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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.
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Estelle Taylor Biography / Wiki
| Name | Estelle Taylor |
| Also Know | |
| Gender | N/A |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Wilmington, Delaware, USA |
| Date of Birth | 1894-05-20 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 63 |
| Deathday | 1958-04-15 |
Estelle Taylor Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| Western Limited | Doris | 1932-08-05 | A fancy masquerade party is the scene of a jewel robbery, and later several suspects in the robbery are discovered to be aboard the same train…. |
| While New York Sleeps | A Wife / The Vamp / The Girl | 1920-08-23 | An anthology of three dramas over the course of one evening in New York, with separate characters in each story played in all three by Marc MacDermott… |
| Thorns and Orange Blossoms | 1922-12-10 | … | |
| A Fool There Was | Gilda Fontaine | 1922-06-18 | A respectable businessman leaves his wife and daughter for the clutches of a cold, heartbreaking female…. |
| The Whip Woman | Sari | 1928-02-05 | A different kind of a story about a different kind of a girl—a modern, young cavewoman who whipped her way into the heart of a man who wanted to for… |
| Only a Shop Girl | Mame Mulvey | 1922-12-15 | Dann Mulvey (William Scott), just released from prison, is falsely accused of murder. The real culprit is the least-suspected person, who makes a deat… |
| Lady Raffles | Lady Raffles | 1928-07-15 | Interrupted during a robbery, thief Lady Raffles hides in an adjacent mansion and is mistaken for a maid during a party thrown by Warren Blake, who pl… |
| Monte Cristo | Mercedes, Countess de Morcerf | 1922-09-03 | A film adaptation of the classic Alexandre Dumas novel. Edmond Dantes is falsely accused by those jealous of his good fortune, and is sentenced to spe… |
| The Alaskan | Mary Standish | 1924-09-14 | An Alaskan defies robber barons intent on corrupting the new state…. |
| Tiger Love | Marcheta | 1924-06-30 | Tiger Love silent film… |
| Wandering Footsteps | 1926-06-14 | … | |
| Blind Wives | 1920-12-19 | … | |
| Honor Bound | Evelyn Mortimer | 1928-04-29 | When a woman accidentally kills her detested husband, a selfless young man takes the blame and goes to prison. Complications ensue when he is provisio… |
| Bavu | Princess Annia | 1923-05-07 | An illiterate, uncouth brute rises to power during the Russian Revolution, plots to wreak vengeance on all who cross him, and incites the peasantry to… |
| The Ten Commandments | Miriam – the Sister of Moses: Prologue | 1923-11-23 | The first part tells the story of Moses leading the Jews from Egypt to the Promised Land, his receipt of the tablets and the worship of the golden cal… |
| Cimarron | Dixie Lee | 1931-02-09 | When the government opens up the Oklahoma territory for settlement, restless Yancey Cravat claims a plot of the free land for himself and moves his fa… |
| The Unholy Garden | Eliza Mowbray | 1931-10-28 | At a hotel in the middle of the Sahara, an old man and his daughter try to keep the location of a hidden treasure from a collection of thieves and cri… |
| Street Scene | Mrs. Anna Maurrant | 1931-09-05 | The setting is a city block during a sweltering summer, where the residents serve as representatives of the not-very-idealized American melting pot. T… |
| Liliom | Mme. Muscat | 1930-10-05 | A carousel barker falls in love with a young woman. Both are fired from their jobs, and when the young woman becomes pregnant, the carousel barker tri… |
| Where East Is East | Mme. de Sylva | 1929-05-04 | A Chinese wife returns to the American family she left and moves in on her daughter’s (Lupe Velez) beau (Lloyd Hughes)…. |
| The Revenge of Tarzan | 1920-05-30 | Tarzan and Jane are traveling to Paris to help his old friend Countess de Coude, who is being threatened by her brother, Nikolas Rokoff. Rokoff has Ta… | |
| New York | Angie Miller | 1927-01-30 | A product of the Bowery, Trent Regan grows up to become a powerful gangster. Regan’s girlfriend Angie Miller, hearing that her childhood sweetheart (a… |
| Footfalls | Peggy Hawthorne | 1921-09-08 | A blind cobbler is able, by dint of his extraordinary hearing, to recognize the identity of a murderer. His own son is accused of the killing, and the… |
| The Golden Shower | Helen | 1919-11-30 | A rich libertine leaves all his money to a college girl who had refused his advances. The ensuing scandal makes her retire to a small town, where she … |
| Don Juan | Lucrezia Borgia | 1926-08-06 | If there was one thing that Don Juan de Marana learned from his father Don Jose, it was that women gave you three things – life, disillusionment and d… |
| Call Her Savage | Ruth Springer | 1932-11-27 | A high-spirited, short-tempered, young woman hates her father and loves to rebel against him. She marries a man whom her father hates but her marriage… |
| The Southerner | Lizzie | 1945-04-30 | Sam Tucker, a cotton picker, in search of a better future for his family, decides to grow his own cotton crop. In the first year, the Tuckers battle d… |
| Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall | Mary, Queen of Scots | 1924-05-24 | In the year 1550, Sir George Vernon agrees to have his young daughter Dorothy betrothed to John Manners, the son of the Earl of Rutland. Sir George si… |
| A Broadway Saint | The Parisian | 1919-07-21 | Dick Vernon (Montagu Love) lives in New York but hasn’t succumbed to the city’s vices. When his vacation comes up, he goes to Boonsburg to visit his u… |
| Mary of the Movies | Estelle Taylor (uncredited) | 1923-05-27 | Mary’s kid brother needs an operation and, in order to pay for it, Mary goes to a Hollywood studio and applies for a job as an actress. Mary is given … |
| Bachelor Mother | Undetermined Role (uncredited) | 1939-06-30 | Polly Parrish, a clerk at Merlin’s Department Store, is mistakenly presumed to be the mother of a foundling. Outraged at Polly’s unmotherly conduct, D… |
| Frisco Kid | Saloon Girl (uncredited) | 1935-11-30 | After a roustabout sailor avoids being shanghaied in 1850s San Francisco, his audacity helps him to arise to a position of power in the vice industry … |
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