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	William Desmond Taylor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		William Desmond Taylor (born William Cunningham Deane-Tanner April 26, 1872 in Carlow, Ireland – February 1, 1922 in Los Angeles) was a successful US film director and a popular figure in the growing Hollywood film colony of the 1910s and early 20s.
		Taylor had put up bail for him and was due to appear in court on his behalf.
		The Taylor murder, along with the Fatty Arbuckle scandal and the drug related deaths of such stars as Olive Thomas, Wallace Reid, Barbara La Marr and Alma Rubens were catalysts in the effort of Hollywood to purge itself of undesirable influences.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_Desmond_Taylor (1696 words)

	Literateweb - Taylorology
		Taylor's death had a deep and lasting impact on Hollywood, and was the catalyst for the formation of the Hays Office (Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America, Inc, or MPPDA), which under Will Hays helped consolidate economic power among the major studios and exerted strict censorship control over most Hollywood production until 1966.
		The bullet that killed Taylor was an older.38 caliber type that, according to at least one expert, was quite unusual and matched an unfired bullet from a pistol owned by Charlotte, which she later threw into a bayou in Louisiana.
		Taylor's five room "bungalow", which today would probably be called a townhouse, is the right half of the building facing the camera (his front door is visible).
	www.literateweb.com /taylor (2724 words)

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		Taylor is said to have told friends that he feared vengeance from the woman and meant to be careful.
		Cahill thinks that one of Taylor's feminine admirers, hopelessly in love with him, watched the bungalow, saw Mabel Normand leave, went into an emotional rage, knew that Taylor was alone, and then stepped into the living room, took a gun from her handbag and fired the fatal shot.
		Miss Minter's close friendship with Taylor, which she freely admitted after his death and which was confirmed by a long series of love letters between the couple, filed as evidence in the case, was discussed by Keyes and Mrs.
	www.etext.org /zines/ASCII/Taylorology/Taylor14.txt (10885 words)

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		Although Taylor was somewhat secretive, insofar as he did not discuss his personal troubles with other men, there was nothing which indicated that the slain director was a mystery man in any sense of the word, according to Rawlinson.
		Taylor was really nothing more than an acquaintance," she said, "and it was only through a misunderstanding on my mother's part that my name was mentioned in the case at all.
		Taylor for a week, and both the night before the murder and the night the crime was committed I worked practically all night at the studio and slept there because it was too late to go home.
	www.public.asu.edu /~ialong/Taylor40.txt (11005 words)

	The Murder of William Desmond Taylor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		On the night of February 1 1922, someone shot Hollywood director William Desmond Taylor in the back, between neck and shoulder, leaving him dead on the floor of his duplex at the Alvarado Court Apartments.
		English born director William Desmond Taylor had seemed to be one of Hollywood's finest minds.
		Taylor had been seen in opium dens where men smoked the pipe and had sex with each other.
	www.francesfarmersrevenge.com /stuff/archive/oldnews/wdtaylor.htm (744 words)

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		Taylor." On the contrary, there are several reliable sources--including Mary's own statement--which clearly show that during 1920/1921 Shelby knew about the Taylor/Minter romance, and she was strongly opposed to it.
		Taylor might have had." Miss Minter was asked about the possibility of Edward Sands, Taylor's valet, who was charged with the murder but who was never apprehended, being involved in the crime.
		She was to be asked of her visit, her long companionship with Taylor, the statement of his valet that she and Taylor were to marry "and have a little baby," an alleged quarrel with the director and the letters she wrote to the man of mystery.
	www.etext.org /zines/ASCII/Taylorology/Taylor12.txt (10787 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Taylor's revolver was found in a drawer of the dresser in his bedroom on the second floor of the unpretentious house.
		Taylor,' I said to him, and that's the last I saw of him until I opened the door this morning and found his dead body, his feet stretching toward me on the floor." The negro broke into soft sobs and then declared passionately: "I wish I could get the man that did it.
		Taylor, being unusually well-placed to extend favors to lady artists, and being a dashing fellow withal was popular with the fair and received a number of visitors, for whom an inventory of his effects reveals that he furnished every modern convenience.
	www.assumption.edu /acad/ii/Academic/history/His130/twenties/Taylor (15652 words)

	The William Desmond Taylor Case
		Taylor was engaged in a telephone call that evidently worried him, when Mabel Normand called at his apartments at 7:15 p.m.
		Taylor is reported to have told Charles Maigne, a friend, that he feared unknown persons, who invaded his apartments while he was absent, walked on his bed with dusty shoes, and left gold-tipped cigarette stubs.
		Taylor, he wrote, in his own handwriting, a sort of servile contract, in which he said that he would be Mr.
	www.angelfire.com /mn/hp/tay1.html (4272 words)

