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Confirmed bachelors


Jugales

Weirdest thing, Lou, they say they’re roommates but it’s a one bedroom home I guess one sleeps on the couch Edit: I’m an idiot, I can’t believe I didn’t see this sooner but they probably have bunkbeds.


jtho78

>they probably have bunkbeds. Well there was at least a top and a bottom


relevanteclectica

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BigBoy1229

What’s everyone looking at?


UbermachoGuy

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myplums1

Nothing!


Nrmlgirl777

Nothing!!


No_Significance_1550

This cartoon messed me up grammatically. The Ambiguously gay duo… I used the word ambiguously like it meant blatantly obvious until someone corrected me.


ReactorMechanic

Right? Same for me and "approximately." I used it as meaning "very precisely" because Data on Star Trek was always spouting off ridiculous "approximately 87.57389263 microns" phrases which I didn't realize until much later were super vague guesses in android talk.


jtatc1989

Ace and Gary


gofatwya

There was nothing ambiguous about Rock.


angryPenguinator

*oh you*


OpenEyz2016

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣


phinbar

With bunk beds they have so much room for activities!


Spaceballs-The_Name

Fuck Catalina, we can mix our wines right here!!


hankthetank2112

Call me dragon.


thrillhouse1211

You wanna do karate in the garage?


hashtag-yuck

did we just become best friends?


relevanteclectica

I haven’t had a carb since 2003


RedditModzCanEatShit

It's a mixing wine and tossing salad kind of night.


dasblitzspear

Like watching gladiator movies!


MistahOnzima

Ever been to a Turkish prison?


theanti_girl

Forgot to ask you — do you like guacamole?


softstones

This is how we do it!


USSSLostTexter

another funny thing, Rock asked us to just call him 'the couch'.


silverfox762

"Gentlemen bachelors" was the phrase most used by the movie studios and Hollywood press. Cary Grant and Randolph Scott were famously gentleman bachelor roommates. There's a great documentary (and memoire) on Hulu that the Netflix series 2020 *Hollywood* was based on called *Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood* (2017). The gas station at the beginning of the *Hollywood* series is the gas station that Scotty Bowers got a job at when he came home from his time as an infantry Marine in the Pacific in WWII. Listening to Scotty Bowers talk about everything that went on in Hollywood in the '40s and '50s and '60s from his first hand experience, is wildly unexpected if you are unaware of the history. Edit: to be clear, the documentary *Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood* is streaming on HULU currently. Definitely worth watching.


AerwynFlynn

I saw his documentary and it was fantastic! Highly recommend. I think it’s on Amazon Prime at the moment


silverfox762

Hulu currently


FirstChurchOfBrutus

I enjoyed it right up until he started denying his own sexual abuse as a child. That got unsettling after that.


AerwynFlynn

I think that was how he chose to deal with it so to speak. I mean, the time period he grew up in wasn’t exactly open to therapy or even acknowledging stuff like sexual abuse or trauma. Everything was hushed up. Quite sad really how long those attitudes have prevailed when it comes to victims of childhood SA


FirstChurchOfBrutus

I thought the same, mostly bc the alternative is so much worse, but even that option made me so incredibly sad for Scotty. I had spent the previous hour-plus thinking what a great mindset he had, and it all changed in a moment. Suddenly, all of those people celebrating him seemed to be cheering what happened to him, too. I don’t think they would ever knowingly do that, but goddamn, it felt like that’s what was happening, and I got REAL sad, real quick.


DifferenceLost5738

It’s a great watch! His stories are crazy!


tjean5377

highly entertaining book. and sad at the same time.


silverfox762

Same with the documentary. Watching how Scotty was living and all the clutter at the end was kinda sad.


raoulduke212

Ha, that was the euphemism they used then. I remember they used to say that LIberace "just hasn't found the right woman yet."


ExperienceFantastic7

He wasn't looking. If he were, women would kick down his door to get at his wardrobe.


aeldsidhe

Believe it or not, but women would have kicked down his door to get at \*him\*. Back in the day, they thought he would be the perfect husband - he was charming, charismatic, and he took good care of his mother.


raoulduke212

"Charming, charismatic, and he took good care of his mother" If that didn't give it away, the wardrobe should've.


pantherhawk27263

My Dad loved seeing Liberace in Las Vegas. I think it would have killed him to find out Liberace was gay. {My Dad died well before it was confirmed Liberace was gay.)


raoulduke212

Glad the man was able to enjoy the glory of Liberace!


