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  2. Dec 2, 2021 · Rock’s homosexuality was an open secret in Hollywood, but he’d managed to keep it largely out of the public eye, in part by briefly marrying his agent’s secretary.

  3. Feb 19, 2024 · The pair dated from 1962 to 1965; Hudson famously called his former partner his “true love” in his biography, which was published posthumously.

    • 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...

  4. Apr 15, 2015 · Thirty years after Rock Hudson's death by AIDS, Lee Garlington, his former boyfriend and "true love," speaks on how they kept their romance a secret.

  5. 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.

  6. May 29, 2023 · Gates and Hudson tied the knot on November 9, 1955, when they were both 30 years old. According to her 1989 memoir, My Husband, Rock Hudson, they dated and even lived together prior to this. However, even some of the actor's best friends reportedly didn't know her prior to their nuptials.

  7. Jun 28, 2023 · Although Rock married his agent secretary, Phyllis Gates, in 1955, it was at his agent Henry Willson's request to shut down all the talk about his true sexuality. The marriage lasted for three years, but the rumors continued to swirl.

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