All That Heaven Allows
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“Blake Edwards’ attempted spoof”: Review of Darling Lili by Judith Crist, New York magazine, July 27, 1970.
“The overall effect”: “How Darling Was My Lili” by Arthur Knight, Saturday Review, July 18, 1970.
“It is certainly no effort”: “‘Darling Lili’ Has World War I Setting” by Charles Champlin, Los Angeles Times, June 24, 1970, p. F-1.
“Hudson’s performance”: “Films in Focus” by Andrew Sarris, The Village Voice, August 13, 1970, p. 47.
“Darling Lili was”: Evans, The Kid Stays in the Picture, p. 134.
“an 8-year-old ragamuffin” . . . “One day, out of” . . . “I’ve thought of”: “I Want to Be Your Daddy” by Henry Gris, Photoplay, December, 1972, pp. 72–99.
“Rock came home”: Clark and Kleiner, Rock Hudson—Friend of Mine, p. 76.
“Rock and Rod Join Forces”: Los Angeles Times, January 24, 1970, p. A9.
a “mush huckster”: Nora Ephron, Wallflower at the Orgy, New York: The Viking Press, 1970, p. 67.
“staggeringly awful”: Kirkus Reviews, May 1969.
“You paid $80,000 to cut that record” (footnote): from Dear Rock by Roger Jones (unpublished manuscript), from the Roger W. Jones Papers (Collection #12621), archived at the University of Wyoming/American Heritage Center.
“It was such a farce”: David Nutter, interview with author, February 17, 2015.
“I’m 45 years old”: “Rock’s a Passionate, Complex Man” by Toni Holt, Hollywood Citizen News, June 20, 1970.
“thousands of copies”: “Rock’s Record Gathers Dust,” Baltimore Evening Sun, July 30, 1971.
“To me, he’s a very”: “Rock Hudson: Superstar at 46” by Jerry Parker, Chicago Sun-Times, August 15, 1970, pp. 40–42.
“There is only one way”: Roger Vadim’s comments are quoted in Leonard Maltin’s notes for the Museum of Modern Art’s American Film Comedy series from 1976.
“It must be hard”: Interview with Rock Hudson by Robert Feidan and Robert Colaciello [sic], Interview, 1971, pp. 12–13.
“Rock Hudson was very”: Diane Sherry Case, interview with author, October 19, 2015.
“Rock and John David Carson were”: Barbara Leigh, interview with author, November 24, 2015.
“Louis B. Mayer would have”: Germaine Szal, correspondence with author.
“one of the most”: “No Hollywood Film Has Broken So Many Taboos,” Internet Movie Database review, posted March 20, 2008 by t1480.
“The re-cutting ruined”: Clark, Rock Hudson—Friend of Mine, p. 149.
“MGM slashed it”: “Rock Hudson: An Interview” by Sandra Shevey, Playgirl, February 1974, p. 55.
“Roger Vadim’s first”: Review of Pretty Maids All in a Row by Rex Reed, New York Daily News, April 30, 1971.
“Sleazy, Crude, Lecherous”: Review of Pretty Maids All in a Row by Kathleen Carroll, New York Daily News, April 29, 1971.
“remarkably good”: “Hudson Stars in Vadim’s ‘Pretty Maids’” by Roger Greenspun, New York Times, April 29, 1971, p. 46.
“Vadim was an outrageous guy” (footnote): Kevin Thomas, interview with author, January 22, 2017.
“A hilarious and outrageous”: Review of Pretty Maids All in a Row by Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times, May 12, 1971.
“one of the stupidest”: “Film: Bananas/Pretty Maids” by Andrew Sarris, The Village Voice, May 6, 1971, p. 65.
“The truth is” (footnote): “Rock Hudson Blames ‘Sickies’ for Rumors He Wed Jim Nabors” by Marilyn and Hy Gardner, The Youngstown Vindicator, September 1, 1985, p. C-19.
“All of this was started”: Tony Melia, interview with author, September 23, 2015.
“perversion in Hollywood”: “The Truth About The Rock Hudson-Jim Nabors Marriage Rumors” by John Samson, National Examiner, November 29, 1971, p. 7.
“I’ll tell you”: “I Did Not Marry Jim Nabors” by Carol Welles, Photoplay, November 1971, pp. 62–63.
“When Roy was finished”: Tony Melia, interview with author, September 23, 2015.
“I remember the summer”: Craig Muckler, interview with author, January 13, 2016.
“I wish I’d been”: Hudson and Davidson, Rock Hudson: His Story, p. 116.
“I was so mad”: Cathy Hamblin, interview with author, May 3, 2017.
Chapter 16: McMillan & Wife
“Illustrated radio”: Oppenheimer and Vitek, Idol: Rock Hudson, p. 121.