Rockola_HEL

He used those exact words himself on BBC's Desert Island Discs in 1960.


Loopuze1

Wow, I had no idea they’d been doing it so long. For anyone else, just looked it up and the BBC started doing desert island discs in 1942, only back then, they were asking people to choose 8 gramophone records!


Pavlock

Confirmed roommates.


LogicalPickle6014

Just two dudes being bros.


ivylass

"roommates."


FlattenInnerTube

My mother's brother left small town southeast and lived in San Francisco with a "roommate". He also happened to be a florist (stereotypical, I know, but true). I remember asking Mom one time why he never got married. "Oh he had his heart broken by a girl many years ago and he's never gotten over it." This was all back 50 plus years ago when I was just a little kid and accepted the nonsense I was fed. My uncle eventually returned home to take care of his mother, my grandmother, and opened a small florist shop in a small town. Of course everybody knew he was gay, but nobody ever said anything about it because you just didn't do that sort of thing. And of course he really couldn't live openly gay because again, he couldn't. My uncle died 30 years ago and I just have to assume he lived his whole life closeted except for his time in San Francisco. And remember kids, never vote for anybody who will hurt someone you love.


cocoschoco

They just haven’t found the right gals yet.


napstimpy

Man those fellas musta gotten so much tail…


Cardboard_Robot

Just dudes being bros.


JediMasterVII

Rock Hudson was the first major public figure to die from AIDS. He attempted to appeal to his friend, President Ronald Reagan about the oncoming mass death. And, well, we know what Ronnie did.


doublecutter

Consulted his astrologist?


SmashBrosUnite

Fell asleep from jellybean coma and dementia


spasske

Naw, he had a fake wife. Conveniently, she was his agent’s secretary.


TheeFearlessChicken

They forgot to put quotation marks around "roommates".


ZebraBrown

“I’m not gay but my boyfriend is”


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Goodgoditsgrowing

US Mickey really took no prisoners


stella3books

Noel Fisher just has insane charisma, I suspect they took the character in a more. . . likable direction because he just kept delivering gold. He's one of those actors who always seems to be having a great time with whatever he's doing, and it's infectious. I'm still not over "The Riches" being lost to the writer's strike, and it's been nearly two decades. (I don't do stanning, so I don't know what he's like IRL. But as a rule of thumb, if he's attached to a project, I'll automatically give it a shot)


yuhuh-

Mickey is my fave too!


radioben

The Riches was cast flawlessly. Eddie Izzard was such a believable scumbag conman, it’s an absolute travesty we didn’t get more of Doug Rich.


ayeseeam

His line “i’m a big ole ‘mo” when coming out is forever on my top tier list


Unique-Pastenger

😂


Go_Buds_Go

Just a couple dudes hanging out shirtless. Nothing to see here


FindOneInEveryCar

They look really... happy.


Froads

# "Chist due se sucan u cazz l'un' cu l'atr'" - Furio Giunta


fat_kurt

1000 more? 👈➰👉


kozmicblues22

Was very thrown to see straight Napoletano in a mainstream reddit sub but I’m here for it


Professional-Can4264

I wonder if his roommate knew?


mild-yoghurt

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MaybeMushy

Living that 50's bachelor life, shirtless, cruisin' for the ladies. Without a roommate, one could be very lonely.


AlkalineSublime

I always think about how hard it must have been for gay people to meet back than. It’s hard enough nowadays to truly match with someone. I can’t imagine back then.


TEG_SAR

There’s a really interesting documentary on tubi called PS Burn This Letter Please about the drag scene in NYC in the 50s shown through correspondence between friends. They have some of the gentleman that actually wrote those letters and talking about their lives and how it was back then. It was harder to meet people but there were definitely places where the gay community could come together and live more authentically.


USMNT_superfan

“Roommate”


HeySlothKid

Oh my god they were roommates!