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		TAYLOROLOGY is a newsletter focusing on the life and death of William Desmond Taylor, a top Paramount film director in early Hollywood who was shot to death on February 1, 1922.
		Taylor was born on the country estate of his grandfather, near Mallows [sic] in County Cork, Ireland.
		Taylor is very grateful that he has had a life of such unusual variety.
	www.public.asu.edu /~ialong/Taylor04.txt (7224 words)

	The Unsolved Murder of William Desmond Taylor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		William Desmond Taylor was a former actor turned director in early Hollywood.
		She was a cocaine user, and Taylor had gone to the federal government for help in stopping the pushers who were selling her drugs.
		Taylor had been a prominent member of the Hollywood set, giving and attending parties where liquor was served (this was during Prohibition), so the press made much of his so-called wild personal life.
	www.usc.edu /isd/archives/la/scandals/taylor.html (519 words)

	D.A. Asa ("Ace") Keyes Tackles the Taylor Case (1926) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Hollywood, Ca.--The woman who killed William Desmond Taylor, motion picture director, four years ago doubtless smiled grimly when she read in Los Angeles newspapers the report that District Attorney Asa Keyes was in New York investigating new clues bearing on the case.
		Chicago--The murder of William Desmond Taylor has narrowed down to two motives--"love and drugs" and the slayer may be in the clutches of the law within a very short time, Asa Keyes, prosecuting attorney of Los Angeles, told the United Press in an interview today.
		District Attorney Asa Keyes' investigation of the murder of William Desmond Taylor is to be investigated.
	www.assumption.edu /dept/history/His130/twenties/Taylor/AsaKeysStepsUp.html (8573 words)

	Shots in the Dark - The Taylor Murder
		William Desmond Taylor, famous movie director, was known around town as a well-liked gentleman -well-liked enough to become head of the Motion Picture Director's Association.
		The suspects in Taylor's murder were all part of Hollywood archetypes that had been brewing for years before (and continued after) the director's death.
		Men of unknown sexuality, such as Peavey and Sands (and Taylor himself) were connected to the threat to masculinity that the actor presented to the "real" American man. And the "love cults" and opium dens provoked xenophobic reactions in a time when racial "purity" was all-important.
	xroads.virginia.edu /~UG02/wolpert/wdtmurder.html (553 words)

	Proposal #1: The William Desmond Taylor Story
		Nonetheless, Taylor’s murder still possesses historical importance; in combination with the Fatty Arbuckle scandal, Taylor’s murder solidified public opinion towards Hollywood’s excesses, ushering in an era of strict censorship within the film industry.
		With the Taylor crime, it would be possible to abbreviate, even modernize the story, with appropriate documentation of our deviations from the true facts of the case.
		In short, our version could be roughly based on or at least inspired by the William Desmond Taylor story allowing us to capitalize on the intrigue of the actual crime while still taking certain liberties.
	www.lcc.gatech.edu /~strain/courses/prop1.html (1493 words)

	All about the murder of William Desmond Taylor by Denise Noe
		William roamed from state to state, once again a traveler working at odd jobs.
		Happily remarried, Ethel May did not use this opportunity to display the legendary “fury of the woman scorned.” Instead, she arranged for Ethel Daisy to correspond with, and eventually meet and develop a relationship with, her father.
		Taylor apparently enjoyed romanticizing his own life because he told people that he had served three years in prison to “protect the honor of a woman he loved.” There is no evidence to support his assertion.
	www.crimelibrary.com /notorious_murders/classics/william_taylor/4.html (1156 words)

	Taylor case article Part I (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Most especially when dealing with something as difficult as the Taylor mystery, it is, of course, possible that I am completely wrong on a given point of speculation or surmise.
		Immediately on receipt of the news, work at the studios and on location ceased, and men and women, their pallor showing through the grease paint of their makeups, gathered in knots to discuss the tragedy and speculate on what prompted the crime.
		Taylor's hiring the effeminate Peavey and fawning Sands may suggest Taylor was homosexual (7), but aside from this we have no definite evidence.
	www.silentsaregolden.com /articles/Taylorcasearticle.html (3495 words)

	Minx, The Magazine - Volume Two, IssueTwo
		The murder in February 1922 of William Desmond Taylor was the beginning of the end of her career.
		In addition to the Taylor case, she was involved in other much-publicized cases, one of which was against her own mother.
		As a result, Minter filed an invasion of privacy suit, alleging that the program intimated the murder had been done by one of three women, and she was presumed to be among the three.
	www.theminx.com /iss2vol2/crime2.htm (918 words)

	William Desmond Taylor
		William Desmond Taylor, who has directed Mary Miles Minter in her starring vehicles for Realart, was born in Ireland and educated in England.
		At the outbreak of the World war, with a sigh of regret at the thought of leaving, perhaps forever, the country of his adoption, Mr.
		Taylor enlisted as a private in the British army and was soon in active service.
	silentladies.com /DTaylorWD.html (72 words)

