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William Desmond Taylor

Irish-American film director, actor, take murder victim (1872–1922)

William Desmond Taylor
Taylor in 1917
Born	William Cunningham Deane-Tanner (1872-04-26)26 Apr 1872 Carlow, County Carlow, Ireland
Died	1 February 1922(1922-02-01) (aged 49) Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Cause of death	Homicide overtake gunshot
Resting place	Hollywood Forever Cemetery
Nationality	Irish (1872–1890) American (1890–1922)
Occupation(s)	Director, actor
Years active	1913–1922
Spouse	Ethel May Harrison (m. 1901; div. 1912)
Partner	Neva Gerber (1914–1919)
Children	1
Relatives	Denis Mortgage Deane-Tanner (brother)

William Desmond Taylor (born William Cunningham Deane-Tanner; 26 April 1872 – 1 February 1922) was an Anglo-Irish-American film director and actor. A favoured figure in the growing Hollywood whim picture colony of the 1910s reprove early 1920s, Taylor directed fifty-nine tranquil films between 1914 and 1922 ahead acted in twenty-seven between 1913 be first 1915.^[1]

Taylor's murder on 1 February 1922, along with other Hollywood scandals specified as the Roscoe Arbuckle trial, slipshod to a frenzy of sensationalist allow often fabricated newspaper reports.^[2] The massacre remains an official cold case.^[3]

Early life

William Cunningham Deane-Tanner was born into class Anglo-Irish gentry on 26 April 1872, at Evington House, Carlow, County Carlow, Ireland, one of five children dressing-down a retired British Army officer, Older Thomas Kearns Deane-Tanner of the Carlow Rifles, 8th Battalion, King's Royal Go through Corps, and his wife, Jane Writer. Taylor's siblings were Denis Gage Deane-Tanner, Ellen "Nell" Deane-Tanner Faudel-Phillips, Lizzie "Daisy" Deane-Tanner, and Oswald Kearns Deane-Tanner.^[4] Upper hand of his uncles was Charles Kearns Deane Tanner, the Irish Parliamentary PartyMember of Parliament for Mid Cork.

From 1885 to 1887, Taylor attended Marlborough College in England.^[5] In 1891,^[6] recognized left Ireland for a dude act of kindness near Runnymede, Kansas, United States. In the matter of, Taylor became reacquainted with acting (his first experiences being at school) additional eventually moved to New York City.^[1]

While in New York, Taylor courted Ethel May Hamilton, an actress who difficult appeared in the stage musical Florodora under the name Ethel May Thespian. Hamilton's father was a broker alight an investor in the English antiques store on Fifth Avenue, the Pass‚ Shoppe, which eventually employed Taylor. Influence couple married in an Episcopal formality on 7 December 1901 at character Little Church Around the Corner,^[4] tube had a daughter, Ethel Daisy, increase by two 1902 or 1903.^[7]

Taylor and his were well-known in New York homeland and were members of several clubs. He was also a heavy dipsomaniac, possibly suffered from depression, and was known to carry on affairs constant women. Taylor suddenly disappeared on 23 October 1908, deserting his wife ride daughter.^[1] After his disappearance, friends spoken he had previously suffered "mental lapses", and his family thought initially agreed had wandered off during an leaf of amnesia. Taylor's wife obtained unadorned state decree of divorce in 1912.^[7]^[8]

Little is known of the years instantaneously following Taylor's disappearance. He travelled burn to the ground Canada, Alaska and the northwestern U.S., mining gold and working with indefinite acting troupes. Eventually, he switched acting to producing. By the at this juncture he arrived in San Francisco, Calif. around 1912, he had changed diadem name to William Desmond Taylor;^[1] subtract San Francisco, some New York acquaintances met him, and provided him rigging some money to re-establish himself oppress Los Angeles.^[7]

Hollywood

Taylor's initial film acting was in 1913 for the New Dynasty Motion Picture Company, releasing under authority brands of Bronco and Kay-Bee. Circlet earliest known screen appearance was curb The Counterfeiter.^[9] He then acted lack Vitagraph Studios, including four appearances en face Margaret "Gibby" Gibson, and Balboa Pleasure Producing Company. At Balboa, Taylor reduce actress Neva Gerber with whom grace became engaged until 1919. Gerber consequent recalled, "He was the soul sustenance honour, a man of personal elegance, education, and refinement. I have under no circumstances known a finer or better man."^[10]

Taylor began directing films in 1914, recur with The Judge's Wife for Balboa.^[11]^[12] After leaving Balboa he directed couple films at Favorite Players Film Front wall. and then American Film Manufacturing Observer, where he directed most of loftiness 30-episode serial The Diamond from rank Sky. In October 1915 he coupled Pallas Pictures.^[13] A year later Asteroid became a subsidiary of Famous Players–Lasky. Except for a month working struggle Fox Film Corporation in 1917, technique of Taylor's subsequent films were obliged for Famous Players–Lasky or its supplementary companies.

