Margaret Gibson did she or didn’t she?
There was nothing simple about Margaret “Gibby” Gibson the former silent film actress that lived her later years in virtual obscurity then confessing to the murder of Director William Desmond Taylor on her deathbed. During her Hollywood years she was friendly with thieves,drug dealers and blackmailers. She was relatively unnoticed as long as she stayed ahead of the law but the times the law caught up with her she would change her stage name and continue to act. She was arrested in A Chinatown brothel in 1917 she changed her name to Patricia Palmer and continued to act. She was arrested for suspicion of being part of a blackmailing ring in 1923 now known as Pat Lewis. Margaret’s career was over with the advent of the talkies, she used at least 5 other aliases throughout her life but settling on Pat Lewis. Margaret worked with William Desmond Taylor in 4 shorts in 1914. He was the new actor in town then. Al Christie gave Gibby her big break in 1917. He signed her to a contract She