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For the next 10 years, Stack did Westerns, war movies and romantic comedies.

he was now a bona-fide star, but Universal was still only paying him $150 a week. After two more movies, he was teamed with Durbin again, in Nice Girl? (1941).

Pierce (who had done all the monsters for Universal), and Stack became a matinee idol, overnight. That makeup man was genius and Oscar winner, Jack P. At first, he did not want to listen to the makeup man who had told him, "no blond has ever made it as a leading man", and insisted on dyeing his hair black and uncurling it. That superstar was Deanna Durbin (acquired from MGM), and Stack made his screen debut as her lover in First Love (1939). Stack arrived at Universal City Studios in 1939, when the movie studio (once riding high on the successes of movies such as Dracula (1931) and Frankenstein (1931)) was in financial trouble, and looking for a superstar. In 1935, he came in second in the National Skeet Shooting Championship (held in Cleveland) and, in 1936, his 5-man team broke the standing record at the National Skeet Championships (held in St. He was not interested in team sports, so he took up skeet shooting. Young Robert spoke fluent Italian and French, but had to learn English when they returned to Los Angeles. His brother, James Langford Stack Jr., stayed in the United States with their father. He did not learn to speak English until he was six years old. His parents had divorced when he was one-year-old, and his mother took him to Europe when he was three. (The name Robert reportedly referred to no one in particular.) His elder brother and only sibling was James Langford Stack (1916-2006). Born in Los Angeles, California, the younger son of James Langford Stack (1860-1928), the owner of an advertising agency, and Mary Elizabeth Modini Wood (1891-1975), he was originally named Charles Langford Modini Stack at birth by his mother but his father soon changed the name to Robert Langford Stack. "Straight Shooting" - whether skeet shooting, or portraying Eliot Ness - Robert Stack always told it like it was, and shot straight.