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    Estelle Taylor

    1894-05-20 (130 years old) in Wilmington, Delaware, USA

    From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Estelle Taylor (May 20, 1894—April 15, 1958) was an American Hollywood actress whose career was most prominent during the silent film era of the 1920s. Born Ida Estelle Taylor in Wilmington, Delaware, the daughter of Harry D Taylor and Ida LaBertha (Barrett) Taylor, Estelle married three times during her lifetime. Her first husband was banker Kenneth Malcom Peacock, her second was William Harrison "Jack" Dempsey (Jack Dempsey the world heavyweight boxing champion), and theatrical producer Paul Smith. After relocating to Hollywood, she began taking bit parts in films. One of Taylor's earliest successes was in 1920 in Fox's While New York Sleeps with Marc McDermott. She and McDermott play three sets of characters in different time periods. This film was lost for decades but has been recently discovered and screened at a film festival in Los Angeles. Taylor is possibly best recalled for her roles in the 1922 drama Monte Cristo opposite John Gilbert, the enormously successful 1923 Cecil B. DeMille directed The Ten Commandments as Miriam, the sister of Moses; as Lucrezia Borgia in the 1926 Warner Bros.' first feature-length film with synchronized Vitaphone sound effects and musical soundtrack Don Juan opposite John Barrymore, Mary Astor and Warner Oland, 1927's New York, opposite Ricardo Cortez and Lois Wilson, 1931's Street Scene with Sylvia Sidney and both the Academy Award winning Cimarron and the Clara Bow talkie, Call Her Savage in 1932. Taylor married heavyweight boxing champion, Jack Dempsey, in 1925. She was supposed to have co-starred in a movie with actor Rudolph Valentino which would have brought her more widespread fame but he died just before production was to begin. In 1928 she and husband Dempsey starred in a Broadway play titled The Big Fight, loosely based around Dempsey's boxing popularity, which ran for 31 performances at the Majestic Theatre. When she divorced Jack in July, 1933 she walked away with $40,000 in cash as well as 3 of their cars and their $150,000 estate. When a fan came up to her for an autographed picture of her, which had Jack's name on top she allegedly wrote: "This is the last time that son-of-a-bitch will be on top of me." Her marriage to Dempsey produced no children. Taylor was a close friend of Mexican-born actress Lupe Vélez, and on the evening of December 13, 1944 she spent several hours at a restaurant having dinner and drinks with the actress before Vélez returned home and committed suicide. The ensuing press coverage briefly propelled Taylor once again into the headlines. Taylor's last film appearance was in the 1945 Jean Renoir directed drama The Southerner. In her later years, Taylor devoted her free time to her pets and was the president and founder of the California Pet Owners' Protective League. In 1953, Taylor served on the City Animal Regulation Commission in Los Angeles, California. Taylor died in 1958.She had been suffering for some time with cancer and had been bedridden the last six months. She was interred at Hollywood Forever Cemetery. For her contribution to the motion picture industry, Estelle Taylor was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1620 Vine Street in Hollywood, California. In a 1983 American made-for-television movie biopic of boxer Jack Dempsey, Estelle Taylor was portrayed by British actress Victoria Tennant. Description above from the Wikipedia article Estelle Taylor, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia

    Movies

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    The Southerner
    65.54 %|Apr 30, 1945
    Drama
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    Bachelor Mother
    70.73 %|Jun 30, 1939
    Comedy, Romance
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    Frisco Kid
    68 %|Nov 30, 1935
    Adventure, Romance, Action
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    Call Her Savage
    56 %|Nov 24, 1932
    Drama
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    Western Limited
    0 %|Aug 5, 1932
    Mystery
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    The Unholy Garden
    60 %|Oct 6, 1931
    Romance, Drama
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    Street Scene
    68 %|Sep 5, 1931
    Drama, Romance
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    Cimarron
    54.96000000000001 %|Jan 26, 1931
    Drama, Western, History
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    Liliom
    66 %|Sep 27, 1930
    Drama
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    Where East Is East
    57 %|May 4, 1929
    Drama
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    Pusher-in-the-Face
    0 %|Mar 28, 1929
    Comedy
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    Show People
    71 %|Nov 20, 1928
    Comedy, Romance
    actor
    Lady Raffles
    0 %|Jul 15, 1928
    Comedy, Crime
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    Honor Bound
    0 %|Apr 29, 1928
    Drama
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    The Whip Woman
    0 %|Feb 5, 1928
    Drama
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    New York
    0 %|Jan 30, 1927
    Drama
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    Don Juan
    66 %|Aug 6, 1926
    Adventure, Romance
    actor
    Wandering Footsteps
    0 %|Jun 14, 1926
    Drama
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    The Alaskan
    0 %|Sep 14, 1924
    Drama
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    Tiger Love
    0 %|Jun 30, 1924
    Drama, Romance
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    Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall
    43 %|May 24, 1924
    Romance, Drama, History
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    The Ten Commandments
    65.07 %|Nov 23, 1923
    Drama, Fantasy
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    Hollywood
    70 %|Aug 19, 1923
    Comedy, Drama
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    Mary of the Movies
    0 %|May 27, 1923
    Drama, Romance
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    Bavu
    0 %|May 7, 1923
    Drama
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    Only a Shop Girl
    0 %|Dec 15, 1922
    Crime, Romance
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    Thorns and Orange Blossoms
    0 %|Dec 10, 1922
    Drama, Romance
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    Monte Cristo
    64 %|Sep 3, 1922
    Drama, Romance
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    A Fool There Was
    0 %|Jun 18, 1922
    Drama
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    Footfalls
    0 %|Sep 8, 1921
    Mystery
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    Blind Wives
    0 %|Dec 19, 1920
    Drama
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    While New York Sleeps
    0 %|Aug 23, 1920
    Drama, Crime
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    The Revenge of Tarzan
    55 %|May 30, 1920
    Action, Adventure
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    The Golden Shower
    0 %|Nov 30, 1919
    Drama
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    A Broadway Saint
    0 %|Jul 21, 1919
    Comedy

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