Olive Thomas
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Olive Thomas was an American silent-film actress, art model, and photo model. Her birth certificate appears to list her name as Oliva, but this is widely thought to be an error. In the 1900 census, sh
Thomas in 1919
Between Poses by Penrhyn Stanlaws, 1915
Thomas in Out Yonder, 1919
Autographed photo of Thomas, c. 1916
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
Olive Thomas
…has been cited as one of the first major Hollywood scandals. Other scandals around the time—including the Fatty Arbuckle trial in 1921, the murder of William Desmond Taylor in 1922, and the drug-related death of Wallace Reid in 1923—caused many religious and morality groups to label Hollywood as "immoral". A legend that…
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