JACK FONTAN (George Platt Lynes Model & Actor)

 An interesting, and somewhat titillating, anecdote about Jack Fontan can be found in Christopher Isherwood's book "Lost Years: A Memoir, 1945-1951" (published 2000):

"Bill [Harris] was greatly excited by Jack Fontan, his new lover. Jack had a small but prominent part in "South Pacific", which had opened in New York the previous April [1950]. The character Jack played was called Staff Sergeant Thomas Hassinger on the program, but he was already known to hundreds of queers as "The Naked Sailor". Wearing nothing but a pair of the shortest shorts, without underwear, Jack sprawled in the midst of the group which sang "What ain't we got? We ain't got dames" - displaying nearly all of his large and magnificent body, including glimpses of his genitals . . .

"Jack tells me - August 4, 1973 - that, when rehearsals started, the minor characters were given a pile of military garments and told to pick out the ones that fitted them. So Jack got himself a navy work-shirt, pants and a pair of shoes. When Joshua Logan, the director, arrived to inspect the costumes, he promptly ordered Jack to take off his shirt and his shoes. He then called for a pair of scissors and snipped away the legs of Jack's pants, just above the knee. This didn't satisfy him, however. He kept snipping higher and higher, until Jack's legs were left bare right up to the crotch. Logan then decided that Jack could put the shoes on again.
"Jack wasn't in the habit of wearing underwear. So he came on stage on the first night with nothing under his shorts. After the show had been running a few days, the stage manager told him there had been complaints from ladies sitting in the front row. Jack was to put on jockeys. When Logan heard of this, he was very angry. The jockeys were prohibited. Logan's instructions to the box-office were: 'If they don't want to see his balls, they can have their money returned'. "

JACK HARRIS (photo credited to George Platt Lynes) was Jack's lover for a time.