by Mark Griffin
“Being nominated”: Doris Day, correspondence with author, December 19, 2014.
“Thank God”: “I Call on Rock Hudson” by Pete Martin, Saturday Evening Post, July 23, 1960, p. 74.
“Rock had a monstrous crush”: Lee Garlington, interview with author, June 2015.
“I don’t know anybody”: Oppenheimer and Vitek, Idol: Rock Hudson, p. 67.
“The whole ‘Newport Bums’ crowd” . . . “Later, when she”: Dear Rock by Roger Jones (unpublished manuscript), from the Roger W. Jones Papers (Collection #12621), archived at the University of Wyoming/American Heritage Center.
“Fag-got!”: Flaherty, “At Home” with Rock Hudson, Behind The Walls of his Life, p. 68.
“There are times”: “I’m Rock’s Best Gal But He Treats Me Like a Dog” by Jane Ardmore, Photoplay, February 1960, pp. 48–49.
“Rock was making Pillow Talk” . . . “About a week” . . . “I remember him”: Bill Dawson, interview with author, July 14, 2015.
“an interesting performance”: Review of The Big Party by John Lardner, New Yorker, November 21, 1959, pp. 122–28.
“painfully contrived”: Review of The Big Party by Revlon, Variety, October 14, 1959.
“It sounded like”: “Rock Hudson Will Test T.V. Temper Again,” Los Angeles Times, September 21, 1966, Part IV, p. 20.
“Strange on the range”: Capsule review of The Last Sunset from Leonard Maltin’s 2002 Movie & Video Guide, New York: Signet, 2002, p. 768.
“I have to do your picture”: Douglas, The Ragman’s Son, p. 330.
“I was only”: Adell Aldrich, interview with author, July 2016.
“Dalton Trumbo . . . quit his”: Robert Aldrich: Interviews, Edited by Eugene L. Miller and Edwin T. Arnold, University Press of Mississippi, 2004, p. 47.
“uncharacteristically haphazard”: Cook, Trumbo, p. 278.
“I had a problem”: Douglas, The Ragman’s Son, p. 328.
“Rock Hudson emerged”: Robert Aldrich: Interviews, edited by Eugene L. Miller and Edwin T. Arnold, University Press of Mississippi, 2004, p. 48.
“A routine combination”: “Douglas and Hudson in ‘The Last Sunset’” by Bosley Crowther, New York Times, June 15, 1961, p. 51.
“This is not so much”: “Ha, Ha, Ha,” Newsweek, July 3, 1961, p. 72.
“Aldrich’s film is”: Time Out London, undated online review by ATU.
“It is as frightful”: Ceplair and Trumbo, Dalton Trumbo: Blacklisted Hollywood Radical, p. 423.
“That’s a film”: Hudson interview with Professor Ronald L. Davis, August 24, 1983.
“That night, my navy buddy” . . . “I was a bit tipsy” . . . “Henry took me”: Glenn Jacobson, interview with author, May 25, 2017.
“large scale homosexual orgies”: Buford, Burt Lancaster: An American Life, p. 176; the source is an FBI Office Memorandum, SAC [Special Agent “C”] (94–558) to Director, FBI (63–4296), Re: CRIMDEL—CRS, February 16, 1960.
“A friend and I” . . . “The lights were turned off”: Robert Harmon, interview with author, January 15, 2015.
“We were Pillow Talk” . . . “What’s very interesting”: Joel Grey, interview with author.
“I don’t think”: “Twilight of the Goddess” by James Reginato, Vanity Fair, February 2015, p. 133.
“a superb comedienne”: “The Screen: Comedy-Romance in Italy: ‘Come September’ Is at the Music Hall” by Bosley Crowther, New York Times, September 8, 1961, p. 34.
“Hudson comes through”: Review of Come September, Variety, June 28, 1961.
“Lover Come Back is very”: Thomas Santopietro, interview with author, December 14, 2015.
“Pillow Talk was such a success”: Tony Randall’s comments are taken from his interview for the Turner Classic Movies Archival Project; the interview was taped on October 29, 2003 and it is archived at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Film Archive.
“A springy and spirited”: “Screen: ‘Lover Come Back’ Opens at Music Hall: Rock Hudson and Doris Day Are Co-Starred, Bright Comedy Recalls Their ‘Pillow Talk,’” New York Times, February 9, 1962, p. 21.
“The best romantic-comedy team”: “Lovers Come Back” by James Wolcott, Vanity Fair, April 2000.
“A strange romance” . . . “Right now, five will”: “Rock and Marilyn: How They Met, How They Love, Why They Keep it Secret” by Ruth Waterbury, Photoplay, January 1962, pp. 60–63.
