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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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High Wall is pretty close to being my favorite Robert Taylor movie. Then there’s Quo Vadis. Hmm. In any case, High Wall is one of Mr. Taylor’s most unusual performances–and one of his strongest. The central character is a brain damaged World War II … Continue reading →
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Quo Vadis was a long shoot, running from May to November of 1950. The film had been in development since the 1930’s, when it was to star Robert Taylor, who would have been too young. In the late 40s Gregory … Continue reading →
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Collier’s Magazine October 3, 1936 Heart Bumper By Kyle Crichton The ways of Hollywood are inscrutable. They discover a young guy who is so handsome the hearts of the dolls give a twit! and turn over and play dead and … Continue reading →
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Robert Taylor was a fine actor, a man of integrity and a nice guy. He was also drop dead handsome. Lloyd Nolan was only one of the colleagues who observed that Mr. Taylor never appreciated the advantage his looks gave … Continue reading →
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It’s a cliche of our time that highly successful people are arrogant and ruthless. Although there are all too many examples of this, nice guys really do finish first. Clark Gable and Robert Taylor could have been bitter rivals–both jockeying … Continue reading →
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