Fact-checking Netflix's 'Hollywood': Which stories from the show are actually true?

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What's fact and what's fiction in Netflix's 'Hollywood'? We looked into it

, the recently launched streaming service that includes nearly every title the company has ever released. Jeremy Pope’s Archie Coleman and Jake Picking’s Rock Hudson are a couple in “Hollywood.”

“I’m in love with you, Rock,” Pope’s Archie tells Jake Picking’s Rock Hudson. “I want to live together, and I want to be your boyfriend.” After the two share a kiss, the actor asks, “This is real?” Sadly, no. Hudson — whose real name was Roy Fitzgerald and who needed 38 takes to successfully deliver his only line in his first movie — lived a double life as both the all-American, heterosexual heartthrob of “All That Heaven Allows,” “Magnificent Obsession” and “Pillow Talk” and a closeted gay man. Willson kept up Hudson’s façade by setting up public appearances with female dates, and even had Hudson marry his secretary for a few years.

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