Rock Hudson
Rock Hudson (born Roy Harold Scherer Jr.; November 17, 1925 – October 2, 1985) was an American actor. One of the most popular movie stars of his time, he had a screen career spanning more than three decades. A prominent heartthrob in the Golden Age of Hollywood, he achieved stardom with his role in Magnificent Obsession (1954), followed by All That Heaven Allows (1955), and Giant (1956), for which he received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor. Hudson also found continued success with a string of romantic comedies co-starring Doris Day: Pillow Talk (1959), Lover Come Back (1961), and Send Me No Flowers (1964). During the late 1960s, his films included Seconds (1966), Tobruk (1967), and Ice Station Zebra (1968). Unhappy with the film scripts he was offered, Hudson turned to television and was a hit, starring in the popular mystery series McMillan & Wife (1971–1977). His last role was as a guest star on the fifth season (1984–1985) of the primetime ABC soap opera Dynasty, until AIDS-related illness made it impossible for him to continue.
Although discreet regarding his sexual orientation, it was a known fact amongst Hudson's colleagues in the film industry that he was a gay man. In 1984, Hudson was diagnosed with AIDS. The following year, he became one of the first celebrities to disclose his AIDS diagnosis. Hudson was the first major celebrity to die from an AIDS-related illness, on October 2, 1985, at age 59.
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Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 9.191 |
Birthday | 1925-11-17 |
Place of Birth | Winnetka, Illinois, USA |
Also Known As | Roc Hudson, Roy Fitzgerald, Roy Harold Scherer Jr., |
1956
Giant
7.6/698
Wealthy rancher Bick Benedict and dirt-poor cowboy Jett Rink both woo Leslie Lynnton, a beautiful young woman from Maryland who is new to Texas. She m...
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Giant
1981
The Patricia Neal Story
5/1
The dramatic account of actress Patricia Neal's miraculous recovery from a near-fatal stroke in 1966 with the help of her then-husband, author Roald D...
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The Patricia Neal Story
1989
Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt
7.2/17
On the eve of 1987's Second National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights, surviving families and friends of people who have died of AIDS pr...
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Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt
1964
Send Me No Flowers
6.717/127
At one of his many visits to his doctor, hypochondriac George Kimball mistakes a dying man's diagnosis for his own and believes he only has about two...
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Send Me No Flowers
1959
Pillow Talk
7.122/283
Playboy songwriter Brad Allen's succession of romances annoys his neighbor, interior designer Jan Morrow, who shares a telephone party line with him a...
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Pillow Talk
1966
Seconds
7.29/362
An unhappy middle-aged banker agrees to a procedure that will fake his death and give him a completely new look and identity – one that comes with its...
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Seconds
1979
Superstunt II
0/0
Sequel to the NBC special about dangerous stunts.
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Superstunt II
1980
The Mirror Crack'd
6.2/205
Jane Marple solves the mystery when a local woman is poisoned and a visiting movie star seems to have been the intended victim.
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The Mirror Crack'd
1961
Come September
6.7/73
Robert Talbot, an American millionaire, arrives early for his annual vacation at his luxurious Italian villa. His long-time girlfriend Lisa has given...
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Come September
1980
Douglas Sirk: Über Stars
0/0
Douglas speaks about some of the stars he has directed like Asta Nielsen, Lili Dagover, Zarah Leander, George Sanders, Signe Hasso, Barbara Stanwyck,...
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Douglas Sirk: Über Stars
1996
Return to 'Giant'
6.1/4
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Return to 'Giant'
1967
Tobruk
6.176/54
In September 1942, the German Afrika Korps under Rommel have successfully pushed the Allies back into Egypt. A counter-attack is planned, for which th...
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2021
Hervé Guibert, la mort propagande
5/2
From this "inexorable disease", Hervé Guibert did not recover. The miracle he had so much hoped for did not happen. But, before his death in 1991, thr...
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Hervé Guibert, la mort propagande
2008
Dominick Dunne: After the Party
7.5/2
Vanity Fair Special Correspondent Dominick Dunne has become known the world over for his vociferous championing of the rights of the victim in high-pr...
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Dominick Dunne: After the Party
1954
Magnificent Obsession
6.8/113
Reckless playboy Bob Merrick crashes his speedboat, requiring emergency attention from the town’s only resuscitator while a local hero, Dr. Phillips,...
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Magnificent Obsession
2004
Hollywood Legenden
2/1
Documentary about Hollywood.
