Landis, Kenesaw Mountain, 168
Lasher, Christine, 343
Lasher, George, 340–43
blackmail of Gibson, 365
and Bushnell, 365
Lasker, Albert, 261
Lasky, Jesse, 16, 31, 101–4, 223, 226, 250, 251, 252, 393
and Arbuckle verdict, 276
and Gibson, 312–13, 366, 417
reaction to murder, 206–7
and Reid, 331–32
Last Tycoon, The (Fitzgerald), 424–25
Lazarus, Judge, 159
Leacock, Stephen, 187
Lee, Lila, 32
Leviathan, 367
Lewis, Elbert E., 418
Lewis, Pat. See Gibson, Margaret “Gibby”
Lichtman, Al, 349
Life with Father, 421
Lifted Veil, The, 114
Lindsey, Estelle Lawton, 242
Lindsey, Judge Ben, 32, 129
Little Lord Fauntleroy, 154
Little Mouse, The, 385–86
Lloyd, Harold, 32
Locklear, Ormer, 31, 33
Loew, Arthur, 37, 146
Loew, Jane Constance, 302
Loew, Marcus, 35–40, 41, 101, 169, 261, 368, 394
ambition, 36
Automatic Vaudeville, 35
as beloved figure, 37
dress, 36
feature-length films, 36–37
FTC hearings, 349–50
FTC testimony, 391
funeral, 394–95
and Hays, 333
and Lottie Zukor, 37
Merger, 390
Metro Pictures, 36
MGM, 390–91
and MPTOA, 39
Pembroke, 391
radio, 390
tennis, 36
theater ownership, 38
theater ownership rise, 146–47
and Zukor, 301–2, 390, 395
Zukor, assisting, 253
and Zukor, defense of, 136
and Zukor rivalry, 132
London Follies, The, 266
Long, Bruce, 409
Long, Ray, 405–9
Long, Stephen G., 372, 374
Long Beach Press, 283
Lord, Eva, 16
Lord’s Day Alliance, 99–100
Los Angeles, population increase, 19
Los Angeles Examiner, 33–34, 84, 222, 244, 253, 257, 288, 304
Los Angeles Herald, 23, 52
Los Angeles Police Department, 5, 198
Los Angeles Record, 201, 223, 361
Los Angeles Speedway, 267
Los Angeles Times, 31, 89, 116, 277, 283, 292, 305, 307, 326, 358
Mabel at the Wheel, 46
Mabel’s Married Life, 46
MacDonald, William, 200–201
MacLean, Douglas, 6, 190–91, 192, 196, 198, 199, 233
MacLean, Faith, 190, 191–92, 214, 233, 285, 306–7, 412–14, 416
description to police, 214
MacLean, Lawrence, 380
aka Larry Outlaw, 363
Bushnell scheme, 363
letters, 366
Madsen, Blackie, 127–28, 139, 184, 310, 366
aka Ross Garnet Sheridan, 319
Army, 319
assault, 320
bail for Osborn and Putnam, 364
Bushnell scheme, 317–26, 354–56, 363–64
family, 319
FBI hunt, 377–79
gun, 414
later life, 420
mother, 378–79
mustache, 416
sentence, 380
Maigne, Charles, 197, 198, 199, 200, 203, 225, 286
Mailheau, Theodore, 236
Male and Female, 32
Maloney, Leo, 184, 365, 420
Mann Act, 322, 343, 353
Marion, Frances, 72
Mark of Zorro, The, 79, 94
Marsh, Mae, 32
Marshall, Charles, 117
Martin, Vivian, 115
Maurice and Hughes, 181
Max O. Miller Productions, 365
Mayer, Louis B., 351, 390
McCoy, Kid, 421
McFarlan automobile, 84, 91, 112, 116, 117, 142, 179, 187
McGinness, Arthur, 365, 370, 387
McGuire, W. D., 106, 296
McKean Democrat, 224
McMahon, Charles, 338
McNab, Gavin, 333
McPherson, Jeanie, 361
Meehan, Owen, 371, 377, 379
Meighan, Thomas, 32, 43
Melrose Avenue, 29
Melrose Hotel, 24, 26, 48, 53, 125, 128
Methodist Preachers Association, 331
Metro Pictures, 36
merger, 390
Metropolitan Quartet, 33
MGM formation, 390
Miles, Julia, 57, 273–74
gun, 274
Miles, Lilla Pearl. See Shelby, Charlotte
Millay, Edna St. Vincent, 386
Miller, Bill “Ranger,” 343
