In 1955, Rock Hudson married his agent's secretary, days after he proposed. In 1943, Raymond Burr told reporters his young wife had died when her plane was shot down over the Bay of Biscay. One of those wives never existed.

Ten Hollywood marriages from the studio system era — Rock Hudson, Raymond Burr, Rudolph Valentino, Charles Laughton, Cary Grant, Barbara Stanwyck, Tab Hunter, Janet Gaynor, and Liberace. For every claim: what was said, what the records show, and a verdict.

Six are true. One is false. Three nobody can prove either way.

Chapters:
0:00 Two weddings, one lie
0:44 Rock Hudson's arranged marriage
3:35 What Phyllis knew
5:20 Raymond Burr's invented family
7:16 Valentino's locked door
9:34 The Laughton-Lanchester marriage
10:57 Grant and Scott's beach house
12:38 The morality clause
15:05 Tab Hunter's dates
17:10 Gaynor and Adrian
19:11 Liberace in court
21:30 The verdicts

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Film excerpts are used for commentary, criticism and historical reporting. Public domain films: The Son of the Sheik (1926). Brief excerpts from the original theatrical trailers of Pillow Talk (1959), Giant (1956), Rear Window (1954), Bride of Frankenstein (1935), A Star Is Born (1937), and from a 1955 Liberace television broadcast.

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