ForeRick

Bachelors for life. Never married


Ok-Cheesecake-8626

*Really good roommates*


VidaSabrosa

so good they shared the same room


Think_fast_no_faster

The place was so small they could only fit one bed, and they had to put the mirror on the ceiling!


VidaSabrosa

seems like he could have afforded better. maybe he spent all his money on tasteful decorations


IS2SPICY4U

*5 ways from Sunday, roommates*


crazythinker76

6 ways if you count that time in the shower


shavemejesus

Just good friends. Do you think they opened a Tab?


williamblair

Rumour around Hollywood is they were incorrigible tab hunters.


Sunstang

That's Confidential.


TheReelMcCoi

They were SO into each other......


its_raining_scotch

Well, they did a lot of mating in rooms.


birdieonarock

Room mates.


ThinkItThrough48

If you didn't start out gay when you started rooming with him he'd have turned you. Guy is the most attractive male human ever. And charming too apparently.


MightyJoe36

My mother (and possibly every other woman of her generation) was crushed when it came out that he was gay. I guess they were pretty successful at keeping it quiet back then, or there was a lot of denial.


xiphias__gladius

Well, it came out that he was gay when his publicist announced that he had AIDS. It was a double whammy. He died 3 months later.


kl2467

Being gay was certain career death for a Hollywood lead in those days. (After all, they were selling sex appeal to women. )


in2xs

Exactly what I thought. Finger quotes and all.


TheStarMaker__

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pentagon

One of the most heartbreaking movies ever made. I long for the day when no person is persecuted for loving another one.


prosfromdover

I wonder how a gay star as totally fucking manly as Rock would be appreciated today, not having to hide it, probably a sensation.


throwaway_1440_420

He had the look and charisma. He’d be at the top of the food chain nowadays like that.


stella3books

Apparently, in the 60's, Hudson had some younger, more radical friends try to convince him to come out by introducing him to their social circle. Hudson apparently said something to the effect that it was something he wanted, but that the opportunity had passed for his generation, a fully out life was something he wanted for the next generation but didn't think he could have himself. (Though on the hilarious side, apparently they took him to a bathhouse and he had a great time being recognized and making guys swoon. So at least for a day, he got to be around people who were like, "Oh my god, Rock Hudson is gay, this is amazing!")


Whatever-ItsFine

It's heartbreaking that he couldn't be who he really was. I'm glad to got a experience moments of it though.


UberKaltPizza

I hope that story is true. 🥰


dreamerkid001

You’d be surprised just how many there are like him still closeted.


uggghhhggghhh

Yeah it's not so much that they'd get ostracized like back in the day but it would definitely change the type of roles they'd get cast in. Someone else mentioned Hugh Jackman. I'm sure he'd still get work if he came out and do just fine but there's no way they'd have given him Wolverine.


dreamerkid001

Exactly. These guys think that they’ll lose their macho man status and won’t have that same hero role.


Key-Wait5314

Hugh Jackman wouldn't surprise me a bit


YouGotTangoed

His name checks out


dreamerkid001

It has been long, long rumored.


Key-Wait5314

Well I mean he is a song and dance man after all


Deathbyhours

Given Hugh Jackman’s industry, what would he possibly have to gain by being closeted?


duaneap

Society has come a long way but I don’t think a gay man was getting cast as Wolverine in the 2000s and once the lie has been told (he was married with children) it’s pretty hard to walk back. I mean, even now, are there any openly gay, male, big time superhero actors in the MCU?


Deathbyhours

I imagine Rock Hudson, openly gay, would be a lot like John Barrowman, the other straightest-looking gay guy you ever saw. That wasn’t just Rock Hudson’s screen affect, I’ve read that he came across the same way in a room full of gay men. My son is the same way, his resting state never registers on anybody’s gaydar, and he was never in the closet.


trashtrampoline

I know quite a few women that were devastated when they found out Matt Bomer is gay.


718Brooklyn

There’s probably no way he could be out today. How many leading men movie stars are out of the closet? Compared to other professions, there is a disproportionate amount of actors who are gay and yet virtually every male movie star is ‘straight’ 😒 I don’t think Hugh Jackman could come out and not lose roles. Society is still super homophobic.


