Hudson Collection
Hudson Collection
Bonavita Baby Furniture by LaJobi
Bonavita Baby Furniture was introduced by LaJobi in 1995, and in 2001 Bonavita Furniture introduced the first Lifestyle Crib. Bonavita revolutionized the baby furniture industry with baby cribs that convert into toddler beds, day beds, and full sized beds. Bonavita furniture is built to last, using solid hardwoods and wood veneers, and includes such high-quality features as exclusive lead-free finishes, dovetail drawers, and waterproof seals. Today Bonavita offers seven collections of high-quality baby furniture that will grow with your child, with a new collection coming soon!
Bonavita Baby Furniture makes several cribs with clean lines and classic feel. The Peyton collection offers a lifestyle crib with simple straight rails, for a clean contemporary look with a traditional feel. The Metro collection is stylish and cosmopolitan, offering a lifestyle crib with gently curved back and front rails and case pieces with modern metal knobs. Bonavita’s Metro crib has been named “Best Convertible Crib” by People.com’s Celebrity Baby Blog. The Hudson collection offers a lifestyle crib with graceful curved headboard and baseboards, for an elegant crib that is both contemporary and traditional. Any of these clean and contemporary collections from Bonavita is sure to compliment a modern nursery.
Bonavita Baby Furniture offers four collections based on design elements from around the world. The Sheffield collection contains American historical design elements, such as an oversized crown and wide base, to create a collection full of character. The Francais collection offers vintage elegance with a scalloped apron on the crib and baseboards and hand distressed finish. The Seaside collection captures the casual elegance of a peaceful cottage, with a lifestyle crib with gently curved headboard, and natural accent baskets in the case pieces. The LaMadre collection is an eco-friendly collection with a clean and simple earthy design, made of natural bamboo veneers and hardwoods from sustainable forests, with environmentally gentle finishes and glues. These worldly collections are a wonderful choice for a notable nursery.
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About the Author
Written by Candace Scimeca from Royal Bambino Children’s Furniture and Accessories Showroom. Royal Bambino offers unique, distinctive, and high-quality baby and children’s furniture, bedding, and room décor. Visit RoyalBambino.com for a complete array of baby products, or come in to our retail store located in Murrieta, CA.
Rock Hudson ,I would like to know about his biography ,and why he died so soon?
I want to have the collection of his films and photos,he still is my beloved actor .I held respect to him deeply,indeed.
How should I have them?
REGARDS.
Rock Hudson was a better actor than many of his films. A natural talent, born into modest circumstances chance brought him to Hollywood where he was rechristined Rock Hudson and launched on a mostly successful career.
Here is Wikipedia’s more eloquent blurbage.
Rock Hudson (November 17, 1925 – October 2, 1985) was a popular American film and television actor, noted for his splendid, virile looks and most remembered as a romantic leading man during the 1950s and 1960s. Hudson was voted Star of the Year, Favorite Leading Man, or any number of similar titles by numerous movie magazines and was unquestionably one of the most popular and well-known movie stars of the time. He completed nearly 70 motion pictures and starred in several television productions during a career that spanned over three decades. Hudson also was one of the first major Hollywood celebrities to die of AIDS-related complications.
Early life
Hudson was born Leroy Harold Scherer, Jr., in Winnetka, Illinois, USA, the son of Katherine Wood, a telephone operator, and Roy Harold Scherer, Sr., an auto mechanic who abandoned the family during the depths of the Great Depression, in the early 1930s. His mother remarried and his stepfather adopted him, changing his last name to Fitzgerald. Hudson’s years at New Trier High School were unremarkable. He sang in the school’s glee club and was remembered as a shy boy who delivered newspapers, ran errands and worked as a golf caddy.
After graduating from high school, he served in the Philippines as an aircraft mechanic for the Navy during WWII. In 1946, Hudson moved to Los Angeles to pursue an acting career and applied to the University of Southern California’s dramatics program, but he was rejected due to poor grades.
Among a number of odd jobs, Hudson worked as a truck driver for a couple of years to support himself, longing to be an actor but with no success in breaking into the movies. A fortunate meeting with powerful Hollywood talent scout Henry Willson in 1948 got Hudson his start in the business.
Willson coined Roy’s new name, a combination of the Rock of Gibraltar and Hudson River, and Hudson made his debut with a small part in the 1948 Warner Bros.’ Fighter Squadron. According to Hollywood gossip, Hudson needed no less than 38 takes before successfully delivering his only line in the film.
He was further coached in acting, singing, dancing, fencing and horseback riding, and he began to feature in film magazines where he was promoted, possibly on the basis of his good looks.
