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Stanner E.V. Taylor

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{{short description|American screenwriter}}

{{Infobox person

| name = Stanner E.V. Taylor

| image = Stanner E.V. Taylor.jpg

| caption = The Theater of Science vol. 29 - 1914

| birth_date = {{birth date|1877|9|28}}

| birth_place = St. Louis, Missouri, USA

| death_date = {{death date and age|1948|11|23|1877|9|28}}

| death_place = Los Angeles, California, USA

| yearsactive = 1908–1929

| spouse = Marion Leonard

}}

Stanner E.V. Taylor (September 28, 1877 – November 23, 1948) was an American screenwriter and film director of the silent era. He wrote for more than 100 films between 1908 and 1929.

Biography

He was born on September 28, 1877, in St. Louis, Missouri, and died on November 23, 1948, in Los Angeles, California.{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iqIYAQAAIAAJ&q=Stanner+E.V.+Taylor+died+in+1948 |title=Silent Film Necrology |first=Eugene Michael |last=Vazzana |publisher=McFarland Publishing |year=2001 |page=310 |isbn=9780786410590}} He was married to Biograph Company actress Marion Leonard.{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=c3vZS2Na06kC&pg=PA129 |title=Stagestruck Filmmaker: D. W. Griffith and the American Theatre |author1-link=David Mayer (historian) |first=David |last=Mayer |publisher=University of Iowa Press |year=2009 |page=129 |isbn=9781587298400}} The worked together in Where the Breakers Roar (1908).{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=b7qQBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA161 |title=Florence Lawrence, the Biograph Girl: America's First Movie Star |first=Kelly R. |last=Brown |publisher=McFarland Publishing |date=September 18, 2014 |page=161 |isbn=9781476613178}}

Career

He wrote Native Americans and western films like Comata, the Sioux (1909),{{sfn|Hilger|2015|p=137}} The Kentuckian (1908),{{sfn|Hilger|2015|p=203}} A Mohawk's Way (1910),{{sfn|Hilger|2015|p=231}} The Mohican's Daughter (1910),{{sfn|Hilger|2015|p=231}} The Squaw's Love (1911),{{sfn|Hilger|2015|p=298}} and The Yaqui Cur (1913).{{sfn|Hilger|2015|p=342}}

He met D. W. Griffith when he first arrived at Biograph Company, when newspaperman Lee Doc Dougherty headed the story department and hired Griffith as chief scenarist.{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SF7WeWc7RJEC&pg=PT86 |title=D.W. Griffith's the Birth of a Nation: A History of the Most Controversial Motion Picture of All Time |first=Melvyn |last=Stokes |publisher=Oxford University Press |date=January 15, 2008 |page=86 |isbn=9780199887514}} He worked under the direction of Griffith in The Mended Lute (1909),{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sm4L6Rz7kRkC&pg=PA293 |title=Invisible Natives: Myth and Identity in the American Western |first1=A. J. |last1=Prats |first2=Amando |last2=Jose |publisher=Cornell University Press |year=2002 |page=293 |isbn=9780801487545}} The Impalement (1910),{{sfn|Graham|1985|p=81}} The Purgation (1910),{{sfn|Graham|1985|p=84}} A Flash of Light (1910),{{sfn|Graham|1985|p=85}} The Great Love (1918), The Greatest Thing in Life (1918), The Girl Who Stayed at Home (1919), Scarlet Days (1919), The Greatest Question (1919) and The Idol Dancer (1920).{{cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780813520278 |url-access=registration |title=The Birth of a Nation: D.W. Griffith, Director |first1=Robert |last1=Lang |first2=David Wark |last2=Griffith |author2-link=David Wark Griffith |publisher=Rutgers University Press |year=1994 |page=[https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780813520278/page/303 303] |isbn=9780813520278 |editor-first=Dennison W. |editor-last=Griffith}} They worked together in the screenplay for The Hun Within (1918).{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=paEqAAAAYAAJ&q=Stanner+E.V.+Taylor |title=The Griffith project: Selected writings of D. W. Griffith. Indexes and corrections to volumes 1-10 |first1=Paolo Cherchi |last1=Usai |first2=Eileen |last2=Bowser |publisher=British Film Institute |year=2007 |page=266 |isbn=9781844572328}}

He worked with Mack Sennett in Over the Hills to the Poor House (1908),{{sfn|Walker|2013|p=251}} In the Season of Buds (1910), A Midnight Cupid (1910) and An Arcadian Maid (1910).{{sfn|Walker|2013|p=257}}

He directed an unknown film called The Terror, released on July 13, 1922.{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nRADAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA964 |title=Catalogue of Copyright Entries: Pamphlets, leaflets, contributions to newspapers or periodicals, etc.; lectures, sermons, addresses for oral delivery; dramatic compositions; maps; motion pictures. Part 1, group 2 |volume=19 |issue=1 |author=Library of Congress |author-link=Library of Congress |publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office |year=1923}}

Selected filmography

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References

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Bibliography

  • {{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IQRaAAAAMAAJ&q=Stanner+E.V.+Taylor |title=D.W. Griffith and the Biograph Company |first=Cooper C. |last=Graham |publisher=Scarecrow Press |year=1985 |pages=333 |isbn=9780810818064 }}
  • {{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9PuICgAAQBAJ&q=Stanner+E.V.+Taylor&pg=PA137 |title=Native Americans in the Movies: Portrayals from Silent Films to the Present |first=Michael |last=Hilger |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |date=October 16, 2015 |pages=464 |isbn=9781442240025 }}
  • {{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=x_icAwAAQBAJ&q=Stanner+E.V.+Taylor&pg=PA251 |title=Mack Sennett's Fun Factory: A History and Filmography of His Studio and His Keystone and Mack Sennett Comedies, with Biographies of Players and Personnel |first=Brent E. |last=Walker |publisher=McFarland Publishing |date=April 25, 2013 |pages=671 |isbn=9780786477111 }}

External links

  • {{IMDb name|id=0853193|name=Stanner E.V. Taylor}}

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Category:1877 births

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Category:American male screenwriters

Category:Film directors from Missouri

Category:20th-century American male writers

Category:20th-century American screenwriters