What was discovered through an online genealogical site was the Certificate of Birth of a nameless female baby born on 23 August 1912 at the family home in 347 Madrid St., San Nicolas, Manila to Isaac J. Cooper, a fireman born in Wisconsin, U.S.A. and his wife, Protacia Rubin, an 18-year old housewife born in Nagcarlan, Laguna. Further accounts state that her father was an American of Scottish descent and her mother, a Filipino.
Varieties Company showgirls of the old Rivoli Theater where Dimples Cooper performed in Vod-a-Vil shows: Nena Warsaw, Carmencita Llopiz, Lolita Vidal, and Katy de la Cruz. Source: Philippines Free Press, 24 March 1951. In the same year, actor-producer-director Vicente Salumbides filmed Fate or Consequence which once again featured Cooper as one of the leads in a star-studded cast. The film appears to be the actress’s last appearance in Philippine Cinema.
Analyzing MacArthur’s attraction to Isabel, the writer Petillo wrote: “Isabel, small, soft-spoken, and of another race, offered no threat to his masculinity. More importantly, her somewhat checkered past categorized her in his mind in an entirely different light from his mother and his former wife. Perhaps with her he achieved the sexual success that had escaped him for so long.
He provided her with a poodle and an enormous wardrobe of tea gowns, kimonos, and black-lace lingerie. There were few street clothes, because he saw no reason why she would go outdoors. As recounted in Karnow’s "In Our Image," MacArthur drew flack from the press in his handling of the infamous Bonus March incident when, in the summer of 1932, some 20,000 veterans of WWI, mainly jobless victims of the Depression, marched to Washington to urge Congress to vote for a deferred bonus. Many came with their families and camped in empty government buildings or in flimsy huts outside the city.
With USD 15,000 on hand and “Daddy” out of her life, Dimples married lawyer, Frank E. Kennemore, Jr. in 1935, lived in his native Oklahoma, opened a beauty salon, and divorced in 1942—according to U.S. Census records and a newspaper announcement of their divorce cited by Cindy Fazzi in the footnotes of her book, My MacArthur.
Despite being confined to bit roles, the 1950s saw her making four more movies: as a Chinese girl in Peter Godfrey’s The Great Jewel Robber starring David Brian as a master thief who targeted society homes; in an unknown role in Lawrence Raimond’s The Art of the Burlesque which starred Charlie Crafts as Prof.
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