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Born To Be an Idol

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The Milwaukee Journal, October 13, 1935 Born To Be an Idol Robert Taylor Needs Neither Brains Nor Skill to Start Toward Stardom on Screen but He Uses Them Anyway Did you ever play the lead in an amateur show? Or … Continue reading

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The Gay Thing

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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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Taylor and Harlow take on Washington, DC

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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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Magnificent Obsession Remastered

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I just got my copy of the Criterion Collection’s two DVD set of Magnificent Obsession, containing both the 1935 and 1954 versions.  I had watched the Taylor version previously on the internet and the picture and sound quality were awful.  … Continue reading

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Taylor and Gable: This is Glamor

The King and the Crown Prince ready to conquer the world.

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