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HOLLYWOOD SCANDALS:
Single Beds and Double Standards
 
Scandals have plagued Hollywood since very early on.  Think you know your cinema scandals? . . . .  Have  fun checking these out!
 

Domminick Dunne knew a few things . . . about Hollywood and New York Societies.  So click on the link, sit back and be ready to be shocked!

Dominick Dunne

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MOVIE DIRECTOR
  FOUND MURDERED
         IN LOS ANGELES
 

Mary Miles Mintor - The Next Mary PIckford or
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Involved with "Her" Dirctor's Murder?
William Desmond Taylor
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Whose Murder Has Never Been Officially Solved

     How about some background for what has become a special part of Hollywood's scandalous history . . . the murder of the director William Desmond Taylor?

Shots in the Dark about the Murder:  http://xroads.virginia.edu/~ug02/wolpert/wdthome.html

http://www.classichollywoodbios.com/WilliamDesmondTaylor.htm

What you might call a Taylorology Encyclopedia is at: http://www.angelfire.com/az/Taylorology/

An expanded version is at:  http://www.taylorology.com/

The Alvarado Court: Who Was Where

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William Desmond Taylor's Living Room
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Click on the Picture if You're Unfamiliar with the Case
William Desmond Taylor's "Bungalow" Home
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Which Can Be Seen in This Thomas Ince Video, Between 9:50 and 10 Minutes

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THE WILLIAM DESMOND TAYLOR MURDER
 
     Maven debated on where to put this item, here or in HAUNTS: In (and Out!) of Hollywood since it deals with the 1922 William Desmond Taylor murder that still haunts Hollywood.
     This link to www.youtube.com puts faces to many of the people mentioned over the years in the case:
 
     LAPD Detective William Cahill talked to Connie Chung about the case.  He was close to 100 years old:
   
And a two-part audio interview done later in 1970 of Mary Miles Minter, a Mary Pickford wannabe, who was central to Taylor's murder.  Can you say pathetic?

  

  

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