He was the biggest box office male star in 1957, 1959, 1960, 1961 and 1962, but will you be voting for films from those years? Please vote for your top FIVE Rock Hudson films.
Poor Rock’s list is not reflective of his talent – many of his older films on Rotten Tomatoes had no votes 😦
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Oasis of Fear 
I have been a bit self indulgent with the polls this week – Rock and Jodie are two of my favourites. I try to do an older movie star (one who was making films in the 50s/60s) and a contemporary movie star each week. I have plenty lined up, but if there is someone you would like to see then do let me know.
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I needed 10 for this one – I wanted to include all the films he did with Douglas Sirk, some of the action and some of the romcoms – but just not enough votes!
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In coming weeks there will be more European stars, I promise!
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He’s best known for fluffy comedies with Doris Day but as the list shows, he’s successfully appeared in a broad range of films and in the 80s gave the fight against AIDS a human face, his classic Hollywood movie star having been ravaged by the disease. My votes went to two films with Doris, Pillow talk and Lover come back, the Frankenheim thriller Seconds, superb melodrama Magnificent obsession and Come September – because that is one of the rare films where everyone and eveything is beautiful to look at (even if he and Lollobrigida had zero chemistry).
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Magnificent Obsession is simply…magnificent! Whilst his performances are not groundbreaking – I have yet to see him give a bad performance in any film. I liked him in Dynasty too!
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It’s a great melodrama… the only way it could have been better is if Lana Turner had been the female lead ;-).
Otherwise I agree he has the suave effortlessness of Cary Grant combined with rugged handsomeness. If he hadn’t been gay we would have had to invent him!
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I get the feeling a “Favourite Lana Turner Films” poll is necessary! She has been added to the list. I was preparing a list of actors who I would like to cover and I have poll ideas for over a year without any suggestions being included!
I love the adaptation of Voltaire’s quote. Rock was a god. 🙂
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