Item: Blanche Friderici

Language: en-US

Type of Problem: Incorrect_content

Extra Details: There's no incorrect content. I'm submitting this report simply to request that this actress' birth date field be locked, as it's sure to eventually wind up getting changed (and becoming very wrong again) otherwise.

I carefully researched Blanche Friderici in records from throughout her lifetime, and her birth date definitely was 12 September 1873, rather than 21 January 1878 that both Wikipedia and IMDb erroneously indicate. Her actual birth record spells out the precise 12 September 1873 birth date, which the 1900 Federal Census subsequently further corroborates that she was, indeed, born in September of 1873 (the 1900 Census never indicates a person's birth day of the month, only the month and year). The 1892 Brooklyn Census (in which she is indicated to be a "Professional Reader" [her otherwise known occupation of back during those early years]) likewise presents her at an age (19) that calculates solidly back to the 1873 birth year. Other presented details in the various records further cross-substantiate and make abundantly evident that each consulted old record definitely does pertain to and document this one-and-the-same particular individual.

Presumably, for professional purposes, Miss Friderici at some point invented a 21 January 1878 birth date / age to publicly go by, in order to be thought younger than her actual/true age. (It appears that during her latter years she even made effort to shave off an additional five years, seemingly hoping to be believed to have been born in 1883. [This probably in large part, and perhaps primarily - maybe entirely - was because she had a substantially younger husband who was born in, apparently, either 1893 or 1894, thus who was several years her junior regardless of whether she had been born in 1873, 1878, or 1883.])

I added explanation about the differing dates (the conflicting 1873 and 1878 years) in Miss Friderici's TMDb mini-bio, so no one will think the birth date we now present for her is a typo.

PS: Might be good to consider now locking the mini-bio. Meanwhile, also the indicated Brooklyn birth place, as well as the death date, have been confirmed to be definitely accurate, so can each be safely locked.