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“I had to overcome the label Rock.”
I’ve been productive on a personal project regarding “old” Hollywood stars who were gay. Of course, the most famous was Rock Hudson (but there are plenty more). For a male lover man of his generation (born 1925) you simply didn’t come out of the closet, whether you were a movie star or just a regular Joe. But by becoming a major movie star in the 1950s, it put pressure on maintaining his classified even more.
Born Roy Scherer, Hudson grew up in Illinois. He united the Navy in 1944 after graduating from High Institution. His discharge was in 1946 and he eventually made his way to Hollywood. There he soon came under the wing of talent agent Henry Willson. Willson was famous for the many handsome men he helped to make stars. But first he changed their names to something masculine and rugged. Even then there were rumors in Hollywood that his client repaid him beyond the usual 10% to agents.
Hudson’s first role (uncredited) was in Flighting Squadron” (1948). There is a a legend that Rock himself repeated, that he had only one line but it took 38 takes to get something usable.
After existence signed to Universal, he went through it’s talent develo
One question that always exasperates authors is the old standard, where do you get your ideas from?
I get why it annoys writers to be asked this; who wants to be psycho-analyzed on a panel or at a reading? It’s a process, of course, and one that cannot be distilled into a quick, witty, quotable sound bite–and the ultimate truth is, it’s almost always different in every case–whether it’s a novel, an essay or a short story; I certainly have not gotten inspiration the same way every time. A lot of the Alabama fiction, for example, that I have written/am writing/have mind about writing, comes from stories my grandmother told me when I was a child about the past–mostly her family’s past, and certainly those stories were self-aggrandizing and self-serving, and still others were apocryphal: the ancestress, for example, who killed a Yankee soldier come to steal her during the Civil War? Yeah, that one was almost certainly lifted from Gone with the Wind–but I have since come to find out that Mitchell probably took the story from legends as well–that story seems to exist everywhere in local legend throughout the former Confeder
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Guy Madison (born Robert Ozell Moseley; January 19, 1922 – February 6, 1996) was an American film, television, and radio actor. He is best known for playing Wild Bill Hickok in the Western television series The Adventures of Untamed Bill Hickok from 1951 to 1958. During his career, Madison was given a special Golden Globe Award in 1954 and two stars (radio, television) on the Hollywood Amble of Fame in 1960. Hollywood biographer Lawrence J. Quirk claimed Mike Connolly (a gay gossip columnist for The Hollywood Correspondent from 1951 to 1966) "would put the create on the most prominent young actors, including Robert Francis, Guy Madison, Anthony Perkins, Nick Adams, and James Dean."
Madison was born January 19, 1922, in Bakersfield, California.[1] He attended Bakersfield College, a junior college, for two years and then worked briefly as a telephone lineman before joining the Joined States Navy in 1942, during World War II. In 1944, Madison was visiting Hollywood on quit when his
Henry Willson, Agent ~ and his Dreamboat Factory
While researching yesterday's blog entry about Guy Madison, I found that there was as much or more to write about the fascinating real-life caricature who was Guy's agent, Henry Willson. Sure, I'd heard the agent's entitle before, primarily in connection with his most famous client, Rock Hudson -- that Henry Willson's secretary was the bride chosen for Hudson during his brief marriage to counter the rampant gay rumors that were swirling about him in Hollywood as he grew into a celestial body in the initial 50s. Still I had no thought what a powerhouse this man was as the cornerstone for the male actor "dreamboat" and "beefcake" manufacturing industry that Hollywood evolved into during the 1940s and 50s. So I decided old Henry deserved a blog see all his retain today.
Henry Leroy Willson (1911 ~1978) -- and yes, that's "Willson" spelled with two l's plus, appropriately enough, a "son" added on at the terminate -- was an older gay man, what today we would call a notorious "chicken hawk" of an old queen, frequenting gentlemen's late hours clubs along