Pretty Maids All In A Row (1971) - Rock Hudson Column Items - Historical Item (Boston Press Series)
Writing by blake on Monday, 3 of September , 2007 at 2:03 pm
FILE: Rock Hudson Column Items (Press Items)
This historical item from this series shows press column items for the “Pretty Maids All In A Row” tour of Rock Hudson. View the items above or read the full text after the link bump.
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One of the goals of this site is preserving film history one image at a time. In addition to that preserving various other forms of film history. Debuting Friday, August 31, 2007 was a historical look at the Boston leg of Rock Hudson’s publicity tour for “Pretty Maids All In A Row.” Items in this series will feature all kinds of images, letters and other extremely rare goodies. This really will be a fascinating look at both publicity for this film and press at the time of 1971. I’m extremely proud to be archiving for public viewing these rare historical film items! Several items a day will be posted for this series in the weeks ahead.
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Full Column Items Text:
ROCK HUDSON….COLUMN ITEMS
Generally genial Rock Hudson, who stars in MGM’s “Pretty Maids All In A Row,” says he has a complete cure for anger if it does strike. “I walk it off. It may take a couple of miles, but I’ll make it.”
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Rock Hudson, who currently stars in MGM’s “Pretty Maids All In A Row,” is an accomplished bridge player and can sit in a game around the clock. He has never played in a tournament with champion Omar Sharif, but they have talked about it and hope to do it someday.
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There is a Rock Festival going on in the United States, Hudson, that is. The super star has recently completed filming on MGM’s “Pretty Maids All In A Row,” the first film to be directed in the United States by French director Roger Vadim; “Darling Lili” with Julie Andrews, and “Hornet’s Nest” with Sylva Koscina are currently in release; “Rock Gently,” his record album is in the music stores, and he leaves early December to star in a musical extravaganza for the BBC in England.
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Rock Hudson, currently starring in MGM’s “Pretty Maids All In A Row,” simplifies his life by measuring people, places, things, movies, etc. on a “Rockter” scale, perhaps not as earthshaking as the Richter scale, it still goes from 1 to 10. “One or two at least of my 58 films are on the minus side of the ledger,” the star says.
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Rock Hudson, currently starring in MGM’s “Pretty Maids All In A Row,” the first film to be directed in the United States by Roger Vadim, is a five time winner as No. 1 male box office star, and in the 1970 Motion Picture Herald’s poll of the 10 top money makers of the last decade, he ties for third place with Elizabeth Taylor and Cary Grant.
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Rock Hudson has shuttled in and out of bedrooms, won the West, gunned his way through stark war dramas, outwitted international spies, scored the last second touchdown, brought in Oklahoma oil gushers, got the girl, never lost a battle, and now, adding one more dimension to his career, is starring in the blackest of black comedies, MGM’s “Pretty Maids All In A Row,” first picture to be directed in the United States by Roger Vadim.
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Rock Hudson, who is currently starring in MGM’s “Pretty Maids All In A Row,” with Angie Dickinson and Telly Savalas, is a football buff and avid fan of USC and the Rams. “When I was a little kid in Illinois, I joined the Boy Scouts because they ushered at the Northwestern football games. I was a rotten usher and never showed anyone to his seat. I just sat on the steps and watched the game.”
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Rock Hudson, currently starring in MGM’s “Pretty Maids All In A Row,” blames the New Trier High School in Winnetka, Illinois (Hugh O’Brien, Charlton Heston, Ralph Bellamy and Ann-Margaret, are also alumni) for certain problems he has today. “They went by the Washburn Syste. We were never taught to write. We had to print. So my penmanship is terrible. We were never supposed to do homework. We were to learn during class. Consequently as an adult I never do my homework or prepare anything. When I have to learn my lines I do it at the last minute.”
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Rock Hudson, who is currently starring in MGM’s “Pretty Maids All In A Row,” recently recorded a record album of Rod McKuen songs called “Rock Gently.” His fondness for signing goes back to childhood, when he belonged to the Glee Club at high school, and to the choir of the First Congregational Church.
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Rock Hudson, currently starring in MGM’s “Pretty Maids All In A Row,” was born in Winnetka, Illinois on November 17, 1925. His name was Roy Scherer, Jr. until his mother married Wallace Fitzgerald, whose name Rock took. An agent named him Rock for the Rock of Gibraltar, and Hudson simply because he thought of the river. Rock’s intimate friends call him Roy.
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Rock Hudson, currently starring in MGM’s “Pretty Maids All In A Row,” is remodeling his Beverly Hills Mediterranean mansion by adding a theatre for “live” performances. He has gathered a group of twenty close friends, each of whom will do “An Evening With,” and is allowed to call upon any of the other members of the group to participate in any capacity.
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When Rock Hudson’s double of seventeen years, George Robatham, declined to do the nude scenes in MGM’s “Pretty Maids All In A Row,” the first picture to be directed in the United States by Roger Vadim, the Rock decided to do them himself. “Vadim uses such excellent taste that there is no feeling of nudity,” the super star says. “You might as well be acting out the scene in a burnoose.”
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Rock Hudson has a positive attitude about the film industry, which so many people are saying is in a decline. On the set of MGM’s “Pretty Maids All In A Row,” Rock told an interviewer: “Motion pictures reflect the times in which we live. Today we are in a state of change, the entire world is. The pendulum always swings from one extreme to the other in order to find its way back to the middle.”
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“I’m happiest when I’m working,” says Rock Hudson, who just finished a starring role in MGM’s “Pretty Maids All In A Row,” “or traveling, which I love. I hope to see the world before I’m 50.” The Rock is 44, so he has another six years before that.
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“I’d like to be a good actor,” said Rock Hudson on the set of MGM’s “Pretty Maids All In A Row,” the first film to be directed in the United States by Roger Vadim. “No, I’d like to be the best actor. I want interesting roles. I don’t want to be typed.” In MGM’s “Pretty Maids All In A Row,” as Tiger, the coach of a suburban high school, he becomes involved in a series of escapades and murders. It’s a role the likes of which he hasn’t done in any other of his 58 movies.
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Rock Hudson who stars in MGM’s “Pretty Maids All In A Row,” the first film to be directed in the United States by Roger Vadmin, lives in a sprawling Mediterranean house in Beverly Hills, filled with paintings of vivid colors, abstracts, florals, portraits: “Whatever moves me. Not a name among them. Although, if I could, I would love to own an El Greco.”
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Asked by an interviewer on the set of MGM’s “Pretty Maids All In A Row,” what kind of music he likes best, Rock Hudson replied: “I can tell you more easily what I don’t like. Oriental music is a total mystery to me as is most African music. I guess Spanish music is nearest to my bag.”
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There aren’t many dull minutes for star Rock Hudson when he is not working. He just finished filming MGM’s “Pretty Maids All In A Row,” and has a few weeks off before going to London to film a television special for the BBC. “I’ll play some bridge, the guitar and the piano and wield a mean hoe.” Rock has a magnificent garden, which stretches over several acres and includes a green house.
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Rock Hudson, currently starring in MGM’s “Pretty Maids All In A Row,” is one of the big stars from Winnetka, Illinois, a roster that also includes Ralph Bellamy, Charlton Heston and Ann-Margaret and Hugh O’Brien.
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Image Source:
From official rare press files for the Boston publicity tour of Rock Hudson for the film “Pretty Maids All In A Row.”
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Category: People: Roger Vadim, Movies: Pretty Maids All In A Row (1971), Historical Finds: Pretty Maids All In A Row (Boston Pre, Historical Finds, People: Rock Hudson
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