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Charlotte Shelby (Lily Pearl Miles Reilly) (19 December 1877 - 13 March 1957) was a popular Broadway's actress and the domineering mother of actresses Mary Miles Minter and Margaret Shelby. She gave up her own acting aspirations in order to manage her daughters' blossoming Broadway and eventually film career.

Connection to the Murder of William Desmond Taylor

There have been several suggestions for the murder of William Desmond Taylor, some more plausible than others. There were speculations that Charlotte Shelby killed Hollywood mogul William Desmond Taylor in a jealous rage over her daughter's attraction to him. It is reported that the bullet that killed Taylor was an older .38 caliber type that, according to at least one expert, was quite unusual and matched an unfired bullet from a revolver owned by Charlotte Shelby, which she later threw into a bayou in Louisiana. Although Shelby was known as a cold, selfish and manipulative woman, and probably did experience moments when she wanted Taylor dead, the L. A. district attorney Buron Fitts concluded that there wasn't any evidence for an indictment of Shelby, and recommended that the remaining evidence and case files be retained on a permanent basis. No person was ever convicted of the crime. Charlotte Shelby died in the 1950s and the crime is still technically unsolved. However, in recent years an alleged death-bed confession by actress Margaret Gibson has possibly discredited that theory.

Filmography

Dimples (1916)
Always in the Way (1915)
The Fairy and the Waif (1915)

=Stageplay=====

Love Watches (1908)

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