[3] Her childhood home was 17, Percy Avenue, in Whitley Bay[citation needed], Northumberland, in what is now Tyne and Wear.

She progressed to film, appearing in Alfred Hitchcock's Easy Virtue (1928),[4] Queen of Hearts (1934), and The Wicked Lady (1945).

Taylor married Sidney Colton and they had a daughter called Robin Anne[6] who was born in 1933.

[8] On 9 January 1946 she fell in the bathroom of her Park Lane flat and suffered a fractured skull.

[9] She was unconscious for three days; she woke briefly following two operations at St George's Hospital in Tooting to remove a blood clot to her brain, but died on the 13 January,[8] two months after the release of her penultimate film, The Wicked Lady.