“Rock and his agent”: Paul Mason, interview with author.
“Instant Mouth”: “Lunch Ended Up a Smashing Success!” by Arnold Hano, TV Guide, February 17, 1973, p. 30.
“We presented Rock”: Paul Mason, interview with author.
“I was in North Beach”: John Schuck, interview with author, March 12, 2015.
“A nifty blend”: Review of McMillan & Wife, Variety, September 22, 1971.
“Our first season”: John Schuck, interview with author, March 12, 2015.
“Television brought Rock”: Germaine Szal, correspondence with author.
“There was real chemistry”: John Schuck, interview with author, March 12, 2015.
“She taxed him”: Oppenheimer and Vitek, Idol: Rock Hudson, p. 125.
“On screen, they were”: Paul Mason, interview with author.
“We didn’t go”: Carole Cook, interview with author, August 5, 2015.
“I think it was probably” . . . “I do remember us” . . . “just one of those”: Kenneth Griggs, interview with author, September 2, 2015.
“He wasn’t awfully”: Nick Tosches, Dino: Living High in the Dirty Business of Dreams, p. 404.
“A tale that”: “Coming Out of ‘Showdown’ Saddle-Sore” by A. H. Weiler, New York Times, November 22, 1973, p. 51.
“the full movie star aura”: George Nader diary entry (undated).
“There was, at one time” . . . “I had a house” . . . “Kay and I”: Tony Melia, interview with author, September 23, 2015.
“informal”: “Princess Grace, Stars at Hudson Party” by Kim Blair, Los Angeles Times, August 15, 1967, p. E1.
“He just said” . . . “Of course, I was just”: Carol Burnett, interview with author, December 9, 2015.
“I remember thinking” . . . “Gower Champion wanted” . . . “Well, right from”: Carol Burnett, interview with author, December 9, 2015.
“I have this unforgettable image”: Armistead Maupin, interview with author, April 23, 2015.
“Rock always had”: Lee Garlington, interview with author, June 2015.
“It didn’t bother me”: Hudson and Davidson, Rock Hudson: His Story, p. 131.
“Tom is obviously”: George Nader diary entry, September 3, 1985.
“He never questioned”: Marty Flaherty, interview with author, July 3, 2015.
“We drank a lot”: Hudson and Davidson, Rock Hudson: His Story, p. 98.
“I’ve always been looking”: Hudson and Davidson, Rock Hudson: His Story, p. 129.
“He took control of Rock”: Bob Preble’s comments are taken from E! True Hollywood Story: Rock Hudson, which aired on E!: Entertainment Television on July 11, 1999, season three, episode 27.
“At first, I wasn’t”: Oppenheimer and Vitek, Idol: Rock Hudson, p. 117.
“You better believe”: Judy Kaye, interview with author, January 29, 2015.
“In the early days”: Armistead Maupin, interview with author, April 23, 2015.
“I would say that mentally”: Ken Maley, interview with author, January 26, 2015.
“I put Rock into”: Clark and Kleiner, Rock Hudson—Friend of Mine, p. 144.
“When a scene demands”: “People: Rock Hudson Spouts Off,” Time magazine, June 2, 1975, p. 33.
“In the most demanding part”: Review of Embryo, Los Angeles Times, May 28, 1976, Part IV, p. 22.
“As soon as they said”: Clark and Kleiner, Rock Hudson—Friend of Mine, p. 209.
“Trevor and Hudson”: Review of John Brown’s Body by Ron Pennington, The Hollywood Reporter, May 7, 1976, p. 23.
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“Hudson proves himself”: Review of John Brown’s Body by Bill Edwards, Variety, May 6, 1976.
“I was in the chorus”: Florence Lacey, interview with author, March 19, 2015.
“When we finished”: Peter Kevoian, interview with author, March 19, 2015.
“The moment he” . . . “The very first episode” . . . “He was surrounded”: Armistead Maupin, interview with author, April 23, 2015.
“Rock thought San Francisco” . . . “I remember standing” . . . “The word would go out that”: Ken Maley, interview with author, January 26, 2015.
“I knew a lot of”: Wes Wheadon, interview with author, June 25, 2017.
“At the appropriate day and time” . . . “The main hosts”: Ken Maley, interview with author, January 26, 2015.
“In a way, Rock was”: Wes Wheadon, interview with author, June 25, 2017.
“I don’t think Rock was”: Mark Tillman-Briggle, interview with author, June 21, 2017.
“a fuddy-duddy”: Hudson and Davidson, Rock Hudson: His Story, p. 152.
