ESTELLE TAYLOR - Silent Film Star Signed Autographed Letter and Period Photo for Sale

ESTELLE TAYLOR - Silent Film Star Signed Autographed Letter and Period Photo For Sale

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ESTELLE TAYLOR - Silent Film Star Signed Autographed Letter and Period Photo:
$125.00

ESTELLE TAYLOR - Silent Film Star Signed Autographed Letter and Period Photograph
Really rare piece. Original signed letter on personal stationary with great content, signed photo with original matching envelope (some tears). The letter discusses \"talking pictures\" and just completing the FBO picture \"Singapore Mutiny\" and other films (\"The Whip Woman\", \"Lady Raffles\" and \"Honor Bound\").
Ida Estelle Taylor (May 20, 1894 – April 15, 1958) was an American actress, singer, model, and animal rights activist.[5] With \"dark-brown, almost black hair and brown eyes,\" she was regarded as one of the most beautiful silent film stars of the 1920s.
After her stage debut in 1919, Taylor began appearing in small roles in World and Vitagraph films. She achieved her first notable success with While New York Sleeps (1920), in which she played three different roles, including a \"vamp.\" She was a contract player of Fox Film Corporation and, later, Paramount Pictures, but for the majority of her career she freelanced. She became famous and was commended by critics for her portrayals of historical women in important films: Miriam in The Ten Commandments (1923), Mary, Queen of Scots in Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall (1924), and Lucrezia Borgia in Don Juan (1926).
Although she made a successful transition to sound films, she retired from film acting in 1932 and decided to focus entirely on her singing career. She was also active in animal welfare before her death from cancer in 1958. She was posthumously honored in 1960 with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in the motion pictures category. She was once married to boxer Jack Dempsey.
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