Laurette Taylor was born née Loretta Cooney on April 1, 1884, in New York City. Charles A. Taylor was her first husband and he wrote a play in 1903 at Boston called The Child Wife which became her first major production.
In New York City later that year she became Flossie Cooper in From Rags to Riches. In 1910, she was successfull for the first time by playing Rose Lane in Alias Jimmy Valentine then played the part of Luana in The Bird of Paradise in 1912. That same year, she married J. Hartley Manners, a dramatist. She was applauded for preforming the title role in his play Peg O' My Heart also the same year, which was shown in New York City as well as other cities. Out There (1917), Happiness (1918), and One Night in Rome (1919) were the plays she and her husband worked on together as actress and dramatist.
Laurette Taylor first performed mainly as a sentimental comedienne. During the 1920s she played the title role in Sweet Nell of Old Drury (1923) and Rose in Trelawny of the Wells (1925). She made an appearance in the Chicago production of The Comedienne (1927) and returned to Broadway with The Furies (1928). Her husband died in 1928 and caused her to leave the theatre for a few years, and only performed occasionally for a decade after the incident. At last, in 1945, she appeared as Amanda in the New York City production of The Glass Menagerie, in which she won commendation for her outstanding performance. Laurette Taylor died december 7, 1946. Her stage career lasted over 30 years 
