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Originally Posted by VintageKell

Laurette Taylor was an American actress of stage and silent films.
She married her first husband, Charles A. Taylor, around 1900, and they had two children, but they divorced around 1910. In 1912 she married British-born playwright J. Hartley Manners (she remained married to Manners until his death in 1928), who wrote 'Peg o' My Heart', a major and enduring personal stage triumph for Taylor, who toured in it extensively throughout the country. Based upon the play's success a 1922 film version was made starring Taylor and directed by King Vidor.
Taylor's outsized personality, mercurial moods, and eccentricities fuelled by her severe alcoholism became legendary ..... after the death of her second husband she is said to have had a lesbian affair with Eva Le Gallienne (who went through these actresses like a dose of salts! ) and the inevitable links with Tallulah Bankhead.

a couple of finds Laurette Taylor