J. Hartley Manners
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John Hartley Manners was a London-born playwright of Irish extraction who wrote Peg o' My Heart, which starred his wife, Laurette Taylor, on Broadway in one of her greatest stage triumphs.
J. Hartley Manners, c. 1918
Manners and his wife, the actress Laurette Taylor, c. 1914
Laurette Taylor
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Laurette Taylor was an American stage and silent film star who is particularly well known for originating the role of Amanda Wingfield in the first production of Tennessee Williams's play The Glass Me
J. Hartley Manners
…Hartley Manners (10 August 1870 – 19 December 1928) was a London-born playwright of Irish extraction who wrote Peg o' My Heart, which starred his wife, Laurette Taylor, on Broadway in one of her greatest stage triumphs. Manners was born on 10 August 1870. He wrote the 1922 silent screen adaptation of his own 1912 play…
Laurette Taylor ca. 1918
An American Red Cross Nursing Service recruitment poster from World War I, posed for by Taylor.