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Article: Exit Robert Taylor. (controversy over actor's testimony before House Un-American Activities Committee in 1947) (column)
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- National Review
- Article date:
- March 5, 1990
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A few weeks ago Hollywood residents discovered that there was no longer a building called the Robert Taylor Building. Disappeared, gone with the wind. Not the building itself, understand. It was still there, with its new owner, Lorimar Productions (Dallas, etc.), but it was now the George Cukor Building. Was this an attempt to say something about the late Robert Taylor, the glamorous movie idol who died in 1969 after making almost fifty movies for Metro Goldwyn Mayer? Well, yes, it was. What happened is that a petition circulated by writer Stan Zimmerman was deposited on the desk of Lorimar executives, asking that Robert Taylor's name be expunged on the grounds that he had ...