Laurette Taylor (born Loretta Helen Cooney; April 1, 1883 – December 7, 1946) was an American stage and silent film star who is particularly well known...
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as Tom Wingfield Laurette Taylor as Amanda Wingfield Julie Haydon as Laura Wingfield Anthony Ross as Jim O'Connor Laurette Taylor's performance as Amanda...
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Laurette may refer to: Laurette (given name) Laurette (play), 1960 American play based on the life of Laurette Taylor and starring Judy Holliday Laurette...
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Gillette, Robert Cummings, Dorothy Gish, Hugh Sinclair, Henry Travers and Laurette Taylor. Her longest-running play was the 1927 hit Tommy, in which she starred...
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1960, Holliday started out-of-town tryouts on the play Laurette, based on the life of Laurette Taylor. The show was directed by José Quintero with background...
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massive single setting was designed by Robert Brunton. The play starred Laurette Taylor, who had recently signed a three-year contract with Morosco. It opened...
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The play was written by J. Hartley Manners and starred Laurette Taylor in the title role. Taylor appeared on the cover of early published sheet music....
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Laurette Spang-McCook, credited as Laurette Spang, is an American television actress. She is best known for playing the character Cassiopeia on the original...
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screenwriter. Dwight Taylor was the son of actress Laurette Taylor and her husband, Charles A. Taylor. Dwight Taylor attended Lawrenceville School in Lawrence...
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Donaldson Award (forerunner of the Tony Awards) presented to her by Laurette Taylor, for "Outstanding Achievement in The Theatre". From 1951 to 1953, Bel...
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and starring Laurette Taylor. It is based on the 1912 play written by Taylor's husband J. Hartley Manners. The play starred Laurette Taylor and famously...
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from Gates and Morange. The play starred H. B. Warner and introduced Laurette Taylor. It opened Christmas night 1909 in Chicago, moving to Broadway during...
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the original Broadway production of The Glass Menagerie, starring Laurette Taylor. Blair was featured in such films as A Double Life (1947), Another...
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idea without cluttering it," comparing her performance to that of Laurette Taylor in the Broadway production The Glass Menagerie (1945). Day felt that...
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offer to join Laurette Taylor's company in New York. Taylor and her husband, Hartley Manners, fostered the young Fontanne's career. Taylor later said, "While...
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the street. By that June, the production Peg o' My Heart featuring Laurette Taylor had been scheduled for the Cort. The opening of the theater was originally...
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Lardner, journalist Rebecca West, cartoonist Rube Goldberg, actress Laurette Taylor, actor Lew Fields, comedian Ed Wynn, and many others. He became close...
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repeatedly noted about the attractive chorus girls "They look, as Miss Laurette Taylor used to say, as if they all had mothers." In "Good Old Nectar," instead...
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found success in the popular play Bird of Paradise, which starred Laurette Taylor. The play was later filmed in 1932 and 1951. For the summer of 1913...
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by her in collaboration with J. Hartley Manners, husband of actress Laurette Taylor. She returned to the US for tours in 1906 and again in 1912, appearing...
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Irish extraction who wrote Peg o' My Heart, which starred his wife, Laurette Taylor, on Broadway in one of her greatest stage triumphs. Manners was born...
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1933, attracted performers such as Maude Adams, Ethel Barrymore, and Laurette Taylor in the early years and more recently, Sally Struthers, Lucie Arnaz...
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distributed by Metro Pictures. Writer Charles A. Taylor was at one time married to Laurette Taylor. Francis X. Bushman - Ralph Everly Beverly Bayne -...
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1946) March 24 – Dorothy Campbell, Scottish golfer (d. 1945) April 1 Laurette Taylor, American actress (d.1946) Lon Chaney, American actor (d. 1930) April...
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Lunt Ethel Merman George Jean Nathan Eugene O'Neill Richard Rodgers Laurette Taylor Tennessee Williams An annual Theater Hall of Fame Founders Award, established...
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Preminger, with long-running productions, including Outward Bound with Laurette Taylor and Vincent Price, My Dear Children with John and Elaine Barrymore...
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Electricity (1910) The Foolish Virgin (1910) Seven Sisters (1911) (with Laurette Taylor) Lady Patricia (1912) (with Mrs. Fiske) Chains (1912) The Amazons (1913)...
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Amanda in the film version of Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie. Laurette Taylor, who originated the role of Amanda, was an idol of Bankhead's and also...
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Charles Chaplin short Peg o' My Heart, directed by King Vidor, starring Laurette Taylor Phantom, directed by F. W. Murnau, starring Alfred Abel, Lil Dagover...
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Leni. He also appeared in the 1912 play The Seven Sisters, opposite Laurette Taylor, directed by Oliver Morosco. (1955) Alfred Hitchcock Presents (S1E7)...
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