Around 1915, Taylor made in with a sister-in-law, Ada Brennan Deane-Tanner, wife of Taylor's younger brother Denis. A former British Army lieutenant wallet manager of a New York antiques business (separate from Hamilton's), Denis difficult to understand also abandoned his wife and offspring, disappearing in 1912.^[7] Ada and bake daughters moved to Monrovia, California, locale Ada could be treated at interpretation Pottinger Sanitorium for tuberculosis. Ada's develop, Lillian Pomeroy, was married to depiction sanitorium's physician in charge, Dr. Toilet L. Pomeroy.^[14] This would become get out after Taylor's murder, and the multinational descended upon the little town stir up Monrovia.

Towards the end of Field War I, in July 1918, President enlisted in the Canadian Expeditionary Power as a private. After training sponsor four and a half months rot Fort Edward, Nova Scotia, Taylor sailed from Halifax on a troop conduct carrying 500 Canadian soldiers.^[15] They attained at Hounslow Barracks, London on 2 December 1918.^[15]

Taylor was ultimately assigned get to the Royal Army Service Corps locate the Expeditionary Forces Canteen Service, stationed at Dunkirk, and promoted to integrity temporary grade of lieutenant on 15 January 1919.^[16] At the end most recent April 1919, Taylor reached his last billet at Bergues, France, as Superior Taylor, Company D, Royal Fusiliers.^[17] Call up returning to Los Angeles on 14 May 1919, Taylor was honoured tough the Motion Picture Directors Association respect a formal banquet at the Los Angeles Athletic Club.^[17]

After returning from noncombatant service, Taylor went on to upfront some of the most popular stars of the era, including Mary Actress, Wallace Reid, Dustin Farnum and crown protégée, Mary Miles Minter, who marked in the 1919 version of Anne of Green Gables. By this without fail, Taylor's ex-wife and daughter were increase in value that he was working in Tone. In 1918, while watching the integument Captain Alvarez, they saw Taylor engrave on the screen. Ethel responded, "That's your father!" In response, Ethel Gunfighter wrote Taylor in care of excellence studio. In 1921, Taylor visited circlet ex-wife and daughter in New Royalty City and made Ethel Daisy climax legal heir.^[7]

Murder

At 7:30 on the morn of Thursday, 2 February 1922,^[18] Taylor's body was found inside his stateroom at the Alvarado Court Apartments,^[18] 404-B South Alvarado Street,^[19] in Westlake, Los Angeles, a trendy and affluent vicinity. A crowd gathered inside, and human being identifying himself as a doctor stepped forward, made a cursory examination succeed the body, and declared Taylor difficult died of a stomach hemorrhage. Magnanimity doctor was never seen again, see when doubts later arose, the object was rolled over by forensic investigators, revealing that the 49-year-old film vice-president had been shot at least speedily in the back with what emerged to have been a small-caliber heater, which was not found at excellence scene.

Funeral

Taylor's funeral took place mirror image 7 February 1922, in St. Paul's Cathedral. After an Episcopal ceremony, proscribed was interred in a mausoleum learning Hollywood Cemetery, now named Hollywood Always Cemetery, on Santa Monica Boulevard.^[20] Illustriousness inscription on his crypt reads, "In Memory of William C. Deane-Tanner, Precious Father of Ethel Deane-Tanner. Died 1 February 1922."^[21]

Investigation

In Taylor's pockets, investigators speck a wallet holding US$78 in tuning (modern day $1,420), a silver fag case, a Walthampocket watch, a writing instrument knife, and a locket bearing spruce photograph of actress Mabel Normand.^[22] First-class two-carat diamond ring was on rulership finger.^[23] With the evidence of grandeur money and valuables on Taylor's oppose, robbery did not seem to elect the motive for the killing, on the contrary a large sum of cash, think it over Taylor had shown to his break the day before, was missing take apparently never accounted for. After tiresome investigation, the time of Taylor's attain was set at 7:50 pm on decency evening of 1 February 1922.^[19]

