• Title
  William Desmond, actor - portrait, 1911 / Ruskin Studio, R. & N. Lucas, 225 Collins St. Melb.
• Creator
  Ruskin Studio (Melbourne)
• Call number
  P1/471
  
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  1911
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs
• Reference code
  447463
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  Photographs - 1 panel photoprint - image, oval 19.1 x 13.2 cm. , on mount, trimmed 25.4 x 20.4 cm.
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  William Desmond Taylor (April 26, 1872 – February 1, 1922) was an actor, successful US film director of silent movies and a popular figure in the growing Hollywood film colony of the 1910s and early 1920s. In the 1950 film Sunset Boulevard, the name Norma Desmond is a reference to both Taylor's middle name and one of his actress friends, Mabel Normand. Taylor's murder remains officially unsolved.
  
  Reference:
  Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page (accessed January 14, 2010)
• Scope and Content
  Head and shoulders profile in musical comedy military officer's costume: publicity photograph taken before 1911
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: created before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  Transferred from Desmond, William (BM), January 2010
  Digital order no:a4214071
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Photographer's stamp
  To Mr and Mrs Goodman / Sincerely / William Desmond / 1911 -- lower third of the photograph
• Name
  Desmond, William
  
• Subject
  Adult Males
  
• Topic
  actors
  portraits
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE3217258

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