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Anyone remember or have you seen any of his films?

Very handsome guy. Had roles on American TV (e.g. The Andy Griffith Show).

I wouldn't have thrown him out of bed.

His nephew played Alexis' third husband on "Dynasty".

He was very handsome in 'Carnival Story'. Even more handsome that Steve Cochran who had the leading role.

After Nader was finished in films, he turned to writing. His 1978 novel "Chrome" broke major ground in that it was the first sci-fi thriller to have a homosexual theme (gay robots).

He looks like a Sim when they have to use the restroom.

Rock Hudson should have married George. But Rock was a whore. That was the problem.

Wow, he was with his partner for 55 years!

He wears high waisted swim trunks. What a tool.

[quote]he was with his partner for 55 years!

And for seven minutes of those 55 years he didn't cheat on him.

R8...

George didn't seem like a guy who keeps on cheating. Was he?

R2, i have seen that movie. I found it interesting that in the end the protagonist Anne Baxter ended up being a couple with George Nader. Interesting, because the way Nader looked back then, reminded me of Baxter's ex husband John Hodiak.

You want to know the reason why Hodiak and Baxter took a divorce?

In December 1952, Anne Baxter filed for divorce from her husband of six years, and the couple released a statement to the press that read in part: “We have tried very hard to avoid the finality of the word divorce. . . . We have no other interests and no career problems. We feel heartsick and defeated that in spite of all our hopes and efforts at understanding, basic incompatibilities have made our life together impossible.” Baxter was less tactful a month later, however. During her court testimony, she tearfully described Hodiak as rude and insulting, and claimed that she had found it difficult to work due to “such tension and strain.”

“For months we had been trying to work out our problems at mealtime after a day’s work. He would imitate me and more or less mock me, in an insulting tone,” Baxter testified. “I’d say, ‘But John, I don’t understand.’ And in a shrill, high voice, he would imitate me by repeating, ‘But John, I don’t understand.’ Finally it would get so bad that I’d have to take my plate upstairs to finish the meal in peace.” The couple’s divorce was finalized in January 1953, and Hodiak eventually moved into his parents’ house in Tarzana. Although he would later date such starlets as Janis Paige and Eva Gabor, none of the relationships lasted and a friend of Hodiak’s stated that the actor “was not interested in marrying again – he had been hurt once.

When Hodiak passed away, Anne Baxter said “He was hurt inside, many times, and that probably did it.”

John Hodiak has really grown on me...when I saw the movie "Lifeboat" for the first time I though he was unattractive.

Now that I'm older and can appreciate less than traditional model good looks I can see how hot and sexy he really was. What's ironic is that I actually find myself MORE attracted to his brand of handsome than I do the conventional "model" look.

Even John Gilmore in his book 'Laid Bare' has the best to say about John Hodiak and everybody knows that John Gilmore is a tacky bitch.

For the 50s and even now, George had a body to die for.

Nader co-starred in the camp classic THE FEMALE ANIMAL as a sort-of gigolo to Hedy Lamarr. Nader spends a fair amount of time in a swimsuit, showing off his gorgeous body. The funniest part is watching Jane Powell (as Lamarr's horny daughter) trying to play a bad girl lusting after Nader.

[quote]George had a body to die for.

What? Ya can't post a pick-cha?

I bet he had an incredible anus.

He was always taking off his shirt in the TV series "Man and His Challenge". Many a wet dream over him in my youth.

Who else fucked this body apart from Hudson?

The photo is for R15 who mentioned 'The Female Animal'

When you look like that and you're gay you cheat.

R24, you are breaking hearts the way you talk. How insensitive...

When Jane Powell was cast as Hedy Lamarr's daughter, it truly was the end of MGM.

George Nader seemed like the loyal type, in comparison to Rock Hudson and to other frivolous gay hunks.

Back in 1957 with Hedy...

With Jeff Chandler, a few minutes after sex.

My favorite is Robot Monster

You can catch The Female Animal on youtube. There's a hilarious scene where Hedy meets up with her movie star friend (Jan Sterling) and they compare their boytoys.

Considering Hedy Lamarr was hailed as the most beautiful woman in the world in the 1940s, she didn't age well. And I don't mean wrinkles and sagging and such. It was like her face became too small to contain her features. Was it the result of bad plastic surgery?

George Nader kind of reminds me of Stephen Boyd. He had a wonderfully rugged, rough hewn patina to his classically proportioned face and a body to die for.

My impression is that he just wouldn't/couldn't play along with studio politics and was left out to dry.

She didn't age that bad R33. She in her fifties here.

When Confidential Magazine was going to out Rock, the studio he and Nader worked for decided to give them George, since Rock was bigger box office.

Thanks, R29. George looks tres moderne in tight jeans and a t-shirt. Not so much the hair.

I lusted after George also. What was his TV show? Incidentally, Hedy was the smartest person ever to work in Hollywood.