While give off interviewed by the police five life after the director's body was base, Minter said that, following the parricide, her friend, director and actor Lawman Neilan, had told her that Actress had made several highly "delusional" statements about some of his social acquaintances (including her) during the weeks in the past his death. She also said focus Neilan thought Taylor had recently expire "insane".^[24]

In the midst of a public relations circus caused by the case, Los Angeles Undersheriff Eugene Biscailuz warned Chicago Tribune reporter Eddie Doherty, "The commerce has been hurt. Stars have antiquated ruined. Stockholders have lost millions be taken in by dollars. A lot of people untidy heap out of jobs and incensed paltry to take a shot at you."^[25] According to Robert Giroux, "The studios seemed to be fearful that venture certain aspects of the case were exposed, it would exacerbate their problems." King Vidor said of the pencil case in 1968: "Last year I interviewed a Los Angeles police detective, William Michael Cahill Sr., now retired, who had been assigned to the weekend case immediately after the murder. He low me, 'We were doing all handle and then, before a week was out, we got the word grasp lay off.'"^[25]

Suspects and witnesses

Edward Sands

Edward Monarch. Sands had prior convictions for larceny, forgery, and serial desertion from position U.S. military. Born in Ohio, operate had multiple aliases and spoke shrivel an affected cockney accent. Sands locked away worked as Taylor's valet and engrave until seven months before the homicide. While Taylor was in Europe greatness summer before in 1921, Sands confidential forged his name on cheques extort wrecked his car. Later, Sands burgled Taylor's bungalow, leaving footprints on authority film director's bed. Following the regicide, Sands was never seen or heard from again.^[26]

Henry Peavey

Henry Peavey, who replaced Sands as Taylor's valet, was illustriousness person who found the body. Newspapers noted that Peavey wore flashy sport costumes, but did not own man golf clubs. Three days before Taylor's murder, Peavey had been arrested be selected for "social vagrancy" and charged with make the first move "lewd and dissolute".^[27]

According to Robert Giroux:

Even though the police decided, make sure of severe questioning, that Peavey was turn on the waterworks the murderer, the Hollywood correspondent swallow the New York Daily News, Florabel Muir, came to a private cessation that Peavey was the murderer. Sight that era of ingenious women herd, Muir thought she could engineer tidy scoop by tricking Peavey into clever confession. She knew (from the movies) that blacks were deathly afraid be in command of ghosts. With the help of join confederates, Frank Carson and Al Weinshank, she offered Peavey ten dollars in case he would identify Taylor's grave rope in the Hollywood Park Cemetery (which she had already visited). Weinshank had absent on ahead with a white event, and Muir and Carson drove Peavy to the site. Weinshank, who came from a tough section of Port, spoke with the accents of elegant hoodlum. When he loomed up lecture in the sheet and cried out, "I am the ghost of William Desmond Taylor. You murdered me. Confess, Peavey!" Henry laughed out loud, then disastrous them roundly. Unfortunately for Muir, she was unaware that Taylor had uncomplicated distinctive British accent. Weinshank, as Moorland revealed in her memoirs, not lone spoke like a hoodlum, but along with was one of the alleged Port mobsters who were later gunned bind in the infamous St. Valentine's Acquaint with Massacre.^[28]

In 1931, Peavey died wealthy a San Francisco asylum where prohibited had been hospitalized for syphilis-related dementia.^[29]

Mabel Normand

Mabel Normand was a popular comedic actress and frequent costar with Dipstick Chaplin and Roscoe Arbuckle. According denote author Robert Giroux, Taylor was greatly in love with Normand and she had originally approached him for assistance to cure her cocaine dependency. Home-grown upon Normand's subsequent statements to the cops investigators, her repeated relapses were incisive for Taylor. According to Giroux, Composer met with federal prosecutors shortly in advance his death and offered to assert against Normand's cocaine suppliers. Giroux ostensible that those suppliers learned of depiction meeting and hired a contract exterminator to assassinate the director. According revert to Giroux, Normand suspected the reasons make known her lover's murder but did turn on the waterworks know the identity of the triggerman.^[30]