“He’s the very, very best” . . . “She’s one of those girls”: Parish and Bowers, The MGM Stock Company, p. 476.
“this handsome, six-foot-whatever”: Oppenheimer and Vitek, Idol: Rock Hudson, p. 96.
“Marilyn Maxwell’s estranged husband”: “The Forgotten Marilyn” by Sara Jordan, Midwest Today magazine, p. 32.
“She was in love with him”: Hudson and Davidson, Rock Hudson: His Story, p. 88.
“When you’d see”: Matt Davis, interview with author, June 2016.
“I could never count”: Stepping Stones: The Story of a Girl Who Lived Her Dreams (unpublished memoir) by Lois Darlene Rupert, archived at the University of Wyoming/American Heritage Center.
“There was nothing”: “Marilyn Maxwell Just ‘Rides Away’ From Show” by Bob Thomas, The Corpus Christi Caller-Times, November 19, 1961, p. 63.
“My mom went through” . . . “When I came home”: Matt Davis, interview with author, June 2016.
“most crucial” . . . to me, it’s like”: “Hudson Sees Physician Role Crucial One of His Career,” New York Morning Telegraph, August 24, 1961.
“Interminable”: Capsule review of The Spiral Road, Leonard Maltin’s 2002 Movie & Video Guide, New York: Signet, 2002, p. 1,289.
“his finest to date”: Review of The Spiral Road, Boxoffice, June 4, 1962.
“I had a producer friend”: Earl Holliman, interview with author, January 16, 2015.
“I never in my life” (footnote): Clark and Kleiner, Rock Hudson—Friend of Mine, p. 87.
“I have to say”: Ken Jillson, interview with author, April 2, 2017.
“Oh, my god, that house”: Cathy Hamblin, interview with author, May 3, 2017.
“Over ninety percent”: Marty Flaherty, interview with author, July 3, 2015.
“Everything in that”: Cathy Hamblin, interview with author, May 3, 2017.
“I couldn’t believe”: Ken Jillson, interview with author, April 2, 2017.
Chapter 13: Strange Bedfellows
“You have worked”: Otash, Investigation: Hollywood!, p. 35.
“How do you resist”: Otash, Investigation: Hollywood!, p. 37.
“If you want to talk” . . . “The horse industry” . . . “The story that”: Dr. Jonathan Coleman, interview with author, June 11, 2017.
“That space has” (footnote): Dr. Jonathan Coleman, interview with author, June 11, 2017.
“I knew a lot”: Robert Morgan, interview with author, June 9, 2017.
“This is how” . . . “Of course, Lonnie and Jim’s”: Shannon Ragland, interview with author, January 20, 2017.
“The way that the story”: Robert Morgan, interview with author, June 9, 2017.
“Rock didn’t want” (footnote): Hofler, The Man Who Invented Rock Hudson, p. 364.
“I never had a player admit” . . . “One of the”: Shannon Ragland, interview with author, January 20, 2017.
“This would have been”: Shannon Ragland, interview with author, January 20, 2017.
“The whole town”: Otash, Investigation: Hollywood!, p. 35.
“I got a call” . . . “He wanted to”: Hofler, The Man Who Invented Rock Hudson, p. 364.
“Brave wives”: Mary Peach, interview with author, March 11, 2015.
“As we got further”: Delbert Mann’s comments are taken from the documentary Rock Hudson: Acting the Part, which was originally broadcast on the A&E Network on March 7, 1999 (Peter Jones Productions).
“I think they cast”: Mary Peach, interview with author, March 11, 2015.
“His dresser and my”: Mar
y Peach, interview with author, March 11, 2015.
“It was a classic example”: Davis, Words into Images: Screenwriters on the Studio System, p. 99.
“Rock met me” . . . “A rogue”: Stepping Stones: The Story of a Girl Who Lived Her Dreams (unpublished memoir) by Lois Darlene Rupert, archived at the University of Wyoming/American Heritage Center.
“He made very”: Bego, Rock Hudson: Public and Private, p. 96.
“Before she was signed”: Stepping Stones: The Story of a Girl Who Lived Her Dreams (unpublished memoir) by Lois Darlene Rupert, archived at the University of Wyoming/American Heritage Center.
“This is really”: Erich Kuersten, correspondence with author, August 23, 2017.
“I wanted to be”: Lee Garlington, interview with author, June 2015.
“Hollywood in those days” . . . “Around the lot” . . . “Word kind of got out”: Lee Garlington, interview with author, June 2015.
“That was very” . . . “He invited me over” . . . “If we wanted”: Lee Garlington, interview with author, June 2015.
