Mary Miles Minter

1. – Lois Wilson,  The Covered Wagon, 1923. At first, George Melford was  due to direct MMM as Molly – before James Cruze took over the $782,000 Famous Players-Lasky-Paramount project. MMM, an ex-child actress with a (very) showbiz Momma, was finished in 1922, even before talkies arrived, following the scandal of the unsolved murder (by her mother, insisted  director King Vidor) of her suspected lover, another director William Desmond Taylor. 

 

 Birth year: 1902Death year: 1984Other name: Casting Calls:  0