Success and recognition came in 1954 with Magnificent Obsession in which Hudson plays a bad boy who is redeemed. The film received rave reviews, with Modern Screen Magazine citing Hudson as the most popular actor of the year. Hudson’s popularity soared in George Stevens’s Giant, based on Edna Ferber’s novel and co-starring Elizabeth Taylor and James Dean. As a result of their powerful performances, both Hudson and Dean were nominated for Best Actor at the Oscars.
Following Richard Brooks’ notable Something of Value in 1957 and a moving performance in Charles Vidor’s A Farewell to Arms, based on Ernest Hemingway’s novel, Hudson sailed through the 1960s on a wave of romantic comedies. He portrayed humorous characters in Pillow Talk, the first of several profitable co-starring performances with Doris Day. This was followed by Come September, Send Me No Flowers, Man’s Favorite Sport?, and Strange Bedfellows. He worked outside his usual range on the science-fiction thriller Seconds (1966): the film flopped badly at the time, but it later gained cult status.
Later career
Hudson’s popularity on the big screen diminished in the 1970s. He performed in a 13-city tour of the musical Camelot.[1] He was quite successful on television starring in a number of made-for-TV movies. His most successful series was McMillan and Wife opposite Susan Saint James from 1971 to 1977. In this series, Hudson played police commissioner Stewart “Mac” McMillan with Ms. Saint James playing his wife Sally. Their on-screen chemistry helped make the show a success.
Following years of heavy drinking and smoking, by the early 1980s, Hudson began having health problems. Emergency quintuple heart bypass surgery in November 1981 sidelined Hudson and his then-new TV show, The Devlin Connection, for a year; the show suffered for the delay and was cancelled not long after it returned to the airwaves in December 1982. Hudson recovered from the surgery but continued to smoke. He was visibly ill filming The Ambassador with Robert Mitchum – the two stars did not like each other. A couple of years later, Hudson’s health had visibly deteriorated again, prompting different rumors.
In 1984 and 1985, Hudson landed a recurring role on the television drama Dynasty. While he had long been known to have difficulty memorizing lines, now his speech itself began to deteriorate.
Personal life
While Hudson’s career was blooming, he was struggling to keep his personal life out of the headlines. Throughout his career, he epitomized wholesome manliness, and in 1955 he wed his agent’s secretary Phyllis Gates. The news was made known by all the major gossip magazines. The union lasted three years. Gates filed for divorce in April 1958, charging mental cruelty; [1] Hudson did not contest the divorce, and Gates received an alimony of $250 a week for 10 years.
In Gates’ 1987 autobiography My Husband, Rock Hudson, the book she wrote with veteran Hollywood chronicler Bob Thomas, Gates insists she dated Hudson for several months and lived with him for two months before his surprise marriage proposal. She claims to have married Hudson out of love and not, as it was later purported, to stave off a major expose of Hudson’s sexual orientation. However, after her death from lung cancer in January 2006, several articles suggested Gates was not as innocent as she claimed, and was in fact a lesbian who married Hudson for his money, knowing from the beginning he was gay. One magazine story, headlined “When Day Is Done, Heaven Is Waiting,” quoted Hudson as saying, “When I count my blessings, my marriage tops the list.”
According to the 1986 biography, Rock Hudson: His Story, by Hudson and Sara Davidson, Hudson’s other (some more, some less) significant relationships were with American novelist Armistead Maupin, Jack Coates, Hollywood publicist Tom Clark, who also later published a memoir about Hudson, Rock Hudson: Friend of Mine; and Marc Christian. In addition, Darwin Porter’s book, Brando Unzipped (2006) claims that Hudson had an affair with Marlon Brando.
[ Later years
In July 1985, Hudson joined his old friend Doris Day for the launch of her new TV cable show, Doris Day's Best Friends. His gaunt visage, and his nearly incoherent speech, were so shocking it was broadcast again all over the national news shows that night and for weeks to come. Day herself stared at him throughout their appearance.
Hudson was diagnosed with HIV on June 5, 1984, but when the signs of illness became apparent, his publicity staff and doctors told the public he had liver cancer. It was not until July 25, 1985, while in Paris for treatment, that Hudson issued a press release announcing that he was dying of Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome. He also revealed his homosexuality to the public that same day.
In a later press release, Hudson speculated he may have contracted HIV through transfused blood from an infected donor during the multiple blood transfusions he received as part of his heart bypass procedure. At the time of his operation, blood was not tested for HIV, which was then-unknown.
Hudson lived out the remainder of his life with dignity, withstanding the ravages of his illness and the intrusions of the tabloid press. Hudson flew back to Los Angeles on July 31, where he was so physically weak he was taken off the plane on a stretcher and flown by helicopter to Cedars Sinai Hospital where he spent nearly a month to undergo more treatments.
