Taylor Moon

Dwight Oliver Taylor, born in 1903 and passing in 1986, was an American writer with a career spanning journalism, playwriting, and screenwriting for both film and television. He was the son of actress Laurette Taylor. Taylor began his career in journalism, serving as an early editor for The New Yorker's "Talk of the Town" section, after declining a position as a cub reporter. He transitioned to screenwriting in 1930 and later to television in 1953. His early theatrical work included the play Don't Tell George (1928), as well as Lipstick and Gay Divorce. The screenplay for Jailbreak, which he wrote, was purchased in manuscript form and adapted into the 1930 film Numbered Men. The play Gay Divorce was notably adapted into a Broadway musical by Cole Porter and later filmed by RKO Studios as The Gay Divorcee, starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. Taylor was also a founding member of the Writers Guild of America, West, and served one term as its president. He died of a heart attack in 1986 at the Motion Picture and Television Hospital in Woodland Hills, California. He was predeceased by his second wife, Natalie Visart, and is survived by his daughter, Laurel. His first marriage was to Marigold Lockhart Taylor, with whom he had three children: Andrew, Audrey, and Jeffrey.