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Rock Hudson: Dark and Handsome Stranger (2010)
95 min | Documentary, Biography

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Rock Hudson: Dark and Handsome Stranger (2010)

95 min | Documentary, Biography

Twenty five years after the death of Rock Hudson, friends, acquaintances, colleagues, biographers and movie historians discuss his career, his personal life and his death, all especially in relation to his closeted homosexuality. Born Roy ...See moreTwenty five years after the death of Rock Hudson, friends, acquaintances, colleagues, biographers and movie historians discuss his career, his personal life and his death, all especially in relation to his closeted homosexuality. Born Roy Fitzgerald, Hudson treated who was known as "Rock Hudson" as being a studio creation that was somewhat outside himself. However, he sometimes was still "Rock Hudson: movie star" to those who knew him. Publicly, he had to maintain the façade of that creation, the public who saw in him a handsome, rugged, masculine yet likable and safe leading man and movie star. That façade included a short two-year marriage of convenience to Phyllis Gates. His movie career on the most part also supported that façade, especially when there was a foil of a more effeminate or nebbish male character playing against him. His life changed when he was diagnosed with AIDS - the disease which would eventually take his life - at a time when little was known about it beyond it afflicting most specifically homosexual males and it being a probable death sentence. Although it ravaged him physically and emotionally - the latter in some respects due to his homosexual orientation becoming common public knowledge - it also opened up the discussion about the disease within the public consciousness since he became the first true public face of the disease. Written by Huggo See less

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Name	Known for
Rock Hudson Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Giant (1956)
Armistead Maupin Self Self See fewer	Tales of the City (1993)
Yanou Collart Self Self See fewer	American Dreamer (1984)
Sean O. Strub Self (as Sean Strub) Self (as Sean Strub) See fewer	Pizza (I) (2005)
Michael Gottlieb Self Self See fewer	Commitment to Life (2023)
Stockton Briggle Self Self See fewer	Capitol (1982)
Mervyn Silverman Self Self See fewer	The Other Side of AIDS (2004)
Richard Dyer Self Self See fewer	Game of Thrones (2011)
Tom Santopietro Self Self See fewer	Jimmy Van Heusen: Swingin' With Frank & Bing (2014)
Robert Hofler Self Self See fewer	The Fabulous Allan Carr (2017)
Rona Barrett Self Self See fewer	Mannix (1967)
Peter Kulok Self Self See fewer	Rock Hudson: Dark and Handsome Stranger (2010)
Don Crutchfield Self Self See fewer	Pumping Pure Adrenaline
Mark Miller Self Self See fewer	Rock Hudson: Dark and Handsome Stranger (2010)
Suzanne Guyot Self Self See fewer	Rock Hudson: Dark and Handsome Stranger (2010)
Salome Jens Self Self See fewer	Green Lantern (2011)
Richard Anderson Self Self See fewer	Paths of Glory (1957)
Leonard Stern Self Self See fewer	Get Smart (1965)
Philippe Siou Self Self See fewer	Salut les Terriens (2006)
Heather Locklear Self Self See fewer	Melrose Place (1992)
Jeff Chandler Self (archive footage) (uncredited) Self (archive footage) (uncredited) See fewer	Broken Arrow (1950)
Tony Curtis Self (archive footage) (uncredited) Self (archive footage) (uncredited) See fewer	Some Like It Hot (1959)
Doris Day Self (archive footage) (uncredited) Self (archive footage) (uncredited) See fewer	Love Me or Leave Me (1955)
James Dean Jett Rink (archive footage) (uncredited) Jett Rink (archive footage) (uncredited) See fewer	East of Eden (1955)
John Gavin Self (archive footage) (uncredited) Self (archive footage) (uncredited) See fewer	Psycho (1960)
Otto Kruger Edward Randolph (archive footage) (uncredited) Edward Randolph (archive footage) (uncredited) See fewer	Saboteur (1942)
Burt Lancaster Self (archive footage) (uncredited) Self (archive footage) (uncredited) See fewer	From Here to Eternity (1953)
Janet Leigh Self (archive footage) (uncredited) Self (archive footage) (uncredited) See fewer	Psycho (1960)
Gina Lollobrigida Lisa Helena Fellini (archive footage) (uncredited) Lisa Helena Fellini (archive footage) (uncredited) See fewer	The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1956)
Louella Parsons Self (archive footage) (uncredited) Self (archive footage) (uncredited) See fewer	Hollywood Hotel (1937)
Anthony Quinn Osceola (archive footage) (uncredited) Osceola (archive footage) (uncredited) See fewer	Zorba the Greek (1964)
Tony Randall Jonathan Forbes (archive footage) (uncredited) Jonathan Forbes (archive footage) (uncredited) See fewer	The Odd Couple (1970)
Paul Ryan Self (archive footage) (uncredited) Self (archive footage) (uncredited) See fewer	Desperate Housewives (2004)
Dinah Shore Self (archive footage) (uncredited) Self (archive footage) (uncredited) See fewer	The Dinah Shore Chevy Show (1956)
Elizabeth Taylor Self (archive footage) (uncredited) Self (archive footage) (uncredited) See fewer	Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
Esther Williams Self (archive footage) (uncredited) Self (archive footage) (uncredited) See fewer	Take Me Out to the Ball Game (1949)
Jane Wyman Helen Phillips (archive footage) (uncredited) Helen Phillips (archive footage) (uncredited) See fewer	Falcon Crest (1981)