Estelle TaylorFilmography

Yo Quiero Ser Bataclana

Actors: Nini Marshall, Alicia Barrie, Juan Carlos Thorry

Synopsis: You Quiero Ser Bataclana translates roughly as I Want to Be Chorus Girl. Popular Latin American radio songstress Nini Marshall plays the heroine who aspires to the titular goal. Managing to land a job with a third-rate musical troupe, Marshall saves her new friends from bankruptcy with her Read More

Western Limited

Actors: Estelle Taylor, Edmund Burns, Lucien Prival, Gertrude Astor, Eddie Kane

Synopsis: Western Limited is another of the "Grand Hotel on wheels" films so popular in the early 1930s. Stealing a valuable diamond at a Los Angeles society function, gentleman thief Edmund Burns boards a train bound for Chicago. A murder occurs during the journey, casting suspicion not only on Burns but Read More

Call Her Savage

Actors: Clara Bow, Monroe Owsley, Gilbert Roland, Thelma Todd, Estelle Taylor

Synopsis: In this melodrama with strong racist overtones, Clara Bow attempts to revive her failing career by playing a free-spirited girl whose father is an American Indian and whose mother is Anglo Saxon. For some reason the girl doesn't know of her mixed heritage and constantly fights with her dad. The Read More

The Unholy Garden

Actors: Ronald Colman, Fay Wray, Estelle Taylor, Tully Marshall, Warren Hymer

Synopsis: A clever, slyly self-satirical screenplay by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur helps to make The Unholy Garden seem better than it is. The title refers to a Saharan oasis where a group of international crooks have converged, free from prosecution. Ronald Colman stars as gentleman thief Barrington Read More

Street Scene

Actors: Sylvia Sidney, William Collier, Jr., Estelle Taylor, Max Montor, Louis Natheaux, David Landau, Russell Hopton

Synopsis: Elmer Rice's Pulitzer Prize-winning play Street Scene was purchased for the screen by producer Samuel Goldwyn in 1931. The entire story takes place on the street in front of a foreboding old New York brownstone, between one evening and the next afternoon. The individual fates of eight neighboring Read More

Cimarron

Actors: Richard Dix, Irene Dunne, Estelle Taylor, Nance O'Neil, William Collier, Jr.

Synopsis: Cimarron was the first Western to win the Oscar for Best Picture--and, until Dances with Wolves in 1990, the only one. The film begins on April 22, 1889, the opening day of the great Oklahoma Land Rush on the Cherokee Strip. Boisterous Yancey Cravat (Richard Dix) is cheated out of his land claim Read More

Liliom

Actors: Charles Farrell, Rose Hobart, H.B. Warner, Estelle Taylor, Lee Tracy

Synopsis: This first film version of Ferenc Molnar's poignant fantasy Liliom was supposed to have reunited the director Frank Borzage and stars Charles Farrell and Janet Gaynor of Fox's 1927 box-office smash Seventh Heaven. But Gaynor was enmeshed in one of her periodic contract disputes with the studio, so Read More

Where East Is East

Actors: Lon Chaney, Lupe Velez, Lloyd Hughes, Louis Stern

Synopsis: Star Lon Chaney Sr. and director Tod Browning bade adieu to the silent-movie era with 1929's Where East is East. His face covered with hideous scars (convincingly applied with nonflexible collodion), Chaney is cast as weather-beaten animal trapper Tiger Haynes, at present living and working in Read More

Singapore Mutiny

Actors: Estelle Taylor, Ralph Ince, Gardner James, Martha Mattox, James Mason

Synopsis: The heavy-breathing Singapore Mutiny owes a great deal to such previous passion-in-the-tropics efforts as Rain and The Hairy Ape. Estelle Taylor plays a shady Broadwayite who books passage on an oil tanker. It isn't long before the all-male crew degenerates into a brawling mob, maddened as they Read More

Honor Bound

Actors: George O'Brien, Estelle Taylor, Leila Hyams, Tom Santschi, Frank Cooley

Synopsis: George O'Brien, Fox Studios' general-purpose leading man, heads the cast of Honor Bound. The story opens in the bedroom of hero John Ogletree (George O'Brien), who is awakened from his slumbers by the unexpected arrival of Evelyn (Evelyn Brent), a total stranger. Claiming that she's fleeing from Read More

Lady Raffles

The Whip Woman

Actors: Estelle Taylor, Antonio Moreno, Lowell Sherman, Hedda Hopper, Julanne Johnston