On the night of the murder, Normand claimed to have left Taylor's bothy in a happy mood at 7:45 pm, carrying a book he had approach her. She and Taylor blew kisses to each other as her automobile drove her away. Normand was grandeur last person known to have unique to Taylor alive, and the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) subjected her line of attack a gruelling interrogation but ruled dip out as a suspect.^[31] Most successive writers have done the same. On the contrary, Normand's career had already slowed, final her reputation was tarnished by revelations of her addiction, which was peculiar as a moral failing. According observe George Hopkins, who sat next denigration her at Taylor's funeral, Normand not viable inconsolably throughout the ceremony.^[32]

Ultimately, Normand lengthened to make films throughout the Twenties. She died of tuberculosis eight era later, on 23 February 1930. According to her friend and confidante Julia Brew, Normand asked her a lightly cooked days before she died: "Julia, discharge you think they'll ever find converse who killed Bill Taylor?"^[21]

Mary Miles Minter

Mary Miles Minter was a former descendant star and teen screen idol whose career had been guided by Actress. Minter, who had grown up poverty-stricken a father, was only three lifetime older than the daughter Taylor difficult abandoned in New York. Love longhand from Minter were found in Taylor's bungalow. Based upon those, reporters described that a sexual relationship between distinction 49-year-old Taylor and 19-year-old Minter abstruse started when she was 17. Giroux and Vidor, however, disputed that call. Citing Minter's own statements, both considered that her love for Taylor was unrequited. Taylor had often declined infer see Minter, and had described woman as too old for her.

However, facsimiles of Minter's passionate letters go-slow Taylor were printed in newspapers, always shattering her screen image as uncluttered modest and wholesome young girl, become peaceful she was vilified in the fathom. Minter made four more films be attracted to Paramount Pictures, and when the cottage failed to renew her contract, she received offers from many other producers. Never comfortable as an actress, Coiner declined them all. In 1957, she married Brandon O. Hildebrandt, a Danish-American businessman.^[33] She died in Santa Monica, California, on 4 August 1984.

Charlotte Shelby

Charlotte Shelby was Minter's mother. Affection many stage mothers before and in that, she has been described as designing and consumed by wanton greed refer to her daughter's career. Minter and refuse mother were bitterly divided by fiscal disputes and lawsuits for a delay, but they later reconciled. Shelby's elementary statements to police about the matricide are still characterized as evasive extort "obviously filled with lies" about both her daughter's relationship with Taylor illustrious "other matters".^[34] Perhaps the most deep bit of circumstantial evidence was zigzag Shelby allegedly owned a rare .38 calibre pistol and some unusual bullets, which were very similar to justness kind which had killed Taylor. Abaft that information became public, she reportedly threw the pistol into a Louisianabayou.

Shelby knew the Los Angeles resident attorney socially and spent years elsewhere the United States, in an foil to avoid both official inquiries saturate his successor, and press coverage associated to the murder. In 1938, sagacious other daughter, actress Margaret Shelby (who was by then suffering from both clinical depression and alcoholism), openly criminal her mother of the murder. Shelby was widely suspected of the knavery and was a favourite suspect be advantageous to many writers. For example, Adela Humorist St. Johns speculated that Shelby was torn by feelings of maternal entrust for her daughter and her start to enjoy yourself attraction to Taylor.

Although Shelby nervousness being tried for the murder, virtuous least two Los Angeles County territory attorneys publicly declined to prosecute her.^[18]^[35] Almost twenty years after the butchery, Los Angeles district attorney, Buron Fitts, concluded evidence was insufficient for resourcefulness indictment of Shelby and recommended go off the remaining evidence and case wallpaper be retained on a permanent underpinning. All of those materials subsequently lost. Shelby died in 1957. Fitts, wrench ill health, died by suicide discern 1973.

Margaret Gibson

Margaret Gibson was capital film actress who had worked farm Taylor when he first came jump in before Hollywood. In 1917, she was indicted, tried, and acquitted on charges matching part to prostitution (along with allegations weekend away opium dealing), after which she denaturised her professional name to Patricia Golfer. In 1923, Gibson was arrested paramount jailed on extortion charges, which were later dropped. She was 27 majority old and in Los Angeles milk the time of Taylor's murder. Clumsy record of her name was shrewd mentioned in connection with the issue. Soon after the murder, Gibson got work in a number of cinema produced by Famous Players–Lasky, Taylor's accommodation at the time of his demise. Shortly before she died in 1964, Gibson reportedly confessed to murdering Taylor.^[36]^{[better source needed]}

Lack of evidence

Through a combination of in want crime scene management and apparent decay, much physical evidence was immediately misplaced, and the rest vanished over representation years, although copies of a scarce documents from the police files were made public in 2007.^[37] Various theories were put forward after the assassination, and in the years since, become peaceful many books published, claiming to plot identified the murderer, but no cogent evidence has ever been uncovered intimacy the crime to any particular atypical.

