The Tragic Life & Death of Robert Taylor

Robert Taylor was a true star and he deserved every bit of praise that he received. He was one of the most famous and successful leading men of the Golden Age of Hollywood. He was celebrated for his strapping good looks and his reputation for being a reliable, clean-cut actor. He was perhaps best known as 'The Man with the Perfect Profile'.

▬Contents of this video▬
00:00 - Intro
00:47 - The Making Of A Star
02:28 - Taylor's Budding Film Career
03:45 - Taylor Served In The U.S Naval Air Corps
04:47 - Robert Taylor Turned On His Communist Colleagues
05:57 - Taylor's Career Took A Downturn After The War
07:15 - A Failed Marriage And One That Stuck
08:11 - Outro

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Robert Taylor died of lung cancer at St. Johns Hospital in Santa Monica, California on June 8, 1969. He was 57 years old. In October of 1968, Taylor went in to have surgery to remove a portion of his right lung after doctors informed him that he had likely contracted a fungal infection called Coccidioidomycosis otherwise known as Valley fever.

Throughout his career, Taylor experienced many high points as well as low ones. When HUAC called him to testify before the committee about communism in Hollywood, he gave the names of three of his former colleagues. Not only were their careers ruined by that, but his reputation was also tarnished.

Another low point of his personal life was the bitter divorce that he and his ex-wife Barbara Stanwyck went through after he cheated on her with one of his co-stars from the film 'Quo Vadis' while he was in Rome shooting the movie.

The Tragic Life & Death of Robert Taylor