William Desmond Taylor

William Desmond Taylor (born William Cunningham Deane-Tanner) (April 26, 1872 – February 1, 1922) was an actor, successful US film director of silent movies and a popular figure in the growing Hollywood film colony of the 1910s and early 1920s.^[1] His murder on February 1, 1922 along with other Hollywood scandals such as the Roscoe Arbuckle trial led to a frenzy of sensationalistic and often fabricated newspaper reports.^[2] In the 1950 film Sunset Boulevard, the name Norma Desmond is a reference to both Taylor's middle name and one of his actress friends, Mabel Normand.^[2] While Taylor's murder remains officially unsolved a 1964 deathbed confession by actress Ella Margaret Gibson that she "shot and killed" the director was published in 1999 and is widely considered as credible.^[2] Image File history File linksMetadata WilliamDesmondTaylor. ... Image File history File linksMetadata WilliamDesmondTaylor. ... is the 116th day of the year (117th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1872 (MDCCCLXXII) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a leap year starting on Saturday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... is the 32nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... See also: 1921 in film 1922 1923 in film 1920s in film years in film film Events November 26 - Toll of the Sea debuts as the first general release film to use two-tone Technicolor (The Gulf Between was the first film to do so but it was not widely... Motto: (Out Of Many, One) (traditional) In God We Trust (1956 to date) Anthem: The Star-Spangled Banner Capital Washington D.C. Largest city New York City None at federal level (English de facto) Government Federal constitutional republic  - President George Walker Bush (R)  - Vice President Dick Cheney (R) Independence from... The film director, on the right, gives last minute direction to the cast and crew, whilst filming a costume drama on location in London. ... This article is about the comedy film. ... ... Roscoe Conkling Arbuckle, also known as Fatty Arbuckle (March 24, 1887 – June 29, 1933), was an American silent film comedian, director, and screenwriter. ... It has been suggested that Norma Desmond be merged into this article or section. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Sunset Boulevard (1950 film). ... Mabel Normand Mabel Normand (November 10, 1892 - February 23, 1930) was a US film actress, who was a popular comedienne in silent films. ... Margaret Gibson (Patricia Palmer) Margaret Gibson alias Patricia Palmer aka Ella Margaret Arce, aka Ella Margaret Lewis, [1] (September 14, 1894 - October 21, 1964) was an American actress, who landed ingénue leading roles in Vitagraphs westerns. ...

Life and career

Born in Carlow, Ireland, he sailed for America in 1890, when he was 18 years old.^[1][3] He briefly pursued an acting career in New York City before marrying Ethel May Harrison on December 7, 1901.^[3] Her father was a wealthy Wall Street broker who provided him with funding to set up an antiques business through which he could support a family. The Tanners were well-known in New York society until he abruptly vanished in 1908 at the age of 36, deserting his wife and daughter.^[1] Tanner (Taylor) had suffered "mental lapses" before and the family thought he had perhaps wandered off during an episode of aphasia.^[4] For Carlow in Germany, see Carlow, Germany. ... Motto: (Out Of Many, One) (traditional) In God We Trust (1956 to date) Anthem: The Star-Spangled Banner Capital Washington D.C. Largest city New York City None at federal level (English de facto) Government Federal constitutional republic  - President George Walker Bush (R)  - Vice President Dick Cheney (R) Independence from... Year 1890 (MDCCCXC) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar). ... New York, New York and NYC redirect here. ... is the 341st day of the year (342nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1901 (MCMI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday [1] of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... Elaborate marble facade of NYSE as seen from the intersection of Broad and Wall Streets For other uses, see Wall Street (disambiguation). ... 1908 (MCMVIII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar). ... For other uses, see Aphasia (disambiguation). ...

Changing his name to William Desmond Taylor,^[1] he was in Hollywood by December 1912^[3] and worked successfully as an actor (including four appearances opposite Margaret "Gibby" Gibson) before making his first film as a director, The Awakening, in 1914. Over the next few years he directed more than fifty films, served as an officer in the British Army and was President of the Motion Picture Directors Association. Taylor directed some of the great stars of his era including Mary Pickford, Wallace Reid, Dustin Farnum and his protégée Mary Miles Minter who starred in the 1919 version of Anne of Green Gables. 1912 (MCMXII) was a leap year starting on Monday in the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Tuesday in the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... The British Army is the land armed forces branch of the British Armed Forces. ... The Motion Picture Directors Association (MPDA) was an American non-profit fraternal organization formed by twenty-six film directors on June 18, 1915 in Los Angeles, California. ... Mary Pickford (April 8, 1892 – May 29, 1979) was an Oscar-winning Canadian motion picture star and co-founder of United Artists in 1919. ... Wallace Reid Wallace Reid, born April 15, 1891 in St. ... Born: 27 May 1874 Hampton Beach, New Hampshire-Died 3 July 1929 New York, NY. Career US motion picture actor who made forty-one silent movies in his career. ... Mary Miles Minter (April 1, 1902 - August 4, 1984) was a U.S. film actor in silent films. ... Year 1919 (MCMXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar). ... Anne of Green Gables (1919) is a silent film directed by William Desmond Taylor based upon the novel, Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery. ...

