R.I.P. Ty Hardin

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Ty Hardin was given his screen name by Henry Willson, the notorious talent agent who also renamed Rock Hudson, Tab Hunter and other beefcake stars of the 1950s. George Cukor was obsessed with him during the film of 1962's The Chapman Report in which he played Glynis Johns' young stud who is undressed during most of the film. Based on the best-selling novel about a Kinsey-style sex survey, Jane Fonda, Claire Bloom and Shelley winters do the heavy emoting, while Johns and by extension, Hardin, steal it as the comic relief.
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Loved him in Berserk with Joan Crawford. Very good-looking man.
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His real name was Orison Whipple Hungerford Jr.
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Can't say I recall ever seeing him in anything, although IMDb tells me I've seen a few movies he was in.
Ty Hardin wrote: "We are a nation founded on Christian principles and values. Even if you don't agree with our system, don't ignore its success, as Christian's believers built the greatest nation this world has ever seen."
Spoken by a man who was divorced seven times and had ten children with six different women.

Not surprisingly for someone who married eight times, Suzanne Pleshette once said that his nickname on the Warner Bros. lot was "Ty Hard-on".
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