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By JIM COOPER
WHY
Rock Hudson
MAY NEVER
Always unsure of himself, Rock waited
until he was 30 before marrying; today he may not ivish to risk failure again
SoME FEW years ago — this was before he married Phyllis Gates — Rock Hudson got a phone call one evening from a bouncy young starlet who asked him to escort her to a forthcoming Hollywood party. Rock agreed to go. The affair was a lavish, black tie production, given at Ciro's for an immensely powerful studio tycoon, and virtually everyone of any importance in Filmtown was vying to attend. The starlet who called Rock was only a minor figure as an actress, but she was also as avid and eager a headline-hunter as the town has known. After the party she beamed with satisfaction; she had successfully snared Hollywood's handsomest, most eligible and fastestrising young male star to be with her when she made her calculated entrance at the party.
"The reason I asked Rock," she boasted to some studio friends, '"was because he's so big and I'm so tiny, and his dark evening clothes, next to the gold lame dress I wrore, made me look divine. Yes," she went on gleefully. "I was smart to go with Rock."
"'You picked an awfully nice man," commented one of her listeners. "I bet you had fun.'"
The starlet, whose thoughts were already on her next conquest, shrugged her pretty shoulders. "I didn't see veiy much of Rock at the party," she said. "'The photographers kept me so busy."
Rock Hudson is almost always easy-going, gentle and reluctant to hurt anyone, but he must have been aware that he had been used. It is not on record that he ever escorted the ambitious young starlet to another public affair. His private emotions, however, were an altogether different matter. The memory of that party, for a man who dislikes social affairs anyway, was not easily erased.
For Rock, as his intimates know, hates being used for selfish purposes — a perfectly normal reaction in a decent man who despises any thought of trading on a friendship. He has an almost desperate fear of being maneuvered into an unfair position by feminine wiles. But most of all, he resents being possessed or "owned" by Women top forceful or too domineering. It was probably this stubborn trait in him that made him once say, "I will never marry an actress."
Beset by such misgivings, it may be a long, long time before Rock Hudson marries again — if
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REMARRY