# The once and only Mrs. Rock Hudson...

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [January 18, 2006, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-once-and-only-mrs-rock-hudson/340506 "2006-01-18T14:07:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![UntouchedTakeaway](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/d78d45/32.png) [@UntouchedTakeaway](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UntouchedTakeaway)\
**Post date:** [January 18, 2006, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-once-and-only-mrs-rock-hudson/340506/1 "2006-01-18T14:07:34Z")

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…Phyllis Gates, has died (1.4.06 according to the imDB). I read about it in Liz Smith’s column yesterday. (Sorry, I believe the only link to it requires registration).

According to Liz, Phyllis was the mysterious blackmailer who was trying to bring Rock down in the 70s. I’ve read Phyllis’s autobiography and I can kinda see where she’d be bitter, but on the other hand…she _was_ Henry Willson’s secretary and I think you’d have to be deaf, dumb and blind _not_ to see the kind of clients Henry preferred.

VCNJ~