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Florence Evelyn Nesbit (December 25, 1884 or 1885 – January 17, 1967) was an American artists' model, chorus girl, and actress.She is best known for her career in New York City, as well as her husband, railroad scion Harry Kendall Thaw's obsessive and abusive fixation on both Nesbit and architect Stanford White, which resulted in White's murder by Thaw in 1906.
Harry Kendall Thaw (February 12, 1871 – February 22, 1947) [1] [2] was the son of American coal and railroad baron William Thaw Sr. Heir to a multimillion-dollar fortune, he is most notable for murdering the renowned architect Stanford White in front of hundreds of witnesses at the rooftop theatre of New York City's Madison Square Garden on June 25, 1906.
The film relates a fictionalized account of real life events, when model and actress Evelyn Nesbit became embroiled in the scandal surrounding the June 1906 murder of her paramour, architect Stanford White, by her husband, rail and coal tycoon Harry Kendall Thaw.
Born in Berlin, Germany in 1910, Thaw was the only known child of Evelyn Nesbit, a famous American model and actress, and her first legally binding husband Harry Kendall Thaw. The senior Thaw was wealthy, the son of a Pittsburgh railroad and coal tycoon , with a long history of mental instability.
At the turn of the 20th century, architect Stanford White unveils a nude statue atop Madison Square Garden, modeled after former chorus girl Evelyn Nesbit.After learning of this, Nesbit's husband, millionaire industrialist Harry Kendall Thaw, becomes convinced White has corrupted her and publicly shoots him dead.
In The Artist, Anderson plays Evelyn Nesbit, the turn-of-the-century It girl whose husband, Harry Kendall Thaw, murdered architect Stanford White out of jealousy. The case transfixed the nation in ...
The Unwritten Law: A Thrilling Drama Based on the Thaw-White Case is a 1907 film produced by the Lubin Manufacturing Company in the true crime genre, about American coal and railroad baron Harry Kendall Thaw's killing of architect Stanford White over his involvement with model and actress Evelyn Nesbit.
Stanford White (first), Evelyn Nesbit (second) and Harry Thaw (third) The novel is unusual for the irreverent way that historical figures and fictional characters are woven into the narrative, making for surprising connections and linking different events and trains of thought about fame and success, on the one hand, and poverty and racism on ...