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Robert Taylor (actor)
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Directed 17 United States Navy training films during World War II., Interred at Forest Lawn, Glendale, California, USA, in the Garden of Honor, Columbarium of the Evening Star. (Not accessible to the general public)., MGM's publicity department released these measurements for Robert Taylor in 1938: Chest 43" / Waist 30" / Hips 37" / Thighs 23" / Calf 15" / Biceps 14.75" / Forearm 12" / Wrists 7" / Neck 16", Inducted into the Hall of Great Western Performers of the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in 1970., 2 children with 'Ursula Thiess' (qv): Terrance (b. June 18, 1955) and Tessa (b. 1959), The son of a country doctor., He holds Hollywood record for longest contract with one studio (MGM) 24 years from early 1934 to late 1958 and he holds Hollywood record for lowest contract salary (initially $35 a week, in 1934)., Right-handed Taylor spent weeks perfecting his ability to draw a gun with his left hand in preparation for his role in _Billy the Kid (1941)_ (qv)., His mother had been an invalid since she was a teenager and was only able to get out of bed for 1 hour a week. Doctors predicted she would die before 30. Despondent over his wife's condition, Robert's father decided to take matters into his own hands. He enrolled in medical school and, soon after graduating, he cured his wife., He was called "The New King", after 'Clark Gable' (qv)'s departure from MGM in 1953., Is portrayed by 'Terrence E. McNally' (qv) in _The Silent Lovers (1980) (TV)_ (qv), The favorite of all his films was _Waterloo Bridge (1940)_ (qv)., After Taylor died of lung cancer - he was a chain smoker - at the age of 57, he was interred in Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery, in Glendale, California. Many Hollywood celebrities attended his funeral, and his best friend 'Ronald Reagan (I)' (qv), the Governor of California, gave the eulogy., After studying at Doane University, he followed his cello teacher to study at Pomona College, California, where he began acting and was encouraged to join MGM's acting school before signing a seven-year contract with the studio initially at $35 a week. This is said to have set the stage as being the lowest-paid major star in the history of Hollywood; he remained at MGM for twenty-four years., He was romantically involved with actresses 'Virginia Bruce' (qv), 'Irene Hervey' (qv), 'Lia Di Leo' (qv), 'Virginia Grey' (qv) and 'Eleanor Parker (I)' (qv)., After the war he joined The Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals founded in February of 1944 by 'Sam Wood (I)' (qv) and 'Walt Disney' (qv)., Actively supported his best friend 'Ronald Reagan (I)' (qv)'s campaign to become the Republican Governor of California in 1966., Following the success of _Knights of the Round Table (1953)_ (qv) Taylor's movie career declined. He managed to remain at MGM until 1958, when he signed for his own television series, _"The Detectives Starring Robert Taylor" (1959)_ (qv)., Four episodes of "The Robert Taylor Show" had been produced and a fifth was in line at the time of the sudden cancellation of the unaired series in the summer of 1963. Scripts had been written by Bruce Geller, Leonard Freeman, Tom Seller, and Lawrence Edward Watkin. NBC felt the new series was too controversial., Supported 'Thomas E. Dewey' (qv) in the 1944 and 1948 presidential elections, and 'Dwight D. Eisenhower' (qv) in the 1952 and 1956 elections., His second favorite movie was _Camille (1936)_ (qv) and his favorite co-star was 'Greta Garbo' (qv)., He and 'Clark Gable' (qv) were very good friends, and Taylor was one of the active pallbearers at Gable's funeral in November 1960., In 1954, he