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Saturday, August 17, 2024
Guy Madison
A nude model showed up in the 1960s who looked a whole lot like Guy Madison,
but it wasn't him. Fooled a lot of people, though.
The hottest man in Hollywood in his day, despite conjecture and rumors, never posed nude and straight as a pin. Discovered by agent Henry Willson, who had an eye for the Guy among many other Hollywood hunks….:)
I've seen the nudes in question, and there's a strong resemblance, but it's clearly not Madison if you do a direct comparison.
There are also some actual beefcake photos of Guy Madison in which he's shown with another shirtless hunk, a blond. Some sources have claimed the blond is one of his three real-life brothers. I haven't been able to verify that, but one of his brothers acted under the name "Wayne Mallory."
I also haven't been able to confirm this, but-- I'm pretty sure Guy Madison was the inspiration for a character in a truly bizarre late '40s comic book, Boody Rogers' "Babe," a "Li'l Abner" knockoff about a big blonde "Amazon of the Ozarks" who encounters oddball characters often based on real-lfe people.
In a few issues, she has encounters with a hunky, hairy-chested merman sporting a jaunty white "Dixie Cup" sailor cap, who introduces himself as "Guy Guppy." (Babe calls him "Mr. Guppy Guy.") Given the resemblance to Guy Madison, his real-life Naval service, and his then-recent early roles as a sailor, it's almost certainly a reference.
("Babe" is one of the most *WTF?* pre-Comics Code things ever published, and it's well worth Googling for the issues archived online if you're into that sort of thing, like me.)
The hottest man in Hollywood in his day, despite conjecture and rumors, never posed nude and straight as a pin. Discovered by agent Henry Willson, who had an eye for the Guy among many other Hollywood hunks….:)
ReplyDeleteI've seen the nudes in question, and there's a strong resemblance, but it's clearly not Madison if you do a direct comparison.
ReplyDeleteThere are also some actual beefcake photos of Guy Madison in which he's shown with another shirtless hunk, a blond. Some sources have claimed the blond is one of his three real-life brothers. I haven't been able to verify that, but one of his brothers acted under the name "Wayne Mallory."
I also haven't been able to confirm this, but-- I'm pretty sure Guy Madison was the inspiration for a character in a truly bizarre late '40s comic book, Boody Rogers' "Babe," a "Li'l Abner" knockoff about a big blonde "Amazon of the Ozarks" who encounters oddball characters often based on real-lfe people.
In a few issues, she has encounters with a hunky, hairy-chested merman sporting a jaunty white "Dixie Cup" sailor cap, who introduces himself as "Guy Guppy." (Babe calls him "Mr. Guppy Guy.") Given the resemblance to Guy Madison, his real-life Naval service, and his then-recent early roles as a sailor, it's almost certainly a reference.
("Babe" is one of the most *WTF?* pre-Comics Code things ever published, and it's well worth Googling for the issues archived online if you're into that sort of thing, like me.)
-- hsc