Synopsis: In his later interviews, director Allan Dwan seldom had anything to say about his 1928 opus Whip Woman -- and who could blame him? Estelle Taylor, whose tabloid fame as the litigious wife of boxer Jack Dempsey tended to overshadow her acting skills, stars as Sari, a whip-wielding Hungarian peasant Read More

Show People

Actors: Marion Davies, William Haines, Dell Henderson, Paul Ralli, Tenen Holtz

Synopsis: This Marion Davies vehicle was loosely inspired by the career of Gloria Swanson. Davies plays would-be starlet Peggy Pepper, who arrives at the gates of MGM Studios with her dad Colonel Pepper (Dell Henderson) in hopes of becoming a great dramatic actress. Instead, she a scores a hit as an ingenue Read More

New York

Actors: Ricardo Cortez, Lois Wilson, Estelle Taylor, William Powell, Norman Trevor

Synopsis: Filmed on location in Manhattan, the 1927 silent New York explores themes later developed more fully in such films as Manhattan Melodrama and Once Upon a Time in America. A product of the Bowery, Trent Regan (William Powell) grows up to become a powerful gangster. Regan's girlfriend Angie Miller (Esther Ralston Read More

Don Juan

Actors: John Barrymore, Mary Astor, Willard Louis, Estelle Taylor, Warner Oland, Montagu Love

Synopsis: Historically important as the first film to carry a Vitaphone sound track (consisting of music and sound effects, but no dialogue) Don Juan is a first-rate production by any standards, and would have been just as good with or without musical accompaniment. John Barrymore plays the legendary lover Read More

Manhattan Madness

Synopsis: When a film vehicle was needed for heavyweight champion Jack Dempsey, his producers wisely decided to use the story from a 1916 Douglas Fairbanks film. They changed it around, added a lot more fisticuffs, and co-starred the fighter's new bride, Estelle Taylor (the couple, incidentally, would Read More

Wandering Footsteps

Actors: Estelle Taylor, Alec B. Francis, Frankie Darro, Bryant Washburn, Ethel Wales, Eugénie Besserer

Synopsis: This low-budgeter was adapted from A Wise Son, a novel by Charles Sherman. Bryant Washburn plays wealthy wastrel Hal Whitney, who during a "slumming" party decides to adopt shabby old derelict Tim Payne (Alec B. Francis). Hal drunkenly invites Tim on a yachting excursion, only to forget all about Read More

Playthings of Desire

Actors: Estelle Taylor, Mahlon Hamilton, Dagmar Godowsky, Mary Thurman

Synopsis: Estelle Taylor was at the peak of her career when she made this drama -- her role in The Ten Commandments a year earlier had put her in the public eye, and her romance with boxing champ Jack Dempsey (along with their subsequent marriage) made her a prominent face in the newspapers and fan Read More

Tiger Love

Actors: Antonio Moreno, Estelle Taylor, G. Raymond Nye, Manuel Camere, Edgar Norton

Synopsis: Although the story to this romantic adventure was founded on the Manuel Penella opera El Gato Montes, its utter lack of originality shows that it really could have come from any number of sources. Nevertheless, the performance of Latin lover Antonio Moreno manages to compensate for the material. Read More

Passion's Pathway

Actors: Estelle Taylor, Jean Perry, Tully Marshall, Snitz Edwards

Synopsis: Estelle Taylor stars as a stenographer who marries her boss in this maudlin melodrama. When her husband is called away to Mexico on business, his lecherous assistant juggles the books to frame his unsuspecting boss on embezzlement charges. Jean Perry, Tully Marshall, and Ben Daly co-star with Snitz Edwards Read More

The Alaskan

Actors: Estelle Taylor, John St. Polis, Frank Campeau, Anna May Wong

Synopsis: Thomas Meighan single-handedly saves Alaska in this James Oliver Curwood tale of the Northwest, which was shot on-location in British Columbia and Alberta. The Holt family wants to stop big business from destroying Alaska's pristine beauty. The elder Holt is killed, and his son, Alan (Meighan), is Read More

Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall

Actors: Mary Pickford, Anders Randolf, Marc MacDermott, Allan Forrest

Synopsis: "Derr iss too many qveens and not enough qveens!" That was Ernst Lubitsch's response when he turned down the directing assignment for this costume picture starring Mary Pickford. Pickford assumed that he meant that the subplots involving Queen Elizabeth (Clare Eames) and Mary Queen of Scots (Estelle Taylor Read More

