Robert Taylor

Robert Taylor was known as “The Man with the Perfect Profile.” And for a time, it seemed he lived the perfect Hollywood life: impossibly handsome, effortlessly dashing, the leading man to nearly every major actress of the Golden Age. But behind the polished studio image was a man grappling with contradictions: a romantic who resisted intimacy, a patriotic American who turned political informant, and an actor who never quite shook the feeling that he was underestimated.

This is the story of Robert Taylor, the MGM star who shone brightest in black and white, but whose true life story had far more shades of grey.