Robert Taylor
American actor (1911-1969)
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He was MGM's idea of the perfect leading man — dark-haired, square-jawed, and bankable for three decades. Born Spangler Arlington Brugh, he became Robert Taylor and carried some of the studio era's biggest romantic melodramas before switching to Westerns and a late-career turn hosting Death Valley Days.
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Spangler Arlington Brugh signed with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1934 and got his first lead the next year in Magnificent Obsession. His star rose through the late 1930s and 1940s in Camille, A Yank at Oxford, Waterloo Bridge, and Bataan. During World War II he served in the Naval Air Forces as a flight instructor and made training films. He married Barbara Stanwyck in 1939; they divorced in 1952. Two years later he married Ursula Thiess and had two children. From 1959 to 1962 he starred in the television series The Detectives, then in 1966 took over hosting Death Valley Days from Ronald Reagan. A…
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