For R38 from Wikipedia: Nader moved into television in the late 1950s, appearing in several short-lived series including 'The Further Adventures of Ellery Queen' and 'The Man and the Challenge'. In the 1961–1962 season, he appeared as insurance investigator Joe Shannon in the syndicated crime drama 'Shannon'; his co-star was Regis Toomey. He also appeared frequently on 'The Loretta Young Show', a dramatic anthology series on NBC.

R38, Thanks. I remember him from Ellery Queen.

The most info about Nader comes from the Rock Hudson biographies. According to the books Nader and Hudson were the closest of freinds for 35 years but never more than that. Nader was in a long term relationship with Mark Miller and they were all 3 very close. Hudsons preference in men was blondes and Hudson usually didnt go after more major stars in films, just the bit players.

The Nader Miller relationship was kind of old fashioned and I gather monogomous for decades. When you see Nader act, his gayness isnt all that far from the surface plus he refused to do a fake marriage so his career wasnt as sucessful. He eventually stopped working due to vision problems and the bright lights on a movie set were causing him to go blind. Nader s career was never sacrificed for Hudsons in the tabloids and the tabloids never did an expose on him. Nader was very conservative in his private life and except for living with a man his whole life kept a very low profile. Plus Nader was enough of a studio asset that the media would not out him and ruin a financial asset for the studios. Nader and Miller s long term relationship in that era was somewhat groundbreaking and unusually long lasting and tehy both were lucky in that regard. Hudson could have taken a page out of the way Nader handled his personal life and he might have lived longer.

Nader was good looking but for me personally I am not into body hair AT ALL and that aspect sort of wrecks it for me wtih Nader. Nader and Miller inherited Rock Hudson s estate after he died in 1985.

When I was a kid we had a book with pictures of old time movie actors and for some reason I was really drawn to pictures there of George. I'm not really sure why.

I might add, George Nader wrote a final book shortly before his death titled......... the perils of Paul..............a book about the perils of being a young gay actor in hollywood in the 50s................... he didnt want it published until after his death and as far as I knew the book died with George s death. Now that is a book I would like to read!

If you have any sort of gaydar at all, you could tell he was gay in any role he played. He was in an episode of The Andy Griffith Show where he played a doctor who came to Mayberry and Andy was jealous of him because his character and "Ellie" were so close. He was gorgeously handsome.

Me too R43, too bad it's lost to the world. I had a tremendous crush on him when I was a kid. He was just so fucking gorgeous - and built.

He was prime. Wish he didn't have that blockhead haircut. Fun to see him with John Saxon in Unguarded Moment.

Andy Griffith sbow is good, I've been getting into it the last few years after dismissing it as cornpone in my youth. the Joanna Moore episodes are good, she was Tatum O'Neal's mom. Griffith was a liberal Democrat, for years I believed him to the opposite.

As someone mentioned upthread, George Nader starred in "Robot Monster," probably the worst (and cheapest) sci-fi movie ever made that wasn't made by Ed Wood. The monster of the title was a man in a gorilla suit wearing a deep-sea diving helmet. The movie looked like it must have cost about $1.98 to make.

"Robot Monster" is a classic!

Nader was in "Away All Boats, " with Keith Andes and Lex Barker. The mind boggles...

Female Animal is on TCM now, and so found this thread. It was made at Universal, not by MGM. His body certainly is delish in it.

R47 if Andy was a liberal Democrat, why did he do commercials in Pennsylvania against Nancy Kulp, a liberal Democrat when she ran for office? Or didn't he like her for being a lesbian?

When Confidential was trying to out Rock Hudson I thought the studio gave them dirt on Rory Calhoun.

r52 That was Buddy Ebsen, you fat stupid whore!

Buddy Epsen was the backstabbed not Nader.

Sorry, Buddy Ebsen was the Backstabber...Makes me kinda glad he didn't get to be the Tinman in The Wizard of Oz.

R50, Away All Boats is on youtube, although the quality, as with many YT films, doesn't appear to be the best.

R48, I just watched Robot Monster last night. While it's certainly cheesy and no-budget, some of the criticism of the odd special effects is a little unfair. I had heard how wonderfully terrible it was and had seen the so-called monster, but I didn't know that ...

SPOILER (for a 67-year-old move)

... the entire movie except the very beginning and ending is the dream of a child. Naturally a ten-year-old boy would imagine a monster from outer space as a gorilla in a diving helmet. The dream state is obvious as soon as the sci-fi part begins because the characters change relationships with no other explanation. When you watch it from that POV, it becomes a silly, rather charming fantasy.

Anyway, George has his shirt off, mostly for no reason except to show off his lovely body and hairy chest, through large parts of the movie. He even gets married shirtless!

Nader certainly was a gorgeous man, especially that body - lean, defined and fit rather than pumped up, it's a very modern-looking body. I didn't find that he pinged all that much in RM, but maybe I was too distracted by his good looks to notice.

Gratuitous George Nader shirtless pic:

It sounds like he had a good life with gay friends and his partner. No lavender marriage or fake girlfriends in a time when the pressure to conform was strong.

Striking looking but not much of an actor. He made cheap films in Europe before he became a writer.

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