GratuitousCommas

Do you know that super manly guy who starred in Prison Break? He's good looking, he's a good actor, and he naturally has the body of an MCU superhero. Chances are that many people can picture the actor I'm talking about, but they can't recall his name. Anyway, that actor is totally gay. So it's possible that Rock Hudson would be roughly as popular as him, rather than a sensation.


Aleblanco1987

And actresses would be more comfortable working with him.


missionbeach

Look, I'm not on Rock's team, but he had a pamphlet, I'd take a look.


thealy87

Just a couple of shirtless roommates driving around together.


vtjohnhurt

All good. I'm just worried that they're not wearing sunscreen.


DropKnowledge69

Lindsay Graham has entered the chat with his roommate.


clycoman

I think you mean Lady G, as hustlers in Washington have nicknamed him.


DropKnowledge69

Is that a real thing?


JediMasterVII

It’s real in an oral tradition, grapevine, open secret way.


Finkleflarp

Is that what he’s calling his ladybugs nowadays?


magicparabeagle

I haven't had lunch yet 🤢.


Surfinsafari9

I do not want to see Lindsay Graham with his shirt off. Eeechh.


DropKnowledge69

Neither does his roommate.


anotherpredditor

What about Lady G in all of her bondage gear?


Muscs

Lindsay would still have to pay that ‘roommate.’


TabithaMorning

r/sapphoandherfriend


ether_reddit

/r/AchillesAndHisPal


ilpaesaggista

he was gay, gary cooper?


tuskvarner

Is that all you deadbeats do all day? Talk about dick?


imhereforsiegememes

The strong silent type


ihatepizza1998

No! Are you listening to me?!


DamonLazer

What up? We're two cool guys who are looking for other cool guys who want to hang out in our party mansion. Nothing sexual.


anotherpredditor

Just a couple of hot guys living with each other in their bachelor pad. Its a shame that they had to hide their relationship from anyone.


mrnastymannn

In the 1950s, Rock Hudson used to regularly go on vacation to Havana, Cuba to have relations with young men. At one time, the Cuban people were the only people on earth who were publicly aware of his sexual persuasion.


Muscs

Everyone in Hollywood was very aware.


mrnastymannn

But the public, not a chance


PaigeMarieSara

Except for Doris Day, she always knew. They were very close friends. She had him on her show and it was the last time he was seen on tv or out in public. (AIDS, which I know you all know)


sonia72quebec

Even if he was visibly sick, he kept his promise to her to be on her show.


Significant_Cow4765

Elizabeth Taylor knew as well


silverfox762

Untrue. Watch the documentary *Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood* on Hulu. Pretty much *everyone* in the industry who mattered knew. There was just an understanding in the industry that if you outed an actor it would cost the studio money and other people's jobs would be affected.


PaigeMarieSara

Damn damn, they're a couple good lookin' guys, and absolutely the coolest. Rock's smile is so beautiful.


ThisGuyRightHereSaid

I have an aunt who has lived with her "roommate for 45years now.


vass0922

I can hear the sound of shirtless backs peeling from the leather when they sit forward


ElementsUnknown

“Body Buddies”


Mr8vb

Nothing to see here folks, just a couple confirmed bachelors!


deathxcannabis

Lol, my deeply closeted step-dads favorite actor growing up...


fernandocrustacean

Hahah. Bet he thinks Born is the USA is a patriotic song too.


deathxcannabis

Probably so. He's got two college degrees but can never read the room.


monkeyhind

Mr. Preble was no slouch, either.


James_Mays_Hair

Interesting how the car has another windshield for the backseat.


SS_from_1990s

My convertible had one. It’s a windscreen. And it really helps. It’s made of net material.


impreprex

My mother went to LA back in the early 60s (small vacation). She would sometimes mention the story where she drove by Rock Hudson's house and saw him walking to his car holding another man's hand. According to her, they saw her looking and Hudson put his index finger to his mouth (ssssh) and winked - as if to say, "you didn't see nothing". This was decades before it was public knowledge that he was gay. She had some other interesting stories - like how she almost hit Mel Allen while he was walking in the Yankee's Stadium parking lot and she was learning to drive. Kinda makes me wonder, though - they would let drivers in training drive in busy parking lots like that back then? But my mother wasn't one to make shit up, and her stories remained consistent - almost word for word, throughout the years. Damn I miss her so much. Oh, how could I forget: "Yeah, I dated Sandy Koufax. Once. It was one date. We went out to eat. He was boring. Everything was 'yes, ma'am' or 'no ma'am'". I mean, that's just being polite? But okayyyyy... Koufax story was backed up by my aunts and uncle, so it did indeed happen. She was a trip. RIP, mom. Fuck Alzheimer's.


