Tweet Bessie Love 'found strangled July 9, 1947'

I thought I'd share this. Miss Love might have been eerily amused, I don't know. The Tasmanian Examiner July 10 1947
http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/52596504

SEMI-RETRACTION

"Sheila Mannering, aged 48, a radio actress, was found throttled to death in
her Manhattan' apartment bedroom today.
Earlier she was mistakenly identified as Bessie Love"
http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/81407282?searchTerm=bessie%20love%20strangled&searchLimits=

cool. But still what a goof!

FOLLOW UP

MANNERING WENT BY SEVERAL NAMES, ACTING IN SILENT COMEDIES AS "BESS TRUE"
WITH, AMONG OTHERS, BILLY WEST, BUD DUNCAN, AND (THE EARLIER) BILLY GILBERT.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0874078/
http://www.findadeath.com/forum/showthread.php?23392-Sheila-Manneringhttp://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=950&dat=19470711&id=dOtPAAAAIBAJ&sjid=GFUDAAAAIBAJ&pg=4172,5850322
http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=950&dat=19470711&id=dOtPAAAAIBAJ&sjid=GFUDAAAAIBAJ&pg=4172,5850322
http://www.loa.org/images/pdf/Liebling_Horsefeathers.pdf[/color]

Reminescent of the front-page story that ran all over the country around the time of WW I claiming Annie Oakley to have been jailed on a drug charge, when the culprit was some petty criminal who'd given that name. Annie sued them all, only the Hearst papers refusing, initially, to retract the story or apologize.

I was reading an old Photoplay issue online and it stated that a woman by the name of Betty Thompson had found her mother at a poorhouse. It also stated a reporter misheard her name as Betty Compson, and that was how it was reported for some days. Oops.

Martie

This is quite interesting to me in that Bess K True was a regular in a number of Weiss Brother Comedies of the late 1920's. She can even be seen in several shorts on the VCI WEISS-O-RAMA set, including the Izzie and Lizzie short MOVIE MANIA. Please tell us more.


RICHARD M ROBERTS