Miller, Gov. Nathan, 120, 121
Miller, Max O., 341, 343
Million Dollar Theatre, 84, 156
Minter, Mary Miles, 26–28, 34, 54, 55–63, 79, 80–83, 109, 116, 127, 243, 286–88
age, 58
aka Juliet Reilly, 57
alibi, 205, 399
Anne of Green Gables, 60
attempted murder story, 361
Cadillac roadster, 55
and censorship, 253–54
comeback, 361
contract and salary, 245
contract nonrenewal, 327, 346
Cowboy and the Lady, The, 286
delusion, 81
dreams, 27
drugs, 362
faked suicide attempt, 62
funeral home, 227–28
and Gibson, 287–90
grand jury testimony, 400
hair sample, 315–16
Heart Specialist, The, 204
and James Kirkwood, 59
later life, 421–23
lawsuit against mother, 360–61
living independently, 326–27
love affair story, 361–62
marriage, 422
and Marshall Neilan, 173
mother, 27, 55–63, 114
mother as suspect, 398
move back to California, 422
move to New York, 388
and Normand, 360
and Normand confrontation, 209–10
origin of name, 57–58
poetry, 61
police interview, 246–48
police re-interview, 1926, 398
pregnancy and abortion, 59
press after death of Taylor, 228
reconciliation with mother, 346
separation from mother, 326–27
Sweet Lavender, 130
and Taylor, 27–28, 60–63, 81–83
and Taylor, Christmas gift, 173
and Taylor, good-bye, 174–75
and Taylor, homosexuality, 116–17
and Taylor, letters to, 81, 113, 229–30, 244–45, 247–48, 288
and Taylor, obsession, 113–15, 143–44, 173–75
Taylor funeral, 244
Taylor murder, reaction, 204–9
and Thomas Dixon, 173
train accident, 289–90
and Zukor, 58
and Zukor, letter to, 80
Mirage, The, 74
Mishawum Manor, 16, 122, 131, 134, 147
Mission Theatre, 78–79
Molly O’, 93, 153, 241, 267
Monarch Hotel, 318
Moon-Calf (Dell), 196
Moonlight and Honeysuckle, 229
Moore, Fred, 127, 184, 185, 353
aka Earl Frank Dustin, 344
working with Bushnell, 343–44
Moore, Jackie, 184
Moore, Owen, 32, 43
Moore, Tom, 179
Morals, 5–6, 130
Moreno, Antonio, 69, 181, 241
Motion Picture Directors Association, 5, 29
Motion Picture Theater Own
ers of America (MPTOA), 38, 65, 70
movies, as industry, 13
American movie theater revenues, 38
appointment of Hays, 261–65
and beauty, 20
beginnings of, 19
and First Amendment, 14
impact on society, 20
and Jews, 17
losses in 1920, 14
open-air shooting, 19
parallel with baseball, 168
production code, 101–6
revenues from Paramount films, 39
and scandal, 14
as scapegoat for cultural changes, 152
shift from New York to Los Angeles, 20
Taylor death as additional scandal, 223–24
vigilance committee, 254
Moving Picture World, 130
Muir, Florabel, 257
Murder in Hollywood, 408
Murphy, Wiley, 203
Murphy, Patrick, 107, 179
Murray, Mae, 43, 154, 261
Mystery of the Leaping Fish, The, 91
Nast, Condé, 393
National Association of the Motion Picture Industry (NAMPI), 18, 105, 122, 166
and Will Hays, 166–71
National Bank of New York, 39
National Board of Review, 18, 68, 106, 296
and production code, 104
National Catholic Welfare Council, 295
National Conference of Catholic Charities, 69–70
Nazimova, Alla, 146, 148
Neilan, Marshall “Mickey,” 154, 173, 229, 235
and Minter letters, 229–30
New Catherine Theatre fire, 69
New Theatre of Alexander Pantages, 84
