Patricia Palmer

Biography

Ella Margaret Gibson was a renowned American stage and silent film actress, known for her leading roles in Vitagraph Westerns and collaborations with Charles Ray in "The Coward" (1915) and William S. Hart in "The Money Corral" (1923). Her career spanned 16 years, during which she appeared in 147 films between 1913 and 1929. Gibson's life took a dramatic turn when, on her deathbed in 1964, she confessed to the murder of director William Desmond Taylor.