Theater legend, born Helen Loretta Cooney (although other birth names have been tossed about) in New York on April 1, 1884, whose major roles include her unforgettable performances in the eponymous Peg o' My Heart and as deluded Southern matriarch Amanda Wingfield in the original Broadway production of Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie. April 1 is the 91st day of the year (92nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 274 days remaining. ... 1884 is a leap year starting on Tuesday (click on link to calendar). ... Peg O My Heart is a popular song with words by Alfred Bryan and music by Fred Fisher, published March 15, 1913 and featured in the musical Ziegfeld Follies Of 1913. ... Thomas Lanier Williams (March 26, 1911 – February 25, 1983), better known by the pen name Tennessee Williams, was a noted playwright. ... The Glass Menagerie is a play by Tennessee Williams. ...

She married her first husband, Charles A. Taylor around 1900, and they had 2 children, Dwight and Marguerite, but they divorced around 1910. Her second husband was British-born playwright, J. Hartley Manners, who wrote Peg o' My Heart and produced the film version, which starred Marion Davies, whom she married in 1912 and remained his wife until his death on December 19, 1928. She never remarried. British playwright who wrote Peg o My Heart, which starred his wife, Laurette Taylor on Broadway in one of her greatest stage triumphs, although she did not appear in the film version that he wrote and produced. ... Peg O My Heart is a popular song with words by Alfred Bryan and music by Fred Fisher, published March 15, 1913 and featured in the musical Ziegfeld Follies Of 1913. ... Marion Davies in the 1920s Marion Davies (born January 3, 1897; died September 23, 1961) was a United States actress whose long-running relationship with newspaper tycoon William Randolph Hearst obscured her talents. ...

Laurette Taylor suffered from severe alcoholism for many years which almost certainly contributed to her untimely death from a coronary thrombosis at the relatively young age of 62 on December 7, 1946.