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Hollywood Legenden
1961
Lover Come Back
6.954/151
Jerry Webster and Carol Templeton are rival Madison Avenue advertising executives who each dislike each other’s methods. After he steals a client out...
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Lover Come Back
1950
Winchester '73
7.289/357
Lin McAdam rides into town on the trail of Dutch Henry Brown, only to find himself in a shooting competition against him. McAdam wins the prize, a one...
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Winchester '73
1970
Darling Lili
5.5/33
World War I. Lili Smith is a beloved British music hall singer, often providing inspiration for the British and French troops and general populace sin...
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Darling Lili
2001
Beatles: Big Beat Box
0/0
The early days of The Beatles are captured in this fascinating film. Featuring behind the scenes clips, it traces the Fab Four's start as Liverpool la...
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Beatles: Big Beat Box
1955
All That Heaven Allows
7.3/305
Two different social classes collide when Cary Scott, a wealthy upper-class widow, falls in love with her much younger and down-to-earth gardener, pro...
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All That Heaven Allows
1952
Horizons West
5.7/17
Brothers Dan and Neil Hammond return to Texas after the Civil War. Ambitious Dan turns to rustling and then shady land deals to build an empire. Being...
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Horizons West
1953
Gun Fury
5.9/38
After a stagecoach holdup, Frank Slayton's notorious gang leave Ben Warren for dead and head off with his fiancée. Warren follows, and although none o...
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Gun Fury
1957
The Tarnished Angels
6.7/91
In the 1930s, once-great World War I pilot Roger Shumann performs as a daredevil barnstorming pilot at aerial stunt shows while his wife, LaVerne, wor...
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The Tarnished Angels
1953
Seminole
5.292/24
Lance Caldwell, a cavalry lieutenant, recounts his efforts to make peace with the Seminole Indian tribe, under an evil major.
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Seminole
1952
Bend of the River
6.899/178
Two men with questionable pasts, Glyn McLyntock and his friend Cole, lead a wagon-train load of homesteaders from Missouri to the Oregon territory...
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Bend of the River
1951
Tomahawk
6.6/17
In 1866, a new gold discovery and an inconclusive conference force the U.S. Army to build a road and fort in territory ceded by previous treaty to the...
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Tomahawk
1964
Man's Favorite Sport?
6.961/129
Roger Willoughby is a renowned fishing expert, who, unbeknownst to his friends, co-workers, or boss, has never cast a line in his life. One day, he cr...
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Man's Favorite Sport?
2015
Children of 'Giant'
6.8/4
"Children of 'Giant'" is a documentary film that unearths deeply wrought emotions in the small West Texas town of Marfa, before, during and after the...
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Children of 'Giant'
1961
The Last Sunset
6.759/85
At a Mexican ranch, fugitive O'Malley and pursuing Sheriff Stribling agree to help rancher Breckenridge drive his herd into Texas where Stribling coul...
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The Last Sunset
1968
Ice Station Zebra
6.2/165
A top-secret Soviet spy satellite -- using stolen Western technology -- malfunctions and then goes into a descent that lands it near an isolated Arcti...
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Ice Station Zebra
1965
Strange Bedfellows
5.9/20
After a hasty wedding, Carter and Toni find that they disagree on everything. They separate and seven years later, on the eve before their divorce, m...
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Strange Bedfellows
1957
Something of Value
5.5/18
As Kenya's Mau Mau uprising tears the country apart, former childhood friends Kimani (Sidney Poitier), a native, and Peter (Rock Hudson), a British co...
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Something of Value
1951
The Fat Man
5.7/15
A innocent dentist is murdered and the only apparent motive seems to be to steal a set of dental x-rays. To the police it looks like an accident, but...
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The Fat Man
1956
Written on the Wind
6.9/229
Mitch Wayne is a geologist working for the Hadleys, an oil-rich Texas family. While the patriarch, Jasper, works hard to establish the family business...
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Written on the Wind
1969
The Undefeated
6.2/120
After the Civil War, ex-Union Colonel John Henry Thomas and ex-Confederate Colonel James Langdon are leading two disparate groups of people through st...
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The Undefeated
1957
A Farewell to Arms
5.7/48
An English nurse and an American soldier on the Italian front during World War I fall in love, but the horrors surrounding them test their romance to...
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A Farewell to Arms
2023
Rock Hudson: All That Heaven Allowed
6.7/13
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Rock Hudson: All That Heaven Allowed
2011
Hollywood Scandals
0/0
TV review of a litany of Hollywood impropriety.