New York Police Department, first policewoman, 68
New York Times, 33, 146, 181, 265, 329, 335, 386
New York Tribune, 64
Niblo, Fred, 94
Nietzche, Friedrich, 190
Night Riders of Petersham, The, 129
Normand, Claude, 22, 44–45, 267
Normand, Mabel, 21–24, 26, 34, 42–47, 71–74, 86, 87, 89–93, 109, 127, 186–90, 266–69, 294, 358–60
addiction, 23–24, 43–44, 153
affair, 21
age, 21, 22
alcohol, 23, 109, 179, 360, 386
apartment, 21
“baloney card,” 22
censorship, 267
childhood, 22
and Clarine Seymour, 42
cocaine, 23, 43
at coroner’s jury, 233
criticism of, 266–67
death, 401
description, 45
D. W. Griffth, 45
England, 329
Europe, 325–26
Extra Girl, The, 359
father, 44–45
“Fatty and Mabel” comedy shorts, 151
and Fatty Arbuckle arrest, 150–52
and Federation of Women’s Clubs, 384–85
at funeral, 241–42, 244
generosity, 23
and George Patterson, 266
Glen Springs, 89
and Glen Springs Sanatorium, 71–72, 74
Greer trial testimony, 383–84
gun tip, 216
hiding, 267
illness, 268
implicated in Taylor death, 242
Little Mouse, The, 385–86
and Mack Sennett, 45–46
and Mack Sennett, professional relationship, 93
and Mary Miles Minter, 360
and Mary Miles Minter, confrontation, 209–10
modeling, 45
Molly O’, 93, 153
move to New York, 385–87
movies, start in, 45
New York, 325–26
and Olive Thomas, 24, 42
and Olive Thomas funeral, 42–44
photo at scene of Taylor murder, 196
pleurisy, 153
and police, 268
police search, 218–19
pregnancy and stillbirth, 73
public perception of, 153
“Queen of Comedy,” 21
and Reid’s revelation, 328–29
return to California, 89
and Sam Goldwyn, 23, 46, 72–73
and Sam Goldwyn, contract, 90, 93
Slim Princess, The, 21
Staten Island, 74
suicide attempt, 46
Suzanna, 189, 269
and Taylor, 47, 90–91, 173
and Taylor, and argument, 179–80
Taylor, and drug dealer, 90
and Taylor, and letters to, 44, 238–39, 242
Taylor, and sanatorium, 71–72
Taylor, final visit to, 187–90
Taylor murder reaction, 203–4
tuberculosis, 387
weight gain, 89
witness, 214
North Beachwood Drive, 49
Obenchain, Madalynne, 222, 306
Ochs, Adolph, 107
Oesterreich, Fred, 376, 421
O’Grady, Ellen, 68–70
testimony, 120–22
O’Hildebrandt, Brandon, 422
Olcott, Sydney, 261
Old Wives for New, 32, 417
Osborn, Don, 75, 125–26, 270, 283
ambition, 77, 78–80
arrest, 355
bunco, 127–28, 163, 185, 310–11
Bushnell scheme, 317–24, 352–57
forgery, 77
and George Weh, 77
and Gibson, proposal for Read, 94–97
and Gibson, scams, 125–26
Gibson rental, 165
and Lasher scam, 343
later life, 420
and Madsen, 127–28
marriage, 76, 77, 164
and Rose Putnam, 96
and Rose Putnam affair, 139–40, 163–64, 165
sentence, 371
son, 77
threat to Rae Osborn, 140–41
Osborn, Earl, 77
Osborn, Rae, 77–78, 96, 127, 139, 164
marriage to Don Osborn, 139–41
obsession with Don Osborn, 184
Otello, 115
Overholtzer, Ivy, 208, 227–28
Overstreet, Jay R., 184
Owl Drug, 4–5
Pacific Electric Railway, 25
Pair of Hellions, A, 343
premiere, 365
Palace, 84
Palmer, Mrs. George, 384
Palmer, Patricia. See Gibson, Margaret “Gibby”
Pantages Theatre, 129
Paramount, 15, 16
bankruptcy, 424
percent revenue of all motion pictures, 39
Paramount building, 389, 391
completion/opening, 393–94
Paramount Theater, 299
