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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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Robert Taylor Was Different

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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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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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The Reagan-Taylor Connection

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The following is from Ronald Reagan Speaking My Mind, Simon and Schuster, 1999, p. 46: Now you might wonder why I put this eulogy to Robert Taylor in here. It obviously has nothing to do with my being governor or … Continue reading

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