My mother met them both at separate times. During the war she had just finished her shift at a dairy bar at Sky Harbor in Arizona, when a lieutenant came up and asked for directions somewhere,and since she was walking that way anyway she said she would show him. After they separated, she realized that she had been walking and talking with Robert Taylor. A few years later, after she had graduated from Boston's Children's Hospital School of Nursing, she decided she wanted to move out to Los Angeles. She worked at the Children's Hospital there and said that Barbara Stanwyck came in several times unannounced with bags and bags of toys, games, and other goodies for the children on the wards. She not only came in with no fanfare or photographers, but she stayed the entire afternoon every time she visited and played with the kids, read to them, etc.

Barbara's scene in the Thorn Birds where she tells of the feelings, dreams, and desires of an older woman (or person for that matter) was/is so powerfully overwhelming it made her (in my mind) the best actress of all time! Absolutely BRAVO! 💕 Barbara!

I've never seen a documentary about Stanwyck that didn't mention she was BELOVED by her film crews, the techs + background folks until this one. I think that says so much about her it must be said.

I find Stanwyk to be my consistent favorite. Always

Loved her the most in "Double Indemnity", "The Strange Loves of Martha Ivers" and "The Thorn Birds!" But honestly she was just wonderful in all of her roles!

Ín 1974 when I was 10 I went with my mom to a paint store, she was buying wall paper. As my mom was going through the large sample books a woman approached my mom and started a conversation with her. Unfortunately being 10 and my mom was English I knew not to interrupt the adults, so I don't remember what they were talking about. When we left the store my mom asked me if I knew who that woman was? I replied Barbara Stanwick. My mom was impressed. But as my mom worked in the film industry in England and hosted a lot of the Variety Club parties, she new a lot of actors. I loved black n white films so that is how I knew all the older actors. Ms. Stanwick was very nice was the impression I got. My mom would often tell me little tid bits about these actors when we watched their films or living in West Los Angeles and meeting them in person if they were nice or not. 😊

I simply adored her in The Big Valley series!!!!

Barbara was and her legend still lives.

When 4 years old, Barbara Stanwick's mother died from falling off a streetcar in Brooklyn. Her dad then went away to help build the Panama Canal, where he became a casualty statistic.

Barbara Stanwyck......real excellent actress. Admire her since Big Valley in my youth. For her was made the line : the older the better......😊❤

She wasn’t conventionally attractive but everything about her made her so beautiful and watchable.

Robert Taylor one of the handsomest/talented leading men. Barbara one of the great American actresses. Of American film/television. Barbara was a different type of beauty. She had a strong presence about her. Probably because of all she went through.🎬🎥

I enjoyed Barbara Stanwyck in the Big valley may she rest in peace. I also enjoyed Robert Taylor in Waterloo bridge may he too rest in peace.

He was so handsome and masculine😍. She was such a great actress❤, I simply adore her performances, for instance she was terrific in "Sorry, wrong number", great movie for a great star❤️❤

I love Barbara Stanwick. She was a great actress.

Beautifully put together. I admired Barbara Stanwyck she had a rough up bringing but it made her a stronger person and great actress. I have many of her movies on videos . CLASH BY NIGHT, THE ORGINAL TITANIC, DOUBLE INDEMENTY, CHRISTMAS IN CONNECTICUT, REMEMBER THE NIGHT. all great movies with Miss Stanwyck.

The way he said the father abandoned the kids to go to Panamá to dig in the canal, make it sounds like he went to have fun or dig for gold. I bet he went to work because in those days a lot of men went to work there. He didn't come back because at the beginning of the work, many men died from malaria, and the bad conditions they were working into. It wasn't fun, it was a very dangerous, slave driving job, and the people running it at the beginning didn't have any regard for their workers.

Definitely one of my favorite actresses.

She was brilliant!!! I Loved her in Sorry wrong number.

