Mary Miles Minter was an American actress, and one of the leading ladies who established the early Hollywood star system. She appeared in 53 silent films from 1912 to 1923.
Minter in 1923
Minter, c. 1918
Minter in 1922
Miles Minter by Witzel, circa 1917
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 silent films between 1914 and 1922 and acted in twenty-seven between 1913 and 1915.
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
Edward F Sands
Henry Peavey