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Hollywood Scandals
1971
Pretty Maids All in a Row
5.768/41
At Oceanfront High School, female students are being targeted by an unknown serial killer. Meanwhile, a married teacher hides his flings with nubile s...
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Pretty Maids All in a Row
1954
Taza, Son of Cochise
5.5/22
Three years after the end of the Apache wars, peacemaking chief Cochise dies. His elder son Taza shares his ideas, but brother Naiche yearns for war.....
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Taza, Son of Cochise
1951
Iron Man
4.5/11
In Coaltown, Pennsylvania, miner Coke Mason hopes to better himself, buy a radio store, and marry Rose Warren. His gambler brother George thinks Coke...
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Iron Man
1971
The Grand Opening of Walt Disney World
7/1
A celebrity-filled look at the opening festivities for Walt Disney World in Florida.
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The Grand Opening of Walt Disney World
1952
Has Anybody Seen My Gal?
6.7/14
When a 1920s millionaire tests the fiber of his Vermont family, a young lady and her boyfriend feel the repercussions.
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Has Anybody Seen My Gal?
1957
Battle Hymn
6.5/20
Dean Hess, who entered the ministry to atone for bombing a German orphanage, decides he’s a failure at preaching. Rejoined to train pilots early in th...
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Battle Hymn
2018
These Dead Souls
0/0
An audiovisual essay on Douglas Sirk's film The Tarnished Angels (1957). Analyzes a central scene 40 minutes into the narrative, and also refers both...
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These Dead Souls
1973
Showdown
6.1/25
Two men who have been friends since childhood find themselves on opposite ends of the law.
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Showdown
1949
Undertow
6/20
Undertow stars Scott Brady as a gambler just out of wartime military service. No longer interested in wagers and speculations, Brady wants only to ope...
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Undertow
1958
Twilight for the Gods
4.2/4
An alcoholic captain sails a two-master through danger with a call girl and others on board.
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Twilight for the Gods
1970
Hornets' Nest
5.522/23
An American commando who's the sole survivor of a parachute jump into WWII-era Italy leads a group of children in a campaign of sabotage against the N...
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Hornets' Nest
1953
The Golden Blade
6.3/20
Basra merchant Harun Al-Rashid avenges his father's murder in this adventure set in ancient Bagdad and inspired from the Arabic fairy tales of One Tho...
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The Golden Blade
1948
Fighter Squadron
5.7/11
During World War II, an insubordinate fighter pilot finds the shoe on the other foot when he's promoted.
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Fighter Squadron
1951
Air Cadet
5/5
A group of cadets have assorted problems at the U.S. Air Force Pilot Training Academy.
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Air Cadet
1952
The Lawless Breed
6.6/21
After being released from prison, ex-gunfighter John Wesley Hardin hopes to have his autobiography published in order to rehabilitate his tarnished re...
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The Lawless Breed
1963
A Gathering of Eagles
5.4/22
Rock Hudson plays an Air Force Colonel who has just been re-assigned as a cold war B-52 commander who must shape up his men to pass a grueling inspect...
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A Gathering of Eagles
2021
Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It
7.4/15
Rita Moreno defied both her humble upbringing and relentless racism to become one of a select group who have won an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony Award...
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Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It
1965
Uncertain Verification
6.6/17
A short film containing a collection of clips from various Hollywood movies.
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Uncertain Verification
1965
A Very Special Favor
5.7/8
The long-lost father of a frigid, uptight Freudian psychologist contracts a wealthy American playboy who owes him a favor to woo his daughter.
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A Very Special Favor
1953
Sea Devils
5.8/22
Gilliatt, a fisherman-turned-smuggler on the isle of Guernsey, agrees to transport a beautiful woman to the French coast in the year 1800. She tells h...
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Sea Devils
1976
Embryo
4.6/33
A scientist doing experiments on a human fetus discovers a method to accelerate the fetus into a mature adult in just a few days.
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Embryo
1950
I Was a Shoplifter
5.3/9
A police detective uses any means possible to trap a gang of shoplifters.
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I Was a Shoplifter
2018
Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood
6/39
A deliciously scandalous portrait of unsung Hollywood legend Scotty Bowers, whose bestselling memoir chronicled his decades spent as sexual procurer t...
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Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood
1959
This Earth Is Mine
6.1/7
Set during the Prohibition era, when wine makers were financially challenged and had to decide whether or not they wanted to cooperate with bootlegger...
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This Earth Is Mine
1955
Captain Lightfoot
6.3/17
In 1815, Michael Martin, member of an Irish revolutionary society, turns highwayman to support it, and soon becomes an outlaw. In Dublin, he meets fam...