They were a striking couple no doubt about it

I don't why some of these historians in this video were almost determined that Robert Taylor should to be a homosexual just because he was very handsome, kind and well mannered and raised by a mentally disturbed mother. I'm glad to hear that he wasnt gay.

They both were wonderful!

Today it would be called a silly rom-com, but I loved Ms. Stanwyck in Ball of Fire (or The Professor and the Burlesque Queen), a Howard Hawks’ screwball comedy with Gary Cooper. “This is yum. And this is yum yum.”

She is one of my favorite actresses of all time. ❤

I have always thought Robert Taylor was the handsomest man EVER in Hollywood

She was one of my favorite actresses from that era. I liked him too. That was a relationship I wish would have lasted. It had the legs to last but he let the little head out think big head is. When she was on the Big Valley, that was her best role. I think

I have never seen a bad Barbara Stanwyck film. She exudes strength and determination, a woman to be reckoned with. Robert Taylor was a real specimen of a man, just fabulously handsome. But for some reason, I can’t visualize them together in a romantic way.

She was fabulous!

I always loved her as an actresses and I named my daughter after her character on Big Valley Victoria

"The Mad Miss Manton " is one of my favorite movies. Her and Henry Fonda were great together.

Two of my favorite silver screen stars. Ms Stanwyck deserved an Oscar for all of her roles. I wish they gave double awards to the deserving star and the one the Academy picked. Robert Taylor was always so lovable in all his rolls. I’m happy to know it was who he really was.

I love Robert Taylor as an actor. My favorite films of his were Quo Vadis with an older RT and Waterloo Bridge with a younger RT. So he was a true blue gentleman in real life just like his characters.

Something about sending your child away and when he’s already adopted and you started off wanting him but changed and ironically as her father abandoned her and her siblings to do that to him basically too just doesn’t sit right with me.

I loved her series, Big Valley.

My mom bumped into Robert Taylor at Farmers Market in Hollywood. I've always liked Barbara Stanwyck

Barbara was really good in The Thorn Birds, her last performance in tv. I disagree, if you want to know the real Barbara, the scene where she confesses her love for the priest, played by Richard Chamberlain, is the real her. To play that scene so perfect and passionately, I think she must have drawn on her love for Robert Taylor.

Barbara not only was she beautiful she is one of my very favorite actresses❤❤❤

Two absolute legends!

I've loved both of these amazing actors since I was in junior high watching their movies on the afternoon tv movie matinees. Barbara Stanwyck has been my idol since then.

I love her in "The Thornbird"!

Great actress.

She didnt take shit from any dude , not even him when he cheated mad respect

Barbara Stanwyk launched William Holden carrier with the movie Golden Boy.

I had Barbara Stanwick paper dolls. I remember designing clothes with Crayolas for her to wear. ❤

Barbara and Robert have a great class!!

Big Valley forever🎉 Bonanza forever 😊

Although she was most deserving of winning an Academy award, she never won.

They were both beautiful people and still two of my top 12 favorites and I enjoy that they were marked. It sad that he cheated on her, etc. Sad she she loved RT so much she never married again. Im happy for RT to find HIS true love. I do believe RT was Barbara S. True love to her death! I personally love everything they both made individually and together. Especially Thornbirds. Rachel ward and Richard Chamberlain are awesome, too. Thank you for this!!!

THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH FOR SHARING THE PAST HISTORY OF ROBERT TAYLOR AND BARBARA STANWYCK. I CAN SEE THAT THE TWO OF THEM HAD MUCH RESPECT FOR EACH OTHER, AND THEY HAD SO MUCH IN COMMON, SUCH AS THE LOVE THEY HAD IN ACTING AND SO MUCH MORE, EVEN THOUGH THEIR RELATIONSHIP WERE ONE OF CONVENIENCE. THEY SEEM TO HAVE EVENTUALLY FIND THEMSELVES TRULY IN LOVE WITH EACH OTHER, BUT IT TOOK THEM GROWING INTO A LONG FRIENDSHIP FILLED WITH RESPECT AND TRUSTING ONE ANOTHER , WHICH IN ITSELF IS PRICELESS.."I HOPE THIS IS TRUE"

Barbara était une très belle femme et une grande artiste

A very long career, starting about the same time as other screen legends, her role in Babyface (1933) really show her talents and willingness to do difficult roles.

he was really handsome

He got his refined looks from his mother.

