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Well, this should be fun – for me, anyway. What’s the mystery? That’s for you to figure out. A typical room of a certain era, eh?
[Update: Oct. 13, 10:56 a.m. Everybody seems to recognize this as William Desmond Taylor's apartment on Alvarado. Stay tuned for more photos!]
Mary Mallory, Donna, Carol Gwenn, Steven Bibb, Anne Papineau, Allison Francis, Gregory Moore, Lee Ann, Thom and Megan, Zabadu and RJ are on the case!
Periwinkle, James Curtis, Bruce Long, Elsie, Pamela Porter, Pete Nowell, Patricia van Hartesveldt and Rinky Dink are on the right track!
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The room in Greystone Mansion where Edward Doheny Jr & his “secretary” – Hugh Plunkett committed murder/suicide in 1929.
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Is it Claude Rains apartment in 1933? 🙂
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The room where William Desmond Taylor was killed.
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William Desmond Taylor’s bungalow?
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…or maybe it’s William Desmond Taylor bungalow on Alvarado Street? That’d be my guess.
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This is most challenging. It’s a perfectly nice room, too small to be a dedicated movie set, approx. 1920. There are some theatrical associations from the photos displayed. Films were then silent, and the open book seems too big to be a theater script. A telephone book or some such? Could it be the home of the aforementioned Robert Warick? Or some dressing room bungalow? There appears to be a bath beyond. I don’t recognize the portraits, so to attach a name is very tough. There appear to be drinking accoutrements — does this belong to a man?
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Oh and as for the mystery, William Desmond Taylor was murdered on 2-1-1922, still unsolved!
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OOH! I have been hoping one day you would get around to the William Desmond Taylor murder case. That’s his dining room area. On the table is the shaker where he made Orange Blossoms for himself and Mabel Normand. She was the last person to see him alive. I hope you publish some Times photos from the inquest. There are images, such as of actor Douglas Maclean and his wife, who heard the fatal shot, at the inquest, as well as other images that I have never seen before.
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William Desmond Taylor?
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William Desmond Taylor’s house.
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Could it be William Desmond Taylor’s apartment on Alvarado Court?
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Here’s a wild guess. Is this the William Desmond Taylor crime scene?
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William Desmond Taylor’s house?
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It doesn’t have the feel of the usual photos of a “murder room” or a room where some crime was committed, and the room itself looks decorative rather than lived-in, so I’m going to say it’s from some 1930s article on an entertainer of yesteryear. Yesteryear as compared to the 1930s, not today.
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William Desmond Taylor murder room? Didn’t King Vidor figure out who did it before he passed away?
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Could this be the Alvarado Court cottage where William Desmond Taylor breathed his last in 1922?
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I’m wondering if this is the home of William Desmond Taylor–the scene of his still-unsolved murder in 1922.
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Now I’m wavering between Bronco Billy Anderson and Francis X. Bushman. Was William D. Taylor wrong?
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The group photo (beneath the two partially obscured photos) is the cast and crew of “The Diamond From the Sky”. There is a full page version of the photo on page 89 of Robert Giroux’s “A Deed of Death.”
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William Desmond Taylor’s bungalow?
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Drinking rings prominent in the room, but there is little evidence of excess. The room’s occupant, it would seem, is a person of orderly manner.
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William Desmond Taylor’s bungalow at the Alvarado Court?
Gah. 🙂
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Wm. Desmond Taylor’s crib
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I think this has something to do with the William Desmond Taylor murder case. It does not seem to be the room in which his body was found–no couch, no piano, no writing desk–but maybe another small room in Taylor’s house? I seem to remember something about a cocktail shaker and two glasses being found…
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William Desmond Taylor’s bungalow (where he was murdered)?
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william desmond taylor’s house
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Absinthe, anyone? And a cork tipped cigarette, something a bit unusual for the time. Did the occupant of the bed-sitting room have a recent visitor? One who did not fully respect tmeticulousness. Is the door a jar? Or simply a door? And is it a door at all? Or Isadora Duncan? The departed dancer certainly answer the question: Is crime afoot? Or did a calf do it?
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This looks like the studio bungalow of a male, silent-era movie star. Back in the olden days when stars were under contract to one studio for seven years, they didn’t have trailers, they often had their own small houses on the studio lot. (Buster Keaton had one at MGM, and since his marriage to Natalie Talmadge wasn’t going well at the time, he basically lived in what he called “Keaton’s Kennel.”) Supersleuth Bruce Long deduced that one photo was from “The Diamond From the Sky,” which is a 30-chapter serial released in 1915. The stars were Lottie Pickford, Irving Cummings (later a successful writer-producer-director, notably of Shirley Temple and Betty Grable films) and William Russell, but the director was the notorious William Desmond Taylor, so my money’s on this being Taylor’s bungalow.
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If Bruce is right, then this is probably William Desmond Taylor’s bungalow.
You know how much someone would pay for those drawer pulls and that old style push-button light switch? Not just because of the WDT connection, mind, but for decorating purposes.
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I have no idea what you’re driving at, but this is fascinating!
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Okay, I’ll join the fun… With a photo of D.W. Griffith, what looks like a young Mary Pickford, and possibly Dorothy Gish… could it be lillian Gish’s sitting room circa 1920’s?
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I laughed heartily at the mock-up of the murderer and victim. That’s one mystery companion no one will ever guess, though.
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according to the book, a cast of killers by ,sidney kirkpatrick ,the movie director,king vidor after much research concluded that the killer was charlotte shelby, the mother of mary miles minter.the quote from minter is my mother killed everything i ever loved
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