“We were not” . . . “I usually requested” . . . “When we came back”: Lee Garlington, interview with author, June 2015.
“In a way” (footnote): “I Slept in Rock Hudson’s Bed” by Alan Somers, Photoplay, January 1964, p. 89.
“Inside a drawer” . . . “I am a very independent” . . . “He had a lot”: Lee Garlington, interview with author, June 2015.
“mysterious friendship” . . . “No comment”: “Rock Hudson & Lee Majors,” Globe magazine, October 1, 1985.
“The truth of the matter” . . . “Handsome, blond” . . . “a professor at”: “Miracle at Middlesboro” by Flora Rand, TV Radio Mirror, 1966.
“That’s basically”: Lee Garlington, interview with author, June 2015.
“I would say that your faith”: Letter from Colonel Eben C. Henson (Pioneer Playhouse founder) to Rock Hudson, July 25, 1962.
“Rock Hudson put Lee Majors”: “Rock Hudson & Lee Majors,” Globe magazine, October 1, 1985.
“Send Me No Flowers is one of those”: “The Theater: New Play on Broadway,” Time magazine, December 19, 1960.
“Send Me No Flowers is so much weaker”: Thomas Santopietro, interview with author, December 14, 2015.
“For Rock Hudson and Doris Day, the third”: “Warmed-Over Hudson and Day,” undated Cosmopolitan review.
“There was a note”: Joseph Sirola, interview with author, July 6, 2015.
“We did two films”: Rock Hudson to Professor Ronald L. Davis, August 24, 1983.
“generally labored and witless”: “‘Strange Bedfellows’ Opens: Comedy Stars Hudson and Gina Lollobrigida” by Bosley Crowther, New York Times, March 11, 1965, p. 38.
“Rock Hudson . . . did not”: Clark and Kleiner, Rock Hudson—Friend of Mine, page 6.
“Tom had this very”: Marty Flaherty, interview with author, July 3, 2015.
“Uncle Tom’s philosophy”: Cindy Clark, interview with author.
“very stern and”: Ray Clark, interview with author, March 10, 2017.
“It is quite evident” (footnote): Certificate dated November 25, 1952 and signed by Captain Arthur M. Sternberg (USAF), Psychiatric Section, Ellington Air Force Base, Texas; Air Force file on Tommy Harold Clark.
“He could have gone”: Oppenheimer and Vitek, Idol: Rock Hudson, p. 115.
“One day, I would”: Clark, Rock Hudson—Friend of Mine, p. 52.
“[Rock’s] masculinity is on trial”: Russo, The Celluloid Closet, p. 161.
“He offered a totally smooth”: Caron, Thank Heaven, p. 170.
“What bothers me”: “Meet Rock of Gibraltar” by Wanda Hale, New York Daily News, March 29, 1965.
“It is hard to imagine”: “Special Favor” by Richard F. Shepard, New York Times, August 25, 1965, p. 40.
“The things I had to do”: Bego, Rock Hudson: Public and Private, p. 98.
“From the first day I met him” . . . “I’m a bit” . . . “Of course, he was”: Claudia Cardinale, interview with author, April 15, 2016.
“The team who fashioned”: “Screen . . . Broad Farce Arrives at Three Theaters” by Robert Alden, New York Times, May 26, 1966, p. 55.
Chapter 14: Seconds
“We just don’t know what”: Clark, Rock Hudson—Friend of Mine, p. 146.
“I would hesitate”: David Ely, interview with author, April 10, 2015.
“He was fascinated”: Evans Frankenheimer’s comments are taken from the documentary A Second Look, which was produced by Susan Arosteguy and featured on the 2013 Criterion Collection DVD of Seconds.
“I had a play”: Lewis John Carlino, interview with author, January 9, 2015.
“Laurence Olivier?” (footnote): David Ely, interview with author, April 10, 2015.
“Rock’s performance”: Lewis John Carlino, interview with author, January 9, 2015.
“We wanted to beat him”: John Frankenheimer’s comments are taken from an audio commentary the director recorded in 1997, which is featured on the Criterion Collection DVD of Seconds, released in 2013.
“If you look at it” . . . “I came up with”: John Frankenheimer’s comments are taken from the documentary Rock Hudson: Acting the Part, which was originally broadcast on the A&E Network on March 7, 1999 (Peter Jones Productions).
“Something happened to Rock”: Salome Jens’s comments are taken from the documentary, Rock Hudson: Dark and Handsome Stranger, which was directed by Andrew Davies and André Schäfer and released in October 2010 by Florianfilm, GmbH.
