1. Bessie Barriscale was the eldest of five children; a younger brother, Charles Bessie Barriscale, went on stage.
21 Facts About Bessie Barriscale
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Bessie Barriscale's obituary says she was a New York City native, and cites her age at death as 81.
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Bessie Barriscale played Mary Berry, while her younger cousin Edith Taliaferro played Millie Berry.
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Bessie Barriscale's first known credit as Bessie Barriscale comes from a poorly received 1901 stock company performance of The Widow Bedott, for which she was the only actress praised.
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Bessie Barriscale did not tell her parents until January 1,1903.
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Bessie Barriscale became leading woman with the Belasco Stock Company in Los Angeles after performing for a year in Belasco's Rose of the Rancho.
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Bessie Barriscale went on to portray Luna in The Bird of Paradise and to have the lead in We Are Seven.
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Bessie Barriscale filed for divorce in Chicago during 1906, saying her husband never wrote to her when they were apart.
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Bessie Barriscale then married another actor, Howard C Hickman, in Manhattan on October 17,1906.
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Bessie Barriscale began her film career in 1913, debuting on-screen in Lasky Picture Company's Rose of the Rancho.
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Bessie Barriscale worked intensively for New York Motion Picture Company and Triangle Film Corporation until she announced her retirement in the early 1930s.
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Bessie Barriscale announced the formation at a news conference on May 1,1917.
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Bessie Barriscale was enthusiastic about William Shakespeare and wanted to bring one of his plays to the screen.
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Bessie Barriscale went so far as to hire a swimming and diving instructor and took lessons in Venice, California.
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In 1921, Bessie Barriscale came east to play in The Skirt.
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In prior years, Bessie Barriscale participated in plays for the Belasco Theater in Los Angeles and once appeared in Belasco productions, notably Bird of Paradise written by Richard Walton Tully.
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Bessie Barriscale returned to the stage in Women Go On Forever.
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Bessie Barriscale had been married 21 years and had a son age 20 at this time.
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Bessie Barriscale played a "housewife type," and confessed to having rehearsed for the role in a gingham dress she took from the wardrobe of her home in Santa Monica, California.
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Bessie Barriscale said she had been working at home for several years and had just learned to cook.
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Bessie Barriscale is interred next to her husband, Howard C Hickman, at the Mount Tamalpais Cemetery in San Rafael, California.