Robert Taylor--What's My Line

[Onlymusical]

The deep voiced ones go high and the high-voiced ones go deep (talking about their voices to fool the panel). Robert Taylor was still a big movie star when this was filmed.

[AutismMom70]

Thanks for uploading. OMG Robert Taylor...my dream boat!

[williamg2552]

3 YEARS LATER,(1959) , Robert Taylor would star in the ABC hit series THE DETECTIVES.

[CK1223]

thank u

[Forensource]

You could kill someone with the part in his hair.

[chaseyl1]

Ronald Reagan's best friend in the 40's -He broke down at his eulogy...

[DallasDiva70]

One of the most gorgeous men in the history of movies. So dreamy!

[mizbootie]

Thank you for the extra clip, but how unkind of Dorothy to give it away when she disqualified herself.

[gyrene1966]

What a great looking guy, so handsome. Me; oh I'm straight.

[Loubrockdorff]

i love the clip of all the old actors... james stewart, tyrone power, david niven, fred astaire, clark gable, robert taylor, gary cooper and richard burton.. they look like they are having so much fun! and they seems like amazing and funny men!

[windstorm1000]

Impossibly handsome.

[kevinastraw]

Tell me - how did he get all my good looks!

[shakenednostir]

The mystery challenger Robert Taylor: he looks like he could be Robert Young's brother, the man who played Dr. Marcus Welby M.D. I guess it's the eyes. Does anyone else agree???

[glaciarxx]

que dijeron?

alguien me lo puede traducir al castellano?

yo entre a mirar su belleza y tambien la de tyrone power pero como se rien tanto queria saber que decian

[Classic1940s]

Whew! Check out that widow's peak! But he made it look so awfully attractive. :)

[doc1917]

fred allen sure look shocked after bennett said that he wanted to make sure that wasn't a woman because he thought it might be jane russell even when she denied that she might be on saying he thought your denials were false. then dorothy said that would be the only thing about her that was. very funny line

[Peberen]

A wonderful man and actor with a spectabular looks! Thanks for posting this.

[Edam3000]

What a great signature :)

[roxor1080]

On IMDB, we read that he was 'the most handsome men to ever grae the silver screen', people can contest this - but, surely, he is in *EVERY* top 10 lis !

[naomigd1]

Ijust love seeing these clips from the 50's Tyrone Power and Robert Taylor to

Fuelled by the 40's, I was 12 when I feel

in love with Tyrone Power and now I'm

55 yrs. old!!!!

[FuelledByForties]

Its soo frustrating falling in love with robert taylor, especially when you're only 14 and robert taylors dead :( xxx

[vintagefan92]

@FuelledByForties I know how you feel!

[countrygirl0028]

@FuelledByForties

I have the same problem! Both Robert Taylor and Tyrone Power! Im 17 but that still doesnt fix the problem

[williamg2552]

He also starred in the great late '50's - early '60's crime series THE DETECTIVES.

[stitchgrl777]

His hair is so characteristic and dark that I feel like he should be reading a Poe poem. Vincent-Price in a studly kind of way.

[franklindavid]

This game show is timeless, it's like opening a time capsule.

[tallpaul521]

I love Mr. Taylor and at 7:57 he looks very much like the great actor and patriot Mr. Gary Sinese.

[joshstoph]

One of the most likeable leading men of the classic film era. :)

[musicalqueen101]

He even has a sexy signature.

[PlainAnne]

Wonderful clip. Thank you so much for posting. Does anyone know about the ring he wore? I noticed it in Magnificiant Obsession and in many photo's from 1934 onwards.

[joshstoph]

Wasn't "Magnificent Obsession" starring Rock Hudson? Or is there an earlier version I'm unaware of?

