Hollywood Couples
SKY ARTS, 9.00PM
As Hollywood love affairs go, Robert Taylor and Barbara Stanwyck’s got off to an intriguing start: they met on a blind date in 1936, where there was mutual attraction. But the studio MGM did not want Taylor to be in a relationship at that time. They later changed their minds, and Taylor and Stanwyck’s union effectively became an arranged marriage. This enlightening film explores how, despite a series of affairs by Taylor, the union lasted for 12 years, and why it wasn’t a marriage of equals – Stanwyck called
Taylor “Junior”, he called her “The Queen”.