In 1914 Taylor had fallen in love with prolific serial actress Neva Gerber during the filming of The Awakening. By this time Taylor's former wife, who had re-married, was aware he was in Hollywood. A few years later she was in a cinema with their daughter, saw Taylor on the screen and said, "That's your father!" They began exchanging letters. In 1921 Taylor visited his daughter Ethel Daisy Deane Tanner in New York and made her his legal heir. Neva Gerber (3 April 1894 – 2 January 1974), was an American actress of the silent era. ...

Murder

At 7:30 a.m. on the morning of February 2, 1922,^[5] the body of William Desmond Taylor was found inside his bungalow at the Alvarado Court Apartments,^[5] 404-B South Alvarado Street,^[6] in the Westlake Park area of downtown Los Angeles, California, which was then known as a trendy and affluent neighbourhood. is the 33rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1922 (MCMXXII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... A row of bungalows in Virginia A bungalow (Gujarati: , Hindi: ) is a type of single-story house. ... MacArthur Park looking towards downtown LA MacArthur Park (formerly Westlake Park) is a park in Los Angeles, California, named after General Douglas MacArthur and designated city of Los Angeles Historic Cultural Monument #100. ... Los Angeles and L.A. redirect here. ...

A crowd gathered inside and someone identifying himself as a doctor stepped forward, made a cursory examination of the body, declared the victim had died of a heart attack and was never seen again, perhaps out of embarrassment, because sometime later doubts arose, the body was rolled over and it was discovered the 49-year-old film director had been shot in the back. Acute myocardial infarction (AMI or MI), more commonly known as a heart attack, is a disease state that occurs when the blood supply to a part of the heart is interrupted. ...

In Taylor's pockets were a wallet holding $78, a silver cigarette case, a Waltham pocket watch and an ivory toothpick. A two carat (400 mg) diamond ring was on his finger.^[7] A large but undetermined sum of cash which Taylor had shown to his accountant the day before was missing and apparently never accounted for. After some investigation, the time of Taylor's death was set at 7:50 in the evening of February 1, 1922.^[6] Whilst being interviewed by the police five days after the director's body was found, Minter said that following the murder a friend, director and actor Marshall Neilan, told her Taylor had made several highly "delusional" statements about some of his social acquaintances (including her) during the weeks before his death. She also said Neilan thought Taylor had recently become "insane."^[8] This article is about the portable timepiece. ... is the 32nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1922 (MCMXXII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Marshall Neilan, 1920 Marshall Ambrose Neilan (April 11, 1891 - October 27, 1958) was an important pioneer motion picture actor, screenwriter, film director, and producer. ...

Suspects and witnesses

More than a dozen individuals were eventually named as suspects by both the press and the police. Newspaper reports at the time were both overwhelmingly sensationalized and speculative, even fabricated and the murder was used as the basis for much subsequent "true crime" fiction. Many inaccuracies were carried forward by later writers who used articles from the popular press as their sources. Overall, most accounts have consistently focused on seven people as suspects and witnesses.

Edward Sands

Edward Sands

Sands had prior convictions for embezzlement, forgery and desertion from the US military. Born in Ohio, he had multiple aliases and spoke with an affected cockney accent. He had worked as Taylor's valet and cook up until seven months before the murder. While Taylor was in Europe the summer before, Sands had forged Taylor's checks and wrecked his car. Later Sands burgled Taylor's bungalow, leaving footprints on the film director's bed. Following the murder, Edward Sands was never heard from again.^[9] Edward F. Sands was a mysterious figure in early Hollywood history, best known for his possible role in the murder of director William Desmond Taylor in 1922. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... St Mary-le-Bow The term cockney is often used to refer to working-class people of London, particularly east London, and the slang used by these people. ...

