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Sam Taylor

Highest Rated: 97% Safety Last (1923)

Lowest Rated: 44% Coquette (1929)

Birthday: Aug 13, 1895

Birthplace: New York, New York, USA

A scriptwriter and director who began his career in the silent era, Sam Taylor's first directorial effort was in 1922 with the romance "The Mohican's Daughter," after having begun to write scripts for Vitagraph a few years earlier. His first collaboration with Harold Lloyd was on the 1923 classic "Safety Last!," a film he directed and co-wrote. The film features a now famous part of cinematic history--a scene with Lloyd's bank clerk hanging precariously from the hands of a large clock many stories above a city street. The pair teamed up again for 1924's "Girl Shy" and 1925's "The Freshman," featuring Lloyd as an over-eager collegiate. Taylor's association with starlet Mary Pickford began in 1927 on "My Best Girl," a romantic comedy. He worked with Pickford again on the drama "Coquette" and in 1929 he became part of the sound era with the adaptation "The Taming of the Shrew," starring Pickford and her then-husband Douglas Fairbanks. The film contained the now infamous credit "By William Shakespeare, with additional dialogue by Sam Taylor." He would work with Pickford once more, on the 1931 musical "Kiki" before reuniting with Lloyd on the 1934 comedy"The Cat's-Paw." His final directorial effort came in 1944 and allowed him to work with screen legends Laurel and Hardy, on the romp "Nothing But Trouble ."

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Highest-Rated Movies

97% 93% Safety Last
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95% 78% The Freshman
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83% 72% Grandma's Boy
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44% 26% Coquette
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Out All Night
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56% The Cat's Paw
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44% The Taming of the Shrew
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Exit Smiling
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The Woman Disputed
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The Gray Towers Mystery
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Filmography

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Vagabond Lady 1935 Director, Producer The Cat's Paw 56% 1934 Director Out All Night 1933 Director Ambassador Bill 1931 Director Du Barry, Woman of Passion 1930 Director The Taming of the Shrew 44% 1929 Director Coquette 44% 26% 1929 Director, Producer Lady of the Pavements 1929 Screenwriter Tempest 50% 1928 Director The Woman Disputed 1928 Director My Best Girl 89% 1927 Director For Heaven's Sake 87% 1926 Director Exit Smiling 1926 Director, Writer The Freshman 95% 78% 1925 Director, Screenwriter Girl Shy 89% 1924 Director Hot Water 74% 1924 Director Why Worry? 59% 1923 Director, Writer Safety Last 97% 93% 1923 Director, Writer Dr. Jack 72% 1922 Director, Writer Grandma's Boy 83% 72% 1922 Writer I Do! 57% 1921 Screenwriter The Gray Towers Mystery 1919 Screenwriter
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