Actors Who Are Best Friends

And I had one more, and that was Rock Hudson—and I have no idea how that happened! When I was in Hollywood, John Springer, my publicist, was in New York—he wasn’t there—so the publicist for all these American movies in that one year was Tom Clark, and he was the boyfriend of Rock, and so I got to know him [Rock] and he was fantastic. When my sewing circle came from Norway to visit me, he would invite them for breakfast and he took them to Disneyland. Stars were nothing for me because I had Rock Hudson—but he wasn’t a star, he was just somebody there. And when I fell in love with somebody who had not the best of reputations with women or alcohol or anything, Rock said, “Don’t go there. This is not the man for you.” So I didn’t tell him, but I went there, and one day I was ringing on the door of this man—I will make him nameless because he was very famous then—and outside is Rock Hudson. He said, “I’m coming to get Liv.” And he came to Norway and we did a record together—it was for a boat that was going to go to refugees—and we were there with some other famous people from Hollywood, but Rock was there and we made a record, “Baby, It’s Cold Outside.” He couldn’t sing, neither could I, but this record sold enormously, this tiny little record. He was fantastic.