- Born
- DiedJuly 4, 1964 · Granada Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA (cardiac decompensation and arterosclerotic heart disease)
- Birth nameMary Elizabeth Bush
- Height6′ 4″ (1.93 m)
- Blanche Payson was born on September 20, 1881 in Santa Barbara, California, USA. She was an actress, known for All Over Town (1937), The Bachelor's Baby (1927) and Drifting Souls (1932). She was married to Eugene Alonzo Payson. She died on July 4, 1964 in Granada Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA.
- SpouseEugene Alonzo Payson(1908 - 1913) (divorced)
- Towering, tough-looking and sharp-voiced comedy actress, reputedly a former prison guard, as well as SFPD police officer. An intimidating presence, under contract to Hal Roach, Mack Sennett and Columbia, often as dominating or malevolent wives to henpecked husbands, including Oliver Hardy and Buster Keaton.
- Before starting her career in movies, she was San Francisco's first policewoman assigned to the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in 1915.
- Entered films with Mack Sennett
- She died from cardiac decompensation and arterosclerotic heart disease in Granada Hills, Los Angeles. She is interred at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Hollywood Hills, LA.
- In 1946, she received probation after pleading guilty to a charge of drunk driving.
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