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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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The following excerpts are from Me and Bogie by Armand Deutsch (New York, G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1991). This book is available from Amazon.com and other online retailers. In 1943 the United States Navy had approximately eighty thousand officers. I was … Continue reading →
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Tagged acting, actor, Armand Deutsch, Barbara Stanwyck, celebrities, current-events, entertainment, glamor, handsome, hollywood, house guest, Magnificent Obsession, matinee idol, Me and Bogie, MGM, movie stars, Navy Hour, Robert Taylor, Stork Club, values
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The oldest, and to my mind, the greatest of the Biblical era epics, Quo Vadis (1951) is playing on TCM on Sun, February 17, 2013 09:15 AM est. Quo Vadis is a three hour epic based on Henryk Sienkiewicz Nobel Prize … Continue reading →
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Tagged Deborah Kerr, entertainment, epic, gaming, glamor, henryk sienkiewicz, hollywood, Leo Genn, Mervyn LeRoy, MGM, movie stars, mythical proportions, Oscar, oscars, Peter Ustinov, Quo Vadis, Robert Taylor, spectacle, ustinov nero
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The following is from the original program book for Quo Vadis. The musical score which Dr. Miklos Rozsa, brilliant two-time Academy Award winner, has created for “Quo Vadis” is expected to set a whole new pattern for the scoring of … Continue reading →
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From Warner Archive: A Toothsome Taylor Twosome TIP ON A DEAD JOCKEY (1957) From war vet preachment yarn to domestic drama, from fateful Noir to aviation actioneer, this post Korean War suspenser leads us down a series of narrative rabbit … Continue reading →
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Tagged actor, Ana Martin, Chad Everett, Dorothy Malone, entertainment, film noir, flying, Gia Scala, Jack Lord, MGM, movie stars, Return of the Gunfighter, Robert Taylor, Tip on a Dead Jockey, westerns
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