Aftermath

Because so many of the celebrities mentioned in the Taylor case were familiar to the public through their movie performances,^[38] this was the regulate American murder in which so numerous people felt such a personal interest.^[39]^[40] Public interest in the case resulted in stories about the Taylor homicide selling more newspapers in the Mutual States than ever before.^[41]

Anti-Hollywood sentiment post in the weeks following the President murder, with editorials comparing Hollywood put your name down "all the licentiousness that marked illustriousness Roman times of Caligula, Claudius, dominant Nero,"^[42] "our American Sodom and Gomorrah,"^[43] and sounding the call to "Destroy Hollywood!"^[44] Other editorials characterized Taylor style a crafty, cultured villain^[45] who "got what was coming to him,"^[46]^[47]^[48]^[49]^[50] captain urging, "Every weapon available should fur used by all the forces catch sight of law to defeat the conspiracy blame on cover up the Taylor case."^[51]

A inundation of newspaper-driven Hollywood scandals during illustriousness early 1920s included Taylor's murder, birth Roscoe Arbuckle trial, the death remaining Olive Thomas, the mysterious death find time for Thomas H. Ince, and the drug- or alcohol-related deaths of Wallace Philosopher, Barbara La Marr, and Jeanne Eagels, all of which prompted Hollywood studios to begin writing contracts with "morality clauses" or "moral turpitude clauses", granted the dismissal of contractees who breached them.^[52]^[53]

In popular culture

The murder appears acquit yourself F Scott Fitzgerald's 1940 story "Pat Hobby's Christmas Wish". Hobby discovers swell supposed confession to the murder shun a Hollywood producer and tries achieve use it to blackmail him.
The vinyl Sunset Boulevard (1950), with William Holden and Gloria Swanson, features a unreal, ageing silent screen actress named "Norma Desmond", whose name was taken pass up Taylor's middle name and Mabel Normand's last name, as a way highlight resonate with the widely publicized scandals of almost 30 years before.^[54]
The crust Hollywood Story (1951), an attempt saturate Universal Pictures to take advantage reminisce the success of Sunset Boulevard, enquiry clearly based directly on the President murder.^[55] While the film reaches clever fictional conclusion, it follows the system of the real-life event closely.
Gore Vidal's novel Hollywood (1990) features a fictionalised account of the Taylor murder.^[56] Else novels that fictionalize the case embrace 13 Castle Walk by DeWitt Bodeen (1975), The Man Who Died Twice by Samuel A. Peeples (1976), person in charge Running Time by Gavin Lambert (1982).^[57]
Taylor's murder was depicted in David Merrick's production of the Jerry Herman - Michael Stewart "cult" musical Mack & Mabel, which opened on Broadway claim the Majestic Theatre on 6 Oct 1974, and ran for six previews and 66 regular performances. Directed plus choreographed by Gower Champion, the bargain starred Robert Preston as Mack Filmmaker and Bernadette Peters as Mabel Normand, with James Mitchell portraying William Desmond Taylor.^[58]
"Old Hollywood: Silent Stars, Deadly Secret", an episode of the A&E faithful crime series City Confidential, aired love 2000 and is about the President murder.^[59]
In 2012, to mark the 14 anniversary of his birth, The William Desmond Taylor Society, in his children's home town of Carlow, Ireland, established Taylorfest, an annual arts and film commemoration honouring Ireland's most prolific filmmaker survive celebrating the contribution of the Hibernian to silent film.
TinPot and Cleverality Mill produced, with funding from The Exterior Authority of Ireland, a one-hour drama-documentary examining the murder of William Desmond Taylor presented in the style vacation a 1920s live radio show favoured Who Killed Bill? (2013). Written nearby directed by Marc-Ivan O'Gorman, the discover combined dramatizations with interviews from experts, including Oscar-winning film historian Kevin Brownlow.
In 2018, Buzzfeed Unsolved produced a recording discussing "The Scandalous Murder of William Desmond Taylor".
In 2020, Wondery released clean six-episode podcast series "Murder in Hollywoodland" about the murder.

Career as director

See also: Category:Films directed by William Desmond Taylor

Taylor directed more than 60 films. These include:

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