76 thoughts on “Robert Taylor Movies”

1. Robert Taylor died in 1969. According to the Oracle of Bacon some of his co-stars include.

   B. D. Wong
   Bill Paxton
   Carrie Ann-Moss
   Chris O’Donnell
   Doug E. Fresh
   Gerald McRaney
   Grandmaster Melle Mel
   Joe Pantoliano
   Joel Edgerton
   Keanu Reeves
   Laurence Fishburne
   Margot Robbie
   Rachel Griffiths
   Rae Dawn Chong
   Rainn Wilson
   Robin Tunney
   Sam Worthington

   Think that’s wrong?

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   1. I think that is very very wrong….with the exception of some like McRaney, Paxton and Pantoliano….not thinking the rest were even alive when he passed.

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2. Dear Cogerson
   I think 31 $100 million should actually be 32
   Regards
   David Stark

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   1. Hey David….fixed those totals….as well as a few more on that chart. Inflation has helped him reach 32 $100 million movies….that is one of the best totals of all-time. You can see his career compared to lots of others on this UMR page. https://www.ultimatemovierankings.com/100-million-movies-1930-2015/ Thanks for the return comment…it was greatly appreciated.

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3. Heidi song is by director Robert Taylor not our Spangler.
   Your worldwide box office must be wrong for Savage Pampas

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   1. Hey David Star……thanks for the headsup on Heidi Song…..our database grabbed the wrong Robert Taylor…….that movie will be taken off this table on the next major update for the website…currently scheduled for tonight. As for Savage Pampas….we were unable to find a worldwide gross for that one. When our two totals match..that means there is no current data for worldwide grosses. Luckily….he have lots of worldwide grosses for Mr. Taylor. Thanks for stopping by and commenting. It is greatly appreciated.

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4. HI STEVE

   1 HI MO Good informative feedback about my Spangler posts with some interesting new quotes from you.

   2 I took your advice about checking out Myrna’s latest ranking on Bruce’s 100 Greatest stars list and my wife and daughter have just put me on suicide watch!

   3 I do agree that Miss Loy was gorgeously sexy when she was young but one of the downsides of a long career such as hers is that the ageing processes hardens the features – at least for most of you!

   4 Which spins the wheel round to Arlington again as one historian whom I recently read reckoned that ole Spang didn’t age all that well. That was probably because he was a heavy smoker and indeed died of lung cancer at the age of just.57. Not a long innings when you think of centurions like Leslie Townes Hope, George Burns and Kirk or even guys like Jimmy Stewart and Frederick Austerlitz who reached 90 or thereabouts.

   PS You must have some great books of quotes as most of them that you’ve given me are new to me.

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   1. Bob, that last quote I posted from Robert Taylor was unusual and maybe even prophetic, he died in the 1960s when Russia was still perceived as the biggest threat to world peace, with China close behind.

      Btw many of the quotes I’ve been printing are from the IMDB biographies on their actor pages, if you pan down to the bottom of each bio there should be a selection of quotes for that person.

      I laughed at your second paragraph. Glad you find Miss Loy gorgeously sexy. Sadly only a few of the legendary actresses retain their beauty even in middle age. The Hollywood hunks lost their prettiness even earlier – Flynn, Power, Taylor, Ladd, Clift.

      Today nip and tuck cosmetic surgery makes ageing actors and actresses look like Madame Tussauds waxworks. There are exceptions, Sharon Stone still looks great at 60. I wonder how Harrison Ford will look running thru jungles and leaping over waterfalls at nearly 80 years of age in the next Indiana Jones adventure or will he be a special effect too? 😉

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      1. HI STEVE

         Nice “bonus” feedback from you

         I am sure that even if he makes films until he is 100 Harrison will have many tricks up his sleeve. For example (1) Vic Mature told of how they gave him an old lion without any teeth to fight in Samson and Angela (2) Larry Buster Crabbe laughed in an interview as he told how he had to fight a rubber octopus in a studio tank but the thing kept floating away from him so that he had to continually pull it back towards himself! Harrison could do all that thought only WH will be fooled!.

         Personally I preferred the end of Giant where the once burly Rock gets beaten up by a redneck, Rock being too old to fight convincingly!

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5. 1 MO In part one I mentioned how well Spangler got on with the McCarthyite politicians in Congress but the same could not be said about Cooper whom they treated abjectly and in fact they forced him to grovel to them. That was certainly not the Gary Cooper that I was used to seeing on the screen [and indeed in The Fountainhead of 1949 he “took on” the courts] whereas the Spangler Arlington Brugh who spoke to those politicians struck me as behaving exactly like the Robert Taylor who appeared in movies.

   2 POSTERS 1-25 For me the stand-outs were A Yank at Oxford, Saddle the Wind, the foreign language one for High Wall, Small Town Girl, Bataan, The Night Walker [with ex-wife Stanwyck. It is noteworthy that in their first movie together His Brother’s Wife Barbara got top billing whereas in Night Walker their final one as a team Spangler was billed first. Maybe in-between there had been a “Taming of the Shrew!” ] Quentin Durward, Party Girl, Magnificent Obsession Quo Vadis and Knights of the Round Table with Taylor as the legendary Sir Lancelot

   But Lancelot mused a little space;
   He said, “She has a lovely face;
   God in his mercy lend her grace,
   The Lady of Shalott.”

   3 My notes suggest that there is a good run of STILLS across the entire video and my pick of the Part 2 ones are (1) romancing the young Ava (2) with the gorgeous Lana (3) the lobby card from Law and Jake Wade with my Richard. Bruce records just an adjusted WORLDWIDE gross of $120 million for Jake Wade but nevertheless according to Wiki it still turned a small profit as it didn’t cost much to make – about $15 million in today’s money (4) Robert with Liz Taylor, her looking almost like a beautiful Red Indian lady in Ivanhoe (5) Robert with “Tree Woman” Debs [according to Granger and you!] in Quo Vadis (6) with Viv in Waterloo Bridge (7) a rare behind the scenes shot of Taylor and Garbo actually filming Camille, a true collector’s item and very gorgeous it is too (8) also special I think is the closing solo of the very young Spangler looking so beautiful for a male that I feel he would have been at least physically perfect to play Dorian Gray.

   4 You and Bruce agree on 7 of Taylor’s Top 10 but you are miles apart regarding Law and Jake Wade as you rank it 8th with 71% whereas WH has it an amazingly low 47th with 56%. Overall I feel your video has earned a 98% rating. Excellently assembled.

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   1. Aloha Bob, thanks for the review, rating, info, trivia, comment, quote, observation, evaluation and comparison, always appreciated!

      Happy you enjoyed the posters, stills and lobby cards.

      That behind the scenes photo from Camille is pretty rare, especially in full color, it doesn’t look colorised.

      Nearly all the greats I’ve produced expanded videos on recently have B/W movies at no.1 on my chart, only a couple have Technicolor films at the top. Errol Flynn and Cary Grant.

      There are no Robert Taylor films scoring 10 out of 10 from my sources, there are three scoring 9 – Waterloo Bridge, Camille and Three Comrades. And one film scoring 8 – Ivanhoe. Not an impressive overall score for one of Hollywood’s great leading men.

      “People seem to think I’m a millionaire, but I’m not. I’ve saved a little money but every time a chance came along to strike it rich outside the movie business, like the real estate deals of some stars, I was always a dollar short or a day late. It’s the story of my life.”

      “Looks are good or bad, according to taste. My appearance doesn’t fascinate me. But I’m not the one who has to be pleased either. It’s a big help to an actor if people like to look at him but it has nothing to do with acting.”

      “The Middle East is going to get us into the third world war.”

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