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Actress, Mary Miles Minter, was born Juliet Reilly on Apr 1, 1902 in Shreveport, LA. Miles Minter died at the age of 82 on Aug 4, 1984 in Santa Monica, CA .

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She was honored with one star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in the category of Motion Pictures.

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By Art on Apr 1, 2012 From Classic Cinema Gold

, born Juliet Reilly in Shreveport, Louisiana on April 1, 1902, was an American film actress of the silent film era. Mintor’s mother was Broadway actress Charlotte Shelby. At the age of five,?Minter accompanied older sister Margaret on an audition only because no baby sitter w... Read full article


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Juliet Reilly was renamed Mary Miles Minter (the name of a deceased older cousin) because Juliet was found (at age 9) to be working at too young an age and in violation of early child labor law restrictions. The cousin was 4 years her senior so Juliet magically became Mary. Charlotte Shelby, the mother, was behind this deception, in order to keep the meal-ticket, Juliet, working.

Anne of Green Gables (1919) was her favorite film that she made.

Two books have been written about the unsolved murder of William Desmond Taylor. The first by director King Vidor's biographer, Sidney Kirkpatrick, in 1986, theorizes that Mary's jealous mother, Charlotte Shelby, committed the murder and used much of Mary's money to pay off various attorneys. A second book by Robert Giroux suggests that Taylor was killed by a hit man hired by a drug kingpin (Taylor was known for trying to drive drug dealers out of Hollywood).

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