Word: messala
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Except for his 1926 appearance as Messala, Ramon Novarro's competition in the Ben-Hur chariot race, and a brief bit in Wilson, Bushman never appeared on the screen again. But in the last 16 years he has played 2,500 bit parts in just about anything radio had to offer, from Red Ryder to One Man's Family...
Francis Xavier Bushman, 60-year-old matinee idol, got his first good film part in 15 years-playing Elder Statesman Bernard Baruch in the forthcoming Wilson. Bushman was a feverish Romeo in Hollywood's first Shakespeare (1916), a furious Messala in Ben Hur (1923), claims to have made and spent...