"So This Is New York City"
 

 

 
 
 

 

World heavyweight champion Jack Dempsey and wife, Estelle Taylor Dempsey, are enjoying the view from atop the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in NYC... Dempsey is to start training for his 1926 title defense against Gene Tunney... A beautiful image!!

ACME photo
measures: 8 x 10"
condition: pinholes in all four corners are confined
to white border, overall excellent

sold!!

 
                                
                              
FROM THE BOOKS
   Trouble was dark-haired and gorgeous. She was born Estelle Boylan in Wilmington, Delaware, into a working-class Irish and (reportedly) Jewish family, and left home to marry a banker when she was fourteen years old. Now, at the age of twenty-four, she had metamorphosed into Ida Estella Taylor, and acted in films under the briefer name of Estelle Taylor. She had played prominent roles in Blind Wives, A Fool There Was, and Only a Shop Girl. Most recently she had played "Miriam, Sister of Moses," in Cecil B. DeMille's astonishing epic The Ten Commandments. DeMille kept his actress clothed, but watching a slit-skirted Estelle writhe in lust beneath the Golden Calf certainly called forth testosterone.
    One day Jack Dougherty, who starred in cowboy movies, called (Teddy) Hayes aside at Universal and said, "Would the champion like to meet Estelle Taylor? She's very beautiful." Hayes said Jack was free and not at the moment in training. Dougherty drove Dempsey and Hayes to a Paramount back lot in the San Fernando Valley where Taylor was acting in Tiger Love. The group arrived outside Taylor's dressing room at lunch break and she walked straight to the car, smiled at Dempsey, and said, "We have so many mutual friends here and in Philadelphia and Wilmington."
    "I'm sure we do, Miss Taylor," Dempsey said. He offered a shy and boyish grin.
    That night Hayes dropped off Dempsey at Taylor's duplex apartment on Formosa Street near Hyland Boulevard, two blocks from the Charlie Chaplin studio. Dempsey said he would call when it was time for Hayes to fetch him.
    No call came that night. Hayes went to sleep. He woke up to a ringing telephone at 8:30 the following morning. Dempsey said, "Bring me a clean shirt, will you, Teddy?"

                                       Roger Kahn-A Flame of Pure Fire
 
 
 

Jack Dempsey would wed Estelle Taylor
on February 7, 1925. In 1931 Estelle and her champ
had taken off the gloves, thrown the towel in
and were divorced.

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