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Walker was born in Queens, New York and is the elder son of actors Robert Walker and Jennifer Jones.
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Walker was born in Queens, New York and is the elder son of actors Robert Walker and Jennifer Jones.
Robert Walker attended The Lawrenceville School near Princeton before beginning his acting career.
Robert Walker had the kind of heartbreaking smile that tells an audience he is doomed. He was so thin, so earnest, so likeable, so brittle as Jennifer Jones's soldier boyfriend in Since You Went Away (John Cromwell), we know how shortlived their idyll must be, and we guess that the laws of melodrama will prove his courage too late to win a crustv grandfathers love and forgiveness.
You want to reach out and warn Walker, or put an umbrella over his head. And that’s without know¬ing that the love scenes in the picture were shot as the marriage between Walker and |ones came apart, and as Jones pursued her affair with the picture’s producer, David Selznick.
Walker and the then-Phylis Isley were married in 1939: they had two sons (one of whom, Robert Jr., had an acting career and an uncanny resemblance to his father). But in 1941. Phylis met Selznick, and before long she was “Jennifer Jones.” Walker had a few bit roles as early as 1939: he asks Ann Sheridan for a dance in Winter Carnival (Charles F. Riesner); These Glamour Girls (S. Sylvan Simon); and Dancing Co-Ed (Simon).
With a cultivated, clingingly sincere voice and very winning charm, Robert Walker could easily present himself as an appealing boy next door and an object of orthodox romantic interest. Most of his film work was in that vein, and he was particularly successful during the war as a young soldier at MGM: a debut in Bataan (43, Tav Garnett); and then in Madame Curie and Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo, both for Mervyn Le Roy; in Wesley Ruggles’s See Here, Private Hargrove; and above all, opposite Judy Garland in The Clock ( Vincente Minnelli), one of Hollywood's most endearing love stories.
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