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...could. After hanging around studio gates for several months, he was introduced to famed Agent Henry Willson. "You're not bad looking. Can you act?" asked Willson. "No," said the young man. "What did you say, feller?" asked the incredulous agent. "I said, no, I can't act." To which Willson replied: "Good. I think I can do something for you. Sit down." Willson transformed Roy Fitzgerald into Rock Hudson and secured him an apprenticeship in one of the biggest film factories, Universal Pictures. Fighter Squadron (1948) was his first film. During the next six years, 25 others followed, like...
...attracted enough attention to be noticed by gossip columnists, he had to lie to hide the inescapable fact that he was attracted to men rather than women. In 1955, when a scandal magazine threatened to expose his sexual preference, Universal arranged a hasty marriage of convenience with Henry Willson's secretary Phyllis Gates. Divorce followed...
...Leslie Willson Austin...
DIED. Meredith Willson, 82, The Music Man's music man, who wrote book, score and lyrics for the durable 1957 Broadway salute to small-town simplicity and sentiment, and The Unsinkable Molly Brown (1960), also a hit; in Santa Monica, Calif...
...professional artist in America. Its starting point is not the folk artist but the painter with academic training (or pretensions to it) whose gaze was fixed on largely European role models. These role models had to be theorized about, because they could not be seen. When Charles Willson Peale (1741-1827), painter and America's first museum founder, hopefully named his sons Rembrandt, Raphaelle and Rubens, not one work by these exalted names had yet crossed the Atlantic. The fact that 18th century America had few major artists is not news; the surprising thing, given the meagerness of taste...