Tag Archives: Barbara Stanwyck

Robert Taylor Trivia: French Filmmaker Makes Documentary About Taylor & Stanwyck

I received this message recently: Hello, I’m a French journalist and filmmaker doing a documentary about Taylor and Stanwyck. Is there a way I could contact you ? Thanks in advance.  Taylor biographers Linda J. Alexander and Charles Tranberg were … Continue reading

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Robert Taylor Trivia: Stanwyck & Taylor Christmas Cards

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These cards were for sale recently on eBay.  The seller dates them from the 1960s but I think 1951-53 is much more likely at least for the Taylor card because those are the years Mr. Taylor was divorced.  He married … Continue reading

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Barbara Finds Contentment

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Most of this article strikes me as fanciful but it’s fun to read and indicative of how celebrity “news” was written in 1940. From Movie World, Australia 3/23/40 from Christine Webb, in Hollywood Difficult to believe that this lovely, demure … Continue reading

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Bob and Ursula: a Love Story for Valentine’s Day

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All of the block quotes here come from Ursula Thiess’ book “…but I have promises to keep.  My Life Before, With & After Robert Taylor, 2007.  The page numbers appear after the quotation.  Although I usually refer to people formally … Continue reading

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Robert Taylor Trivia: the Women’s Press Corps Awards Luncheon

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Louella Parsons founded The Hollywood Women’s Press Club in 1928. The club was originally a luncheon club for women magazine and newspaper journalists, but in 1941 admitted publicists and subsequently screen writers and others. The club admitted men from the … Continue reading

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