Stanwyck’s first movie role was an uncredited one in 1927. Her first starring role was in 1929’s The Locked Door

What a great story. Thank you for sharing.

I Love old Classic Hollywood Movies I have a couple of old Barbara Stanwyck movies in my collection 1. Sorry, Wrong Number & 2. Double Indemnity

She was a good actress and he was very handsome, but seriously, this was a lavender marriage.

Robert Taylor was just gorgeous

he was so geat and she was so great. he was wonderful and she was wonderful. both of them would do anything for anyone. he was marvelous and she was marvelous. these 2 were out of this world. there has never been 2 people as geat as these, well, except for my wife and her entire family of 30 people.

Great video, very interesting. My Dad met both of them in that time when he lived in CA. My Dad was really taken with her and I was named after her. I grew up watching her movies and The BIG Valley. My Dad was born the same year as Barbara. I always wanted to write to her and tell her I was her name sake. She passed away before I had the chance. Thanks for sharing.

Barbara Stanwyck is my favorite actress of all time. Second place goes to Bette Davis. Rough times bring out the true artist, and still they went above and beyond. I guess the studio factory of the times made you gritty. But they were the best in show - far and away better than anybody now!

Thanks CCC for this nice video and Happy New Year!

Barbara stanwick have such energy. No matter what part she played that you could not take your eyes off of her and Robert Taylor well, you could not take your eyes off up his handsome face. I love them both❤

I loved Baby Face, it’s one of my favorite movies.

I LOVE Robert Taylor.

There was a loving connection between them. Loving one another and being in love are two separate things. Where do you meet in the middle? Obvious to me, they were kindred spirits. Where then does it cross the line into something deeper? Evidently, only they would know.

Very good documentary. Thank you ✨💫

A fantastic coverage of two of the Screens greats a wonderfull way this was put together my mum and Dad were married in 1939 as well thank you for this Gem ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

She was my father’s favourite actress!!

I think her public presence is more enduring because she made a name for herself in TV, as well. It's a shame that she clearly loved him more. Did she cheat? Because obviously he did, more than once. I'm sorry he died young. And I'm sorry she never found real and lasting love.

I loved her Big Valley

Cannot wait to watch this! 💜

Extraordinaria actriz !! Durante años fue mi Única preferida. Con los años sumé otras, pero ella sigue en mi zenit. Además q elegancia para llevar ropas d todo tipo.

A lovely lavender marriage couple.

Thank you for a very well done story of two fascinating people! It was sad that he cheated, but they did not decide for themselves to be joined as husband and wife, so how romantic is that? They did not spend the night of their wedding together. These two facts say more to me than his cheating. Also, these people are paid a lot of money to play make believe for decades of their lives. They make a living out of hiding their true self away so they can convincingly be another person that we gravitate towards. Nobodys psyche can take that constant switching of characters and still remain an intact person with normal boundaries. Looking forward to more stories from the era that knew how to live beautiful and large!!❤

this was a very excellent documentary thanks for this.

I loved her in Christmas in Vermont

Never thought of her as beautiful tale

READ that they were rumoured to be gay and that theirs was a marriage of convenience ,to quell the rumours which could have ruined both careers back then, I thought she was a much better actor than him.

I still like to watch Big Valley!

Ohh WOWI love this,..Love Barbara!!.... but then I had to laugh when she said, Robert's real first name was Spangler. What were those parents thinking. 😆💞

Real true. Icons

I met Ursula - she still cried talking about her husband

Loved taylor

The lady eve is her best film i just lived it

She was also great in comedy. I loved her with Gary Cooper in Ball Of Fire and with Dennis Morgan in Christmas In Connecticut.

