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I became a Robert Taylor fan at the age of 15 when his TV show, "The Detectives" premiered. My mother wanted to watch it because she remembered Mr. Taylor from the thirties. I took one look and that was it. I spent the rest of my high school career watching Robert Taylor movies on late night TV, buying photos of him, making scrapbooks and being a typical teenager. College, marriage and career intervened. I remember being sad when Mr. Taylor died. I mailed two huge scrapbooks to Ursula Thiess. I hope she got them. Time passed, retirement, moving to Florida. Then in 2012 my husband Fred pointed that there were two Robert Taylor movies that evening on Turner Classic Movies--"Ivanhoe" and "Quentin Durward." I watched both and it happened all over again. I started this blog both for fans and for people who didn't know about Robert Taylor. As the blog passes 200,000 views I'm delighted that so many people have come by and hope it will help preserve the legacy of this fine actor and equally good man.
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Robert Taylor died on June 8, 1969, On June 9, the New York Times published this obituary, starting on the front page. This is copyright the New York Times and I am claiming no rights to it. ROBERT TAYLOR, 57, … Continue reading →
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“Broadway Melody of 1938,” 1937 is playing on Turner Classic Movies on Tuesday June 10 at 9:45 a.m. Closed captioned. Broadway Melody of 1938 is one of those pure escapist type films that folks in the Thirties paid their money … Continue reading →
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“Many Rivers To Cross,” 1955, is playing on Turner Classic Movies on June 5 at 12:45 p.m. Closed captioned. This wonderful rollicking comedy set in the early days of the republic, roughly sometime in the Federalist era had to take … Continue reading →
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The following are excerpts from a letter written in the early 1950s by Robert Taylor to Eddie Mannix, MGM studio executive. Mr. Taylor had received a reprimand from Mannix about his personal expenses connected with the filming of Ivanhoe (1952). … Continue reading →
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Robert Taylor enjoyed writing letters. There are numerous pictures of him on various movie sets, typing on his portable typewriter. His daughter Tessa remembers her father spending afternoons on his correspondence, holding her in his lap. (Linda J. Alexander, “The … Continue reading →
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