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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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Part of being a movie star in the Golden Age was being seen, and photographed, at the glamor spots of Los Angeles, New York and even abroad. Barbara Stanwyck recalled later in life that the only time she had ever … Continue reading →
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Tagged 1930s, acting, actor, Barbara Stanwyck, Bugsy Siegel, celebrities, Ciro's, Clover Club, Cotton Club, entertainment, Ethel Merman, evening clothes, gentleman, glamor, Golden Era, handsome, hollywood, Lieutenant Commander Robert Montgomery, Louella Parsons, matinee idol, MGM, Mickey Cohen, movie stars, Mr. Taylor, Paul Tibbets, Robert Stack, Robert Taylor, romance, Sherman Billingsley, Stork Club, The Clover Club, Trocadero, Ursula Thiess
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“Bataan” (1943) is playing on Turner Classic Movies on Tue, October 15, 2013 08:30 AM est. Closed captioned. This is one of the best war films of its era, and it is actually less anti-Japanese than many that came later, … Continue reading →
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Tagged acting, actor, adventure, atrocities, Back to Bataan, Bataan, courage, Desi Arnaz, drama, George Murphy, gritty, heroism, Japanese, John Wayne, Kenneth Spencer, Lloyd Nolan, Pacific Theater, Robert Taylor, Robert Walker, Tay Garnett, TCM, Thomas Mitchell, tough, Turner Classic Movies, World War II
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Viewers who want an all out action war movie with guns blazing and corpse strewn landscapes should avoid D-Day the Sixth of June. Released in 1956, the film looks back somewhat nostalgically at a war that was already beginning to … Continue reading →
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Tagged acting, actor, adventure, army, bombing, Brigadier, Britain, D-Day, Dana Wynter, drama, Edmond O'Brien, entertainment, faihfulness, handsome, happy ending, hedonism, hollywood, John Wiliams, London, marriage, movie stars, Normandy invasion, parachute jump, Richard Todd, Robert Taylor, romance, soldiers, unmarried couple, World War II
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“The Bribe” (1949) is playing on Turner Classic Movies on Thu, October 03, 2013 05:15 AM est. *NOTE*:A TCM programming day begins at 6:00am EST on the calendar day listed and runs to 5:59am EST in the morning on the … Continue reading →
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Tagged acting, actor, adventure, Ava Gardner, aviation, celebrities, Charles Laughton, drama, entertainment, film noir, fireworks, fishing, flying, glamor, Golden Era, handsome, hollywood, Joseph Ruttenberg, MGM, movie stars, murder, Robert Taylor, romance, TCM, Turner Classic Movies, Vincent Price
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“The Detectives,” also called “Robert Taylor’s Detectives’ and “Captain of Detectives,” ran from 1959 through 1962. The protagonist is Captain Matt Holbrook (Mr. Taylor) a hard bitten (and slightly Dick Tracy-esque) Captain of the detectives in a large (and unnamed) … Continue reading →
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Tagged ABC, acting, actor, Adam West, cops, Detectives, drama, Edward G. Robinson, entertainment, Eva Gabor, Friday night, gentleman, george grizzard, glamor, Grace Lee Whitney, handsome, hollywood, Inger Stevens, Johnny Russo, Mark Ballard, Mark Goddard, Marsha Hunt, Martin Landau, Matt Holbrook, NBC, Otto Lindstrom, Robert Middleton, Robert Taylor, Russell Thorson, Spring Byington, Tige Andrews, Ursula Thiess, William Windom
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