Thanks CCC!❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

Robert Taylor was a "moma's boy and lived with his mother after marriage to Stanwyck and it for appearances only as she ĺived at the ranch they bought together. She was pretty independent and had adopted a child, again for apperances as well as the child was at school and cared for by a housekeeper/cook while she made movies, I loved Christmas in Connecticut best as she was a gifted comedian as well as a serious actress. Taylor was good in Disney's Return of the White Stallions! Great movie and true story!

Guapísimo Robert Taylor

I never see any Taylor movies on Turner Classic. I don't recall much of what he's done.

Forse non tutti sanno che in Italia tra gli anni 50 e gli anni 60 due sorelle e grandi fumettiste crearono il personaggio di Diabolik usando come modello proprio Robert Taylor

Barbara Stanwyck was my Favorite Actress with Susan Hayward coming in at a close 2nd followed closely by Gene Tierney. Yes Robert Taylor and Barbara Stanwyck were in love and got married. They were a dream couple. But the dream turned into a nightmare for Barbara Stanwyck. From the beginning of their marriage Robert Taylor had several affairs on Miss Stanwyck. He even came home one night from filming a movie with Lana Turner. He asked Miss Stanwyck for a divorce because he was in love with Lana Turner. Of course she didn't divorce him but stayed in the marriage. He finally realized that she wasn't gonna divorce him. And that he really wasn't in love with Lana Turner. But he was still out doing his thing(women). Well Robert Taylor was doing a movie in Italy. I think it was called Quad Vadis or something like that. Anyway he had gotten involved with a very young actress who was in the movie also. Word got back to Miss Stanwyck. Because Robert Taylor had fallen in love with this actress. Well Miss Stanwyck got on a plane and went to Italy. Robert Taylor asked for a divorce. Miss Stanwyck agreed to divorce him. Well after the divorce Robert Taylor went his way and Miss Stanwyck went her way. Miss Stanwyck her career was still going strong and Robert Taylor's career went down hill. You see Robert Taylor was never a real good actor but he was good looking. But when his looks started to fade his career faded also. It was Miss Stanwyck who in the mid 40,s and early 50,s help get her husband a lot of acting jobs. She was well liked and respected in Hollywood. But after their divorce he was on his own. He did get married again but not to actress but to another woman. In the early 60,s Robert Taylor and Barbara Stanwyck was paired up together in a movie. It was a horror film. But the only way they got her in the part was to pay her a lot of money. And pay her they did. I forgot the name of the movie. But it was a very good film I saw it in the 90's . And of course Miss Stanwyck stole the movie. I do believe that she loved Robert Taylor until she died. I always wondered did she want a divorce. Or did she think that if she divorced him.That he would realize that he did love her. And would come back to her. I am sure Miss Stanwyck had plenty of chances to remarry. But she remained a single woman. R.I.P. MISS BARBARA STANWYCK ❤⚘

Hermosa pareja y excelentes artistas 🌟

She may have been true to her ambition and reached that pinnacle, but that's just focused self centredness. As a person who took on the responsibility for an innocent, she was a complete failure and her reported abandonment of her adopted son was shameful. That poor boy was betrayed by two mothers.

Dear Cult Cinema Classics can you please download The film “The imitation of life” I’ve wanting to watch it but have had no luck finding it, thank you.

Thanks for this. Very informative.

Barbara stanwick.et robert taylor.2 acteurs et un couple formidable. Barbara.etait très belle femme et attirante. Aussi bien dans ses rôles que dans la vie. Robert était un formidable bel homme et acteurs. Et a interprèté de beaux rôles. Ils resterons inoubliables tout les 2.

I want to rearrange that guy's bookshelf.

She was fantastic, so talented, I think she deserved to be loved even more and not to be cheated, she was strong but because she loved Taylor, she suffered and she didn t deserved that, because she was honest with him, RIP Barbara🌹😪

Robert Taylor era bellíssimo!