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person_profile-Estelle Taylor

Estelle Taylor Died at age: 63

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Estelle Taylor

Date of Birth:

May 20, 1894

Country of birth:

USA

Died:

Apr 15, 1958

Biography of

Estelle Taylor

    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.

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Estelle Taylor

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Filmography of

Estelle Taylor

Found 31 Movies in total

The Southerner

Lizzie ( Actor )

... 1945

Bachelor Mother

Undetermined Role (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1939

Frisco Kid

Saloon Girl (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1935

Call Her Savage

Ruth Springer ( Actor )

... 1932

The Unholy Garden

Eliza Mowbray ( Actor )

... 1931

Street Scene

Mrs. Anna Maurrant ( Actor )

... 1931

Cimarron

Dixie Lee ( Actor )

... 1931

Liliom

Mme. Muscat ( Actor )

... 1930

Where East Is East

Mme. de Sylva ( Actor )

... 1929

Show People

Herself (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1928

Honor Bound

Evelyn Mortimer ( Actor )

... 1928

The Whip Woman

Sari ( Actor )

... 1928

New York

Angie Miller ( Actor )

... 1927

Don Juan

Lucrezia Borgia ( Actor )

... 1926

The Alaskan

Mary Standish ( Actor )

... 1924

Tiger Love

Marcheta ( Actor )

... 1924

Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall

Mary, Queen of Scots ( Actor )

... 1924

The Ten Commandments

Miriam - the Sister of Moses: Prologue ( Actor )

... 1923

Hollywood

Estelle Taylor ( Actor )

... 1923

Mary of the Movies

Estelle Taylor (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1923

Bavu

Princess Annia ( Actor )

... 1923

Only a Shop Girl

Mame Mulvey ( Actor )

... 1922

... 1922

Monte Cristo

Mercedes, Countess de Morcerf ( Actor )

... 1922

A Fool There Was

Gilda Fontaine ( Actor )

... 1922

Footfalls

Peggy Hawthorne ( Actor )

... 1921

... 1920

While New York Sleeps

A Wife / The Vamp / The Girl ( Actor )

... 1920

... 1920

The Golden Shower

Helen ( Actor )

... 1919

A Broadway Saint

The Parisian ( Actor )

... 1919