#Ursula Thiess

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Robert Taylor and Ursula Thiess liked to live a quiet country life at their Mandeville Canyon home with their children and animals.

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Two Robert Taylor Films Are Playing on TCM on June 26 (USA)

On Monday, June 26, two Robert Taylor films from the 1950s are playing: Many Rivers To Cross from 1955 and Valley of the Kings from 1954. Both co-star Eleanor Parker. Mr. Taylor’s role of Mark Brandon is said to be the inspiration for Indiana Jones. Many Rivers To Cross, 1955, is playing on Turner Classic Movies on Monday, June 26 at 6:00 a.m. est. Closed Captioned.  This outrageous farce is…

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bandido, richard fleischer 1956

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ROBERT TAYLOR.

Robert Taylor (born Spangler Arlington Brugh; August 5, 1911 – June 8, 1969) was an American film and television actor and singer who was one of the most popular leading men of his time.

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 A Yank at Oxford (1938), Waterloo Bridge (1940), and Bataan (1943). 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 series The Detectives Starring Robert Taylor. In 1966, he took over hosting duties from his friend Ronald Reagan on the series Death Valley Days.

Taylor was married to actress Barbara Stanwyck from 1939 to 1951. He married actress Ursula Thiess in 1954, and they had two children. A chain smoker, Taylor was diagnosed with lung cancer in October 1968. He died of the disease on June 8, 1969 at the age of 57.

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Ursula Tiesa

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Ursula Thiess - Monsoon (1952)

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Ursula Thiess (Hamburg, Weimar Republic, 15/05/1924-Burbank, California, 19/06/2010),

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Medusa headdress worn by actress Ursula Thiess. Photography: Regina Relang, 1949. Source

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The Taylors.

Modern Screen, March 1955 By Richard Moore.

https://roberttayloractor.blog/2017/05/14/mrs-taylors-expecting/

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Today Is the 54th Anniversary of Robert Taylor's Death

54 years ago today, Rober Taylor died at St. John’s Hospital in Santa Monica, California after a long battle with lung cancer. He was 57. Robert Taylor was a complicated and incredibly versatile man who could play any sort of character from a Roman general to a mental patient. He was a family man happily settled with his second wife, Ursula Thiess, and their two children. Mr. Taylor was a…

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1956 - Censoring what the Audience Thinks

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bandido, richard fleischer 1956

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Ursula Thiess

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Ursula Thiess

Billed as "The Most Beautiful Girl in the World" during her initial build-up in Hollywood, Ursula Schmidt began her career in her native Germany by dubbing voices in American films. She came to be known as Ursula Thiess, taking the last name of her first husband. She left postwar Germany at the urging of Howard Hughes, signed with RKO, and co-starred in The Iron Glove (1952) and Bandido (1956). She subsequently abandoned her film career after marrying her second husband. She died of natural causes in an assisted-living care facility in Burbank at the age of 86.