“It’s funny, I guess”: Lauren Bacall’s comments are taken from a chapter that was dropped from the publication version of Who the Hell’s in It by Peter Bogdanovich. In the uncorrected proof of the manuscript, Bacall’s comments appear in chapter 12, page 309.
“Believe it or not but”: Tony Kiser, interview with author, May 23, 2016.
“Rock was an amazing”: Peter Kevoian, interview with author, March 19, 2015.
“I don’t like”: Oppenheimer and Vitek, Idol: Rock Hudson, p. 123.
“The networks get scared”: Hudson interview with Professor Ronald L. Davis, August 24, 1983.
“empty hit” . . . “homoerotic three-person”: Hudson and Davidson, Rock Hudson: His Story, p. 144.
“It was almost a sexual thing”: Hudson and Davidson, Rock Hudson: His Story, p. 145.
“From the beginning”: Robert Ousley, interview with author, February 20, 2015.
“I had never really”: John Leslie Wolfe, interview with author, February 25, 2015.
“That’s French for”: Michael Licata, interview with author, March 15, 2015.
“It affected him deeply”: Robert Ousley, interview with author, February 20, 2015.
“Your mother’s had a” . . . “Why won’t my son”: Hudson and Davidson, Rock Hudson: His Story, p. 147.
“When Katharine died”: Clark and Kleiner, Rock Hudson—Friend of Mine, p. 83.
“I was an only child”: “Rock Hudson: Missing Marilyn & Mom,” New York Daily News, May 7, 1978.
Chapter 17: Blue Snow
“dewrote”: “The Young Directors: Who Is Using Whom?” by Patricia Goldstone, Los Angeles Times, December 17, 1978.
“Sounds awful”: Clark and Kleiner, Rock Hudson—Friend of Mine, p. 144.
“I told him that this happened”: Clark and Kleiner, Rock Hudson—Friend of Mine, p. 27.
“about as right as Whoopi”: Clark and Kleiner, Rock Hudson—Friend of Mine, p. 148.
“The only thing that I have” . . . “He was a total”: Jerry Douglas, interview with author, January 13, 2015.
“Roger Corman appears to have”: “The Young Directors: Who Is Using Whom?” by Patricia Goldstone, Los Angeles Times, December 17, 1978.
“looked like it was”: Clark and Kleiner, Rock Hudson—Friend of Mine, p. 145.
“We had some bad”: Jerry Douglas, interview with author, January 13, 2015.
“It was so bungled”: Lambert, Mainly About Lindsay Anderson, p. 284.
“After theatre managers add up”: “Burying Art Alive In ‘Avalanche’” by Gary Arnold, Washington Post, September 23, 1978.
“Hudson makes a good”: Review of Avalanche by Robert Osborne, The Hollywood Reporter, August 30, 1978.
“an exposé and a salute”: Review of Wheels, by John Reed, New York Times, September 19, 1971.
“Not on your life!”: Clark, Rock Hudson—Friend of Mine, p. 27.
“I remember Rock told me”: Howard McGillin, interview with author, February 5, 2016.
“It takes a while”: Review of Wheels by Howard Rosenberg, Los Angeles Times, May 6, 1978.
“It’s terrible, Rock”: Clark and Kleiner, Rock Hudson—Friend of Mine, p. 212.
“a 2 ½ hour” . . . “I had the luxury”: “Time Passes, Rock Endures” by Michael J. Bandler, Chicago Tribune Magazine, July 8, 1979, Section 9, p. 29.
“Damned near perfect”: “Rock’s On Board,” Chicago Sun-Times, Entertainment Extra (advertising supplement), July 13, 1979.
“I salute him”: Judy Kaye, interview with author, January 29, 2015.
“I was excited as hell”: “Time Passes, Rock Endures” by Michael J. Bandler, Chicago Tribune Magazine, July 8, 1979, Section 9, p. 27.
“When I heard that Rock”: “Time Passes, Rock Endures” by Michael J. Bandler, Chicago Tribune Magazine, July 8, 1979, Section 9, p. 26.
“Hal was very difficult” . . . “He never showed any”: Oppenheimer and Vitek, Idol: Rock Hudson, p. 139.
“I never saw Hal”: Judy Kaye, interview with author, January 29, 2015.
“Judy Kaye is the life”: “Well-Engineered Nostalgia” by J. Linn Allen, Chicago Reader, Section 1, p. 42.
“Hudson is the most likable”: Review of On the Twentieth Century by Dan Sullivan, Los Angeles Times, August 30, 1979.
“The critics were actually kinder”: Clark and Kleiner, Rock Hudson—Friend of Mine, p. 215.
“We talked about the impact” . . . “You had to find”: Charles Fries, correspondence with author, May 31, 2016.
“a lot more Martians”: Review of The Martian Chronicles by Gail Williams, The Hollywood Reporter, January 28, 1980.
