Actor ROBERT TAYLOR Metro Goldwyn Mayer SIGNED / Numbered Media Photo

  
Actor ROBERT TAYLOR - Metro Goldwyn Mayer SIGNED / Numbered Media Photo. This photo has been hand SIGNED by early Hollywood Actor ROBERT TAYLOR. Photo is MGM stamped on the back and numbered by the photographer. Photo has one small rip (pictured) that has been repaired via tape on the back side. Photo measures 8" x 10". Robert Taylor was an American film and television actor and singer who was one of the most popular leading men of cinema. Taylor began his career in films in 1934 when he signed with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. He won his first leading role the following year in Magnificent Obsession. His popularity increased during the late 1930s and 1940s with appearances in Camille, A Yank at Oxford, Waterloo Bridge, and Bataan. During World War II, he served in the United States Naval Air Forces, where he worked as a flight instructor and appeared in instructional films.

From 1959 to 1962, he starred in the television series The Detectives Starring Robert Taylor. Taylor was married to actress Barbara Stanwyck from 1939 to 1952. He married actress Ursula Thiess in 1954, and they had two children.

A chain smoker, Taylor died of lung cancer at the age of 57. Spangler Arlington Brugh, August 5, 1911, Filley, Nebraska, U. June 8, 1969, Santa Monica, California, U. Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, California.