A new Hollywood tell-all book is highlighting Rock Hudson’s so-called gay confession tape, made secretly by his wife, Phyllis Gates, in the late 1950s. There have been revelations about the recording ...

Rock Hudson’s wife had no qualms playing the role of a Hollywood wife – until her closeted husband came swinging with a divorce. While it is known today that the 1950s heartthrob was gay, Universal ...

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Phyllis Gates Fenger of Carpinteria, California, died peacefully at home among family and friends on September 23, 2021 at age 99. Born July 11, 1922 in Denver, Colorado to Nelle and Herman Gates, ...

MONTEVIDEO -- An "adventurous spirit" led Phyllis Gates to leave Montevideo for California, where she would eventually meet and marry celebrity Rock Hudson, according to her sister, Marvis Ketelsen of ...