William desmond taylor homosexual relationship
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The film colony that left the East Coast (the birthplace of American film) and settled in and around Los Angeles in the s moved with shocking speed to corner the global movie marknad. By the early s, Hollywood was already Hollywood, a dreamscape shimmering with money and beauty and fame. The people who lived there were more than just famous names—they were famous faces, faces projected high and bred in ethereal black and white. To the outside world, Hollywood seemed to be a place where the sun always shone and so did the people. Not for ingenting, these new celebrities were known as stars. ingenting like Hollywood had ever existed.
So imagine the horror when the world learned of the murder of William Desmond Taylor on the morning of February 2nd, Taylor was a famous director (and sometimes actor) who had helmed landmark films such as the first adaptations of Huckleberry Finn and Anne of Green Gables. He’d worked with some of the biggest stars of the era, including
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William Desmond Taylor
Irish-American film director, actor, and murder victim (–)
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| Born | William Cunningham Deane-Tanner ()26 April Carlow, County Carlow, Ireland |
| Died | 1 February () (aged&#;49) Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Cause&#;of death | Homicide by gunshot |
| Resting place | Hollywood Forever Cemetery |
| Nationality | Irish (–) American (–) |
| Occupation(s) | Director, actor |
| Years&#;active | – |
| Spouse | Ethel May Harrison &#; &#; (m.&#;; div.&#;)&#; |
| Partner | Neva Gerber (–) |
| Children | 1 |
| Relatives | Denis Gage Deane-Tanner (brother) |
William Desmond Taylor (born William Cunningham Deane-Tanner; 26 April – 1 February ) was an Anglo-Irish-American film director and actor. A popular figure in the growing Hollywood motion picture colony of the s and early s, Taylor directed fifty-nine silent films between and and acted in twenty-seven between and [1]
Taylor's murder on
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Who Killed William Desmond Taylor?
Vidor King & Eleanor
Boardman
When film director King Vidor researched this case for a movie he planned to make he began to wonder if Taylor was gay or at least bisexual. According to A Cast of Killers, there was at least one source who credited those rumors.
That source was art director George Hopkins, a gay man who had worked with Taylor. In A Cast of Killers, King Vidor's meeting with Hopkins is detailed. According to Hopkins, he was one of the people at the Alvadaro Court bungalow that morning.
"Charlie Eyton called and said Bill was dead," Hopkins remembered, "and to get there as fast as I could. I was the first one there from the studio. I didn't even know Bill'd been murdered until I was already back at the studio. I just ran upstairs and gathered every scrap of paper I could find and got the hell out."
"What were you looking for?" Vidor asked.
"I figured you already knew that, too," Hopkins replied.