For instance, Barbara’s touching letters to estranged husband Frank Fay (on page 61 in the Taylor book).įurthermore, when drawing on material from other books, Wayne’s tactics are stunning in their audacity. But later on, as their marriage begins to crumble, Wayne attempts to justify Taylor’s wandering eye by turning Barbara into the kind of woman with whom the reader can’t sympathize.įourteen years later, on the heels Stanwyck’s resurgence (an Honorary Oscar, and an Emmy for “The Thornbirds”), Wayne reached into her trunk and turned her Taylor biography into a STANWYCK biography - but in doing so (her animus now more profound than ever) she omitted what little of value the first book contained.
During the book’s early chapters Wayne resents Stanwyck favorably, as befits the woman that Taylor was to fall in love with. Her anti-Stanwyck bias was equally obvious. Soon after Robert Taylor’s death in 1969, Jane Ellen Wayne began writing an admiring biography of the actor. To evaluate this book, one must first know the one that preceded it.
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