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Profile of Laurette Taylor on Famous Like Me

 
Name: Laurette Taylor  
   
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Date of Birth: 1st April 1884
   
Place of Birth: New York, New York, USA
   
Profession: Actress
 
 
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Theater legend, born Helen Loretta Cooney (although other birth names have been tossed about) in New York on April 1, 1884, whose major roles include her unforgettable performances in the eponymous Peg o' My Heart and as deluded Southern matriarch Amanda Wingfield in the original Broadway production of Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie.

She married her first husband, Charles A. Taylor around 1900, and they had 2 children, Dwight and Marguerite, but they divorced around 1910. Her second husband was British-born playwright, J. Hartley Manners, who wrote Peg o' My Heart and produced the film version, which starred Marion Davies, whom she married in 1912 and remained his wife until his death on December 19, 1928. She never remarried.

Laurette Taylor suffered from severe alcoholism for many years which almost certainly contributed to her untimely death from a coronary thrombosis at the relatively young age of 62 on December 7, 1946.

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