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William Desmond Taylor (Fake News: Fact Checking Hollywood Babylon Episode 4)
William Desmond Taylor (Fake News: Fact Checking Hollywood Babylon Episode 4)
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Length:
48 minutes
Released:
Jul 24, 2018
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Podcast episode
Description
The killing of director William Desmond Taylor was the third in a trifecta of scandals which, over the course of about a year and a half, painted such a sordid a picture of the movie colony as a hotbed of sin that the industry was forced to fundamentally change its way of conducting business. Anger’s telling implies that Taylor’s murder may have been a consequence of the affairs he supposedly conducted simultaneously with several women, including both a starlet and her mother, or related to the fact that Taylor was living under an assumed identity and employing his own brother as his butler. Today we’ll sort out fact from fiction in the Taylor case, and demonstrate how the media frenzy surrounding it had wide-ranging consequences despite the fact that no one was ever arrested for the crime.
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Released:
Jul 24, 2018
Format:
Podcast episode
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