[PlainAnne]

Yes there is an earlier version. I didn't know about it either until my Mother told me about it. Its with Robert Taylor and Irene Dunne made in the 1930s. There is also a Lux radio broadcast of Magnificent Obsession with RT and ID both can be found online to download :-)

[operjxm]

I liked his acting in "D-Day, 6th of June"

[ashleyg325]

Wow he was so much cuter in the 30s, like in Camille

[jvarela965]

Robert Taylor to this day is vilified by the Hollywood left. He worked hand in hand with SAG President Ronald Reagan rid Hollywood unions of communists. Reagan was Gov of California when he died and read the eulogy at Taylor's funeral. Taylor was forced by MGM to make the movie SONG OF RUSSIA, a WWII pro Stalin propaganda movie in 1943. He later became Hollywood's biggest anti communist.

[tallpaul521]

Bravo. Not many people know Taylor's history and that Reagan delivered Taylor's eulogy. They don't make them like that anymore..sadly.

[tallpaul521]

Beside Taylor, Adolph Menjou was perhaps Hollywood's staunchest anti-communist. In his testimony before Congress -- the Hollywood Red Scare (which was real) Adolph said that all communists should go to Texas -- they'd shoot them there!!! He was right --- from Texas!!!

[jvarela965]

Taylor and Menjou and many Hollywood stars were part of the League of Hollywood Voters that was created by Reagan & Taylor to try and blunt the influence of Hollywood Communists like Paul Robeson, and Dock Workers Labor czar Harry Bridges who had much influence on the labor movement on the West coast.

[JubalCalif]

Interesting clip! Sad that due to many years of heavy smoking, lung cancer claimed his life in the late 60's when he wasn't all that old. Never acclaimed as a very deep actor, he nonetheless had definite screen charisma & a long Hollywood career. Thanks for sharing this with us!

[oiseaurebelle1940]

Karen Morley, Lester Cole and Howard Da Silva were members of the Communist Party supporting Stalin and his regime: censorship, ostracism, labour camps, purges, murders... In the case of Lester Cole, he admitted he tried to introduce communist propaganda in the scripts. How should we call such individuals who supported that political system that killed millions of people in the world?

[DerSteppenwolfXXI]

Barbara Stanwyck carried a torch for him until the day she died. No wonder. Everytime I read about him I understand why.

Thanks for posting.

[bjnevin]

He wasn't a homosexual though he did have to dispell gay rumours before marrying Barbara Stanwyck. I can't wait to see him in Waterloo Bridge and Quo Vadis, both of which were only recently released to DVD.

[siuwahchan]

This is so precious. Thanks for uploading. I was born and grew up in Hong Kong. Many of us saw a great number of American Movies which had given us a very fond impression about America. Good Acting, Good Stories and much more.

[luisminumerouno]

He was a handsome man , a capable actor and i for one enjoyed watching him and still enjoy his films,thanks RT.

[Muirmaiden]

Handsome man, and funny too!

[DerSteppenwolfXXI]

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[Coptic78]

I seldom saw a non-movie performance from the great Robert Teaylor. He was so agreat man. RIP

[Fenhalls]

crepehanger47,

Many thanks for the headwaiter clip. That was great fun!

[crepehanger47]

I got a kick out of the comment that $50 would buy a glass of water at Maxim's. Imagine would it would (not) get you today.

[Fenhalls]

Very true!

[soulierinvestments]

The panel has a good eye for details and, in Dorothy's case a good memory, for French waiters. Such courtly manners. A far cry for the kind of service I get at the Empire of the Yellow Arch -- "you could have a combo meal you know, you twit" If Maxim's still exists, does it have such classy waiters now?

[soulierinvestments]

Ah the perils of living television. That night the network censors must have bit through their pipes twice. Fred Allen said something that night that dripped inuendo and then Dorothy's classic observation on Jane Russell's lack of falseness.

Taylor's clip was short but Gil Fates used two bits of it for What my Line at 25. It is great to see it complete. Thanx.

[bhamdodger]

Thanks, I loved Arlene's comment about Jane Russell.

[filmgirl3901]

Oh I just adore Robert Taylor! I only wish they'd kept him on longer! Regardless, thanks so much for this and all your other wonderful WML postings...I have enjoyed them immensely :)

[crepehanger47]

Glad to do it. I get a kick of them.