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
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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Margaret Gibson (actress)
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Ella Margaret Gibson was an American stage and silent-film actress who had leading roles in Vitagraph Westerns, often opposite William Clifford. She also appeared with Charles Ray in The Coward and la
William Desmond Taylor
…and Kay-Bee. His earliest known screen appearance was in The Counterfeiter. He then acted for Vitagraph Studios, including four appearances opposite Margaret "Gibby" Gibson, and Balboa Amusement Producing Company. At Balboa, Taylor met actress Neva Gerber with whom he became engaged until 1919. Gerber later recalled, "He…
Gibson, 1917
Still from the 1914 Vitagraph film "The Riders of Petersham", with Margaret Gibson and William Desmond Taylor
Gibson featured in Motion Picture Magazine, 1915
Advertisement (1917)