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Estelle Taylor is a Actor American born on 20 may 1894 at Wilmington (USA)
Estelle Taylor (May 20, 1894 – April 15, 1958) was an American actress whose career was most prominent during Hollywood's silent film era of the 1920s.
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.
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Birth name Ida Estelle Taylor
Nationality USA
Birth 20 may 1894 at Wilmington (USA)
Death 15 april 1958 (at 63 years) at Los Angeles (USA)
Nationality USA
Birth 20 may 1894 at Wilmington (USA)
Death 15 april 1958 (at 63 years) at Los Angeles (USA)
Biography
Taylor married three times. Her first husband was banker Kenneth Malcolm Peacock, her second husband was "Jack" Dempsey, the world heavyweight boxing champion, and her third husband was a theatrical producer, Paul Smith. She had no children.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.
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The Southerner (1945)
, 1h32Directed by Jean Renoir, Robert Aldrich
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about the labor movement
Actors Zachary Scott, Betty Field, J. Carrol Naish, Beulah Bondi, Percy Kilbride, Estelle Taylor
Roles Lizzie
Rating70%
Sam Tucker (Zachary Scott) is a cotton picker in Texas who decides to start his own farm. He and wife Nona (Betty Field), Granny (Beulah Bondi) and children Jot and Daisy set out with nothing but two mules and a bit of seed.
Bachelor Mother (1939)
, 1h22Directed by Garson Kanin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Christmas films
Actors Ginger Rogers, David Niven, Charles Coburn, Frank Albertson, Dennie Moore, Ernest Truex
Roles (uncredited)
Rating74%
Polly Parrish (Ginger Rogers) is a salesgirl at the department store John B. Merlin and Son in New York City who has just been told that since the Christmas season is ending she is going to be dismissed. During her lunch break, she sees a stranger leaving a baby on the steps of an orphanage. Fearing the baby is going to roll down the steps, Polly picks it up as the door is opened, and is mistakenly thought to be the mother.
Frisco Kid (1935)
, 1h17Directed by Lloyd Bacon
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure, Historical, Romance
Actors James Cagney, Margaret Lindsay, Ricardo Cortez, Lili Damita, Donald Woods, Barton MacLane
Roles Saloon Girl (uncredited)
Rating62%
In San Francisco in the 1850s, a city where gold fever has left shipowners short-handed, Bat Morgan, a sailor come ashore is robbed and nearly shanghaied aboard another ship. Managing to escape, he sticks around town to pay back those responsible and then to take a cut in the action in the vice district. Organizing the various gambling houses (and other forms of vice implied but, for Code reasons, not explicitly stated) into a consolidated enterprise in alliance with a corrupt city boss, Jim Dailey, he comes into conflict with a crusading newspaper, run by Jean Barrat, the daughter of the late murdered publisher, and Charles Ford, the idealistic editor to whom Jean is all but engaged.
Call Her Savage (1932)
Directed by John Francis Dillon
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Clara Bow, Gilbert Roland, Thelma Todd, Estelle Taylor, Monroe Owsley, Willard Robertson
Roles Ruth Springer
Rating69%
A wild young woman, born and raised in Texas, rebels against the man she believes to be her father. Moving to Chicago, she marries badly, loses her child in a boardinghouse fire, is nearly forced to become a prostitute, and is renounced by her father, who tells her he never wishes to see her again.
Cimarron (1931)
, 2h11Directed by Wesley Ruggles
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Historical, Western
Actors Richard Dix, Irene Dunne, Estelle Taylor, George E. Stone, Nance O'Neil, William Collier Jr.
Roles Dixie Lee
Rating57%
The Oklahoma Land Rush of 1889 prompts thousands to travel to the Oklahoma Territory to grab free government land; Yancey Cravat (Richard Dix), his young bride, Sabra (Irene Dunne) and their son, Cim, join the throngs. In the ensuing race, Yancey is outwitted by a young prostitute, Dixie Lee (Estelle Taylor), who takes the prime piece of real estate, the Bear Creek claim, which Yancey had targeted for himself.
Street Scene (1931)
, 1h20Directed by King Vidor, H. Bruce Humberstone
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Estelle Taylor, Walter Miller, Sylvia Sidney, William Collier Jr., Beulah Bondi, David Landau
Roles Mrs. Anna Maurrant
Rating75%
On a hot summer afternoon in New York, Emma Jones gossips with other neighbors in her residential building about the affair that Mrs. Anna Maurrant and the milkman Steve Sankey are having. When the rude and unfriendly Mr. Frank Maurrant arrives, they change the subject. Meanwhile, their teenage daughter Rose Maurrant is being sexually pressured by her married boss Mr. Bert Easter. She does however very much like her kind young Jewish neighbor Sam, who has a serious crush on her.
