Marshall Neilan
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Marshall Ambrose "Mickey" Neilan was an American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter, whose work in films began in the early silent era.
Neilan in 1913
Neilan with Blanche Sweet in 1922, the year they married
William Desmond Taylor
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William Desmond Taylor 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 sil
Marshall Neilan
…1915, Neilan was one of the founding members of the Motion Picture Directors Association along with directors such as Cecil B. DeMille, Allan Dwan, and William Desmond Taylor. At the end of 1916, Neilan was hired by Mary Pickford Films where he directed Pickford in several productions including Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm and…
Taylor (left) directing May McAvoy in the silent film Top of New York (1921), several months before his death
Taylor in a 1920 photograph addressed to actress Mary Miles Minter
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Henry Peavey