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In 1955, a year after his first book, The Magnificent Mitscher, Taylor joined Paramount Pictures as a press agent ; then became a story editor, finally, associate producer.

" Often exciting, often insane, film work provided opportunity to work with some interesting and unique people — Clark Gable, Henry Fonda, Frank Sinatra, Shirley MacLaine, William Holden, Steve McQueen, Charlton Heston, Raquel Welch, and others, on seventeen major pictures.

" Following the filming of TORA!

TORA!

TORA !, he turned full-time to novels, non-fiction books and screen plays.