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The following letter, dated August 7, 1964, is from Robert Taylor to an acquaintance who sent him a birthday present. It was written two days after his 53rd birthday. It’s interesting that he expresses a desire not to return to … Continue reading
Above and Beyond (1953) is playing on Turner Classic Movies on Mon, May 26, 2014 . 03:45 AM est (actually May 27). *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 next day. Hours listed at 12:00am to 5:59am EST in your reminder will be shown on the NEXT calendar day. Closed captioned.
Larry Keating and Robert Taylor
Robert Taylor and Eleanor Parker
Directed by Melvin Frank and Norman Panama, who also wrote the screenplay (and share three Best Writing Oscar nominations between them), this historical drama was adapted from Beirne Lay Jr.’s story, for which Lay Jr. received a Best Writing, Motion Picture Story Academy Award nomination; Hugo Friedhofer’s Score was also nominated. Similar to The Begining of the End, this film tells the story behind the dropping of the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima during World War II. However, instead of the focus being on the development of the bomb itself, this one is told from the perspective of the Air Force Colonel in charge of the mission which executed the task itself. Robert Taylor plays Colonel Paul Tibbets, pilot of the Enola Gay, the B-29 bomber which flew the mission and delivered the payload. Eleanor Parker plays Tibbets’s wife Lucy, and much of the story focuses on the affect this mission had on Tibbets and his family. Review by Classic Film Guide.com
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This movie is a hoot. Apparently it began as a serious adventure story but morphed into an all-out farce with two very compatible stars. Well worth a look. I wrote this a while ago. “Many Rivers To Cross” was a … Continue reading
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Robert Taylor Few Actors Have More Handsome and More Modest By Ronald L. Bowers Films in Review Volume XVIII, No. 1 January 1967 Robert Taylor is an exceptionally handsome man, but that does not explain his stardom. An analysis of … Continue reading
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Robert Taylor was in Italy from May to November of 1950, filming Quo Vadis. Barbara Stanwyck, in Hollywood, began to hear reports that he was dating an extra from the film. Always jealous, she flew to Italy and stayed for … Continue reading
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