Today is the birthday of Blanche Payson (Mary Elizabeth Bush, 1881-1964). Payson’s near-giant proportions (6’4″, 238 lbs) made her highly useful in silent comedy, and Mack Sennett hired her for his studio in 1916 (her first film was Wife and Auto Trouble with William Collier). Payson’s publicity claimed that she was a former lady cop, and […]
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:18AM on September 20, 2014