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Captain Lightfoot
1955
One Desire
5.8/10
The "one desire" of ex-gambler Clint Saunders and bar woman Tacey Cromwell is to escape their shady former lives and settle down to respectability. Wi...
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One Desire
1962
The Spiral Road
5.2/10
A selfish and prideful young Dutch doctor, through a series of circumstances, comes to learn that he does indeed "need" a higher spiritual being and o...
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The Spiral Road
1950
One Way Street
5.1/25
After stealing a gangster's money and his girlfriend, a doctor heads for a small village in Mexico to hide out.
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One Way Street
1953
Back to God's Country
6/2
In a small village in the icy wilderness of Alaska Captain Peter Keith has to defend himself against two especially mean villains, who are after his w...
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Back to God's Country
1985
The Ambassador
5/24
An American ambassador to Israel tries to bring peace to the Middle East conflict through unconventional methods, but his efforts are hampered at ever...
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The Ambassador
1950
The Desert Hawk
5.1/7
A desert guerilla, with flashing scimitar, opposes a tyrannical prince and marries the caliph's daughter.
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The Desert Hawk
1978
Avalanche
3.6/65
After an avalanche of snow crashes into their ski resort, a holiday at a winter wonderland turns into a game of survival for a group of vacationers.
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Avalanche
1956
Never Say Goodbye
6.6/16
In present-day U.S., Dr. Michael Parker, a prominent surgeon, unexpectedly runs into his German-born wife whom he thought was dead. Victor, an artist...
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Never Say Goodbye
2008
Acting for Douglas Sirk
0/0
The stars and director of 'Written on the Wind' and 'The Tarnished Angels' talk about director Douglas Sirk's techniques. Archival interviews original...
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Acting for Douglas Sirk
1966
Blindfold
6.273/11
A patient being psychoanalyzed by Dr. Snow is a government scientist. General Pratt hides him in a secret place known as "Base X," forcing Dr. Snow to...
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Blindfold
1984
The Vegas Strip War
3.5/2
Neil Chaine, a charming Las Vegas hotel/casino owner, tries to turn his decaying building into the Strip's top attraction to avenge his outing by his...
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The Vegas Strip War
1954
Bengal Brigade
5.3/10
Year 1856, British India. Capt. Jeffrey Claybourne is severely punished after disobeying an order. Feeling unworthy of his fiancée Vivian Morrow, the...
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Bengal Brigade
1963
Marilyn
6/1
This 1963 documentary, released less than a year after Marilyn Monroe's death, showcases the star in memorable scenes from her 20th Century Fox films,...
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Marilyn
1985
George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey
5.6/12
Biography of the legendary filmmaker directed by his son.
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George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey
1957
The James Dean Story
5.3/22
Released two years after James Dean's death, this documentary chronicles his short life and career via black-and-white still photographs, interviews w...
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The James Dean Story
1952
Here Come the Nelsons
6/1
The homespun Nelson family must deal with various comical situations, including an encounter with gangsters.
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Here Come the Nelsons
1952
Scarlet Angel
5.1/6
After robbing a sea captain in New Orleans, a beautiful saloon girl flees and assumes a dead woman's identity.
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Scarlet Angel
1951
Bright Victory
6.9/17
A soldier blinded in war returns home and attempts to adjust to civilian life.
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Bright Victory
1961
Hollywood: The Selznick Years
3.3/3
Henry Fonda hosts this retrospective on the career and films of iconic filmmaker David O. Selznick, who epitomized the era of the auteur producer in t...
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Hollywood: The Selznick Years
2010
Rock Hudson: Dark and Handsome Stranger
5/6
Rock Hudson was a virile screen idol who was the epitome of clean-cut masculinity. He was one of the first Hollywood celebrities to die of acquired im...
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Rock Hudson: Dark and Handsome Stranger
1990
Hollywood Heaven: Tragic Lives, Tragic Deaths
5.7/3
Welcome behind the closed doors of a Hollywood that only a select few will ever get to see -- a Hollywood of tragic lives and tragic deaths. Some of t...
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Hollywood Heaven: Tragic Lives, Tragic Deaths
2022
Clint Eastwood: The Last Legend
7.4/15
The portrait of the last cowboy Hollywood legend dives into the 65 years of an extraordinary career in Hollywood, highlighted iconic films like The Go...
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Clint Eastwood: The Last Legend
1950
Shakedown
6.1/19
Jack Early is a photographer who will stop at nothing to climb his way to the very top of the success ladder. On the strength of his sheer tenacity, h...
