Hollywood Secrets and Scandals.

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Rock Hudson..

Rock Hudson was born Roy Harold Scherer, Jr., in Winnetka, Illinois, the only child of Katherine Wood (of English and Irish descent), a telephone operator, and Roy Harold Scherer, Sr., (of German and Swiss descent) an auto mechanic who abandoned the family during the depths of the Great Depression. His mother remarried and his stepfather Wallace "Wally" Fitzgerald adopted him, changing his last name to Fitzgerald.

Hudson worked for a time as a truck driver, longing to be an actor but with no success in breaking into the movies. A fortunate meeting with Hollywood talent scout Henry Willson in 1948 got Hudson his start in the business.

Hudson was voted "Star of the Year", "Favorite Leading Man", and similar titles by numerous movie magazines. The 6 ft 5 in (1.96 m) tall actor was one of the most popular and well-known movie stars of the time. He completed nearly 70 motion pictures and starred in several television productions during a career that spanned over four decades. Hudson was also one of the first major Hollywood celebrities to die from an AIDS-related illness.

Hudson never publicly revealed any specifics regarding his sexuality. While his career was blooming as he epitomized wholesome manliness, he and his agent Henry Willson kept his personal life out of the headlines. According to some colleagues, Hudson's homosexuality was well known in Hollywood throughout his career..

[Winston]

The greatest Sax player ever. Music will never be the same!

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/bruce-springsteen-on-clarence-clemons-his-loss-is-immeasurable-20110618

[clansman]

ma mither was suicidal when she found oot he was a poof...

[nelix]

Awwww clans, many a woman was devastated about Rocks being gay..He was a hearthrob to many..

[Winston]

Homosexuallity baffles me!!..............Why????????

[lizziebear]

hey clans ma mother too idolised him

[Olay]

I think there were quite a few puff's in those days that kept it hidden. Didnt Rock Hudson get James Dean the part in the film 'Big' or something cos he fancied him?

I also heard that Cary Grant shagged dead bodies but you know how rumours are so its probably not true. I used to tell my mum it was true though to wind her up, Lol
Did anybody read 'Mommy Dearest' that was written by Joan Crawfords adopted daughter? I know Mizz Crawford was supposed to be a beautiful starlett but she gave me the creeps. I thought she was terrifying to look at and that book put the tin hat on it for me.

[clansman]

Homosexuallity baffles me!!..............Why????????

How an whit with??

[Winston]

Clans...............As an avid hetro..............Can't see the attraction!

[Winston]

She may have been the very epitome of Hollywood glamour, but Marilyn Monroe was flatulent, ate in bed and rarely washed, according to a new book.


Portraits of her as an apparent image of feminine perfection adorn Things that Clans slides down when he\'s pissed around the world but when it came to issues of hygiene, Monroe's habits shocked her co-stars, claims the author of a new biography of Clark Gable.

Gable and Monroe appeared alongside one another in the 1961 film, The Misfits, written by the actress's then husband Arthur Miller. Hollywood legend has it that the film's co-stars embarked on a torrid love affair.

Such rumours, though, are rubbish according to David Bret, author of Clark Gable: Tormented Star, which will be published in the US in September. In as much as Gable had a fetish for cleanliness, "she could not have been less fastidious regarding her personal hygiene", says Mr Bret, who claims Monroe's interest in Gable was shunned.

"Like Jean Harlow, she bleached all her pubic hair and never wore panties," writes Mr Bret before adding, "she suffered from what today would be described as irritable bowel syndrome."

Monroe's pin-up image is further called into question when the biographer describes the peculiar living habits that discouraged Gable's interest. "She rarely bathed, slept in the nude and ate a lot in bed - shoving what was left on her plate under the sheets before going to sleep."

The Some Like It Hot actress was reportedly so smitten with Gable that she was heard proclaiming on set: "Mr Gable's in love with me." She is also said to have kept a signed photo of him in her bedroom.

The 1961 film, which had been written by the playwright Miller as a Valentine's present especially for his wife Monroe, has always been surrounded by gossip. It tells the story of a despairing divorcee who falls in love with a cowboy. It turned out to be more of an accurate assessment of the rocky state of her relationship with Miller than a romantic gesture. The couple divorced a few months later, and Miller ended up marrying the film's photographer, Inge Morath.

The Misfits was the last film that either Monroe or Gable worked on before they died. Gable was the first to go, dying from a heart attack two weeks after shooting finished. Monroe's suicide followed a year later. The film's third lead, Montgomery Clift, died from years of drug and alcohol abuse four years later.

During a stressful shoot, the director John Huston took to keeping late nights, gambling and sleeping on set.

Miller and Monroe's marriage broke down during filming, and Monroe was increasingly turning to prescription drugs and alcohol. Filming in the scorching Nevada desert had to be stopped in August 1960 so she could be sent to hospital for detox. It was this instability, combined with the steamy scenes on set that led people to believe an affair might have taken place. Miller's last play, Finishing The Picture, which tells the story of a drug-addled actress almost preventing a film going ahead, is widely believed to be a thinly veiled memoir of filming The Misfits.

[clansman]

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In November 1978, a year and a half after Crawford's death, Christina published Mommie Dearest, which contained allegations that Crawford was emotionally and physically abusive to Christina and her brother Christopher. Many of Crawford's friends and co-workers, including Van Johnson, Ann Blyth, Marlene Dietrich, Myrna Loy, Cesar Romero, and Crawford's other daughters, Cathy and Cindy, denounced the book, categorically denying any abuse. But others, including Betty Hutton, Helen Hayes, James MacArthur, June Allyson, Liz Smith,and Rex Reed witnessed abuse. Bette Davis supported Christina's version, saying that Christina could not have made it up (Davis, while still alive, would ironically later become the target of her own daughter B. D. Hyman's tell-all in 1985, My Mother's Keeper). Mommie Dearest became a bestseller and was made into the 1981 film Mommie Dearest, starring Faye Dunaway as Crawford...I've seen most of her films and found her to be a good actress if, as you say Olay, a tad creepy..

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Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle was a gifted comedian who, during the silent film era, was considered second only to Chaplin in his talent.

Tragedy struck on Labor Day, 1921 with the arrest and trial of Roscoe on manslaughter charges. Roscoe's roommate had thrown a party in their suite which was crashed by a disreputable starlet named Virginia Rappe who fell seriously ill and died a few days later.
The papers, led by the Hearst group, made this incident Hollywood's first truly major scandal. repeatedly making lurid claims, in screaming headlines, that Arbuckle had sexually abused Rappé to death with (by various accounts) a coke bottle, a milk bottle, a champagne bottle, and/or a chunk of ice. These factually unsupported charges caused an incredibly hostile environment for holding a fair trial, despite overwhelming evidence pointing to Arbuckle's innocence.
Two hung juries resulted. The third jury saw sense and aquiitted Arbuckle in only six minutes. But Roscoe's career was finished as the papers printed unfounded story after story about his supposed guilt, causing a public outcry of moral outrage.

In 1932, Warner Brothers gave Arbuckle a chance to star in a comedy short called "Hey, Pop." The public loved "Hey, Pop," and its success led to five more talkie shorts. On June 30, 1933, hours after completing his sixth Warner's short and signing to make a feature-length film, Arbuckle died of a heart attack. He was only 46.

It was Hollywood's first major scandal and, tragically, the real scandal was in the injustice done to a talented and wholly innocent man.

[Winston]

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[Winston]

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