	Grim Gallery - William Desmond Taylor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The butler assumed that Taylor had simply dropped dead, and called the studio before calling the police.
		Studio executives arrived, including star Mabel Normand, and knowing what Taylor's "hobbies" were, they quickly ransacked the house to rid it of anything sensational.
		Taylor was interred under the name William Deane-Tanner.
	www.grimsociety.com /gallery/wdtaylor.html (163 words)

	Amazon.com: Tom Sawyer (1998) : Video (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		William Desmond Taylor's adaptation of Mark Twain's Tom Sawyer is less a well-crafted story than a collection of the novel's most famous moments set against picturesque rural locations.
		William Desmond Taylor's 1917 film version of "Tom Sawyer" was the first screen adaptation of Mark Twain's classic.
		As for Pickford, unfortunately, he was already well on the way to becoming a hopeless alcoholic by the time he made "Tom Sawyer." The drug-overdose death of his beautiful wife, Olive Thomas, in 1920 accelerated his downward spiral, leading him to an alcoholic's grave at the age of 36.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00004OCYP?v=glance (1078 words)

	Taylorology
		If you are totally unfamiliar with the Taylor case and would like a general introduction, read "I Know Who Killed Desmond Taylor" in Taylorology 50.
		Some supplemental image files (photos, drawings, film clip of Taylor in a movie, etc.) can be found here.
		Griffith Comments on the Taylor Case ********************************************************************** Taylorology 89: Gareth Hughes James Kirkwood ************************************************************************* Taylorology 90: Taylor the Actor: Vitagraph Film Plots Don Osborn The First Fictionalization of the Taylor** Murder Injury and Illness in 1914 Hollywood "Perfect Crimes?
	www.angelfire.com /az/Taylorology (395 words)

	Unsolved Crimes
		For more than eighty years, the famous unsolved murder of William Desmond Taylor, the legendary bisexual film director, has generated extensive debate and controversy.
		Murder in Hollywood unveils the astonishing corruption and intrigue of Los Angeles in the Roaring Twenties--and the film industry moguls' complete domination of the city's authorities.
		When it was discovered that a famous star of the day had probably killed Taylor, a massive cover-up began--from the removal of crucial evidence to the naming of innocent people as killers--which has continued until now to protect the truth.
	www.karisable.com /crunsolved.htm (2159 words)

	Fictionwise eBooks: The William Desmond Taylor Murder Scandal by Charles Nuetzel
		The William Desmond Taylor murder mystery was a shocking and convoluted tale of intrigue that involved a couple of very famous female stars in a love triangle that would soon tease the public imagination.
		The William Desmond Taylor murder mystery was in many ways a convoluted event which in the end had a major effect on the history of the town's early development.
		It in effect became one of the turning points that set public outrage down a roller coaster ride to censorship.
	www.fictionwise.com /ebooks/eBook32531.htm (550 words)

	William Desmond Taylor, facts about Hollywood murder case Crime Library - The Crime library
		William Desmond Taylor, facts about Hollywood murder case Crime Library - The Crime library
		Johnny Mercer's teasingly cynical lyrics about the Hollywood that he knew so well capture the spirit of the capitol of filmdom in the 1920s and 1930s.
		With a little gentle tweaking, one might add a variation that would suggest some of the elements of the most famous unsolved murder case in Hollywood history — the murder of director William Desmond Taylor.
	www.crimelibrary.com /notorious_murders/celebrity/william_d_taylor/1.html (669 words)

	The Murder of William Desmond Taylor quiz -- free game (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Famous Hollywood Murders : The Murder of William Desmond Taylor
		What was Taylor trying to stop in Hollywood that could also have led to his death?
		Two others were also suspects in the case that, at one time, were close to him.
	www.funtrivia.com /playquiz.cfm?qid=148353 (115 words)

	Untitled (Columbia Pictures/Irwin Winkler/William Desmond Taylor Biopic Project) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Biopic of William Desmond Taylor, the Hollywood silent film director whose 1922 murder remains an unsolved mystery.
		After he was found dead in his mansion, rumors flew about the killer's identity and motive -- most of the rumors centered on Taylor's lovers, including Minter and Mabel Normand.
		Neither were formal suspects but both allegedly saw Taylor shortly before his death.
	www.hollywood.com /movies/detail/id/3462489 (113 words)

	Taylorology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Although the publication centers on the unsolved 1922 murder of silent film director William Desmond Taylor, there is reprinted material on, and interviews with, other silent stars including Charlie Chaplin, Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, Mabel Normand, Olive Thomas, Blanche Sweet, William S. Hart, Lillian Gish, Harold Lloyd, Rudolph Valentino, Mary Pickford, etc.
		For the most recent and (and at least for now) final issue of Taylorology, click here.
		For those wishing a copy of Bruce Long's book WILLIAM DESMOND TAYLOR: A DOSSIER, it can be found at this link to Amazon.com
	www.silent-movies.com /Taylorology (157 words)

	William Desmond Taylor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Criminal Code (1914) (as William D. Taylor)
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		Find where William Desmond Taylor is credited alongside another name
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