Henry Peavey

Henry Peavey

Peavey was Sands' replacement, Taylor’s African American valet who found the body. Newspapers noted that Peavey wore flashy golf costumes but didn't own any golf clubs. Peavey was illiterate and bisexual. He had a criminal record which included arrests for vagrancy and public indecency involving underaged boys. Taylor had recently put up bail for him and was due to appear in court on his behalf. Peavey repeatedly accused Mabel Normand of the murder (she had teased him about his wardrobe) and was initially suspected of the crime himself. In 1931, Peavey died in a San Francisco asylum where he had been hospitalized for syphilis-related dementia. ^[10] Henry Peavey was William Desmond Taylor’s African American valet. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... An African American (also Afro-American, Black American, or simply black) is a member of an ethnic group in the United States whose ancestors, usually in predominant part, were indigenous to Africa. ... In human sexuality, bisexuality describes a man or woman having a sexual orientation to persons of either or both sexes (a man or woman who sexually likes both sexes; people who are sexually and/or romantically attracted to both males and females). ... Mabel Normand Mabel Normand (November 10, 1892 - February 23, 1930) was a US film actress, who was a popular comedienne in silent films. ... Syphilis is a sexually transmitted disease caused by Treponema pallidum. ...

Mabel Normand

Mabel Normand

Normand was a popular comedic actress and a close friend of Taylor. They might have had a romantic relationship and although she and Taylor may have argued on the evening of his murder she left his home at 7:45PM in a happy mood and carrying a book he had given her. She was the last person known to have seen him alive. The police quickly dismissed her as a suspect, as have most subsequent writers. However, Normand starred in many films with Roscoe Arbuckle whose career had become awash in scandal by the time of Taylor's murder. Her career had already slowed and her reputation was tarnished through these two scandals, along with revelations of her drug use and a third scandal involving a lover shot by her chauffeur but she contined to make films throughout the 1920s. Normand died of tuberculosis in 1930. ^[11] Mabel Normand Mabel Normand (November 10, 1892 - February 23, 1930) was a US film actress, who was a popular comedienne in silent films. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Roscoe Conkling Arbuckle, also known as Fatty Arbuckle (March 24, 1887 – June 29, 1933), was an American silent film comedian, director, and screenwriter. ... Tuberculosis (abbreviated as TB for tubercle bacillus or Tuberculosis) is a common and deadly infectious disease caused by mycobacteria, mainly Mycobacterium tuberculosis. ... See also: 1929 in film 1930 1931 in film 1930s in film 1920s in film years in film film // Events Top grossing films The Indians Are Coming Madam Satan Der Blaue Engel Academy Awards Best Picture: All Quiet on the Western Front - Universal Studios Best Actress: Norma Shearer - The Divorcee...

Faith Cole MacLean

Faith MacLean is widely believed to have seen the killer. MacLean was the wife of actor Douglas MacLean and the couple were neighbors of Taylor. They were startled by a loud noise at 8PM. MacLean went to her front door and came face to face with someone emerging from the front door of Taylor’s home whom she said was dressed "like my idea of a motion picture burglar." She recalled this person paused for a moment before turning and walking back through the door as if having forgotten something, then re-emerged and flashed a smile at her before disappearing between the buildings. MacLean decided she had heard a car backfire. She also told police interviewers this person looked "funny" (like movie actors in makeup) and may have been a woman disguised as a man. Douglas MacLean Douglas MacLean (Charles Douglas MacLean) (10 January 1890 - 9 July 1967) was a silent motion picture actor, producer, and writer. ...

Charles Eyton

Eyton was the General Manager of Paramount Studios. Several sources claim that in the hours following Taylor's murder, Eyton entered Taylor's bungalow with a group of Paramount employees and removed compromising items, either before police arrived or with their permission. Charles Eyton (New Zealand, June 24, 1871 - Hollywood, CA, July 2, 1941) was an actor-producer who became General Manager of Famous Players-Lasky Corporation (a Paramount Pictures subsidiary) during the silent film era. ... The Paramount Pictures logo used from 1988 to 1989. ...

Mary Miles Minter

Mary Miles Minter

Minter was a popular actress and teen screen idol whose career had been guided by Taylor. Minter, who grew up without a father, was only three years older than the daughter he had abandoned in New York. Coded letters found in Taylor’s home suggested a romantic relationship between the 49-year-old Taylor and 19-year-old Minter had started when she was 17. Although Minter said Taylor had been against their romance almost from the outset and had often declined to see her, the letters (which she had written in 1919) were at odds with her screen image as a modest young girl. Minter was vilified in the press. She made four more films for Paramount and when the studio failed to renew her contract she received offers from many other producers. Never comfortable with her career as an actress she declined them all, left films altogether and proclaimed her love for Taylor throughout the rest of her long life, dying in obscurity (although financially comfortable due to smart investments) in 1984. Mary Miles Minter (April 1, 1902 - August 4, 1984) was a U.S. film actor in silent films. ... Image File history File links Mary Miles Minter File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Image File history File links Mary Miles Minter File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... // Events The Walt Disney Company founds Touchstone Pictures to release movies with subject matter deemed inappropriate for the Disney name. ...

