William Desmond Taylor (Fake News: Fact Checking Hollywood Babylon Episode 4)
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Hollywood Studios - The Story of William Desmond Tyson
William desmond taylor was a director who had taken it upon himself to vocally oppose censorship of the movies. In 19 17, while celebrating their signing of fatty arbuckle to a long term contract, Zuker and abrams ran up a bill of over a thousand dollars at a boston brothel. The husband of one of the sexual service providers working that night, and the father of another who said his daughter was just 17, extorted suker and the other execs in an attempt to keep the situation under wraps. Anger's version goes on, and we will hear more of it next week in our episode on mabel normand. Join us, won't
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