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Rock Hudson was devastated by AIDS diagnosis, wrote anonymously to partners to make them aware, guide claims
Before Rock Hudson was commended as a Hollywood heartthrob, he was discovering an identity that he had to keep private for the rest of his life.
The beloved actor is the subject of a new biography by Mark Griffin titled “All That Heaven Allows,” which further explores the complex, fiercely secret star. It features over interviews with co-stars, family members, friends and lovers. The Hollywood Correspondent shared that Universal Pictures has plans to turn the novel into a biopic.
Hudson, celebrated as a romantic idol of the ‘50s and ‘60s, passed away in at age 59 after suffering for more than a year from AIDS in his Los Angeles home. The Modern York Times reported that while acquaintances described Hudson as male lover, the actor never publicly commented or acknowledged the reports.
Griffin told Fox News Hudson may contain realized he was gay after joining the Navy in He was discharged two years later.
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An engrossing and uncovering bio-doc of Rock Hudson’s dual life in the eye of Hollywood.
Joyce Glasser reviews Rock Hudson: All that Heaven Allowed (Available on Digital Platforms from October 23, ). Cert 15, mins.
That Stephen Kijak’s thorough and engrossing biographical documentary (or bio-doc) devotes more time to Rock Hudson’s personal life than to his films is apparent from the clever title. It refers to Douglas Sirk’s ground-breaking movie All that Heaven Allows about a wealthy, suburban housewife’s affair with her gardener, a role that confirmed Hudson’s image as a heartthrob for frustrated, trapped s housewives the world over. Hudson’s lovers, agent, close friends, many leading ladies and ultimately even, for a day, his token wife, guarded the secret that he was acting against type, a secret that was out of the bag by the time he died of AIDS, in A product of the Hollywood studio system that was disappearing by the time of his death, Hudson felt fortunate and was grateful for his career and that the film studios took look after of everything, leaving him to
EXCLUSIVE: 'We have recently had sex together and…I may own AIDS.' How dying Rock Hudson sent ANONYMOUS letters to four male lovers to make sure they got tested for what he called his 'filthy disease'
Before his death, actor Rock Hudson sent his male lovers heartbreaking letters urging them to get tested after he was diagnosed with AIDS, a new book has revealed.
The s heartthrob, who spent his entire life as a closeted homosexual man, sent messages to four lovers who he feared could have contracted the disease from him - but did so anonymously.
In letters published in author Mark Griffin's All That Heaven Allows: A Biography of Rock Hudson, the actor wrote: 'We have recently had sex together and I have been informed by my doctor that I may have AIDS.
'Please go to your doctor and contain a check-up.'
One of the men realized it was Hudson and sold his story to a tabloid but it did not arrive until 18 months after Hudson's death in , making him the common face of the AIDS crisis and changing America's view of the disease.
According to the manual, Hudson was so tormented by his diagnos