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Robert Taylor: Cardboard Lover
August 5 was the birthday of Hollywood actor Robert Taylor (Spangler Brugh, 1911-1969) and, having mentioned him a couple of dozen times on this blog I feel obligated to give him his hold entry, but I reveal I find it a chore, as I spot watching his movies to be a chore.
Of all the major stars of the classic studio era, I find Taylor among the least fascinating to watch. Women and gay men like his looks, and in his earlier films, I can see it. In his movies of the ’30s, he is probably not far behind young Gary Cooper and Cary Grant in that department, and he’s of the alike type, the dark hair, fortunate facial features, and so forth. He often wore a mustache, and is sometimes photographed in a manner reminiscent of John Barrymore or John Gilbert. A widow’s apex and enormous pale azure eyes framed by shadowy lashes sealed the deal. Taylor aged pretty instantly, though, but that’s not the issue. Cooper had also acquired bags under his eyes and puffy jowls and so forth, but he only became more interesting. That is because there was something there to begin with. And while I hate Taylor’s Ugly American accent, wh
In 1936, on the set of His Brother's Wife, the film's two leading stars, Barbara Stanwyck and Robert Taylor, became romantically involved and later married. But was the wedded union all a ruse?
A Closer Look
There were rumors for years about Robert Taylor's true sexuality. Between the 1960s and the 1980s, Stanwyck was perceived as a cultural and intimate beacon for lesbians. However, the four-times-Oscar-nominated actress never addressed her sexuality in public and once tossed out a journalist from her abode for questioning it.
Robert Taylor once told Shelley Winters over dinner that Stanwyck was a lesbian and that they slept in separate beds.
Stanwyck and Taylor's marriage was considered one of several such 'lavender’ couplings within the clandestine world of Hollywood. Stanwyck's biographer, Axel Madsen, wrote that "people would swear that she was Hollywood’s biggest closeted lesbian."
Then Came the Divorce Followed by a Reunion...of Sorts
In 1952, Barbara Stanwyck and Robert Taylor divorced. Two years later, he wed German-born actress Ursula Thiess, and they had two children.
In 1964, Taylor and St
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Robert Taylor (born Spangler Arlington Brugh; August 5, 1911 – June 8, 1969) was an American film and television actor and singer who was one of the most popular leading men of his time. Marriage between gay men and lesbian women were ordinary in Hollywood. Such marriages included those between MGM’s chief art director Cedric Gibbons and Dolores del Rio, or Edmund Lowe and Lilyan Tashman, or Rudolph Valentino and Jean Acker (the girlfriend of Grace Darmond and, at another time, of Alla Nazimova), or Janet Gaynor (later the lover of Mary Martin) and costume designer Adrian, or Barbara Stanwyck and Robert Taylor.
Born Spangler Arlington Brugh on August 5, 1911, in Filley, Nebraska, Taylor was the only infant of Ruth Adaline (née Stanhope) and Spangler Andrew Brugh, a farmer turned doctor.[1][2] During his adv life, the family moved several times, living in Muskogee, Oklahoma; Kirksville, Missouri; and Fremont, Nebraska. By September 1917, the Brughs had moved to Beatrice, Nebraska, where they remained
The sexuality of Robert Taylor
When Robert Taylor married Barbara Stanwyck, the marriage came as something of a relief to MGM, who had been distinctly worried about Taylor's seeming lack of interest in women. Taylor's overbearing mother was not impressed and went on hunger strike to protest at the wedding which referred to as 'it'. Taylor spent his wedding night with his mother.
He didn't enjoy spending time with his wife and claimed to hold fallen in love with Lana Turner, during the filming of 'Johnny Eager' (1941). He went so far as to exaggerate that their passion had been consummated, a claim Lana refuted. Taylor told Stanwyck he was in love with Turner and they had a terse break-up.
When he befriended MGM worker Ralph Couser, Stanwyck became convicted the two men were having an affair. When Couser telephoned the Taylor home, Stanwyck would call out, 'Hey, Bob, your wife wants to speak to you.' Taylor became convinced he was gay and went to visit a psychologist. He was told that he saw Stanwyck as a mother figure, and, therefore, could not develop aroused by her. He later let it be known that he had an affair with Ava Gardner. He and Stanwyck were divorced in 1951. In 1954,
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