“On the one hand”: Charles Fries, correspondence with author, May 31, 2016.
“When we were casting” (footnote): Barry Sandler, interview with author, February 20, 2015.
“I had known Rock” . . . “I was a huge”: Barry Sandler, interview with author, February 20, 2015.
“A Yalta Conference”: “Hollywood Crack’d” by Gerald Peary, Real Paper, January 18, 1981, p. 17.
“I was part of a roundtable”: Gerald Peary, correspondence with author, October 15, 2015.
“total sleaze” . . . “It just wasn’t very good”: Lou Antonio, interview with author, July 2016.
“When I first read it”: Rock Hudson’s comments are taken from his appearance on The Paul Ryan Show in 1982.
“I said I’d never” . . . “I like to work”: “One Year After Heart Surgery, Rock Hudson is Rolling Again,” People magazine, November 15, 1982, p. 148.
“NBC asked me”: John Wilder, interview with author, November 29, 2016.
“Events happen” . . . “He was so”: Jack Scalia, interview with author, November 22, 2016.
“I won’t say”: John Wilder, interview with author, November 29, 2016.
“There was chaos”: Hudson and Davidson, Rock Hudson: His Story, p. 156.
“I was working when” . . . “I didn’t want to”: “One Year After Heart Surgery, Rock Hudson is Rolling Again,” People magazine, November 15, 1982, p. 147.
“I went to see him”: Jack Scalia, interview with author, November 22, 2016.
“We read them”: Clark and Kleiner, Rock Hudson—Friend of Mine, p. 169.
“None of what went on”: Jack Scalia, interview with author, November 22, 2016.
“rather smug about”: “One Year After Heart Surgery, Rock Hudson is Rolling Again,” People magazine, November 15, 1982, p. 148.
“It is very difficult”: Clark and Kleiner, Rock Hudson—Friend of Mine, p. 177.
“When Rock came out” . . . “Claire called me”: Mark Miller, Trio of Forever Friends (unpublished memoir completed in 2007).
“I felt an overpowering”: Clark and Kleiner, Rock Hudson—Friend of Mine, p. 229.
“Did you have” . . . “It was this” . . . “When I found”: Michael Kearns, interview with author, February 24, 2015.
“There
’s a little” . . . “I put on ‘Marilyn’”: These lines are taken from the script of Rock by Michael Kearns.
“Rock was a brilliant actor”: Michael Kearns, interview with author, February 24, 2015.
Chapter 18: Christian
“Physically, he fit”: Ken Maley, interview with author, January 26, 2015.
“putting together a history”: Hudson and Davidson, Rock Hudson: His Story, p. 164.
“To start doing his”: “Between Rock and a Hard Place: Marc Christian Tells All” by Barry Adkins, Au Courant, January 20, 1986, p. 16.
“a very slow and”: “Between Rock and a Hard Place: Marc Christian Tells All” by Barry Adkins, New York Native, Issue 140, December 23–29, p. 22.
“They got right down”: Mark Miller, interview with author.
“Like a snake”: Hudson and Davidson, Rock Hudson: His Story, p. 168.
“Rock was going”: Marty Flaherty, interview with author, July 3, 2015.
“Rock, I read that”: Clark and Kleiner, Rock Hudson—Friend of Mine, p. 145.
“I didn’t think the part”: Oppenheimer and Vitek, Idol: Rock Hudson, p. 149.
“a very great”: Oppenheimer and Vitek, Idol: Rock Hudson, p. 150.
“I don’t think Mitchum”: Server, Robert Mitchum: ‘Baby, I Don’t Care,’ p. 505.
“When I moved into the house”: “Between Rock and a Hard Place: Marc Christian Tells All” by Barry Adkins, Au Courant, January 20, 1986, p. 7.
“At the beginning”: Marty Flaherty, interview with author, July 3, 2015.
“I liked Marc”: Hudson and Davidson, Rock Hudson: His Story, p. 167.
“I was afraid for Rock”: Florence Lacey, interview with author, March 19, 2015.
“I met Marc Christian”: Ken Jillson, interview with author, April 2, 2017.
“Marc Christian—I don’t think”: Stockton Briggle’s comments are taken from E! True Hollywood Story: Rock Hudson, which aired on E! Entertainment Television on July 11, 1999, season three, episode 27.
“was very well known”: Hudson and Davidson, Rock Hudson: His Story, p. 168.
“I want you to know”: Mills, Between Rock and a Hard Place, p. 330.
“She was Gloria Swanson”: Robert Parker Mills, interview with author, August 3, 2015.
“We don’t understand”: Hudson and Davidson, Rock Hudson: His Story, p. 164.