Talk:Robert Taylor (American actor)

message: Spangler Arlington Brugh (Robert Taylor) graduated from Beatrice Nebraska High School in 1929.  I just finished looking over the year book The Homesteader, of which Brugh was on the Homesteader Staff.  He also was in the Dramatic Club, Glee Club, National Honor Society, Orchestra, Student Council, and Senior Social Chairman.  My mother, who is now deceased, often told me about knowing Brugh in high school.  She said all the girls thought he was quite handsome, but did not remember that he had any regular girlfriends.  The year book shows his "Handsome profile" on many pages.  He was the lead in all the plays given that year.  The senior class had little sayings on all the classmates.  Brugh's said,"Few things are impossible to diligence and preserverance."  I guess that was better than the student who's quote was,"So slick he would slide on sandpaper." or "She often talks without thinking, but never thinks without talking."
My mother remembers that Brugh was the pride and joy and only son of his parents and lived in a modest home in the residential section of Beatrice.
I recently watched an old movie on TCM made in 1936 which starred Robert Taylor.  He looked just as he did in that 1929 year book. --Helen Hohbein--—Preceding unsigned comment added by 162.40.67.13 (talk) 01:07, 1 June 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks Helen for sharing this nice reminsence.—Preceding unsigned comment added by 206.124.200.174 (talk) 00:27, 12 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Does anyone have any info on actor Robert Taylor?—Preceding unsigned comment added by 162.40.67.176 (talk) 01:07, 16 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Robert Taylor 

message: "Some say that Taylor outgrew Stanwyck, especially during the six months of filming "A Yank at Oxford", the first MGM film to be filmed on location overseas. Still others say Taylor found Stanwyck too possessive and would succumb to the amorous advances of women eager for an affair with the leading man." I say this stays out until somebody provides references. Clarityfiend 05:24, 23 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Yep, here it is:  Jane Ellen Wayne (who also wrote books on many other celebrities, including Clark Gable, Lana Turner and Judy Garland) and her book on Robert Taylor.  I read it cover to cover, and that is her story of what happened about how Taylor outgrew Stanwyck.  Can you put the quote back, please, and next time ask before removing?  Thanks! 10:50 pm., 25 September 2006 (LD)—Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.175.80.54 (talk) 05:43, 26 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: No source

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message: He had the arches in his eyebrows insured by Lloyd's of London for 5 million dollars.Lestrade 01:28, 16 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Major asset

message: Shouldn't the article mention that Taylor was a homosexual? It's well known that he lived separately from his lesbian wife Barbara Stanwyck, and that their marriage was arranged out of convenience by the studio. (172.200.182.13 (talk) 13:06, 20 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: You can think whatever you want, but most relationships in Hollywood were complicated at best and there were many gay and bi relationships that were carefully protected from the press by the studios and agents. Some of these may never be able to be doccumented because of all the careful press. He was considered to have at least had experiences with men by other gay performers that were in Hollywood at that time. Doc ♬ talk 20:20, 26 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: They weren't that well hidden, and most people know about them.  Hudson and his secretary, Edmund Lowe and Lillian Tashman, Van Johnson and Evie Abbott (who was threatened by Mayer with the cancellation of her husband, Keenan Wynn's contract if she didn't comply). This Stanwyck-Taylor stuff came up after their deaths which makes it suspect.  If you want to state that Taylor was gay, you need to provide some sort of references that have a strong source.  People like Larry Quirk, who gives writers third and fourth-hand information and people like Boze Hadleigh, who prints rumors as facts, are not reliable resources.  Robert Taylor had no reason to write his wife love letters unless she was his wife in fact - because they weren't going to published, yet he wrote her many.Lorrobhen (talk) 23:17, 26 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Homosexuality

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message: Taylor was among the Hollywood conservatives who took part in the formation of the right-wing Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals in February 1944. In October 1947, Taylor testified before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC). Originally considered a "reluctant witness", he wrote a letter to J. Parnell Thomas to tell him he thought the entire event a "circus." He was reclassified as a "friendly witness" and subpoenaed to appear in front of the cameras. He said he appeared in the film Song of Russia against his personal beliefs and desires but at the urging of not only MGM but also the United States government. 
When Taylor was asked during the hearings: “Mr. Taylor, these people in the Screen Actors Guild who, in your opinion follow the Communist Party line, are they a disrupting influence within the organization?," he responded that " . . .  it always occurs that someone is not quite able to understand what the issue is and the meeting, instead of being over at 10 o’clock or 10:30 when it logically should be over, probably winds up running until 1 or 2 o’clock in the morning on such issues as points of order, and so on.”
The questioning persisted, “Do you recall the names of any of the actors in the guild who participated in such activity?”
Taylor responded, “Well, yes, sir; I can name a few who seem to sort of disrupt things once in awhile. Whether or not they are Communists I don’t know.” 
Yet he was under subpoena, and the questions persisted, "Would you name them for the committee please?”
“One chap we have currently, I think, is Mr. Howard Da Silva. He always seems to have something to say at the wrong time. Miss Karen Morley also usually appears at the guild meetings.” 
He did go on to say, " “… I must confess that I objected strenuously to doing Song of Russia at the time it was made. I felt that it, to my way of thinking at least, did contain Communist propaganda."—Preceding unsigned comment added by Pinkadelica (talk • contribs) 23:31, 9 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Pre-McCarthy era controversy

