Well......
Margaret Shelby an erstwhile minor Hollywood actress with her career mostly behind her, had at age 27 been courted and married a relative of yours, Hugh Fillmore (grandson of Millard C. Fillmore) in 1926.
They were divorced a year later.
Margaret's sister and mother Charlotte were suspects/victims in a sensational case when they were revealed to have both been intimately involved with murdered director William Desmond Taylor.
Margaret's sister was the lovely Mary Miles Minter and her mother Charlotte Shelby - who many people believe to have been the perp in the case.
One of the sad stories of my life:
Back in the 1970s, I was doing research for a book on the Taylor murder. Among the people that I interviewed were Mary Miles Minter, Adela Rogers St. Johns and King Vidor.
I met Mr. Vidor at his home office, and he suggested that we collaborate on the book, since he had also been researching the case and had, in fact, been give access to the police files. [After all, he was a famous director.]
I spoke to Adela Rogers St. Johns about this and she said, "What do you need him for?"
Being young, foolish and with an enlarged ego, I listened to her and turned Vidor down.
A few years later, a writer names James Kirkpatrick did strike a deal with Vidor, and the result was the best-selling
A CAST OF KILLERS, probably the definitive book on the Taylor murder.
My book was gone with the wind.
