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Bessie Fortman 1907 - 1985

Bessie Fortman of Brentwood, Suffolk County, NY was born on July 2, 1907, and died at age 77 years old in April 1985.

Bessie Fortman
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Brentwood, Suffolk County, NY 11717
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In 1907, in the year that Bessie Fortman was born, the showman Florenz Ziegfeld introduced his Ziegfeld Follies. Ziegfeld was inspired by the Folies Bergère of Paris and the show was a step up from the then current vaudeville shows. The top entertainers of the time played in the Follies but the stars were the Ziegfeld girls - beautiful chorus girls in elaborate costumes. For almost a quarter of a century, the Ziegfeld follies were the toast of Broadway.
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In 1924, she was 17 years old when J. Edgar Hoover, at the age of 29, was appointed the sixth director of the Bureau of Investigation by Calvin Coolidge (which later became the Federal Bureau of Investigation). The Bureau had approximately 650 employees, including 441 Special Agents. A former employee of the Justice Department, Hoover accepted his new position on the proviso that the bureau was to be completely divorced from politics and that the director report only to the attorney general.
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Fortman, Joann (Jun 26, 1957 - Oct 24, 2010) Fortman, Clemens (Mar 11, 1936 - Jul 1986) Fortman, Vera (Jan 4, 1907 - Jan 12, 1990) Fortman, Ronald (Apr 25, 1936 - Aug 22, 2006) Fortman, Garry (Feb 8, 1953 - May 10, 2011) Fortman, Patricia (Oct 5, 1929 - Jul 14, 1999) Fortman, Arthur (Jun 26, 1899 - Apr 1972) Fortman, John (Jul 8, 1919 - Apr 4, 1996) Fortman, Ethel (Jun 27, 1898 - Apr 3, 1995) Fortman, Margaret (Aug 4, 1907 - Jul 17, 2000)
Fortman, Jamie (Nov 6, 1955 - Dec 23, 2005) Fortman, Irwin (Feb 12, 1928 - Aug 2, 1993) Fortman, Josephine (Mar 23, 1927 - Mar 6, 1996) Fortman, Elmer (May 2, 1906 - Jan 4, 1990) Fortman, John (Apr 10, 1908 - Jun 1977) Fortman, Edward (Oct 17, 1892 - Dec 1972) Fortman, Fred (Jan 31, 1917 - Jun 22, 1989) Fortman, John (Jul 6, 1916 - Oct 30, 1998) Fortman, Dorothy (Sep 24, 1922 - Mar 18, 1996) Fortman, Eugene (Dec 2, 1956 - Apr 18, 2011)
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