Editing Anthony Perkins (section)

====Relationship with Tab Hunter, 1955–1959====
Tab Hunter publicly acknowledged his relationship with Perkins in his 2005 autobiography ''Tab Hunter Confidential: The Making of a Movie Star'', having met him at the [[Chateau Marmont]] during the filming of ''[[Friendly Persuasion (1956 film)|Friendly Persuasion]]'' in 1956:
<blockquote>"I went for a swim and when I came out my friend Venetia Stevenson said, 'Oh I want you to meet Tony – do you know him?' We hadn't met, but I already knew that he was a very fine actor. He was at Paramount and I was with Warner Brothers. We just chatted and got on and soon we were starting to see each other."<ref name="Exclusive: Tab Hunter Recounts His">{{cite web|url=https://attitude.co.uk/article/exclusive-tab-hunter-recounts-his-secret-relationship-with-psycho-star-anthony-perkins/18188/|title=Exclusive: Tab Hunter Recounts His Secret Relationship with "Psycho" Star Anthony Perkins|website=The Advocate|date=July 9, 2018|access-date=January 14, 2022|archive-date=December 18, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211218200358/https://attitude.co.uk/article/exclusive-tab-hunter-recounts-his-secret-relationship-with-psycho-star-anthony-perkins/18188/|url-status=dead}}</ref></blockquote>

Their relationship went on for four years{{sfn|Hunter|2006|p=130}} and had its ups and downs. A few months after their relationship began, Perkins announced to Hunter that Paramount had cast him as Jimmy Piersall in ''Fear Strikes Out'', a role Hunter had originated on television and was trying to convince Warner Brothers to introduce on the screen.{{sfn|Hunter|2006|p=140}} Hunter, however, stated that even after the incident, "we continued to see each other, privately, as much as our schedules allowed."{{sfn|Hunter|2006|p=155}} This included a multi-week stay together in a private villa in Rome in March 1957{{sfn|Hunter|2006|pp=173–175}} and an appearance on ''Jukebox Jury'' that May.{{sfn|Hunter|2006|p=133}}

[[File:Juke Box Jury May 1957.jpg|thumb|Perkins (far left) with [[Tab Hunter]] (far right), with whom he had a relationship]]
During their relationship, Paramount Pictures constantly targeted Perkins for their romance.{{explain|reason=I don't even know what "targeted for their romance" is supposed to mean|date=March 2023}} Many people reported arguments between the studio heads and Perkins, many revolving around Hunter and their relationship. Hunter, however, notes that for many years this had no effect on how they treated each other within their relationship, calling it "a wonderful time in my life."<ref name="sensesofcinema.com"/> Despite this, Paramount succeeded in separating the couple in 1959, just before ''Psycho'' went into filming. After their separation, Perkins and Hunter did not see each other more than twice in the thirty-three years until Perkins's death. The first time was on the set of ''The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean'' in 1971, the only film Perkins and Hunter starred in together. The second was at Perkins's home in 1982 when Hunter tried to convince Perkins to play the villain in Hunter's upcoming film ''Lust in the Dust'', costarring Divine. They nearly spoke a third time in 1992, as Hunter remembered: "I had a hunch to call [Perkins after hearing he was very sick with AIDS] and touch base, and when I picked up the phone, I heard on the radio that he'd passed away." Hunter later told ''The Advocate'' that watching himself speak about Perkins's death was one of the most impactful moments of his 2015 documentary.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.advocate.com/arts-entertainment/2015/06/18/tab-hunter-tells-all|title=Tab Hunter Tells All|website=The Advocate|date=June 19, 2015 |access-date=January 14, 2022}}</ref>

In addition, he remembered Perkins as a "special part of my journey. If he was shooting a film, I'd pick up a car and drive out to see him and we'd spend time together{{nbsp}}... He wanted to be a movie star more than anything. I wanted that too, but not with the same kind of drive he had. We were such opposites - but then maybe that was the attraction."<ref name="Exclusive: Tab Hunter Recounts His"/>