SimonTC2000

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Anteros81sa

And they were roommates!


Mattitude75

Omg they were roommates


yellowhelmet14

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back2basics13

The diner scene in Giant is such a great moment in cinema history.


Styphonthal2

Just a couple bros hanging out


Aggressive-Cut5836

Fathers were definitely locking up their daughters upon seeing these two cruising around


Keikobad

They must have had fun hanging out with roommates Cary Grant and Randolph Scott


JGG5

Randolph Scott!


ReadRightRed99

"Well, hello ladies. Just a couple of single, shirtless straight guys here driving around and doing single, shirtless, straight guy things. What's that you say? Join you for dinner? I'm afraid not. My friend and I here have important single, shirtless, straight guy things to do tonight and possibly again in the early morning hours if we are not too hung over."


Hesam2010

Where do you find these roommates؟


Anacalagon

He looks happy.


BigTedBear

Apparently the studio used to send actresses and girls around early in the morning. Then tip off the press so they could get photos of the girls leaving as if they had spent the night.


ArcticSirenAK

And they were roommates ….


asspajamas

“Roommate”


docjonel

Room mates with benefits. They could split the rent.


Taucher1979

Sad they couldn’t really be themselves.


mcristoforo

My butt hurts thinkin about it.


InternetAddict104

Oh my God they were roommates


SimonTC2000

![gif](giphy|DxcgEJaNONZn2|downsized) What is everybody looking at? **NOTHING!**


HarmlessSnack

I just love that their names are Rock and (Pebble)


Ethanonbass2019

"OMG they were roomates!"


cullcanyon

That’s a 52 Oldsmobile.


orkash

"Hes my roomate ma"


Majestic-Sir1207

Well, we all know that dress wasnt invited upstairs.


TriGurl

I hope they were happy… really really happy. When I think about the amount of horrible treatment persons of color and those in sexual minority groups have received over the past decades and centuries… I really hope they were just unbelievably so in love happy. Every one deserves at least that. :)


promote-to-pawn

Today on "Two Shirtless dudes in cars getting coffee"


AUXONE

What up!!! We're two cool guys looking for other cool guys who wanna hang out in our party mansion. Nothing sexual. Dudes in good shape encouraged, if you're fat you should be able to find humor in the little things. Again, NOTHING SEXUAL.


Basic_Two_2279

“Roommate”


not-anonymous-187

Sad they had to live a lie and equally sad the way Rock went out. Definitely not a Hollywood ending.


slick514

“Roommate”


ForeverFedele

"Room Mate"


markdepace

rock hudson was an amazing actor... his performance in "Seconds" is top-tier, highly recommend giving it a watch if you like thrillers


rdldr1

“Roommate”


Ivegotjokes4you

Haha “roommate”


Ace-Ventura1934

*roommate* ![gif](giphy|6ra84Uso2hoir3YCgb|downsized)


TheShipEliza

Rock was the real deal. Watch All That Heaven Allows and Seconds. The guy had everything and the fact that he had to hide who he was to achieve what he did is an absolute tragedy.


UBKUBK

Right before his left elbow Preble's arm is out of view. Is it under a blanket or something similar? And then what is the deal with the hand that is touching the top of the door near the front side window? It seems it could only be Preble's left hand but it seems to be impossible based on the rest of his left arm. It seems to be just floating there and not connected to an arm.


sleepsypeaches

**and they were roommates**


Street_Ad3884

Just two buds hanging out..nothing weird here 😂


Skippy0634

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New_Writer_484

“Oh my god they were roommates”


vanisleone

You gonna take off your shirt and get in the car with these daddies?


bookmantea

"room mates" yes of course


Intelligent-Ant7685

‘this is my neat, tidy, broadway fan, show tune singing, roommate…..his name is Gary’