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For more than three decades, Rock Hudson maintained movie star status while acting in some of Hollywood’s biggest blockbusters. He married Phyllis Gates in 1955, one year after earning praise from critics and fans for his charming role in Magnificent Obsession. Keep scrolling to learn more about their marriage and divorce. 

Who Was Rock Hudson’s Ex-Wife, Phyllis Gates? 

Gates was born on December 7, 1925, in Dawson, Minnesota. She was the secretary of Hudson’s agent, Henry Wilson. Wilson also represented a number of other young actors during Hollywood’s Golden Age, including Rory Calhoun and Tab Hunter.

Hudson and Gates met for the first time in 1954 in a gathering arranged by Wilson at his office. The pair wed one year later after suspicions arose about Hudson’s personal life and sexual orientation. 

“Henry Wilson knew that there was only one way to silence all of the rumors about Hudson’s homosexuality,” Mark Griffin wrote in his 2018 book, All That Heaven Allows: A Biography of Rock Hudson. “It was time for Rock to get married. And fast.”

Gates reflected on t

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My Husband, Rock Hudson

May 13, 2022
In 1987 I would have given this entertaining book four stars; in 2022 I'd give it two stars after knowing every other Rock Hudson biographer has claimed this book is filled with lies that cover up the author's lesbian relationships and fake marriage. So I ended up in the middle with three stars. It's certainly worth looking through but it may mostly be fictional.

I've read the recent Rock Hudson books and am totally confused after reading this. Gates paints their very short marriage as being picture perfect until near the end when he physically abuses her and leaves her for five months while she's deathly sick. Upon his return the marriage is over and eventually she divorces him, taking a tiny settlement and refusing to go for his big pay or half the estate. The book really ends with the divorce, and there are only a few pages after that which update her life over the ensuing thirty years.

Published to take advantage of Hudson's death, there is some insight into what he was like as a person, whether you want to call him gay or bisexual (the w
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My Husband Rock Hudson

May 13, 2022
In 1987 I would have given this entertaining book four stars; in 2022 I'd give it two stars after knowing every other Rock Hudson biographer has claimed this book is filled with lies that cover up the author's lesbian relationships and fake marriage. So I ended up in the middle with three stars. It's certainly worth looking through but it may mostly be fictional.

I've read the recent Rock Hudson books and am totally confused after reading this. Gates paints their very short marriage as being picture perfect until near the end when he physically abuses her and leaves her for five months while she's deathly sick. Upon his return the marriage is over and eventually she divorces him, taking a tiny settlement and refusing to go for his big pay or half the estate. The book really ends with the divorce, and there are only a few pages after that which update her life over the ensuing thirty years.

Published to take advantage of Hudson's death, there is some insight into what he was like as a person, whether you want to call him gay or bisexual (the wo

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