The Unholy Garden (1931)
, 1h14Directed by George Fitzmaurice
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films set in Africa, Heist films
Actors Ronald Colman, Fay Wray, Estelle Taylor, Warren Hymer, Tully Marshall, Lawrence Grant
Roles Eliza Mowbray
Rating59%
Suave English thief Barrington Hunt (Ronald Colman) rendezvous with his uncouth American accomplice, Smiley Corbin (Warren Hymer), at a rundown hotel in the Sahara Desert beyond the reach of French authority. Hunt is annoyed to learn that Smiley, who has a weakness for women, lost the proceeds from the latest robbery when he met a "dame".
Liliom (1930)
, 1h30Directed by Frank Borzage
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Charles Farrell, Rose Hobart, Estelle Taylor, H. B. Warner, Lee Tracy, Walter Abel
Roles Mme. Muscat
Rating64%
Where East Is East (1929)
, 1h5Directed by Tod Browning
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Melodrama, Romance
Actors Lon Chaney, Lupe Vélez, Estelle Taylor, Lloyd Hughes, Willie Fung, Charles Gemora
Roles Mme. de Sylva
Rating65%
Tiger Haynes traps wild animals for a living, and bears the scars of his dangerous occupation on his face. He cares for only one thing in life: his beloved daughter, Toyo. When he returns to the city of Vien-Tien from his latest foray in the jungle, Toyo tells him that she and Bobby Bailey, the son of an American circus owner (one of Tiger's best customers), have fallen in love and are engaged. Initially opposed to the union, Tiger gives them his blessing after Bobby protects the girl from a tiger that has gotten loose.
Show People (1928)
, 1h23Directed by King Vidor
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romance
Themes Films about films, Films about television
Actors William Haines, Marion Davies, Dell Henderson, Polly Moran, Tenen Holtz, Harry Gribbon
Roles Self (uncredited)
Rating75%
Young Peggy Pepper (Marion Davies) wants to be in motion pictures, so her father (Dell Henderson) drives her across the country from their home in Georgia to Hollywood. After some initial disillusionment, she meets Billy Boone (William Haines) in a studio commissary; he tells her to show up at his set if she wants work. Peggy goes, gets sprayed with seltzer water at her first entrance, and is at first shocked and dismayed to find she is doing slapstick comedy in low-budget "Comet" productions, but she decides to "take it on the chin" and, with Billy's loving support, becomes a success.
The Whip Woman (1928)
, 1hOrigin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Estelle Taylor, Hedda Hopper, Antonio Moreno, Lowell Sherman, Loretta Young, Julanne Johnston
Roles Sari
Rating57%
Don Juan (1927)
, 2h47Directed by Alan Crosland
Origin USA
Genres Adventure, Romance
Actors John Barrymore, Mary Astor, Warner Oland, Jane Winton, John Roche, Estelle Taylor
Roles Lucrezia Borgia
Rating70%
In the prologue, Don José, warned of his wife's infidelity, seals his wife's lover alive in his hiding place and drives her from the castle; abandoned to his lust, he is stabbed by his last mistress, and with his dying words he implores his son, Don Juan, to take all from women but yield nothing. Ten years later, young Don Juan a graduate of the University of Pisa, is famous as a lover and pursued by many women, including the powerful Lucretia Borgia, who invites him to her ball; his contempt for her incites her hatred of Adriana, the daughter of the Duke Della Varnese, with whom he is enraptured; and Lucretia plots to marry her to Donati and poison the duke. Don Juan intervenes and thwarts the scheme, winning the love of Adriana, but the Borgia declare war on the duke's kinsmen, offering them safety if Adriana marries Donati; Don Juan is summoned to the wedding, but he prefers death to marriage with Lucretia. He escapes and kills Donati in a duel; the lovers are led to the death-tower, but while Adriana pretends suicide, he escapes; and following a series of battles, he defeats his pursuers and is united with Adriana.
New York (1927)
, 1h10Directed by Luther Reed
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Ricardo Cortez, Lois Wilson, Estelle Taylor, William Powell, Richard 'Skeets' Gallagher
Roles Angie Miller
, 2h15Directed by Marshall Neilan, Mary Pickford
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Historical, Romance
Actors Mary Pickford, Anders Randolf, Marc McDermott, Carrie Daumery, Allan Forrest, Lottie Pickford
Roles Mary, Queen of Scots
Rating67%
In May 1550 two great houses were to be united by the betrothal of the son of Rutland and the heiress of Haddon Hall. Sir George Vernon (Anders Randolf) is forfeit to Rutland on his daughter's 18th birthday, for ten of his thirty manors lying adjacent to Rutland. His daughter Dorothy (Mary Pickford) and John Manners (Allan Forrest) are forced to marry each other on their 18th birthday, but they can't stand each other. John is in France with Mary Stuart (Estelle Taylor) and George intents to use this as a way for Dorothy to be able to marry her cousin Malcolm Vernon (Marc McDermott).
The Alaskan (1924)
Directed by Herbert Brenon
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Thomas Meighan, Estelle Taylor, Anna May Wong, John St. Polis, Frank Campeau, Charles Ogle
Roles Mary Standish