Francis X. Bushman

Francis Xavier Bushman was an American film actor and director. His career as a matinee idol started in 1911 in the silent film His Friends Wife. He gained a very large female following and was one of the biggest stars of the 1910s and early 1920s.

He was born in Baltimore, Maryland. As a young man Bushman joined the Maryland Athletic Club and began a body building regimen that would give him his famous film physique. He cited Sandow as one of his body building influences. In New York he worked as a sculptors model often posing in the nude in sessions. In 1902, he married seamstress Josephine Fladine Duval. By the launch of his film career, the couple had five children. In 1918, he was the subject of a national scandal as his affair with longtime costar Beverly Bayne became public. Three days after his divorce with Josephine was final, Bushman and Bayne were married they would eventually have a son. Bushman and his studios had kept his marriage secret for fear of losing popularity. He was married four times.

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