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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 had a life-long affair with things that go fast. Cars, bikes, roller coasters and eventually airplanes satisfied his need for speed. He and Clark Gable shared a love for motorcycles and according to Jane Ellen Wayne in “Stanwyck” … Continue reading →
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I recently ran across this on Joan Crawford: the Best of Everything, a site every Joan Crawford fan should visit. I highly doubt Crawford had anything to do with it. It reads like a publication of the MGM publicity department, … Continue reading →
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In the summer of 1961 LIFE Magazine sent well-known photographer Dmitri Kessel to photograph the Taylor family at their cabin in Wyoming. Although apparently not used as a cover, the photos are an extraordinarily charming look at a man at … Continue reading →
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The article below and the poem following it are reproduced here with the gracious permission of Major Van E. Harl, USAF Ret. Major Harl, who shares a Revolutionary War ancestor with Robert Taylor, is the author and copyright holder of … Continue reading →
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Here are some of the many, many faces of the young Robert Taylor in the 1930s.
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