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Eleanor Parker, a star of film, television and the Broadway stage died on December 9, 2013 of complications from pneumonia. Born on June 26, 1922, she was ninety one years old. Ms. Parker had appeared in roughly 80 films, TV … Continue reading
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In the summer of 1961 LIFE Magazine sent well-known photographer Dmitri Kessel to photograph the Taylor family at their cabin in Wyoming. The photos are an extraordinarily charming look at a man at peace with himself. After a turbulent marriage … Continue reading
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Around 1960 Robert Taylor and Ursula Thiess made a commercial for Maxwell House Instant Coffee. It ran regularly on his show “The Detectives” and probably other places. The commercial is charming. It starts with Mr. Taylor introducing his ranch and … Continue reading
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Part of being a movie star in the Golden Age was being seen, and photographed, at the glamor spots of Los Angeles, New York and even abroad. Barbara Stanwyck recalled later in life that the only time she had ever … Continue reading
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“The Detectives,” also called “Robert Taylor’s Detectives’ and “Captain of Detectives,” ran from 1959 through 1962. The protagonist is Captain Matt Holbrook (Mr. Taylor) a hard bitten (and slightly Dick Tracy-esque) Captain of the detectives in a large (and unnamed) … Continue reading
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