was named most popular star abroad by the Hollywood Foreign Press Correspondents Association representing 500 million moviegoers worldwide., He was the first American actor to appear in film made in England - _A Yank at Oxford (1938)_ (qv)., He was ranked fourth in Box Office appeal in 1936, third in 1937 and sixth in 1938., He left his signatures, footprints and handprints in the cement in the forecourt of Grauman's Chinesse Theater in Hollywood, together with 'Barbara Stanwyck' (qv), on June 11, 1941., He inspired the fictional character called _Diabolik (1968)_ (qv), an anti-hero featured in Italian comics. Diabolik was created by sisters Angela and Luciana Giussani in 1962, and his features was graphically inspired by Taylor: dark hair with a distinctive widow's peak, and striking blue eyes and eyebrows., His flying interest emerged after the movie _Flight Command (1940)_ (qv), when he bought a single-engine plane and took lessons for a pilot's license. After World War II, when he served in the U.S. Navy from 1943 to 1945 as a flight instructor and narrator of 17 trainings films, MGM bought him a twin-engine Beechcraft which he flew regularly until the early 1960s., The twelve-mile section of U.S. Highway 136 between Beatrice and Filley was officially designated as the Robert Taylor Memorial Highway in 1994 (Source: Gage County Historical Society, Beatrice, Nebraska)., His lifelong hobbies included hunting, fishing, flying and writing letters. The last one became a life-long activity appreciated by many., He was diagnosed with lung cancer in the spring of 1968, having been feeling increasingly breathless and tired for some time. He immediately underwent cobalt treatment, however he did not give up smoking until shortly before undergoing major surgery to remove his entire right lung on 8 October 1968., He gave 'Elizabeth Taylor (I)' (qv) her first screen kiss in _Conspirator (1949)_ (qv). After the first kiss scene was completed, she went to her dressing room, flopped in chair and said to her hairdresser: "I've just been kissed by Robert Taylor!"., In a feature in the May 21, 1961 Family Weekly magazine, Taylor stated he became a hunter during his more mature years after he met actor 'Gary Cooper (I)' (qv) at Sun Valley, Idaho in 1939. Occasional hunting companions of note were novelist 'Ernest Hemingway' (qv) and actors 'Wallace Beery' (qv), 'Clark Gable' (qv), 'Robert Stack' (qv) and 'John Wayne (I)' (qv)., Robert Taylor was terribly keen on classical music, learning appreciated by among others 'Joan Crawford (I)' (qv) and 'Greta Garbo' (qv). He had a huge collection of first-class works. He was a music major from 1929 to 1931 playing the cello in Doane String Quartet, the trio "The Harmony Boys" and in Doane Symphony Orchestra in Nebraska. In California he used to have a gramophone with him that he would play every time he could on set filming and he never missed the concerts given each year at the Hollywood Bowl., After their divorce, his ex-wife 'Barbara Stanwyck' (qv) auctioned off their $100,000 home at 423 North Faring Road, in the Bel-Air section of Los Angeles, and all its furnishings, and collected 15 percent of Taylor's earnings until he died in 1969., He starred in the first pro-Indian movie of the American cinema: _Devil's Doorway (1950)_ (qv) first 'Anthony Mann (I)' (qv)'s western, although _Broken Arrow (1950)_ (qv) was released one month before. Devil's Doorway was completed first but held back from release due to the nervousness of MGM's studio brass over the subject matter., After Taylor's battle with lung cancer was publicly disclosed in the autumn of 1968, he admitted in interviews that he had started smoking in his early teens, and had often smoked three packets of cigarettes a day as an adult.
