Madge Meredith at the age of 7. Screen actress Madge Meredith was convicted and sentenced to prison for 5 years to life for complicity in an assault of her former manager, Nicholas D. Gianaclis, and his bodyguard, Verne V. Davis. Gianaclis and Davis reportedly were beaten, kidnapped, and robbed by a group of men as they neared Meredith's Hollywood Hills home. Meredith's off-screen and legal name was Marjorie May Massow. In March 1951, the CA Assembly Interim Committee on Crime and Corrections issued an official report concluding that Meredith had been framed. In July 1951, Gov. Earl Warren commuted her sentence to time served. Available news clips on the case suggest that Gianaclis framed Meredith to gain ownership of her home. After her release Meredith got her home back and Gianaclis, an immigrant, was denied U.S. citizenship by the Immigration Service.
Photo measures 8 x 10 in.
