Bessie Love 'found strangled July 9, 1947'

sepiatone · Post by **sepiatone** » Sat Jul 07, 2012 5:40 pm

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" target="_blank

JFK · Post by **JFK** » Sat Jul 07, 2012 6:05 pm

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sepiatone · Post by **sepiatone** » Sat Jul 07, 2012 6:19 pm

cool. But still what a goof!

JFK · Post by **JFK** » Sat Jul 07, 2012 6:29 pm

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entredeuxguerres · Post by **entredeuxguerres** » Sat Jul 07, 2012 6:36 pm

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.

SteppenBow59 · Post by **SteppenBow59** » Sun Jul 08, 2012 12:01 am

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

Richard M Roberts · Post by **Richard M Roberts** » Sun Jul 08, 2012 1:55 am

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