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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 loved the ladies. He had, in the words of Jimmy Stewart’s biographer Marc Eliot, “a reputation as an intense, real-life ladies man.” Jimmy Stewart: a Biography, Random House 2006, p. 82). Jane Ellen Wayne, in Robert Taylor: the … Continue reading →
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Separated at birth? I also thought of calling this “twin peaks.”
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After starring in Flight Command, 1940, Robert Taylor became fascinated with flying. He earned a pilot’s license and spent every spare moment in the air. His wife, Barbara Stanwyck, was even concerned about his obsession and insisted he see the … Continue reading →
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Rome, Georgia News-Tribune June 11, 1969 Funeral Today for Late Actor – Robert Taylor was Different Hollywood (AP). Some romantic figures of Hollywood’s Golden Era wore their stardom like a talisman. Robert Taylor was never comfortable with his. Tyrone Power … Continue reading →
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Shortly after the completion of Personal Property (1937) Robert Taylor and Jean Harlow were packed off to Washington DC, to, among other things, attend a birthday ball for Franklin Delano Roosevelt. They were both ill, Taylor with a cold or … Continue reading →
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