Typecast for most of his career as a handsome ladies man, Robert Taylor became a top box office attraction after his first major film in 1936 and continued to star in big budget movies for the next twenty years. The list of leading ladies who played opposite Taylor include some of the biggest stars of Hollywood's Golden Age: Irene Dunne, Loretta Young, Barbara Stanwyck, Joan Crawford, Greta Garbo, Jean Harlow, Hedy Lamarr, Ava Gardner, Greer Garson, Vivien Leigh, Norma Shearer, Katharine Hepburn, Elizabeth Taylor, and Deborah Kerr. Of his long association with MGM, Taylor said: "I stayed with one studio for twenty years, took what they gave me to do, did my work." Summarizing his treatment at the hands of movie critics, he said, "I never got raves, but neither did I get pans."

Robert Taylor

Born Spangler Arlington Brough (a name dear to trivia...