Mark Griffin is the author of A Hundred or More Hidden Things: The Life and Films of Vincente Minnelli. Griffin, whose writing has appeared in scores of publications, including The Boston Globe, recently appeared in the documentary Gene Kelly: To Live and Dance. He lives in Maine.
Rock Hudson was the last machine-made movie star, and it couldn't have happened to a nicer guy. Audiences sensed Hudson's basic kindness and responded with a loyalty that never wavered despite his predominantly passive choices when it came to his career. Mark Griffin's All That Heaven Allows breaks new ground in its detailed and revelatory reporting on Hudson's private life and, most importantly, in empathy for its subject. -- Scott Eyman, author of <em>John Wayne: Life and Legend</em> and <em>Hank and Jim</em> Mark Griffin paints a vivid portrait of a man who lived a double life in order to maintain his status as a movie star. Griffin's sources are candid but credible, which makes the book a real page-turner. I came away admiring Hudson all the more, and feeling sad for the secret existence that Hollywood demanded of its leading men in the 1950s and 60s. -- <strong>Leonard Maltin</strong>