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May 26, 1990 · William Desmond Taylor's murder occurred more than ninety years ago. The fact that people today, who weren't even born yet, read about it, debate and discuss it, speaks to the iconic nature of the crime, it's aftermath and the fallout which prevailed in the motion picture industry for nearly half a century afterward.
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Oct 15, 2019 · Webster cartoon about the murder of William Desmond Taylor produced by HT Webster for the New York Tribune in 1922. Photograph: Wikimedia Commons. His murder on February 22nd, 1922 rocked ...
William Desmond Taylor was born on April 26, 1872 as William Cunningham Deane-Tanner to Major Kearns Deane-Tanner and his wife, Jane. His father was a retired British Army officer. Coming from an Anglo-Irish descent, young William was the third child of the four children born to the couple.
Oct 31, 2013 · William Desmond Taylor. 404 South Alvarado Street, Los Angeles, CA 90057. In one of Hollywood's oldest mysteries, Irish director William Desmond Taylor was found shot to death in his Westlake ...
Silent film star, Margaret Gibson, unburdens her Tinseltown secret incriminating herself in the murder of Hollywood director, William Desmond Taylor. Produce...
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On her deathbed in 1964, she reportedly made a dying confession to the 1922 murder of director William Desmond Taylor. Gibson was sometimes credited or otherwise identified under at least seven other names, such as Patricia Palmer, Patsy Palmer, Margie Gibson, Marguerite Gibson, Ella Margaret Lewis, Ella Margaret Arce, or Pat Lewis.
Dec 1, 2014 · Irish-born silent film director and actor William Desmond Taylor had a flourishing Hollywood career with nearly sixty films as a director and over twenty-five films as an actor to his credit, until he became the victim of a homicide in February 1922 at his Los Angeles home. Officially still a cold case, it became been…
