Name May Sousa | Died August 8, 1948 | |
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May De Sousa (November 6, 1884 – August 8, 1948) was an American singer and a Broadway actress.
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Biography
De Sousa was the daughter of a Chicago police detective, John De Sousa (born 1856 died 1941), and his wife, Carrie (1861—1910). She had a younger sibling, Marvin De Sousa (1891—1921).
She came to fame in 1898 as the singer of "Dear Midnight of Love", a ballad by Bathhouse John Coughlin.
In 1913, De Sousa declared bankruptcy.
De Sousa retired in 1918, following a theatrical production in Australia, married a local doctor, and eventually moved to Shanghai. In 1943, following two periods as a prisoner of war in internment camps in China, she returned to the United States on the Gripsholm and took a job in Chicago as a scrubwoman in the public-school system. She died in Chicago charity ward, of malnutrition, at age 66.
Marriages
May De Sousa was married twice to: