It was his big secret: He was gay. While Rock Hudson was out to his closest friends – and every actor and crew member on every movie set seemed to be in the know that he was gay, as well — he died on ...

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 ...

Sunset Boulevard/Corbis via Getty; Herbert Dorfman/Corbis via Getty Mamie Van Doren, in a new interview, remembered the date she went on with Rock Hudson Though everyone at the studio knew he was "gay ...