The film featured an all-star cast that included Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, Geraldine Chaplin, Tony Curtis, and Kim Novak.

In 1985, Lancaster, a longtime supporter of gay rights, joined the fight against AIDS after his close friend, Rock Hudson, contracted the disease.

This success began with Pillow Talk ( 1959 ), co-starring Rock Hudson, who became a lifelong friend, and Tony Randall.

In 1964 Hawks made his final comedy, Man's Favorite Sport ?, which starred Rock Hudson ( since Cary Grant felt he was too old for the role ) and Paula Prentiss.

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

Seconds ( 1966 ) tells of an elderly man John Randolph given the body of a young man Rock Hudson through experimental surgery.

* 1925 – Rock Hudson, American actor ( d. 1985 )

In the 1980s, the AIDS pandemic led to the outing of several major entertainers, including Rock Hudson.

* Battle Hymn ( 1956 ) is based on the real-life experiences of Lt Col Dean E. Hess, USAF ( played by Rock Hudson ) and his cadre of U. S. Air Force instructors in the early days of the Korean War, training the pilots of the Republic of Korea Air Force and leading them during their first missions in F-51D / F-51Ks.

It's also common to use this technique to simultaneously portray both participants in a telephone conversation, a long-standing convention which dates back to early silents, as in Lois Weber's triangular frames in her 1913 Suspense, and culminating in Pillow Talk, where Doris Day and Rock Hudson share a party line.

So linked to this convention are the Doris Day / Rock Hudson movies that Down With Love, the only slightly tongue-in-cheek homage, used split screen in several phone calls, explicitly parodying this use.

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* There were numerous protests demanding that the US government take action against AIDS, which were fuelled by the AIDS-related deaths of celebrities such as Rock Hudson and Liberace, and by the case of Ryan White, a child who became infected by HIV through contaminated blood supplies.

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Before he became widely known as an astronaut, the film Air Cadet ( 1951 ) starring Richard Long and Rock Hudson briefly featured Grissom early in the movie as a U. S. Air Force candidate for flight school at Randolph Field, San Antonio, Texas.

Rock Hudson starred as Wilder, Darren McGavin as Parkhill, Bernadette Peters as Genevieve Selsor, Bernie Casey as Jeff Spender, Roddy McDowall as Father Stone, and Barry Morse as Hathaway, as well as Fritz Weaver.

The last names " Flintstone " and " Rubble ", as well as other common Bedrock surnames such as " Shale " and " Quartz ", are in line with these puns, as are the names of Bedrock's celebrities: " Gary Granite " ( Cary Grant ), " Stony Curtis " ( Tony Curtis ), " Ed Sulleyrock / Sulleystone " ( Ed Sullivan ), " Rock Pile / Quarry / Hudstone " ( Rock Hudson ), " Ann-Margrock " ( Ann-Margret ), " Jimmy Darrock " ( James Darren ), " Alvin Brickrock " ( Alfred Hitchcock ), " Perry Masonry / Masonite " ( Perry Mason as played by Raymond Burr ), " Mick Jadestone and The Rolling Boulders " ( Mick Jagger and The Rolling Stones ), " Eppy Brianstone " ( Brian Epstein ) and " The Beau Brummelstones " ( The Beau Brummels ).

* Castle Rock ( Garrison, New York ), a historic house in the Hudson Highlands

His last film, the big budget production A Farewell to Arms ( 1957 ) starring Jones and Rock Hudson, was ill received.

Her leading men during this period included Charles Boyer, Joseph Cotten, Gregory Peck, John Garfield, Charlton Heston, Laurence Olivier, Montgomery Clift, Humphrey Bogart, William Holden, Robert Stack, John Gielgud, Rock Hudson, and Jason Robards.

All That Heaven Allows ( 1955 ) is a romance feature film starring Jane Wyman and Rock Hudson in a tale about a well-to-do widow and a younger landscape designer falling in love.

She becomes interested in Ron Kirby ( Rock Hudson ), her family's gardener and a down-to-earth, younger man.

Many panels were also made for the actor Rock Hudson, one of which consisted of a navy blue background with silver " Rock Hudson " and stars, above a rainbow with the word " Hollywood ".< ref > Rock Hudson AIDS Quilt panel.

The success of the ensemble was emulated by other regional conductors, and a rich tradition of a cappella choral music was born in the region at colleges like Concordia College ( Moorhead, Minnesota ), Augustana College ( Rock Island, Illinois ), Wartburg College ( Waverly, Iowa ), Luther College ( Decorah, Iowa ), Gustavus Adolphus College ( St. Peter, Minnesota ), Augustana College ( Sioux Falls, South Dakota ), and Augsburg College ( Minneapolis, Minnesota ).

His official records note that Yoakum was born in Missouri, but he told a story of being born in Arizona, in 1888, as a Navajo Indian on the Window Rock Navajo reservation.

Robert James " Bob " Ritchie ( born January 17, 1971 ), known by his stage name Kid Rock, is an American singer-songwriter, musician, multi-instrumentalist and rapper with five Grammy Awards nominations.

Rock has actively raised Robert Jr., born in 1993, as a single father since birth, and continues to live with him in Michigan.

Douglas MacArthur was born 26 January 1880, at the Arsenal Barracks in Little Rock, Arkansas, to Arthur MacArthur, Jr., a U. S. Army captain, and his wife Mary Pinkney Hardy MacArthur ( nicknamed " Pinky ").

Jackson T. Stephens ( 1923 – 2005 ) born on a farm near Prattsville during the Great Depression, he became one of the country's major power brokers through Stephens, Inc., the largest trading company outside of Wall Street, located in Little Rock.

* Frank Bonner, born in Little Rock and raised in Malvern, an actor and director best known for playing Herb Tarlek on the classic 1970s and 1980s sitcom WKRP in Cincinnati

The first child of European descent born at Eagle Rock was delivered in 1874.

* Charles G. Hall, photojournalist ; born in Rock Island

* Elisabeth Maurus ( aka Lissie ), folk-rock singer and songwriter ; born in Rock Island

* Lefty Taber, pitcher for the Philadelphia Phillies ; born in Rock Island

30 Rock actor Scott Adsit was born in Circle Pines.

* Bob Dylan ( born Robert Zimmerman in Duluth ), musician, singer-songwriter, Rock and Roll Hall of Famer and Pulitzer Prize winner.

* John S. Marmaduke, ( 1833 – 1887 ), born in Arrow Rock, was a general in the Confederate Army and later the Governor of Missouri.

* Chris Rock ( born 1965 ), comedian, actor.

* Peter Dinklage ( born 1969 ), actor who has appeared in The Station Agent, Elf, 30 Rock and Game of Thrones.

* Jane Krakowski ( born 1968 ), actress, best known for her roles on Ally McBeal and 30 Rock.

Logan was born when the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad constructed a bridge over the Canadian River.

* Floyd Vivino ( born 1951 ), also known as Uncle Floyd, lived and went to school in Glen Rock.

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* Marty Munsch ( born 1967 ), professional producer, engineer, musician, photo journalist and president of Punk Rock Records.

Rock singer Steve Whiteman of the band Kix, best known for their hit song ' Don't Close Your Eyes ', was born in Piedmont in 1956.

* Charles E. Richardson, a Wyoming newspaper publisher, was born in Newcastle but spent much of his life in Rock Springs.

MC Lyte ( born Lana Michele Moorer ; October 11, 1970 ) is an American rapper who first gained fame in the late-1980s becoming the first solo female rapper to release a full album with 1988's critically acclaimed Lyte as a Rock.