The Man Who Invented Rock Hudson: The Pretty Boys and Dirty Deals of Henry Willson

	Author	Robert Hofler
	ISBN-10	0816691290
	ISBN-13	9780816691296
	Year	2014-02-15
	Pages	472
	Language	English
	Publisher	Univ Of Minnesota Press
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Henry Willson was one of the quintessential power brokers in Hollywood during the late 1940s and 1950s when he launched the careers of Rock Hudson Lana Turner Tab Hunter Natalie Wood and many others He was also a true casting couch agent brokering sex for opportunity on the silver screen While this practice was rampant across Hollywood for gay actors and film professionals the casting couch was a dangerous cliff a public revelation could and would ruin a career The Man Who Invented Rock Hudson is an incredible biography as well as a harrowing look into Hollywood at a time of great sexual oppression roaming vice squads searching for gay and or communist activity and the impossibilities for gay actors of the era