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
Laurette Taylor ca. 1918
Taylor and her husband J. Hartley Manners circa 1914–1915
An American Red Cross Nursing Service recruitment poster from World War I, posed for by Taylor.
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.
Laurette Taylor
…They had two children, Dwight Oliver Taylor and Marguerite Courtney, but divorced c. 1910. On December 22, 1912, she married British-born playwright J. Hartley Manners, who wrote the play Peg o' My Heart, a successful play and an enduring personal triumph for Taylor, who toured in it extensively throughout the U.S…
J. Hartley Manners, c. 1918