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Nick Names: "The Man with the Perfect Profile", Arly, Bob, The New King
Death Notes: Santa Monica, California, USA (lung cancer)
Biographical Movies: _"Hollywood Hist-o-Rama" (1962)_ (qv)
Spangler Arlington Brugh -- delimited by favour of such be the daunting dub near which Robert Taylor was born -- was already display a assortment of talent in his youth by the plains of Nebraska. At Beatrice High School he was a standout track drawn out pullover, but also show a talent for using his voice, leading several speech-making award. He was a musician and play the cello in the academy orchestra. After graduate he brainchild of music in plop of a hard work and started study music at Doane College in Crete, Nebraska, but he was lure westward in the hasty 1930s - not to Hollywood, as may believably be thought, but to office pills at Pomona College. This was not interesting, any, for his outstanding father was a gp, and have in realness nominated that duty for the nifty end of curing his wife of youth invalidism. Prophetically, it was at Pomona (from which he graduate in 1933) that babyish Taylor also aligned the campus theater hazard group and found himself in several head role because of his decidedly handsome features. He was moved to be in motion on to the Neely Dixon Dramatic School, but in the area of a year after graduating from Pomona, he was freckled with an MGM talent scout and given a treaty in 1934. That same year he appear in his best prehistoric the flicks, on loan-out to Fox for a Will Rogers entrance moralize show business, _Handy Andy (1934)_ (qv). He also act an MGM to the point, _Crime Does Not Pay Series No. 1 Entitled 'Buried Loot' (1935)_ (qv) for its "Crime Does Not Pay" array that provide proper expose. However, the subsequent year he did even excellent by entity sort as the lead-- again hired out, this incident to then-struggling Universal Pictures -- in _Magnificent Obsession (1935)_ (qv) with 'Irene Dunne' (qv). The relation of a happy-go-lucky participant guy who inadvertently cause blindness to the young female he wishes to impress and afterwards become a doctor to fix her, the motion diagram was astoundingly illustrative to Taylor because of his individual parents' link. The movie was a baggy block, and Taylor had a zest of abrupt box-office stardom (it's also out of the conventional to compose down his film pick conscious with the distinctive purpose contain a distinct uncredited role, indicative of MGM's early realization of his luminary potential). The town was not inaccurate, either; besides his smash dignity, Taylor already showed not clear spectacular dexterity. However, as was conventionally the collateral with actor who be considered "too fine-looking," critic take a undue panorama of him as a no-talent flash-in-the-pan (a charge levy at his closest investigational comparison, 'Tyrone Power' (qv) completed at Fox). He had to authoritative out numerous brutal and often unfair review through his first years in Hollywood, but he was as capably executive - already praise as a cooperative and staunch comedian - and too overflowing of time to rate marketing to such sniping, which would in a minute dissolve. In 1935 alone he appeared in seven films, and by the hold-up of the year he was at the height of his form as a prevailing man and being offered large script. The next year he appeared with 'Greta Garbo' (qv) in _Camille (1936)_ (qv), and for the cinders of the decade his MGM- not to bring up a pantheon of top actress - click with audience. On a personal even, even with his impressive kinfolk setting and nurture, Taylor would often work stoppage those who meet him as a psychosomatic lightweight -- intellectually-inclined actress 'Luise Rainer' (qv) was offended when she strike up a chat with him at a studio manoeuvre in 1937, when, after ask him what his goal were, he industriously comeback that his most chief desire was to be approved with "a wardrobe of ten impressive custom-tailored suit." That he usually come across on peak as have a buoyant, commanding attendance be more of a testimony to his acting talent than his actual identity. He held fixed right-wing ambassadorial attitude that he refuse to probe and when confront with an incongruous view, would simply not accept it outright. He now and then, if ever, feel the have need of to be introspective. Taylor simply felt blessed to be utilizable at the back the walls of MGM, then the premier studio on planet. His affection for the studio would unsighted him to the fact that controller 'Louis B. Mayer' (qv) masterfully manipulate him for nearly two decades, keeping Taylor's stipend the lowest of any major Hollywood star. But this is also indicative of how considerably trust he placed at the hand of the studio's leaders. Indeed, Taylor remain the erstwhile MGM band man and would be rewarded by outstanding employed here until the demise of the studio association in the progressively 1950s, outlast its fable, 'Clark Gable' (qv). Though not relatively considered treasures to be locked away in film vault, Taylor's films during the first five years of his career administer him the opportunity to look into a huge spectrum of idealist characters, playing young officer or doctors beyond once. Some traceable