Estelle Taylor

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Estelle Taylor (born May 20, 1894 in Wilmington , Delaware , as Estelle Boylan , † April 15, 1958 in Los Angeles , California ) was an American film actress and model .

Life

Estelle Taylor was born into a middle class family and moved to New York City at a young age to work as a secretary for a law firm. It was here that Taylor met her first husband, Kenneth Malcolm Peacock, a banker , whom she married in 1908, when she was only 14 years old. The relationship with the much older man went well for four years, until they divorced in 1912. Now of legal age, Taylor began a career as a model and dancer on Broadway productions.

In the early 1920s, Taylor moved to Hollywood, where she began her career as an actress in silent films. However, she only became known in 1923 for her role in the classic The Ten Commandments by director Cecil B. DeMille . She worked alongside John Barrymore in Don Juan from 1926 and in 1925 married the American boxer Jack Dempsey , whom she met while filming Manhattan Madness . The marriage ended in divorce in 1931.

Taylor's career did not last long after switching to talkies . Among the few major roles they took over after 1930, the part as the mother of belonging Sylvia Sidney in Street Scene , directed by King Vidor and as depraved females in Wesley Ruggles ' Western Cimarron from the same year that the Oscar as Best film won. After taking a six-year hiatus from 1939 to 1945, she was back in front of the camera in 1945 in The Man from the South . It should also be her last film at the same time. Estelle Taylor's last marriage was to Paul Small; the marriage lasted from 1943 to 1945.

In the 1940s, Taylor began to campaign for animal rights. So she founded the California Pet Owners' Protective League . In 1953 she was a member of the Animal Regulation Commission of Los Angeles.

Estelle Taylor that life had no children, died at the age of 63 years to cancer .

Others

  • Estelle Taylor was a good friend of the Mexican actress Lupe Vélez , and on the evening of December 4, 1944, was the last person who had seen Vélez before her suicide .
  • Today a star on the Walk of Fame commemorates Estelle Taylor.

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SURNAME Taylor, Estelle
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Boylan, Estelle (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American film actress and model
DATE OF BIRTH May 20, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Wilmington , Delaware , United States
DATE OF DEATH April 15, 1958
Place of death Los Angeles , California , United States