Rock Hudson: Dark and Handsome Stranger
- Director: Andrew Davies; André Schäfer
- Writer: Andrew Davies; André Schäfer
- Producer: Rieke Brendel; Marianne Schäfer
CGiii Comment
Twenty five years after the death of Rock Hudson, friends, acquaintances, colleagues, biographers and movie historians discuss his career, his personal life and his death, all especially in relation to his closeted homosexuality. Born Roy Fitzgerald, Hudson treated who was known as "Rock Hudson" as being a studio creation that was somewhat outside himself. However, he sometimes was still "Rock Hudson: movie star" to those who knew him. Publicly, he had to maintain the façade of that creation, the public who saw in him a handsome, rugged, masculine yet likable and safe leading man and movie star. That façade included a short two-year marriage of convenience to Phyllis Gates. His movie career on the most part also supported that façade, especially when there was a foil of a more effeminate or nebbish male character playing against him. His life changed when he was diagnosed with AIDS - the disease which would eventually take his life.
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Cast & Characters
Rock Hudson as Himself;
Armistead Maupin as Himself;
Yanou Collart as Herself;
Sean Strub as Himself;
Michael Gottlieb as Himself;
Stockton Briggle as Himself;
Mervyn Silverman as Herself;
Richard Dyer as Himself;
Tom Santopietro as Himself;
Robert Hofler as Himself;
Rona Barrett as Herself;
Peter Kulok as Himself;
Don Crutchfield as Himself;
Mark Miller as Himself;
Suzanne Guyot as Herself