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May 21, 2018 · William Desmond Taylor was born in Carlow, Ireland on April 26, 1872. He was sent to a finishing school in Kansas when he was 18 and fell in love with America. Between 1914 and 1915, he landed roles in several silent films and made his directorial debut with The Awakening. Over the next seven years, with a stint in the Army during the end of ...
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By the time the Los Angeles Police Department detectives arrived the Taylor crime scene was severely compromised. Orange Blossom Gin Cocktail Tray - photo taken after the murder Who was William Desmond Taylor?
William Desmond Taylor (born William Cunningham Deane-Tanner; 26 April 1872 – 1 February 1922) was an Anglo-Irish-American film director and actor. A popular figure in the growing Hollywood motion picture colony of the 1910s and early 1920s, Taylor directed fifty-nine silent films between 1914 and 1922 and acted in twenty-seven between 1913 ...
Feb 15, 2019 · Diagram of crime scene showing the location of Taylor’s apartment, his neighbors’ apartments, and the purported route taken by the assailant. Herald Examiner Collection, image created in 1922. The last person (besides the killer) to see William Desmond Taylor was his good friend Mabel Normand.
Feb 1, 2022 · [Update: Oct. 13, 10:56 a.m. Everybody seems to recognize this as William Desmond Taylor’s apartment on Alvarado. Stay tuned for more photos!] Mary Mallory, Donna, Carol Gwenn, Steven Bibb, Anne Papineau, Allison Francis, Gregory Moore, Lee Ann, Thom and Megan, Zabadu and RJ are on the case!
Jan 27, 2012 · Before the police arrived, executives from Taylor’s studio were called and flooded the crime scene, allegedly taking away letters and many pieces of vital evidence. A set of keys in Taylor’s possession that did not match any locks in Taylor’s house or at his studio.
May 21, 2021 · Hollywood is abuzz over the whodunit. Taylor’s murder became one of the biggest scandals to rock Hollywood. Headlines read “Jealous Man Hunted as Slayer of Taylor!” and “Taylor Murder One of Most Baffling Cases Ever Given to Los Angeles Police,” as reporters swarmed the apartment complex.
