Irma Taylor

Irma Taylor (14 December 1890 – 17 April 1974) was an American screenwriter and actress of the silent era notable for playing Jane Eyre in Jane Eyre (1910), the English language film of the novel of the same name.

[1][2] Born in Michigan in the United States in 1890 as Irma Whepley, the daughter of Dora Alice Smith née Beardsley and William Long Whepley, she married the screenwriter Rex Allison Taylor in about 1910.

[2] With the Thanhouser Company she played the title role in Jane Eyre (1910)[3] and appeared in The Lady from the Sea (1911), and as Ustane in She (1911).

She provided the story to the screenplay by her husband for the films The Menace (1918), The Other Man (1918),[4][5] Leave It to Susan (1919) and They Like 'Em Rough (1922).

[2] In 1944, to a melody by her relative Harry James Beardsley she wrote the lyrics to the published song "All of my heart went with you".