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
Edward F Sands
Henry Peavey
Mabel Normand
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Amabel Ethelreid Normand, better known as Mabel Normand, was an American silent film actress, comedienne, director and screenwriter. She was a popular star and collaborator of Mack Sennett in their Ke
William Desmond Taylor
…holding US$78 in cash (modern day $1,500), a silver cigarette case, a Waltham pocket watch, a pen knife, and a locket bearing a photograph of actress Mabel Normand. A two-carat diamond ring was on his finger. With the evidence of the money and valuables on Taylor's body, robbery did not seem to be the motive for…
Normand c. 1920
Roscoe Arbuckle and Normand with Luke the Dog in Fatty and Mabel Adrift (1916)
Normand's crypt at Calvary Cemetery
Moviegoers Roscoe Arbuckle and Mack Sennett (foreground) argue while watching Normand onscreen in Mabel's Dramatic Career (1913)