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Love Wasn’t Enough—Rock Hudson & Phyllis Gates

A man fleeing from his home and registering at the Beverly Hills Hotel under his real name, Roy Fitzgerald, a woman packing her trunks to leave town—Hollywood was stunned when the marriage of Rock Hudson and his Phyllis took this sudden, tragic turn. They've issued...

1957 A Crazy, Wonderful, Mixed-Up Year

As they would phrase it in the best Hollywood drawing rooms, anyone for a crazy, wonderful, mixed-up year? How else would you describe 1957—the year the Jayne Mansfields boomed the bust, the Audrey Hepburns busted the boom and success really didn’t spoil anybody. But some of...

Exclusively Yours

Rendezvous with a Gentleman: While visiting Maurice Chevalier at his beautiful French country home, “La Coquette” (how appropriate for this ageless boulevardier), he told me that in returning to Hollywood for interior shots of “Les Parisiennes,” he is hoping that this generation of moviegoers will welcome...

Goes To Work With Rock Hudson

Well, it’s nice work, isn’t it! Cuddling with Jennifer Jones, keeping cozy in the blue shadows of the beautiful Dolomite Mountains—these were Rock Hudson’s pleasant assignments for 20th Century-Fox’s movie version of the Ernest Hemingway classic “A Farewell to Arms.” But let’s set the record straight:...

Can Rock Hudson’s Marriage Be Saved?

HER SIDE   Everything had seemed so perfect when Phyllis Gates was wed to Rock Hudson, every girl’s dream man—handsome, tall and strong, steady, faithful and honest. The kind of man who makes an ideal husband. And, with his career going into high gear, there wasn’t a...