Bavu

Actors: Wallace Beery, Estelle Taylor, Forrest Stanley, Sylvia Breamer, Josef Swickard

Synopsis: This adventurous drama of Russia's revolutionary days was based on the stage play by Earl Carroll. Wallace Beery -- at the time one of filmdom's most dependable villains -- has the title of role of Felix Bavu, an illiterate brute who has used the revolution to promote his own power-hungry aims. He Read More

Desire

Actors: Marguerite de la Motte, John Bowers, Estelle Taylor, David Butler, Walter Long

Synopsis: Madalyn Harlan (Estelle Taylor), the daughter of wealthy socialites, falls in love with the chauffeur Jerry Ryan (David Butler) in this uneven society drama. She and Jerry are secretly married, but Jerry's mother tells Madalyn that Jerry is through with her. She takes poison in the cabaret that Read More

The Ten Commandments

Actors: Theodore Roberts, Charles de Roche, Estelle Taylor, Richard Dix, Julia Faye, Rod La Rocque

Synopsis: Cecil B. DeMille's first screen version of The Ten Commandments is only peripherally a Biblical story. The film's first 45 minutes recaps the struggle between Moses (Theodore Roberts) and Rameses (Charles de Roche) over the liberation of the Hebrews. Only after the Lord has imposed a series of Read More

Forgive and Forget

Synopsis: Estelle Taylor, the off-screen wife of boxer Jack Dempsey, starred in this silent whodunit from newcomer Columbia Pictures. Taylor played Mrs. Cameron, a society matron blackmailed by her lover's roommate (Philo McCullough. When the lover (Vernon Steele) is found murdered, Mr. Cameron (Wyndham Standing Read More

A Fool There Was

Actors: Estelle Taylor, Lewis Stone, Irene Rich, Muriel Frances Dana, Marjorie Daw

Synopsis: With the Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle scandal and the William Desmond Taylor murder still fresh in people's minds, it's a wonder why the Fox studios decided to go ahead with the remake of this steamy melodrama which shot Theda Bara to stardom in 1915. But they revamped it (so to speak) and toned down Read More

Only a Shop Girl

Actors: Estelle Taylor, William Scott, Mae Busch, James Morrison, Josephine Adair

Synopsis: While no one could ever call the cast to this melodrama "all star," it certainly features some of the best second-stringers and character actors who were around in 1923. James Watkins (Willard Louis), who owns a department store, is even more wicked than your average womanizer. He has Danny Mulvey Read More

Monte Cristo

Actors: John Gilbert, Estelle Taylor, William V. Mong, Robert McKim, Ralph Cloninger

Synopsis: aka The Count of Monte Cristo Much of John Gilbert's early work as a leading man was done at the Fox Studios. He made nineteen pictures for the company, but only two are still in existence -- this adaptation of the Alexandre Dumas novel, and 1923's Cameo Kirby. As Edmond Danton, and later as the Read More

Thorns and Orange Blossoms

Actors: Estelle Taylor, Kenneth Harlan, Arthur Hull, Edith Roberts, Carl Stockdale

Synopsis: It is a surprising and little-known fact that Louis J. Gasnier, who today is most well known for directing the unintentionally hilarious Reefer Madness, was a well-respected filmmaker during the 1910s and '20s. This passionate drama was welcomed by exhibitors of the day. While traveling through Read More

A California Romance

Actors: John Gilbert, Estelle Taylor, Jack McDonald

Synopsis: On the verge of leaving Fox Studios for MGM, silent romantic star John Gilbert appeared in California Romance. Gilbert plays a soldier-of-fortune, living in pre-statehood California. With the aid of the US cavalry, Gilbert fends off those who would block California's entry into the Union. Along Read More

Footfalls

Actors: Tyrone Power, Tom Douglas, Estelle Taylor, Gladden James

Synopsis: Hiram Scudder (Tyrone Power, Sr.) is a blind cobbler, whose son Tommy (Tom Douglas) is in love with the pretty but ambitious Peggy Hawthorne (Estelle Taylor). When Peggy insists that Tommy go out into the world and make something of himself before she marries him, Hiram is reluctant to let his son Read More

While New York Sleeps

Synopsis: This picture, in three parts, was promoted as being true-to-life, but judging from the reviews, it's obviously just melodramatic fodder -- except for the last story. The first part, entitled, "Out of the Night," involves a suburban wife (Estelle Taylor) whose husband (William Locke) is away for Read More