- Mary Anderson, The Song of Bernadette, 1943. When the Fox studio shot a special photo layout for Life magazine, Bushman was modeling Jeanne Abadie. Hey, why not test her for the part? They did. She lost to Anderson. Who had already lost the title role of the French girl who had a vision of the Virgin Mary at Lourdes in 1858.
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