When the doctors told him there was no hope of saving his life since the disease had progressed into the advanced stages, Hudson returned to his house 'The Castle' in Beverly Hills, where he remained in seclusion until his death on the morning of October 2, at the age of 59.
Shortly before his death, Hudson stated, "I am not happy that I am sick. I am not happy that I have AIDS. But if that is helping others, I can at least know that my own misfortune has had some positive worth." After Hudson's death, Doris Day, widely thought to be a close off-screen friend, said she never knew he was gay. Carol Burnett, who often worked on television and in live theatre with Hudson, was a staunch defender of her friend, telling an interviewer that she knew about his sexuality and did not care. As Morgan Fairchild said, "Rock Hudson's death gave AIDS a face".
Hudson was cremated and his ashes scattered at sea. [2] Following the funeral, his partner Marc Christian sued Hudson’s estate on grounds of “intentional infliction of emotional distress.” Christian tested negative for HIV but claimed that Hudson continued having sex with him until February 1985, more than eight months after Hudson knew he had AIDS. Hudson biographer Sara Davidson later stated that by the time she had met Hudson, Christian was living in the guest house (a converted garage made into a play room – living room [3]) and Tom Clark, who had been Hudson’s life partner for many years before, was living in the house. Why Hudson did not tell Christian he had AIDS until after he publicly announced it in July 1985 remains a mystery. Most believe Hudson feared that Christian would leave him, and he would become ostracized in the Hollywood community if they had known the truth about his condition and that he was homosexual.
Hudson has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6104 Hollywood Boulevard.
] Trivia
Hudson was 6′4″.
Made “Top 10 stars of the year” eight times 1957-1964.
In the early 1990s, Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen purchased and demolished The Castle, Hudson’s house, in 9402 Beverly Crest Drive, Beverly Hills.
A popular urban legend states that Hudson “married” Jim Nabors in the 1970s. While Hudson was in fact a closet bisexual at the time, the two never even had anything beyond a friendship. The legend was hatched as a joke by a group of “middle aged homosexuals who live in Huntington Beach” as Hudson put it; the group sent out joke invitations to “the marriage of Rock Hudson and Jim Nabors” as a front to their annual get-together. The joke (the punchline of which was that Hudson would be known as “Rock Pyle”), was taken seriously, and as a result of the false rumor, Nabors and Hudson never spoke to each other again.[
Filmography
Fighter Squadron (1948)
Undertow (1949)
One Way Street (1950)
I Was a Shoplifter (1950)
Peggy (1950)
Winchester '73 (1950)
The Desert Hawk (1950)
Shakedown (1950)
Tomahawk (1951)
Air Cadet (1951)
The Fat Man (1951)
Bright Victory (1951)
Iron Man (1951)
Bend of the River (1952)
Here Come the Nelsons (1952)
Scarlet Angel (1952)
Has Anybody Seen My Gal? (1952)
Horizons West (1952)
The Lawless Breed (1953)
Seminole (1953)
Sea Devils (1953)
The Golden Blade (1953)
Gun Fury (1953)
Back to God's Country (1953)
Beneath the 12-Mile Reef (1953) (narrator)
Taza, Son of Cochise (1954)
Magnificent Obsession (1954)
Bengal Brigade (1954)
Captain Lightfoot (1955)
One Desire (1955)
All That Heaven Allows (1955)
Never Say Goodbye (1956)
Giant (1956)
Written on the Wind (1956)
Battle Hymn (1957)
Something of Value (1957)
A Farewell to Arms (1957)
The Tarnished Angels (1958)
Twilight for the Gods (1958)
This Earth Is Mine (1959)
Pillow Talk (1959)
The Last Sunset (1961)
Come September (1961)
Lover Come Back (1961)
The Spiral Road (1962)
Marilyn (1963) (documentary) (narrator)
A Gathering of Eagles (1963)
Man's Favorite Sport? (1964)
Send Me No Flowers (1964)
Strange Bedfellows (1965)
A Very Special Favor (1965)
Blindfold (1965)
Seconds (1966)
Tobruk (1967)
The Man Who Makes the Difference (1968) (short subject)
Ice Station Zebra (1968)
A Fine Pair (1969)
The Undefeated (1969)
Darling Lili (1970)
Hornets' Nest (1970)
Pretty Maids All in A Row (1971)
Showdown (1973)
Embryo (1976)
Avalanche (1978)
The Mirror Crack'd (1980)
The Ambassador (1984)
Awards
Academy Award: Nominated 1957 Best Actor for Giant
Golden Globe: Winner 1959 World Film Favorite: Male actor
Golden Globe: Winner 1960 World Film Favorite: Male actor
Golden Globe: Co-Winner with Tony Curtis 1961 World Film Favorite: Male actor
Golden Globe: Winner 1963 World Film Favorite: Male actor
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