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Mary Miles Minter
(same as Juliet Shelby)

Born 1 April 1902 in Shreveport, Louisiana, USA, as Juliet Reilly.
Died 4 August 1984 in Santa Monica, California, USA, of a heart attack.

Daughter of actress Charlotte Shelby. Sister of actress Margaret Shelby.

Married Brandon O. Hildebrandt, 1957; until Brandon’s death, 1965.

Mary Miles Minter began her career as a child actress. Minter was considered an integral part of, though not responsible, the unsolved murder of director William Desmond Taylor in 1922. She retired from film work in 1924.

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