Poet, Michelle Bitting, remembers her Great Grandmother, character actress of the Golden Era in: NOTES TO THE BELOVED (available on Amazon.com) Beryl Mercer, Actress (b.1882—d.1939) Time was you could stroll down Hollywood Boulevard and catch Great Grandma’s name flaming every cherry marquee. In All Quiet on the Western Front, Cagney’s long-suffering mom in The Public Enemy, she made the melancholy matriarch with her ocean liner hips and squat size, made the big brown spigots of her eyes open over a […]

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