A typically dominating show business mother, she gave up her own acting
aspirations in order to manage her daughter's blossoming Broadway and
resultant film career.
A book written by Sidney Kirkpatrick, director King Vidor's biographer, about the
unsolved William Desmond Taylor slaying theorizes that the highly jealous Charlotte,
herself, who was openly hostile over her daughter's passionate
relationship with the famed director, killed Taylor because she was
losing control of her daughter's career.