Charlotte Shelby

Charlotte Shelby

Shelby was Minter’s mother. Like many "stage mothers" before and since, she has been described as consumed by wanton greed and manipulation over her daughter's career. Both daughters and their mother were bitterly divided by financial disputes and lawsuits for a time, but Mary Miles Minter later reconciled with her mother. Shelby's initial statements to police about the murder are still characterized as evasive and "obviously filled with lies" about both her daughter's relationship with Taylor and "other matters."^[12] Perhaps the most compelling bit of circumstantial evidence was that Shelby allegedly owned a rare .38 caliber pistol and unusual bullets very similar to the kind which killed Taylor. After this later became public, she reportedly threw the pistol into a Louisiana bayou. Shelby knew the Los Angeles district attorney socially and spent years outside the United States in an effort to avoid official inquiries by his successor and press coverage related to the murder. In 1938 her other daughter, actress Margaret Shelby (who was by then suffering from both clinical depression and alcoholism), openly accused her mother of the murder during an argument. Shelby was widely suspected of the crime and was a favourite suspect of many writers. For example, Adela Rogers St. Johns speculated Shelby was torn by feelings of maternal protection for her daughter and her own attraction for Taylor. Although (like Sands) Shelby feared being tried for the murder, at least two Los Angeles county district attorneys publicly declined to prosecute her. ^[5][13] Charlotte Shelby (Lily Pearl Miles Reilly) (19 December 1877 - 13 March 1957) was a popular Broadways actress and the domineering mother of actresses Mary Miles Minter and Margaret Shelby. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... This article is about the U.S. State. ... Big Cypress Bayou in Jefferson, Texas off of U.S. Route 59. ... Year 1938 (MCMXXXVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... Margaret Shelby Margaret Shelby Fillmore (also known as Alma M. Fillmore, June 16, 1900 - December 21, 1939) was an American stage and motion picure actress, older sister of Mary Miles Minter, former star of silent films and central figure in the William Desmond Taylor murder case. ... Adela Rogers St. ...

Margaret Gibson's 1964 confession

Margaret Gibson

Margaret Gibson was a film actress who worked with Taylor when he first came to Hollywood. In 1917 she was indicted, tried and acquitted on charges equivalent to prostitution (there were also allegations of opium dealing) and changed her professional name to Patricia Palmer. In 1923 Gibson was arrested and jailed on extortion charges which were later dropped. Margaret Gibson (Patricia Palmer) Margaret Gibson alias Patricia Palmer aka Ella Margaret Arce, aka Ella Margaret Lewis, [1] (September 14, 1894 - October 21, 1964) was an American actress, who landed ingénue leading roles in Vitagraphs westerns. ... Image File history File links Margaret_gibson. ... Image File history File links Margaret_gibson. ... Margaret Gibson (Patricia Palmer) Margaret Gibson alias Patricia Palmer aka Ella Margaret Arce, aka Ella Margaret Lewis, [1] (September 14, 1894 - October 21, 1964) was an American actress, who landed ingénue leading roles in Vitagraphs westerns. ... This article is about the drug. ... Margaret Gibson aka Gibby alias Patricia Palmer and Ella Margaret Arce aka Pat Lewis (September 14, 1894 near Colorado Springs, Colorado - October 21, 1964, Los Angeles, California) was an American stage and film actress who had leading roles in Vitagraph westerns, often opposite William Clifford. ...

Gibson was 27 and in Los Angeles at the time of the murder. There is no record her name was ever mentioned in connection with the investigation. Soon after the murder she got work in a number of films produced by Famous Players-Lasky, Taylor's studio at the time of his death. One of these films was among the last made by Mary Miles Minter. Gibson (in her words) "fled" the United States in 1934 but returned to Los Angeles in 1940 for medical reasons. In 1999 the widely cited newsletter Taylorology published an apparently credible account that on October 21, 1964, while living in the Hollywood hills under the name Pat Lewis on a modest widow's pension from Mobil Oil, she suffered a heart attack and before dying (as a recently converted Roman Catholic) confessed she "shot and killed William Desmond Taylor" along with several other things the witness didn't understand and could not remember more than 30 years later.^[14] Paramount Pictures Corporation is an American motion picture production and distribution company, based in Hollywood, California. ... Taylorology #1 (1985) Taylorology was a fanzine centered on the unsolved 1922 murder of Hollywood silent film director William Desmond Taylor. ...

