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Netflix debuted a brand new collection Friday, Could 1 known as Hollywood, which is Ryan Murphy’s first Netflix collection after signing a five-year cope with the streaming service in 2018. Hollywood tells the story of a gaggle of filmmakers and aspiring actors within the Golden Age of Hollywood (post-World Battle II) as they encounter bias in opposition to individuals of coloration, Jewish individuals, and homosexuals and attempt to shake up the system from inside.
One of many primary characters is cutthroat agent Henry Willson, performed by The Massive Bang Principle alum Jim Parsons. For the reason that present is populated by each fictional characters and real-life entertainers, followers could also be questioning if Willson was an actual particular person (or primarily based on an actual particular person).
The reply is that he was 100 p.c actual and, by all accounts, he was as ruthless in actual life as he's portrayed as on the present. Right here’s what we find out about him.
Warning: Heading one is spoiler-free; heading two comprises mild spoilers for the present; heading three comprises main spoilers for the present.
Willson Made Roy Fitzgerald Into Star Rock Hudson
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Willson (pictured above, left) is basically credited with kicking off what is called the “beefcake” craze of Hollywood within the 1950s, beginning with Rock Hudson, whose actual identify was Roy Fitzgerald and who's performed by Jake Choosing on the present.
The e book “The Man Who Invented Rock Hudson: The Fairly Boys and Soiled Offers of Henry Willson” by Selection reporter Robert Hofler “chronicles Willson’s maneuvers to sidestep the FBI’s investigation into Hudson’s intercourse life; the agent’s use of off-duty L.A.P.D. cops and Mob ties to scare off Hudson’s blackmailers; Hudson’s “organized” marriage to Willson’s secretary, Phyllis Gates; in addition to Hudson’s affair with a Common Photos vice-president to assist safe starring roles.”
Willson can be credited with launching the profession of Julia Jean Turner, whom he renamed Lana Turner and was an enormous star.
Willson’s Story about Trent Durkin is True (Principally)
On the present, Willson extorts intercourse from Fitzgerald in trade for being his agent, however ultimately, he realizes that he cares about Fitzgerald’s profession in a means he hasn’t cared about something in a very long time.
At that time, Willson tells Fitzgerald a narrative about dropping the love of his life, Trent “Junior” Durkin, which is definitely a real story — apart from the half about Willson being there.
“[Junior] and I, we had been inseparable. We lived collectively. Junior wished to be a film star and I wished to be the one who made that occur. One evening, he was killed in a automobile crash. I cradled his physique and I kissed him and I instructed him I liked him, however he was already gone. And one thing in me simply broke,” says Willson on the present.
There was, in truth, a horrible accident on Could 4, 1935, exterior San Diego, California. Durkin, fellow little one star Jackie Coogan, Coogan’s father John, foreman of the Coogan ranch Charles Jones, and screenwriter Robert Horner had been getting back from a looking journey when a automobile coming towards them from the other way pressured Jackie off the street. The automobile plunged down an embankment at 70 mph and everybody was killed however Jackie.
Jackie and Durkin had been mates since starring collectively in Huckleberry Finn in 1931. By the way, Jackie’s grandson is Keith Coogan, star of Adventures in Babysitting and Don’t Inform Mother the Babysitter’s Useless.
Anyway, Willson was not on the scene of the accident, however it was widespread data that he and Durkin had been dwelling collectively on the time of Durkin’s demise and so they had been rumored to be lovers.
WARNING: Main spoilers forward for the ultimate few episodes of Hollywood.
Willson Met a Unhappy Finish
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On the Netflix present, Willson turns into concerned in producing Meg, the movie on the coronary heart of the story, and in the long run, he undergoes remedy for his alcoholism, apologizes to Fitzgerald for the best way he handled him, and finds love with somebody new (somebody his personal age).
In actual life, Willson struggled with habit all of his life. His purchasers began to distance themselves from him after his homosexuality turned public data and he ultimately died of cirrhosis in 1978.
The e book revealed that Willson was so broke he couldn’t even afford a gravestone, so he was buried in an unmarked grave in a cemetery close to the Burbank airport. However a yr later, a gravestone was donated that had “Star Maker” inscribed on it.
Hollywood season one is accessible now on Netflix.
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