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Apr 15, 2015 · Lee Garlington, who dated Rock Hudson from 1962 to 1965, shares his memories of the movie icon and his \"true love\". He reveals how they hid their relationship from the public and how he felt when Hudson died of AIDS in 1985.
Feb 19, 2024 · The late actor Rock Hudson called Lee Garlington his \"true love\" in his biography, despite their brief and private relationship from 1962 to 1965. Garlington, who died in December, shared rare photos and memories of their time together in Mexico and New Orleans.
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Rock Hudson’s wife secretly recorded gay confession for private investigator, book claims
Rock Hudson, a closeted Hollywood star and '50s heartthrob, died in 1985 at age 59 from AIDS-related...
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Doris Day and Rock Hudson: Their On Screen Magic
One of the more delightful moments of the recent TCM FilmFestival was a screening of the Doris Day and Rock Hudson 1964 film Send Me No Flow...
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Dec 19, 2018 · Lee Garlington, who dated Rock Hudson in the '60s, shares private photos of their vacation in Mexico and recalls their secret love. He says Hudson was the kindest man he ever met and wished he had been born in a more accepting era.
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Jun 25, 2023 · The documentary \"Rock Hudson: All That Heaven Allowed\" explores the actor's career, love life and AIDS diagnosis. Learn how he hid his sexuality, married his agent's secretary, and was comforted by Elizabeth Taylor on his deathbed.
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- Tracy Smith
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- Hudson’s Childhood Was Brutal.
- His Brief Marriage to Phyllis Gates Was Meant to Keep Scandal Sheets at Bay.
- Many of The Characters Hudson Played Were Deeply conflicted.
- He May Have Fathered A Child During His Days in The Navy.
He was born Roy Scherer Jr. in Winnetka, Illinois, in 1925. Hudson’s biological father abandoned his mother, Katherine, and his stepfather, Wallace Fitzgerald, was physically abusive – including, Hudson once said, when he told Fitzgerald he wanted to be an actor. “From an early age,” Griffin writes, “he learned that you could talk about pretty much...
Gates, secretary to Hudson’s notoriously predatory agent, Henry Wilson – the man who “invented” Rock Hudson – may or may not have known Hudson was gay. What is known is that the public was openly wondering why Rock Hudson wasn’t married and Confidential Magazine was intent on exposing him. “Henry Wilson knew that there was only one way to silence a...
Whether Hudson was playing the hero, the lover or even the science experiment, many of the characters were, on some level, conflicted. Griffin speculates that it’s more than likely that Douglas Sirk, who directed Hudson in such films as “Magnificent Obsession,” “All That Heaven Allows” and “Written on the Wind,” “certainly knew the score about Huds...
In 2014, a woman named Susan Dent sued Hudson’s estate claiming to be Hudson’s daughter and wanting “no financial remuneration but only an order establishing paternity.” According to Griffin, Hudson’s adoptive sister had a letter from Hudson to a friend that “tells his friend everything.” Furthermore, Griffin says, “more than one individual intervi...
The book also names some of Hudson's lovers, including Jack Coates; Tom Clark (who published the memoir Rock Hudson: Friend of Mine), actor and stockbroker Lee Garlington, and Marc Christian (born Marc Christian MacGinnis), who later won a suit against the Hudson estate.
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Jun 28, 2023 · In the documentary “Rock Hudson: All That Heaven Allowed,” lovers, co-stars and friends give details on the closeted actor’s biography. HBO. By Calum Marsh. June 28, 2023. Rock Hudson: All...