Taylorology

From 1993 to 2000 Bruce Long, an employee at Arizona State University (later retired), transcribed several hundred newspaper and magazine articles from the 1910s and 1920s relating to Taylor, his murder, the suspects, many of Taylor's contemporaries and their links to Taylor. The compiled result is a journal called Taylorology which contains over a thousand pages of text and has been noted as a significant archive of primary and secondary source material relating both to Taylor's murder and the early Los Angeles film colony. Taylorology #1 (1985) Taylorology was a fanzine centered on the unsolved 1922 murder of Hollywood silent film director William Desmond Taylor. ... Arizona State University (ASU) is a public research institution of higher education and research with campuses located in the Phoenix Metropolitan Area. ...

Case still officially open

Through a combination of poor crime scene management and apparent corruption much physical evidence was immediately lost and the rest vanished over the years (although copies of a few documents from the police files were made public in 2007).^[15] Various theories were put forward after the murder and in the years since, along with the publication of many books claiming to have identified the murderer but no hard evidence was ever uncovered to link the crime to a particular individual. Given Margaret Gibson's thoroughly documented background the report of her dying confession in the Hollywood Hills is widely regarded as credible but aside from circumstantial evidence, no independent confirmation has emerged.

Hollywood legacy

A spate of newspaper-driven Hollywood scandals during the early 1920s included Taylor's murder, the Roscoe Arbuckle trial and the drug related deaths of such stars as Olive Thomas, Wallace Reid, Barbara La Marr and Alma Rubens, all of which stirred Hollywood studios to begin writing contracts with morality clauses, allowing the dismissal of contractees who breached them. Roscoe Conkling Arbuckle, also known as Fatty Arbuckle (March 24, 1887 – June 29, 1933), was an American silent film comedian, director, and screenwriter. ... Olive Thomas (20 October 1894, Charleroi, Pennsylvania – 10 September 1920 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France) was an American silent film actress and socialite. ... Wallace Reid Wallace Reid, born April 15, 1891 in St. ... Barbara La Marr (Reatha Dale Watson) (July 28, 1896 in Yakima, Washington – January 30, 1926 in Altadena, California) was a popular American stage and motion picture actress, cabaret artist and writer. ... Alma Rubens Alma Rubens (February 19, 1897 - January 22, 1931) is an american silent film actress. ...

The 1950 film Sunset Boulevard with William Holden and Gloria Swanson featured a fictional, aging silent screen actress named Norma Desmond whose name was taken from Taylor's middle name as a way to resonate with the widely publicized scandals of almost thirty years before. It has been suggested that Norma Desmond be merged into this article or section. ... William Holden (April 17, 1918 – ca. ... Gloria Swanson (March 27, 1899 - April 4, 1983), was an Academy Award-nominated, Golden Globe-winning American Hollywood actress. ...

Gore Vidal's 1990 novel Hollywood features a fictionalized account of the Taylor murder. Eugene Luther Gore Vidal (born October 3, 1925) (pronounced and , ) is an American author of novels, stage plays, screenplays, and essays, and the scion of a prominent political family. ... Hollywood is the fifth historical novel in Gore Vidals Narratives of Empire series. ...

Taylor directed or acted in over eighty films, most of which are believed to be lost. In 2005, the unmarked murder site was on the asphalt parking lot of a local discount store.

References

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Further reading

• Sidney D. Kirkpatrick, A Cast of Killers (King Vidor's view of the Taylor murder), publisher: Onyx; Reprint edition, September 1, 1992, paperback, 336 pages, ISBN 0-451-17418-6.
• Giroux, Robert (1990), A Deed of Death, Knopf, ISBN 0-394-58075-3
• Higham, Charles (2004), Murder in Hollywood: solving a silent screen mystery, University of Wisconsin Press, ISBN 0-299-20360-3
• Long, Bruce (1991), William Desmond Taylor: A Dossier, Scarecrow Press, ISBN 0-8108-2490-6
• Sennett, Mack (1954), King of Comedy, Doubleday, ISBN 0-9165-1566-4
• S. Brash, J. Cave, ed. (1993), "The Director", Unsolved Crimes (True Crime Series), Time-Life Books, ISBN 0-7835-0012-2

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External links

• Taylorology Homepage (Angelfire.com) Links to all issues of Taylorology (4 through 97).
• Literate Web - William Desmond Taylor murder (has many photographs of suspects/locations)
• William Desmond Taylor at the Internet Movie Database
• 1914 film with William Desmond Taylor
• 16 Silent film celebrities connected with the Taylor murder case
• William Desmond Taylor's Gravesite