It all started out as one big party on location in Marfa, Texas.
“Trying to please everyone but himself…He was a great performer-not only in acting but throughout his entire life.”ĭirector George Steven’s epic Giant, billed as “a story of big things and big feelings,” would also be a battle between two big egos, representing opposite sides of the movie star mold. “Think about it-he had his family, he had his professional life, and he had his private life, and he had to portray a different person in each of those realms,” his adopted sister Alice Waier told Griffin. But as biographer Mark Griffin explores in the exceptional All That Heaven Allows: A Biography of Rock Hudson, Hudson was also a gay man with major ambitions in a prejudiced world, valiantly attempting to be all things to all people. (One former lover joked that if Hudson ever did a nude scene, it would need to be shot in CinemaScope). “Bright, playful, and easygoing,” in the words of actor Joel Grey, Hudson was big and brawny in every way.
From his legendary pairings with his great friend Doris Day (he called her “Eunice Blotter,” she called him “Ernie”) to his turns as a romantic heavy in Douglas Sirk’s classic melodramas, Hudson defined manhood at a time when that definition was extremely limited. For Rock Hudson, life as an A-list hunk came about only through a lifetime of hard work and heartache.
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