Inside the home of murdered director William Desmond Taylor at 404 S. Alvarado St, Los Angeles

Inside the home of murdered director William Desmond Taylor at 404 S. Alvarado St, Los AngelesOkay, so this one is probably for the more hardcore Los Angeles/Hollywood history nerds. This photo takes us inside the home of popular and respected movie director William Desmond Taylor at 404 S. Alvarado St. For a while in 1922, this was the most famous address in LA when Taylor was found murdered on February 1st. His death caused a sensation when two very big stars at the time – Mabel Normand and Mary Miles Minter – became suspects. If you want to know more about it, read “Tinseltown” by William J. Mann—aside from solving the as yet officially unsolved murder, it paints a glorious picture of 1920s Hollywood.

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