Actors from old movies you cant stand - the Data Lounge This includes Gable, especially, and Robert Taylor, Cagney, Flynn, Cooper and their lesser copies Only Cary Grant and William Powell I like from the 30s Leading men got much more interesting in the 40s, when they became more complicated -- Bogart, Ladd and even Cagney suddenly became watchable
The lesser known Lavender marriages in Hollywood - the Data Lounge [R157] Robert Taylor and Barbara Stanwyck was not a lavender marriage - here's part of an interview by the author of her bio: Each marriage was complex and came about because of complex reasons – and stayed in tact because of equally complicated reasons; neither marriage came about because of homosexuality
Gay Hollywood Actors of Old - the Data Lounge Robert Taylor - He ran in gay circiles as a young man, then married Barbara Stanwyck at the studio's demand After divorcing Babs, he married a foreign actress and had a family Babs lived with her female secretary for the last 25 years of her life Some obvious character actors: Franklin Pangborn, Edward Everett Horton, Eric Blore
The sexuality of Robert Taylor - the Data Lounge 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'
REFLECTIONS IN A GOLDEN EYE - the Data Lounge The scene where Robert Forester is nude and walks the horse to the watering hole, passing Marlon laying on the ground what the hell was that about? That movie was a mess Elizabeth Taylor's obsession with power - men and horses - was so over the top as to be laughable; I laughed out loud when she beat Marlon with the riding crop in front of everyone at the party
Sketchy celeb incidents that nobody talks about for some reason PART 2 Because she had such a hard scrabble life I think she thought if she could do it, so could everyone else But back then we didn’t have the phrase “white privilege” and she had no clue about how much that helped her Guess I am just trying to reconcile my love for her with our opposing politics Now, Robert Taylor was a closeted little
Elder Dataloungers please tell me all about legendary golden era . . . In the film, Robert Taylor’s uncle Petronius, played by Leo Genn, is trying to steer Ustinov, as emperor Nero, into giving hostage Kerr to Taylor as a reward for his battle heroics To defer Ustinov from taking her, Genn states, “I think you will agree she is too narrow in the hips “ making Ustinov laugh
Classic Hollywood stars you SUSPECT had plastic surgery Robert Taylor still looked good over 40, like in Ivanhoe when he was 41, or later in the 1950s Anyhow this thread is about plastic surgery I think Cary Grant may have had a nose job, and also may have had his ears fixed, because I always noticed, even when I was a kid, his ears looked sliced off on the bottom, like the lobes were just cut off
Debbie Reynolds: ‘Everyone I dated was gay. Except for Robert Wagner’ Elizabeth Taylor was a warm, loving soul who was too good to be dragged into that stupid p r with Eddie Fisher and Debbie I lurved Elizabeth Taylor One time, Debbie slapped me really hard It was a mean, stiff armed slap Elizabeth Taylor chastised her for it