Enid Georgiana Stamp Taylor (12 June 1904 â€" 13 January 1946) was an
English actress.Taylor first became known when she won a beauty
pageant at a young age and this led to parts in musical comedies on
stage, including The Cabaret Girl (1922), in which she was billed as
simply "Enid Taylor". She progressed to film, appearing in Alfred
Hitchcock's Easy Virtue (1928), Queen of Hearts (1934), and The Wicked
Lady (1945).The Stamp part of her name was included as a middle name;
it was her grandmother's maiden name. Taylor married Sidney Colton and
they had a daughter called Robin Anne. Her marriage to Colton was
dissolved in 1936. On 9 January 1946 she fell in the bathroom of her
Park Lane flat and suffered a fractured skull. She was unconscious for
three days; she woke briefly following two operations at St Georges
Hospital in Wimbledon to remove a blood clot to her brain, but died on
the 13 January, two months after the release of her final film, The
Wicked Lady.
English actress.Taylor first became known when she won a beauty
pageant at a young age and this led to parts in musical comedies on
stage, including The Cabaret Girl (1922), in which she was billed as
simply "Enid Taylor". She progressed to film, appearing in Alfred
Hitchcock's Easy Virtue (1928), Queen of Hearts (1934), and The Wicked
Lady (1945).The Stamp part of her name was included as a middle name;
it was her grandmother's maiden name. Taylor married Sidney Colton and
they had a daughter called Robin Anne. Her marriage to Colton was
dissolved in 1936. On 9 January 1946 she fell in the bathroom of her
Park Lane flat and suffered a fractured skull. She was unconscious for
three days; she woke briefly following two operations at St Georges
Hospital in Wimbledon to remove a blood clot to her brain, but died on
the 13 January, two months after the release of her final film, The
Wicked Lady.
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