This CONVERSATION SERIES screening celebrates Rock Hudson’s 100th birthday!
Includes a special introduction and audience Q&A with TCM’s Alicia Malone and Rock Hudson biographer Mark Griffin
This fun comedy from 1959 marked the first pairing of Rock Hudson and Doris Day, sparking a successful onscreen collaboration and a deep personal friendship. Doris Day stars as an uptight interior designer who shares a phone line with a playboy songwriter, played by Rock Hudson. “Pillow Talk” was a big hit with audiences, won an Academy Award for its screenplay, and helped change the image of its two stars – giving Doris Day’s “girl next door” persona a sexier edge and allowing Rock Hudson to showcase his comedic talents.
USA | 1959 | 1h 42m
Directed by Michael Gordon
Starring Rock Hudson, Doris Day, Tony Randall
CONVERSATION
In celebration of Rock Hudson’s 100th birthday, we are screening two of Hudson’s films: the sexy comedy “Pillow Talk” and the Douglas Sirk melodrama “Written on the Wind.” Each screening will feature a special introduction and audience Q&A with local Maine author, Mark Griffin, whose biography of Rock Hudson served as the source material for the recent HBO Documentary, “Rock Hudson: All That Heaven Allowed.” Rock Hudson was a major movie star in the 1950s and ’60s, who, as a gay man in classic Hollywood, had to keep his private life firmly in the closet. His death in 1985 from AIDS-related complications shocked the world and led to meaningful conversations about the disease.
