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Caroline Malarney Blue English 12/3/14 When people hear the name Rock Hudson, most would remember a famous, handsome, and talented actor. However, if you did your research you would see Rock Hudson was not only a hugely successful actor, but also a deeply troubled man with a tragic life. Roy Harold Scherer Jr. was born November 17, 1925 in Winnetka, Illinois(“Rock Hudson.”Bio). He was the only child of Katherine Wood and Roy Harold Scherer, Sr. (“Rock Hudson.” Official site). After the stock market crash of 1933 his father abandoned the family, and he was raised by his mother. (“Rock Hudson.” Official site). Roy attended Trier High School (“Rock Hudson.”Bio). He was a singer in his school's glee club. He was remembered …show more content…
After graduating from Trier, Roy went on to serve in the Philippines as an aircraft mechanic for the United States Navy during World War II. (“Rock Hudson.”Bio). After serving his country Scherer moved to Los Angeles to pursue an acting career(“Rock Hudson.” Official site). He worked as a truck driver for a period of time until “talent scout Henry Wilson took an interest in him and made him his protege”(“Rock Hudson”. Bio) Wilson would later give him his famous stage name, Rock Hudson.(“Rock …show more content…
Women worshiped him and he wouldn’t give them a second glance. Everyone could only help but wonder “why?”. While having a conversation with a friend he mentioned “one of these days I’m going to have a lot to tell”(Clarke). Hudson’s secret was that he was gay. The only people let in on this secret were Warner Brothers Studio and his friend Doris Day, who was sworn to secrecy. (Clarke.“Double Life”) Living in a time where being gay was considered morally wrong, Warner Brothers decided they had to do something before too many rumors surfaced, so, they decided to stage a marriage between Rock and Phyllis Gates (Maltin.“Overview of Rock Hudson”). The marriage lasted 3 years but soon began to fall apart when they both realized they were not happy and it needed to end. Phyllis released a statement saying, “The Rock Hudson you see on the screen is very romantic but the Rock I lived with was anything but that.”(Clarke). She cited “mental cruelty” in their divorce proceedings. Fearing for his career he settled the divorce quietly and without
After his discharge from the army he went back to carnival life. In late 1939 and early 1940 he became the manager of Gene Austin and traveled with Gene's "Models & Melodies" show.
Travis Roy was born in Yarmouth, Maine. Roy attended Yarmouth High School as a freshman and then transferred to
After graduation, he went to work for a blast furnace unit at a Ford Motor Company’ Rouge Plant. After working at Ford for five years Randall took a job with the United States Post Office as a clerk and letter carrier. In July of 1943, he was enlisted into the U.S. Army Air Corps, and served during World War II. After returning from the war, he went back to work to the post office. In 1949,while working in the post office he earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in English and his Master’s degree in Library scien...
Brett attended Hancock North Central High School, when he was in the 8th grade he led
He served in WWII as a flight radar observer and navigator. After serving in the army he went to school at Vanderbilt University in Tennessee. He went there on the G. I. Bill. After graduating from Vanderbilt with a M. A. in English, he started to teach. He taught first at the Rice Institute in Houston, Texas. His time there was cut short because he was recalled to duty in Korea as flight training instructor. But as soon as he was discharged from the Corps he returned to teach again at Rice University. He taught at Rice until 1954 when he left to go to Europe on the Sewanee Review fellowship. After returning to the U.S. he joined the English Department at the University of Florida. He did not stay there long because he resigned after a dispute after he h...
He was born on February 6, 1895 to his parents Katherine Schamberger and George Herman Ruth Sr. in Baltimore, Maryland.
Born August 1923 in Guide Rock, Nebraska. Enlisted in the U.S. Army Air Corps upon graduating from High School in June 1942.
He was then drafted into the U.S. Army where he was refused admission to the Officer Candidate School. He fought this until he was finally accepted and graduated as a first lieutenant. He was in the Army from 1941 until 1944 and was stationed in Kansas and Fort Hood, Texas. While stationed in Kansas he worked with a boxer named Joe Louis in order to fight unfair treatment towards African-Americans in the military and when training in Fort Hood, Texas he refused to go to the back of the public bus and was court-martialed for insubordination. Because of this he never made it to Europe with his unit and in 1944 he received an honorable discharge.
Here are some facts about what Mark Wahlberg has done with his life and who he is as a person now who he was then. When he was a kid and a teenager he made some bad choices. His family is big and they all love him and he has done many charities. He has been in many different types of movies and his best and worst movies he has starred in. Mark Wahlberg has turned his life around and became what he is today.
Jack Roosevelt Robinson was born on January 31, 1919 (York). He was born in the small town of Cairo, Georgia, on that day in January. His parents were Jerry and Mallie Robinson, the two of them didn’t have the best of marriage but they made out ok (Allen). Later in 1919, Jerry left Mallie to go farm some land somewhere else, but it was later found out that he had run off with another woman.
I found out that after he left New York he moved back to the Midwest. Because he saw how the love of money can ruin someone he decided not to work for his father but do something he really loved. He wanted to make a positive impact in the world as a way of making up for all the negativeness he had seen and been apart of in New York. For awhile he couldn’t figure out what that was so he he did odd jobs here and there until the Great Depression hit.
York. As a child he was a member of the Brooklyn Rippers and the Forty
In 1940 he returned to duty as district engineer of the Corps of Engineers’ Chicago District. In this capacity he directed the construction of military posts, airfields, and ordnance and aircraft plants within the district, as well as river and harbor work and flood control projects.
performed a couple of surprise shows at the Carter Family Fold outside Bristol, Virginia. At the May 21, 2003 concert, before singing
Ray Kroc was born in Oak Park Illinois in the fifth of October of the year 1902. At the age of four Ray's destiny was read when his father took him to a phrenologist who predicted he was going to have a career in food.