message: Most sources give his family name as Brough, and I have always understood it to be that. Is there some authoritative source for "Brugh"?  Godingo (talk) 19:13, 1 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Family name 

message: Robert taylor was an incredulously Abusive Parent/Spouse, I know this because he is my mother's Father's Father's Brother, and I have spoken with his son, who has told me that he was an abusive drunk.—Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:5b0:27ff:2ef0::37 (talk) 17:02, 20 November 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Robert Taylor (Abusive Person) 

message: The section of the article on Robert Taylor which deals with his politics has false statements that need to be corrected. He did not cause the imprisonment of Lester Cole and this should be taken out of the article.  Here are facts which you need to consider:
1. The HUAC testimonies of 1947 were carefully covered by the New York Times and these articles can serve as valid resources. There are also many records of the actual testimonies which can be easily obtained.
2. Several people, including studio heads, gave testimony before Robert Taylor.
3. The name of Lester Cole had already been mentioned in earlier HUAC testimony before Robert Taylor gave his testimony.
4. Lester Cole was already on the docket to be called to testify before Robert Taylor gave his HUAC testimony.
5. Lester Cole was sent to prison because he refused to cooperate with the inquiry and answer questions and thus he was in oontempt of court. This was his choice and not caused by Robert Taylor. 
6. Lester Cole DID have known communist ties and these hearings were about this.  Robert Taylor was not responsible for this.  It is reckless of you to imply that Robert Taylor caused Lester Cole's imprisonment when facts do not support this.
7. Robert Taylor was subpoenaed and had no choice but to give his testimony and tell the truth.
8. Had Robert Taylor never been called to testify, Lester Cole would still have been called and would still have gone to prison.
You should removed the line that implies Robert Taylor caused Lester Cole's prison time.  This is slanderous to Robert Taylor.24.144.10.11 (talk) 16:55, 24 July 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: I Agree and have removed the line: "In consequence, Cole was sent to prison and was never able to write again under his own name." Cole was imprisoned for contempt of congress, not because Taylor spread rumors about him as the removed sentence makes it appear. Dan D. Ric (talk) 02:18, 3 December 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  ROBERT TAYLOR DID NOT CAUSE LESTER COLE TO GO TO PRISON.  THIS IS FALSE. 

message: There is now an undue emphasis (see: WP:weight) on one section of the article. Please note that editors have been trying to come to a consensus as to how the death of Robert Taylor should be described. I am of the opinion that a brief mention and one reliable source is all that is necessary. Comments? FWiW  Bzuk (talk) 17:31, 28 December 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Death records

message: Substituted at 04:42, 30 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Assessment comment

message: Something seems a bit off with the formatting right now; I just saw a ===Politics=== tag, tried to correct it but that seems to not have worked. No idea who added that tag before. 2A02:8388:1604:CA80:F462:6A60:DEA:83A0 (talk) 10:19, 19 August 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Page Formatting 

message: :The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion. 
The result of the move request was: moved. (closed by non-admin page mover) Lennart97 (talk) 21:50, 14 June 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Robert Taylor (actor) →  – Since there has been [for the past 15 years, as of 6 July 2006‎] an entry for Robert Taylor (Australian actor), "Robert Taylor (actor)" thus existed for those 15 years as incomplete disambiguation and should have been redirected to the Robert Taylor#Arts and entertainment dab page which has 76 entries, 51 of which use the form "Robert Taylor". However, the lead sentence of the American actor's entry states, "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." Taking that into account, I would also support an alternative to the proposed move, designating the American as the WP:PRIMARYTOPIC — Robert Taylor (actor) → Robert Taylor and Robert Taylor → Robert Taylor (disambiguation). — Roman Spinner (talk • contribs) 21:32, 7 June 2021 (UTC)

text: Note: Announcement of this discussion appears at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Film. —Roman Spinner (talk • contribs) 21:32, 7 June 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested move 7 June 2021