Paramount Theaters management, 392
Parent-Teachers Association, 295
Parsons, Louella, 74
Pathé, 76
Patricia Palmer Productions, 270
Patterson, George S., 266
Patteson, Stake, 130
Peavey, Henry, 4–8, 144–45, 172–73, 187, 188–89, 233, 411
arrest, 189
description, 5
discovery of body, 192, 196
and Examiner, 257
ghosts, 259–60
home, 4
reaction to murder, 207–8
sexual orientation, 5
spotlight after murder, 256
vagrancy charge, 5
Peete, Louise, 212, 222
Pelton’s Theatre, 78
Pepa, Joe, 48, 383
lewdness charge, 51
and Margaret “Gibby” Gibson, 49–53
marriage, 50
suit against police, 49–50
trial, 53
Pettijohn, Charles L., 105
Philadelphia Evening Public Ledger, 40
Photoplay, 387, 394
Pickford, Jack, 24, 154, 229
Pickford, Lottie, 43
Pickford, Mary, 6, 25, 27, 32, 34, 43, 56, 64, 79, 83, 154
Police
Gazette, 190, 224
Poor Little Rich Girl, The, 283
production code, 101–6
and The Affairs of Anatol, 106
made public, 103
National Board of Review, 104
unenforceable, 120
Production Code Administration, 424
Prohibition, 15, 23
Public Is Never Wrong, The (Zukor), 425
Purviance, Edna, 6, 195, 203, 267, 383
Putnam, Rose, 96, 125, 128, 163–64, 165, 184, 311–12
abortion, 310
arrest, 356
and Bushnell, 311–12, 317–18
Bushnell scheme, 352–57
and James Bryson, 163–64
later life, 420
marriage, 311
release, 380
scams, 125–26
sentence, 371
Putnam Building, 12, 118, 119, 298
Queen Elizabeth, 37, 255
Ralph Story’s Los Angeles, 407
Rappé, Virginia, 149, 151, 157
Ray, Charles, 26, 32
Read, J. Parker, 94–95, 96, 97
Realart Picture Corporation, 58
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, 32
Reid, Wallace “Wally,” 84, 104, 132, 294, 312
addiction, 327–29, 332
death, 339
drugs, 91–92, 153
Reilley, Mrs. Eugene, 68
Reimer, Charles, 377, 379
Rialto, 84
Rich, Irene, 387
Ritz-Carlton, 37, 44, 146
Roach, Hal, 42, 387
Robbins, Ethel May, 236–37
Roberts, Ed, 292
Robins, Edward L. C., 237
Rodriguez, Ralph and Lola, 50–51
Rogers, Will, 32, 395
Roosevelt, Teddy, 170
Rosa Mundi (Dell), 187
Ross, Gene, 181
Ross, Herbert I., 366
Rucker, Edward, 373
Rudin, J. Robert, 392
Ruggles, Wesley, 179
Ryan, John A., 354, 366, 380
FBI hunt, 377
Ryan, May, 139, 184, 320–21, 363
bunco, 320
Saint Valentine’s Day Massacre, 260
Salisbury, Edward A., 252–53
Salvation Army, 295
Sands, Edward F. “Jazz,” 86, 108–12
aka Edward Strathmore, 111
aka Snyder, 110
crimes, 110–11
flyers about, 252
gun, 112
and Minter, 86
pawn ticket letter, 176
possible weight loss, 232
spying on William Desmond Taylor, 108–9
Taylor, spying on, 111, 113
Taylor, vandalism and crimes against, 142
and Taylor murder investigation, 213
as Taylor murder suspect, 201, 213–14, 215, 231–32, 247, 284, 412
Taylor’s house, seen at, 188
Sanhuber, Otto, 421
Santschi, Tom, 75
Saucedo, Maria, 420
Scarborough, George, 229
Schallert, Edwin, 116, 117
Schenck, Joseph, 101, 154, 155, 160, 169, 291, 368, 369
Schenck, Nicholas, 279–81, 394
Schiff, Jacob, 39
Schuyler, Betsy, 386–87
Schwab, Charles, 393
Schweppes, Mr. and Mrs. Richard, 116
Seeling, Charles, 162–63, 183
Selznick, Lewis J., 58, 101, 135, 166, 168, 261
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