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
One of nine films that Rock Hudson made with director Douglas Sirk, this melodrama pairs Rock Hudson with Lauren Bacall, Robert Stack, and Dorothy Malone in a tale of the privileged behaving badly. Douglas Sirk was instrumental in transforming Rock Hudson into a movie star, spotting his talents early and elevating him from a supporting player to a leading man. “Written on the Wind” is not shown on the big screen very often, so catch it in its full Technicolor glory while you can!
USA | 1956 | 1h 39m
Directed by Douglas Sirk
Starring Rock Hudson, Lauren Bacall, Robert Stack, Dorothy Malone
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.
