How hard was it for Rock Hudson to play masculine roles when in "real life&!


Question: How hard was it for Rock Hudson to play masculine roles when in "real life" he was really a homosexual!?
I often read in the fan magazines that homosexual actors have a difficult time playing masculine roles and that is partly why David "Hinie" Pierce in the award winning television program Frasier was not forced to kiss Daphne (his wife in the story)!.

How did the movie producers help to make Hudson appear manly!?Www@Enter-QA@Com


Answers:
he was an actor first and foremost!. studio also did a lot of pr work on him taking out actresses!.
i've never heard that it was difficult for them to act a part!.Www@Enter-QA@Com

I would think not hard at all! The majority of gay men are quite masculine in behavior!. He was also after all an actor!. You consider that gay men are all stereotypical in behavior and they are not at all that way!.Www@Enter-QA@Com

The times were totally different and so where the actors!.


The Legacy of Stardom in the 1950s

James Dean, Montgomery Clift, and Rock Hudson achieved stardom in the 1950s, each leaving a lasting mark on film history and the public!.

When Dean died on September 30, 1955, only one of his films, East of Eden (1955), had been released!. After his death and the release of Rebel without a Cause (1955) and Giant (1956), Dean became an icon of the sensitive and moody young man!.

In the years and decades since Dean's death, newspapers, magazines, and books have repeated rumors of his bisexuality!. Allegedly, Dean had affairs with prominent men and women in Hollywood and frequented leather and S&M bars!. Dean's screen persona, that of a troubled, uncertain, and reckless late adolescent, in conflict with 1950s conformist values, fused with the rumors of his personal life and resonated deeply with gay audiences!.

"No other star captured the hearts and minds of gay men like Montgomery Clift," proclaims John Stubbard!. Clift's persona was sensitive, introspective, fragile, and intense!. "Clift was like a wound," Jane Fonda noted, constantly suffering and in psychological turmoil!. But with his physically slight body, pretty face, hesitance to take action, and troubled stare, Clift helped reconfigure notions of masculinity in Hollywood!.

Gay men of the 1950s may have responded so fully to the suffering of Dean and Clift because they connected it with the degradation they faced every day in a homophobic society!.

Almost every year during the 1950s, Look, Photoplay, Modern Screen, and other movie magazines proclaimed Rock Hudson "most popular star" or "top male star!." He was six feet four inches tall, virile, steadfast, with a smooth muscular body and heroic square jaw!. The strength of his masculine persona permitted Hudson to feign effeminacy in comedies with Doris Day and Tony Randall and appear vulnerable and indecisive with women in Douglas Sirk's melodramas!.

Fearing imminent outing of his client by Confidential magazine, Henry Willson, Hudson's agent, arranged the star's marriage with Phyllis Gates, his executive secretary!. It lasted three years!.

Obsessed with his image, Hudson supposedly declared he would rather die before fans discovered he was gay!. In the 1950s, Hollywood publicists filled magazines with pictures of Hudson in his shorts, frolicking with Elizabeth Taylor and other glamorous female stars!. Gay males of the era saw through this facade, however, and, most of them also necessarily closeted, could even identify with it!.

Troublesome Rumblings from the Closet

Many gay actors invested an enormous amount of energy to remain closeted, but such efforts took their toll physically and psychologically!.Www@Enter-QA@Com



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