example of the hotchpotch of roles he took over a year's time were his chip-on-the-shoulder Lee Sheridan in _A Yank at Oxford (1938)_ (qv), ladies' man/boxer Tommy McCoy in _The Crowd Roars (1938)_ (qv) and contemptuous southern bloke Blake Cantrell in _Stand Up and Fight (1939)_ (qv). Taylor would truly become a superlative actor in the repeated decade. By the 1940s he was playing edgier and a little dark characters, such as the caption roles in _Billy the Kid (1941)_ (qv) and shiny malefactor _Johnny Eager (1942)_ (qv). With the opening fragment of the period of war, Taylor was express to make his connivance to the endeavour. As an actor, he made two haunting combat pictures: _Stand by for Action (1942)_ (qv) and the better specific (and for the time, quite graphic) _Bataan (1943)_ (qv). From 1943-46 he was in the US Naval Air Corps as a lieutenant, instruct would-be pilots. He also found time to spike two getaway air grounding films (1943) and other training films for the Navy. Rather mounting in his ultra-conservative political beliefs, he become confused as a "friendly witness" for the House Un-American Activities Committee investigate "Communist subversion" in the film industry. Anyone who know Taylor knew he was an pergola nonstop, but question if he could silver-tongued why -- at most minuscule short a marks. He publicly stated that his accepting a role in _Song of Russia (1944)_ (qv) was gloomy discrimination (in reality it was dead set against his personality to balk at any film charge while at MGM) and that he considered the film "pro-Communist." He also -- a bit unwittingly, but increasingly unjustifiably -- finger fellow actor 'Howard Da Silva' (qv) as a obtrusive convey motion in the Screen Actor's Guild. Although he didn't sensationally indict Da Silva of being a Communist, his charge of "disruption" had impossible to tell apart effect, and the veteran actor found himself blacklisted by the studios for many years. After the war and through the remainder of the decade, Taylor was getting put on view roles to game his wholesome coffer department catch the attention of, but there were a minor amount of them being offered. He was aging, and still he had one of his finest known roles as the faith-challenged Gen. Marcus Vinicius in the elephant hit _Quo Vadis (1951)_ (qv), he was in a minute being see more as a evolve lead (significantly, he would divorce 'Barbara Stanwyck' (qv) and 'Louis B. Mayer' (qv) would be oust during its production). Still, he had his dashing good look -- but also a few not essential "laugh lines." MGM, now lower than the aegis of 'Dore Schary' (qv), made a categorical move backwards and forwards to move a remarkable amount of crop to England as a cost-cutting move and opt to film several big-budget costume epic there starring Taylor. With 'Sir Walter Scott' (qv)'s _Ivanhoe (1952)_ (qv) he was backbone (as once back in 1949) with the dazzling young 'Elizabeth Taylor (I)' (qv), pining for him as the exotic young Jewish female, Rebecca, effectively pull bad a role ideally suited for an actor a decade younger. With a grave script and lots of action (forget about the mismatch of some matte backdrop!), the movie was a explode hit. He had a new appearance -- rakish goatee and longer fuzz -- that skilful the little apparition. The movie did in that method well that MGM opted for a sequel -- for want of a better synonym -- base on the King Arthur legend, _Knights of the Round Table (1953)_ (qv). It was not quite as good, but Taylor had the same look -- and it work. To his appreciation, Taylor inexorable to prod for poor roles in his dramatic efficiency -- the ripened "pretty face" stigma still seem to drive him. He played an intriguing and most questionable intrinsic rate in _Devil's Doorway (1950)_ (qv) -- an American Indian (dark-stained wrapping with luckless blue eye!) who win a Medal of Honor for heroism in the Civil War and comes burrow to his palpable park holdings but still encounter the continued tribal narrowness and notion of his white neighbors. It contained pushing-the-envelope dialog with many thought-provoking scene dealing with the municipal plight of the Indian. Taylor did several distinguished pictures in thought-out film: the edgy _Rogue Cop (1954)_ (qv) and was even more blustering in one of the demean known of Sir Walter Scott's romantic novels-- and again elated in a younger man role -- _Quentin Durward (1955)_ (qv). Though his contract with MGM expire in 1958, he model a few more films into the 1960s. He place on some shipment in his 50's and the effects of robust manacle smoke accessible to effect his looks, but Taylor elatedly alternated linking starring film roles and box, albeit at a somewhat reduced stride. He found his faddy Robert Taylor Productions in 1958 and moved comfily into TV work. From 1959 to 1962 he was the star of TV series _"The Detectives Starring Robert Taylor" (1959)_ (qv), and when good partner 'Ronald Reagan (I)' (qv) bowed out of TV's common western anthology _"Death Valley Days" (1952)_ (qv) for a political career, Taylor took over as host and sometime actor (1966-68), until his disadvantage from lung cancer at only age 57. Jane Ellen Wayne write a biography "Robert Taylor: The Man with the Perfect Face." No doubt he would have cringe at that title.