“Frankenheimer told me”: Salome Jens’s comments are taken from the documentary, A Second Look, which was produced by Susan Arosteguy and featured on the 2013 Criterion Collection DVD of Seconds.
“That was a ritual” . . . “He had a very” . . . “It was actually”: Lewis John Carlino, interview with author, January 9, 2015.
“Director John Frankenheimer and veteran”: “Cinema: Identity Crisis,” Time magazine, October 14, 1966, p. 117.
“The movie went from”: John Frankenheimer’s comments are taken from an audio commentary the director recorded in 1997, which is featured on the Criterion Collection DVD of Seconds, released in 2013.
“When Dale Olson took over”: Kevin Thomas, interview with author, January 22, 2017.
“Rock Hudson is completely”: “Rock Hudson: Why he is No. 1,” by Eleanor Harris, Look magazine, March 18, 1958, p. 48.
“I don’t think anybody has made me”: “I Call on Rock Hudson” by Pete Martin, Saturday Evening Post, July 23, 1960, p. 74.
“Rock was complaining”: Lee Garlington, interview with author, June 2015.
“Rock was just”: Arthur Hiller, interview with author, March 17, 2015.
“best performance”: “‘Tobruk’ Arrives at 2 Theaters: Criterion and Sutton” by Howard Thompson, New York Times, February 9, 1967, p. 33.
“I had to make a decision”: Bego, Rock Hudson: Public and Private, p. 105.
“Jack was very good-looking”: Cathy Hamblin, interview with author, May 3, 2017.
“When I hear”: Ken Jillson, interview with author, April 2, 2017.
“I have no objection” . . . “A bunch of claptrap”: Lovell, Escape Artist: The Life and Films of John Sturges, p. 264.
“Marty, I’d like to”: Clark and Kleiner, Rock Hudson—Friend of Mine, p. 148.
“stern” . . . “heart of gold” . . . “We had shot”: William Hillman, interview with author, September 20, 2015.
“It was the last”: Mark Miller’s comments are taken from the documentary Rock Hudson: Acting the Part, which was originally broadcast on the A&E Network on March 7, 1999 (Peter Jones Productions).
“Another good”: “The Screen: ‘Ice Station Zebra’ at the Cinerama” by Renata Adler, New York Times, December 21, 1968, p. 49.
“It’s terrible”: Review of Ice Station Zebra by Pauline Kael, New Yorker, January 4, 1969.
“We worked in Rome”: Claudia Cardinale, interview with auth
or, April 15, 2016.
“a soggy caper twist”: “‘A Fine Pair’ and ‘Charro’ on Double Bill in Neighborhoods” by Roger Greenspun, New York Times, September 4, 1969.
“Why don’t you hold” . . . “Why don’t you turn” . . . “I started thinking” . . . “I like you”: Hudson and Davidson, Rock Hudson: His Story, p. 111.
“What Rock does”: Davis, Duke: The Life and Image of John Wayne, p. 290.
“It never bothered me”: Eyman, John Wayne: The Life and Legend, p. 452.
“A rerun of”: Review of The Undefeated, Variety, October 1, 1969.
“One of the most”: Royce, Rock Hudson: A Bio-Bibliography, p. 143.
“great natural talent”: Hudson and Davidson, Rock Hudson: His Story, p. 112.
“I heard he was”: Mark Colleano, interview with author, March 15, 2016.
“An overly long”: Review of The Hornet’s Nest by John C. Mahoney, Los Angeles Times, October 2, 1970, Part IV, p. 14.
“I was really sad”: Mark Colleano, interview with author, March 15, 2016.
Chapter 15: Whistling Away the Dark
“I think that the people”: Peter Bart, interview with author, July 17, 2012.
“Blake and I had worked”: William Peter Blatty, interview with author, April 29, 2015.
“Their supposedly steamy”: Bart, Infamous Players, viii.
“Sometimes we wait”: “Filming, or How to Get Rained on Anywhere” by Mary Blume, International Herald Tribune, August 9, 1968.
“U.S. Go Home!”—“Paramount Crew Told to Go Home,” Los Angeles Times, July 25, 1968.
“The ‘Star’ who is beginning”: “Julie’s Snow Job in New York City” by Joyce Haber, Los Angeles Times, February 12, 1969.
“Miss P and P”: Windeler, Julie Andrews: A Life on Stage and Screen, p. 166.
“They should give Haber”: Windeler, Julie Andrews: A Life on Stage and Screen, p. 167.
“When he did the movie”: Dennis Holahan, interview with author, January 13, 2015.
“It’s really too bad”: Robert Osborne, interview with author, June 23, 2015.
“I loved and respected Blake”: William Peter Blatty, interview with author, April 29, 2015.
