http://moviemorlocks.com/2007/06/30/the-dark-side-of-robert-young/ MovieMorlocks.com is the official blog for Turner Classic Movies (TCM). No topic is too obscure or niche to be excluded from our film discussions. And we welcome your comments on our blogs and bloggers. Mon, 21 May 2012 02:05:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://moviemorlocks.com/2007/06/30/the-dark-side-of-robert-young/#comment-12596 Sat, 08 May 2010 22:16:27 +0000 http://tcmmoviemorlocks.wordpress.com/2007/06/30/the-dark-side-of-robert-young/#comment-12596 robert young died of respirory failure..

]]> http://moviemorlocks.com/2007/06/30/the-dark-side-of-robert-young/#comment-8679 Wed, 27 May 2009 23:28:39 +0000 http://tcmmoviemorlocks.wordpress.com/2007/06/30/the-dark-side-of-robert-young/#comment-8679 [...] in a small scale film noir about greed, desire and fate. The movie, which MorlockJeff also praised in an earlier blog,  benefits from the casting of the usually affable Young in the role of an ordinary man who, in [...]

]]> http://moviemorlocks.com/2007/06/30/the-dark-side-of-robert-young/#comment-6258 Sat, 29 Nov 2008 23:36:49 +0000 http://tcmmoviemorlocks.wordpress.com/2007/06/30/the-dark-side-of-robert-young/#comment-6258 Unfortunetly he suffered from depression and attempted suicide more than once, he eventually ended his life I beleive, but he was a great actor.

]]> http://moviemorlocks.com/2007/06/30/the-dark-side-of-robert-young/#comment-1531 Sat, 21 Jul 2007 23:52:44 +0000 http://tcmmoviemorlocks.wordpress.com/2007/06/30/the-dark-side-of-robert-young/#comment-1531 You're forgetting the early 1930s Hitchcock film "Secret Agent".  Robert Young played the hero's friend who later turned out to be the enemy spy.  Does anybody with a better memory recall this film including its cast members?  I saw it on a VHS tape from an old and undigitalized shaky print. 

]]> http://moviemorlocks.com/2007/06/30/the-dark-side-of-robert-young/#comment-1528 Sun, 01 Jul 2007 15:08:05 +0000 http://tcmmoviemorlocks.wordpress.com/2007/06/30/the-dark-side-of-robert-young/#comment-1528 Very interesting details about his real life personality….it seems very close to the character he played in the 1950 film "Second Woman" in  which he plays a man having a breakdown and attempting suicide.Of course, for me, he will always be the "Father Knows Best" so wise and compassionate he can solve any family problem.  But I do greatly enjoy seeing him in atypical roles such as in  "Northwest Passage"

]]> http://moviemorlocks.com/2007/06/30/the-dark-side-of-robert-young/#comment-1527 Sun, 01 Jul 2007 15:06:24 +0000 http://tcmmoviemorlocks.wordpress.com/2007/06/30/the-dark-side-of-robert-young/#comment-1527 Very interesting details about his real life personality….it seems very close to the character he played in the 1950 film "Second Woman" in Of course, for which he plays a man having a breakdown and attempting suicide.Of course, for me, he will always be the "Father Knows Best" so wise and compassionate he can solve any family problem.  But I do greatly enjoy seeing him in atypical roles such as in  "Northwest Passage"

]]> http://moviemorlocks.com/2007/06/30/the-dark-side-of-robert-young/#comment-1530 Sat, 30 Jun 2007 21:57:42 +0000 http://tcmmoviemorlocks.wordpress.com/2007/06/30/the-dark-side-of-robert-young/#comment-1530 The dark side of Robert Young indeed! That was his real life. The actor suffered from severe depression for years, turning to alcohol to deal with it. He had a nervous breakdown in 1966 and tried to kill himself in 1991. Apparently he developed a drinking problem during his contract years at MGM and it lasted for decades. The irony of your article is that Young preferred playing respectable, likable characters and didn't want to appear in THEY WON'T BELIEVE ME but had no choice. It was a film he always regretted making proving that actors are not always the best judges of their own work.

]]> http://moviemorlocks.com/2007/06/30/the-dark-side-of-robert-young/#comment-1529 Sat, 30 Jun 2007 20:06:49 +0000 http://tcmmoviemorlocks.wordpress.com/2007/06/30/the-dark-side-of-robert-young/#comment-1529 Great article Jeff, and I was reminded of a discussion on the TCM message boards a couple years ago during which "we" discussed the three Roberts – Montgomery, Taylor, and Young – all of whom were destined to play "good guy" roles except for a few notable exceptions, which were some of their better parts (like Montgomery's Night Must Fall (1937) or Taylor's Rogue Cop (1954)).

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