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- At 15 he ran away and joined the Navy, where his submarine was hit by a torpedo, he the lone survivor.
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Jul 3, 2019 · And yet, 17 years after his death at age 81, Robbins has been largely forgotten. If he is remembered at all, it is a cautionary tale: the man who amassed a $50 million fortune and burned...
However, the program was a ratings failure, losing badly to Mayberry R.F.D. and The Doris Day Show on CBS and The NBC Monday Movie on NBC. It was canceled at midseason, although it was rerun the following summer.
Robbins dropped out of high school at 15 to enlist in the U.S. Navy. He claimed to have served on a submarine that was torpedoed, leaving him as the sole survivor; in fact, no U.S. submarines were torpedoed during the 1930s. Robbins worked a variety of jobs, including errand boy, bookies' runner, and
Apr 8, 2019 · Only “79 Park Avenue” was a success, earning big ratings as a 1977 miniseries. And while “Survivors” didn’t survive, it paved the way for the boom in primetime TV miniseries (a term that ...
The Survivors: Created by Harold Robbins, Richard De Roy, Michael Gleason, John Wilder. With Lana Turner, George Hamilton, Kevin McCarthy, Ralph Bellamy. Internal conflicts of a wealthy family, the Carlyles.
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Oct 21, 2007 · But it’s uttered by the virile, easily riled Jonas Cord, the Howard Hughes stand-in at the center of “The Carpetbaggers,” Harold Robbins’s fabled 1961 novel — or novel-like object, anyhow.
Oct 15, 1997 · Robbins suffered a stroke in 1982 that left him with a slight case of aphasia, a partial loss of the ability to use or understand words. He also had a hip ailment that had confined him to a...
