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Post by petrolino on Mar 11, 2018 2:57:54 GMT
Rock Hudson
"The handsome, leading man of Pillow Talk and more than 70 other Hollywood pictures wasn’t always known as Rock Hudson. Roy Harold Scherer, Jr., was born on November 17, 1925, to Winnetka’s Katherine Wood Scherer, a telephone operator, and Roy Harold Scherer, an auto mechanic. A 1929 phone directory lists the Scherer’s home at 1017 Elm. Young Roy’s parents divorced c.1933, and his mother, along with her parents James and Mary Ellen Wood, cared for him. Katherine remarried c.1935 to Wallace Fitzgerald who adopted Roy and legally changed his name to Roy Fitzgerald. Telephone directories list the Fitzgerald family as moving frequently around the Village. In 1935, they lived in an apartment at 809 Chestnut Court and, from 1936-1939, at 511 Birch (now demolished). Magazine articles written about his life describe school-age Roy Fitzgerald as a very social boy, more interested in fun and mischief than in academics. One account claimed that he never acted in school plays because he couldn’t remember the lines."
- Maura Rogan, Winnetka Historical Society10 Great PerformancesPiper Laurie & Rock Hudson in Douglas Sirk's 'Has Anybody Seen My Gal?' (1952) Rock Hudson & Julie Adams in Raoul Walsh's 'The Lawless Breed' (1953)
Rock Hudson & Yvonne De Carlo in Raoul Walsh's 'Sea Devils' (1953)
Rock Hudson & Jane Wyman in Douglas Sirk's 'Magnificent Obsession' (1954)
Rock Hudson & Jane Wyman in Douglas Sirk's 'All That Heaven Allows' (1955)
Rock Hudson & Elizabeth Taylor in George Stevens' 'Giant' (1956)
Rock Hudson & Dorothy Malone in Douglas Sirk's 'Written On The Wind' (1956)
Doris Day & Rock Hudson in Michael Gordon's 'Pillow Talk' (1959)]
Rock Hudson & Salome Jens in John Frankenheimer's 'Seconds' (1966)
Barbara Carrera & Rock Hudson in Ralph Nelson's 'Embryo' (1976)
"Imitation of Life was Douglas Sirk’s biggest success and last commercial film. He had been all but ignored during his career and was resurrected only a decade after it by tiny yet earnest coteries scattered around Europe and America. If his most famous apostle was Rainer Werner Fassbinder, his most Pauline apostle was Jon Halliday, whose interview, Sirk on Sirk (1972) – one of the greatest film books ever – reappeared in Sirk’s centenary year 25 percent longer and ten times better. Jon Halliday and Sirk’s other champions had faced a daunting challenge in the 1970s. Saccharine soap operas were a hard sell in that decade’s Zeitgeist, an embarrassment even to Sirk’s Champions, who tended to be Marxian, alienated and cynical. How could Lana Turner and the Rock named Hudson be promoted as radical chic?"
- Tag Gallagher, Senses Of Cinema
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Post by RiP, IMDb on Mar 11, 2018 3:04:19 GMT
He went to the same high-school I did for freshman, sophomore and junior years. As also did Ann-Margret, Charlton Heston, Ralph Bellamy, Hugh O'Brian, Bruce Dern, and Virginia Madsen.
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Post by petrolino on Mar 11, 2018 3:06:46 GMT
He went to the same high-school I did for freshman, sophomore and junior years. As also did Ann-Margret, Charlton Heston, Ralph Bellamy, Hugh O'Brian, Bruce Dern, and Virginia Madsen. Cool.
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Post by RiP, IMDb on Mar 11, 2018 3:09:13 GMT
He went to the same high-school I did for freshman, sophomore and junior years. As also did Ann-Margret, Charlton Heston, Ralph Bellamy, Hugh O'Brian, Bruce Dern, and Virginia Madsen. Cool.
Unfortunate, he and the others WEREN'T there when I went...
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Post by petrolino on Mar 11, 2018 3:12:07 GMT
Cool.
Unfortunate, he and the others WEREN'T there when I went...Still cool though.
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Post by RiP, IMDb on Mar 11, 2018 3:15:50 GMT
HOWEVER....the late great Charlton Heston returned to play a tennis match with or against the late Wayne Rogers. I don't recall if they were partners or opponents?? Afterwards, we all eat at some restaurant in Highwood. Lol, I even told CH that he was going to an Oscar presenter the next year...and he WAS. So all one needs to do is find out what year CH presented "Best Picture" and this tennis match would be the year before.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Mar 11, 2018 3:16:47 GMT
One of America's Favorite actors ... comedy, drama, tv. He did them all and he was a far far better actor than he was ever given credit for. One of my fav photos of him
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Post by petrolino on Mar 11, 2018 3:19:03 GMT
HOWEVER....the late great Charlton Heston returned to play a tennis match with or against the late Wayne Rogers. I don't recall if they were partners or opponents?? Afterwards, we all eat at some restaurant in Highwood. Lol, I even told CH that he was going to an Oscar presenter the next year...and he WAS. So all one needs to do is find out what year CH presented "Best Picture" and this tennis match would be the year before. A cinematic colossus. I think Chuck Heston was from Evanston, Illinois.
