New PDF release: William Desmond Taylor: A Dossier (The Scarecrow Filmmakers

By Bruce Long

ISBN-10: 0810824906

ISBN-13: 9780810824904

ISBN-10: 0810841711

ISBN-13: 9780810841710

Now in paperback. William Desmond Taylor (1872-1922) was once a number one silent movie director remembered because the sufferer of Hollywood's so much sensational unsolved homicide, which shook the kingdom and shattered the reputations of a number of most sensible Hollywood stars. beforehand, Taylor's movie profession and management function within the Hollywood movie were thoroughly overshadowed via the scandal of his loss of life. through reprinting over four hundred goods from modern newspapers, magazines, and alternate journals, the booklet finds Taylor's lifestyles in Hollywood_from his arrival as a minor actor in 1912 till his loss of life in 1922 as one in every of Hollywood's best administrators. those annotated clippings and articles, many containing Taylor's personal phrases, supply great perception into Hollywood lifestyles and picture construction throughout the decade that remodeled Hollywood into the motion picture capital of the realm. incorporated within the e-book is the main huge filmography of Taylor's paintings ever released. Taylor's homicide can be tested, together with a serious research of 2 released 'solutions' to the crime.

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