Estelle Taylor
Estelle Taylor ( born May 20, 1894 in Wilmington, Delaware, USA, as Estelle Boylan, † April 15, 1958 in Los Angeles, California, USA) was an American film actress and fashion model.
Life
Estelle Taylor was born into a family of medium-sized and moved at a young age to New York City to work as a secretary for a law firm. Here Taylor met her first husband Kenneth Malcolm Peacock, know a banker, whom she married in 1908 at the age of only 14 years. Four years went the relationship with the much older man good, until it came to a divorce in 1912. Now become of age, Taylor began a career as a model and dancer in Broadway productions.
At the beginning of the 1920s moved Taylor to Hollywood, where she began her career as an actress in silent films. She is best known, however, until 1923 for her role in the classic The Ten Commandments, directed by Cecil B. DeMille. She appeared opposite John Barrymore in Don Juan of 1926 and married in 1925 the U.S. boxer Jack Dempsey, whom she had met during the filming of Manhattan Madness. The marriage ended in 1931 with the divorce.
Taylor's career survived the transition to talkies not last long. One of the few larger role that she took over after 1930, the part was as the mother of Sylvia Sidney in Street Scene, directed by King Vidor and as depraved woman room in Wesley Ruggles ' Western pioneers of the Wild West from the same year, the Academy Award for Best film won. After having inserted a six -year hiatus from 1939 to 1945, she was in 1945 in The Man from the South again for the camera. It was to be her last film at the same time. Estelle Taylor's last marriage she went with a Paul Small; the thought of marriage 1943 to 1945.
In the 1940s, Taylor began increasingly to the rights of animals to use. So she founded the California Pet Owners ' Protective League. Also in 1953 she was a member of the Animal Regulation Commission of Los Angeles.
Estelle Taylor, the time life had no children, died at the age of 63 years to cancer.
Others
- Estelle Taylor was a good friend of Mexican actress Lupe Vélez, and was in the evening of December 4, 1944, the last person that Vélez had seen prior to their suicide.
- Today a star on the Walk of Fame reminds Estelle Taylor.