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Shakedown
1985
Night of 100 Stars II
8/3
This special is the second "Night of 100 Stars" to benefit The Actors Fund of America. Edited from a seven-hour live entertainment marathon that was t...
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Night of 100 Stars II
1950
Peggy
4.7/3
Professor Brookfield along with daughters Peggy and Susan move to small town Pasadena, California. Their new neighbor Mrs. Fielding helps them move in...
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Peggy
1985
Volunteers
5.5/157
After his rich father refuses to pay his debt, compulsive gambler Lawrence Bourne III joins the Peace Corps to evade angry creditors. In Thailand, he...
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Volunteers
2024
Elizabeth Taylor: The Lost Tapes
6.9/8
Newly discovered interviews with Elizabeth Taylor and unprecedented access to the star’s personal archive reveal the complex inner life and vulnerabil...
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Elizabeth Taylor: The Lost Tapes
1975
Elizabeth Taylor: An Intimate Portrait
4/2
Vintage 1975 documentary about the life of movie queen Elizabeth Taylor hosted by Peter Lawford, and featuring appearances by actors Roddy McDowall an...
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Elizabeth Taylor: An Intimate Portrait
2004
A Tale of Two Sisters - Lorna Luft and Liza Minnelli
9/2
Documentary which aired on television in 2004, about the two daughters of Judy Garland and their relationship.
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A Tale of Two Sisters - Lorna Luft and Liza Minnelli
1971
The Doris Mary Anne Kappelhoff Special
7/1
This was the first of two one-hour musical specials which were part of CBS' 1968 multi-million-dollar contract with Doris Day's production company, a...
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The Doris Mary Anne Kappelhoff Special
2007
When Fear Eats the Soul
10/1
Mixing scenes of Douglas Sirk's All That Heaven Allows and Fassbinder's Ali: Fear Eats the Soul, François Ozon creates a new film about cinephilic con...
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When Fear Eats the Soul
1956
New York Premiere Telecast 'Giant'
6/1
Star-studded charity New York City premiere of the film Giant.
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New York Premiere Telecast 'Giant'
2004
Judy Garland: By Myself
7.5/2
As Hollywood biographies go, Judy Garland's story is one of the saddest success stories you'll ever hear. The sanitized studio version of her life pre...
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Judy Garland: By Myself
1980
The Beatrice Arthur Special
0/0
The Beatrice Arthur Special was a prime time U.S. television special broadcast on CBS on January 19, 1980. The production centered around Bea Arthur,...
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The Beatrice Arthur Special
1974
James Dean Remembered
0/0
Peter Lawford hosts this documentary taking a look at the life and films of James Dean.
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James Dean Remembered
2015
Tab Hunter Confidential
7.4/56
Throughout the 1950s, Tab Hunter reigned as Hollywood’s ultimate male heartthrob. But throughout his years of stardom, Tab had a secret. Tab Hunter wa...
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Tab Hunter Confidential
1971
Once Upon a Dead Man
7/2
The wife of a San Francisco police commissioner drags him into a charity auction theft, which leads to a murder.
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Once Upon a Dead Man
2014
And the Oscar Goes To...
6.971/52
The story of the gold-plated statuette that became the film industry's most coveted prize, AND THE OSCAR GOES TO... traces the history of the Academy...
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And the Oscar Goes To...
1997
The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender
5.2/12
A film scrapbook, images, phrases from our past, hiding their meanings behind veils. Let's lift those veils, one by one, to find how images, at one ti...
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The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender
1981
The Star Maker
4/1
Danny Youngblood is a famed Hollywood director with a reputation for modeling sexy starlets into superstar actresses, and then turning his discoveries...
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The Star Maker
1968
A Fine Pair
3.2/4
A detective gets involved with the beautiful daughter of an old friend. The daughter turns out to be a jewel thief, who in turn gets the detective inv...
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A Fine Pair
1953
Beneath the 12-Mile Reef
5.8/30
Mike and Tony Petrakis are a Greek father and son team who dive for sponges off the coast of Florida. After they are robbed by crooks, Arnold and the...
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Beneath the 12-Mile Reef
1979
Musical Comedy Tonight
0/0
First of three programs about musical theatre hosted by writer-composer-lyricist Sylvia Fine.
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Musical Comedy Tonight
1992
Rock Hudson's Home Movies
3.5/13
In this revisionist documentary, actor Eric Farr re-creates the character of Rock Hudson in order to take a look back at his films. It compares the ac...
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