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Estelle Taylor
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Estelle Taylor
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1894-05-20,Wilmington, Delaware, USA
Gender
Female
Biography
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

Filmography

7.1

Show People
1928-11-20

The Ten Commandments

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The Ten Commandments
1923-11-23

5.5

Cimarron
1931-01-26

6.6

The Southerner
1945-04-30

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Bavu
1923-05-07

Only a Shop Girl

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Only a Shop Girl
1922-12-15

Mary of the Movies

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Mary of the Movies
1923-05-27

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Lady Raffles
1928-07-15

The Unholy Garden

6

The Unholy Garden
1931-10-06

6.6

Don Juan
1926-08-06

7

Hollywood
1923-08-19

6.8

Street Scene
1931-09-05

6.8

Frisco Kid
1935-11-30

6.6

Liliom
1930-09-27

Where East Is East

5.7

Where East Is East
1929-05-04

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Footfalls
1921-09-08

Pusher-in-the-Face

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Pusher-in-the-Face
1929-03-28

6.4

Monte Cristo
1922-09-03

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The Alaskan
1924-09-14

Call Her Savage

5.6

Call Her Savage
1932-11-24

Western Limited

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Western Limited
1932-08-05

While New York Sleeps

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While New York Sleeps
1920-08-23

Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall

4.3

Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall
1924-05-24

The Revenge of Tarzan

5.5

The Revenge of Tarzan
1920-05-30

Bachelor Mother

7.1

Bachelor Mother
1939-06-30

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New York
1927-01-30

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Tiger Love
1924-06-30

Thorns and Orange Blossoms

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Thorns and Orange Blossoms
1922-12-10

Wandering Footsteps

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Wandering Footsteps
1926-06-14

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Blind Wives
1920-12-19

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Honor Bound
1928-04-29

The Golden Shower

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The Golden Shower
1919-11-30

A Broadway Saint

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A Broadway Saint
1919-07-21

A Fool There Was

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A Fool There Was
1922-06-18

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The Whip Woman
1928-02-05

The Lights of New York

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The Lights of New York
1922-11-12