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Phyllis Lucille Gates (December 7, 1925 – January 4, 2006) was an American secretary and interior decorator, known for her three-year marriage to the actor Rock Hudson. The story of their marriage was depicted in the TV film Rock Hudson (1990), starring Daphne Ashbrook as Gates and Thomas Ian Griffith as Hudson. [1]
Jun 7, 2013 · As revealed in the Hollywood Reporter magazine’s June 14 issue, Hudson was secretly taped by private eye Fred Otash on Jan. 21, 1958, three years into the ill-fated marriage.
Jun 28, 2023 · He married Phyllis Gates in 1955, one year after earning praise from critics and fans for his charming role in Magnificent Obsession. Keep scrolling to learn more about their marriage and...
Jun 28, 2023 · Rock Hudson was married to his wife, Phyllis Gates, from 1955 to 1958. Learn details about the late actor’s ex-spouse and divorce.
Jan 12, 2006 · Phyllis Gates, the onetime talent agency secretary who married Hollywood heartthrob Rock Hudson in the 1950s and later insisted that she married him out of love and not to cover up his...
He told The Village Voice that Phyllis Gates attempted to blackmail Hudson about his homosexual activities. The LGBT news magazine The Advocate published an article by Hofler, who claimed that Gates was actually a lesbian who believed from the beginning of their relationship that Hudson was gay.
Jan 12, 2006 · Phyllis Gates, the Hollywood secretary who insisted that she married Rock Hudson out of love and not as a beard, died January 4 in Marina Del Rey, Calif., of complications from lung cancer,...
Phyllis Gates was born on 7 December 1925 in Dawson, Minnesota, USA. She was married to Rock Hudson. She died on 4 January 2006 in Marina del Ray, California, USA.
Feb 28, 2006 · Phyllis Gates, the former Mrs. Rock Hudson, died January 4 at age 80, and the Los Angeles Times commemorated her passing with an astonishingly long, 1,000-word, half-page obit a week later. (Would Katie Holmes ever get so much ink?)
Apr 15, 1987 · In 1955, Gates, at the time secretary to a Hollywood agent, married Rock Hudson, the perennially popular actor whose AIDS-related death made recent headlines. In this memoir of their three-year marriage, she, with the help of celebrity biographer Thomas (Astair et al.), describes a conflicted man, one given to childish behavior, sudden ...
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