- Ina Claire, Claudia, 1943. Having worked with her on Blondie of the Follies, 1932, director Edmund Goulding wanted Davies as the mother of Robert Young’s co-called “child bride“ (Dorothy McGuire, all of 27!). Also in the running, the Broadway and Chicago Mrs Bs: Frances Starr and Beverly Bayne. BB, from Minneapolis, won 163 screen roies. , including many films with her husbanc Francis X Bushman, Messala in the first the first Ben-Hur, 1925 – they were Hollywood’s first romantic couple.
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