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To: Tijeras_Slim
I'm related to Francis X. Bushman who played Messala in the 1925 version.

I remember as a boy in the 1950s my Grandmother, who was in her 60s at the time, saying that Valentino and Francis X. Bushman were her favorite movie stars. She died in 1961 at age 73.

33 posted on 08/20/2016 3:45:53 PM PDT by Inyo-Mono
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To: Inyo-Mono

The Bushman side of the family was interesting, some of them inhabited the Bushman farm at Gettysburg. Sadie Bushman at the age of 9 kept sneaking out and helping at the field hospitals after the battle, earning he the title of the youngest nurse of the Civil War.


35 posted on 08/20/2016 3:49:31 PM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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