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Post by petrolino on Mar 11, 2018 3:21:13 GMT
One of America's Favorite actors ... comedy, drama, tv. He did them all and he was a far far better actor than he was ever given credit for. One of my fav photos of him Agreed, he didn't always get the credit, despite appearing in some great films. He possessed tremendous talent and obviously had charisma to burn.
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Post by Doghouse6 on Mar 11, 2018 3:30:32 GMT
In the first photo, are those James Best (far left) and Tony Curtis (between the maybe-Best and Rock)?
Can't place the guy at far right, but looks vaguely familiar.
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Post by petrolino on Mar 11, 2018 3:35:19 GMT
In the first photo, are those James Best (far left) and Tony Curtis (between the maybe-Best and Rock)? Can't place the guy at far right, but looks vaguely familiar. HI Doghouse. It is James Best, Tony Curtis & Rock Hudson - not entirely sure who the other guy is but the caption says it's actor Richard Long.
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Post by RiP, IMDb on Mar 11, 2018 3:38:05 GMT
In the first photo, are those James Best (far left) and Tony Curtis (between the maybe-Best and Rock)?
Can't place the guy at far right, but looks vaguely familiar. HI Doghouse. It is James Best, Tony Curtis & Rock Hudson - not entirely sure who the other guy is but the caption says it's actor Richard Long.
Richard Long was an actor from the Western tv-series with Lee Majors and Ms Barbara Stanwyck (sp).
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Post by BATouttaheck on Mar 11, 2018 3:42:43 GMT
Friends forever
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Post by Primemovermithrax Pejorative on Mar 11, 2018 3:44:36 GMT
HOWEVER....the late great Charlton Heston returned to play a tennis match with or against the late Wayne Rogers. I don't recall if they were partners or opponents?? Afterwards, we all eat at some restaurant in Highwood. Lol, I even told CH that he was going to an Oscar presenter the next year...and he WAS. So all one needs to do is find out what year CH presented "Best Picture" and this tennis match would be the year before. Fess up. You're Corbin Bernsen aren't you? ??
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Post by BATouttaheck on Mar 11, 2018 3:47:01 GMT
In the first photo, are those James Best (far left) and Tony Curtis (between the maybe-Best and Rock)? Can't place the guy at far right, but looks vaguely familiar. where's Richard Kimble when we need him ... he's the "id the guy on the right in the picture" guru these days
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Post by petrolino on Mar 11, 2018 3:49:33 GMT
HOWEVER....the late great Charlton Heston returned to play a tennis match with or against the late Wayne Rogers. I don't recall if they were partners or opponents?? Afterwards, we all eat at some restaurant in Highwood. Lol, I even told CH that he was going to an Oscar presenter the next year...and he WAS. So all one needs to do is find out what year CH presented "Best Picture" and this tennis match would be the year before. Fess up. You're Corbin Bernsen aren't you? ?? Corbin Bernsen rules. I like his 1989 work in 'Major League' and 'Disorganized Crime'.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Mar 11, 2018 4:01:12 GMT
Another with Rock, James and Tony with three young ladies. A studio posed get together of some sort perhaps ? #4R in #1 R.Long ? imo doubtful but whadda-i-know ?
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Post by petrolino on Mar 11, 2018 4:06:36 GMT
Another with Rock, James and Tony with three young ladies. A studio posed get together of some sort perhaps ? #4R in #1 R.Long ? imo doubtful but whadda-i-know ? Rock Hudson and Tony Curtis both fought their way up in the industry through taking tough guy bit parts.
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Post by RiP, IMDb on Mar 11, 2018 6:41:02 GMT
#4R in #1 R.Long? imo doubtful but whadda-i-know? Looks like RL to me!
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Post by Richard Kimble on Mar 11, 2018 9:11:47 GMT
Another with Rock, James and Tony with three young ladies. A studio posed get together of some sort perhaps ? Top left is (I think) Janet Leigh, but I couldn't confirm this. I guessed the girl at bottom is Piper Laurie (another Universal contractee) and apparently it is her, though she not very recognizable. The other girl stumped me. Apparently it's Joyce Holden. Yes it's Long. He was a Universal contractee for many years-- he appears in at least one Ma and Pa Kettle film. I never knew James Best was given the same studio publicity buildup as Curtis or Hudson. Hard to believe he was ever considered a potential leading man. He always came across as bit unsettling nervous weak. His one notable lead -- Samuel Fuller's Verboten -- takes advantage of this weakness. Otherwise he was more suitably cast as weak villains or the hero's indecisive friend. Not very long ago I saw the Mexican-set noir One Way Street (1950) w/James Mason. Very shadowy in the noir style, the supporting players weren't always easy to make out. But I still spotted James Best by that thin Kentucky-twanged voice of his. I even recognized John Ford regular O.Z. Whitehead (unbilled as a gas station attendant) by his voice. But another unbilled player at the end, fittingly cast as a truck driver, escaped my notice. You have to see Rock Hudson to notice him.
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