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Revealing the colorful life story of a great new star
PEOPLE are always asking me what tendencies toward acting Robert Taylor showed as a child. As I look back now, I remember that he used to mimic Charlie Chaplin — the shuffle, the sniffle, everything. If we had ever thought that he might some day be an actor, I suppose we would have suspected that he would be a comedian.
We had been told, many times, that he would bean actor — but we never took the prophecy seriously. It seemed to us that all children were talented mimics. A Mr. Dempster, who was head of a big manufacturing company, urged the doctor and me to educate Robert in dramatics. He always predicted, "Some day that boy of yours will be a big movie star !" I wish he could have lived to see his prediction come true. . . .
Our minister, too, often said that Bob would be outstanding in some way with his voice. All of which flattered us, but we did not try to develop Bob in any one direction. We intended to let him decide what he would like to be.
Meanwhile, like most of the other boys in Beatrice, Nebraska, Bob played ball, although he never landed on any team. He went swimming in Riverside Park and the "Y." He rode horseback and went for long bicycle rides and played tennis. He did not seem to worry much about his future, himself.
One time, when he was about eleven or twelve, he came to me and asked, "Mother, tvhat will I be when I get to be a man?"
I told him, "Opportunity will lead you. Men don't decide, as a rule, what they will be. Circumstances decide for them."
Robert Taylor and Joan Crawford in a scene from77>e Gorgeous
Fate -Fame
Pages from the photo alburn of Mrs. Ruth Brugh: (I) Spengler Arlington Brugh, now known as Robert Taylor, at the age of three; (2) the future Robert Taylor posed for this portrait when he was ten months old; (3) a class portrait taken while he was a student at Doane College; (4) "The Three Harmony Boys," stellar attraction for Radio Station KMMJ, at Clay Center, Nebraska
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