hitckcock T.V series.
I remember that man a bit. He was so hot looking and just looking at his photos steamed my apartment in a second. Had to whiped them man. Thank you for that great post of a very sexy and hot man.
ReplyDeleteYves
OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH....Guy Madison! The man that convinced my partner to watch older films with me! You mentioned two of his best...
ReplyDeleteCan I just say that the last picture with the dog is what really sells me on this man? I wish I could walk into that scene and come up behind him and kiss the back of his neck while he played with the dog.
ReplyDeleteAnd then I would make him play with me a bit.
-Ace
Guy Madison is easily at the top of that "insanely goodlooking actor list"—that all of us gay guys have written down somewhere, in our heads. That goes for those of us with an appreciation of Hollywood's past more so then to younger guys. Surely they would appreciate his awesomeness more, were there more ways for them to see him! (Thanks to sites like yours for furthering this cause!)
ReplyDeleteMeanwhile what I think is most perplexing about Guy is that he fell into the too-pretty-for-his-own-good looks category at the start of his career. Thus he maybe appeared too much like eye candy (something even pretty boy types today must contend with: as not being taken AS seriously, as serious looking men!)
At the same time, he arrived on the scene, in his pretty MAN-ner, too early to have risen to the heights of those who came just after him (like Tab Hunter and Troy Donahue). They benefitted from their cumming of age right when the baby boomer generation (of girls) was beginning to blossom.
But I think the biggest irony is that Madison grew into the handsomest example of older "daddy" male-dom by the late-50s.
Truly he was a man who grew into his looks. Trouble is, he was a man never exactly right for his time.
Hi Wally, I'm glad I could introduce you to a new heartthrob.
ReplyDeleteHi Yves, I'm glad you enjoyed the pics.
ReplyDeleteFelchingPisser, Guy Madison could lure anyone into anything.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Tail, I think your comments were more insightful than my original post.
ReplyDeleteAfter WWII, there was a whole new type of leading man emerging, more sensitive, more questioning, less overtly he-man. Think James Dean, Sal Mineo, Montgomery Clift, etc. Guy Madison, who fit more into this group than the John Wayne/Clark Gable rugged man set, was perhaps just a bit ahead of his time. As you point out, there may have been more room for him had he started his rise in the 1950s instead of the mid 1940s.
Ace, I love that picture too. So sexy and sweet. My impulse, though, would be to go up under him with my wet finger through a leg opening of those very short shorts, but then I'm just a romantic at heart.
ReplyDeleteI would much prefer to put one hand up each opening to cup those nice cheeks and then give him some...shall we say, "below deck attention." Sorry. Bad nautical pun is bad.
ReplyDelete-Ace