Isabel Rosario Cooper

Isabel Rosario Cooper, an actress, was born in the Philippines of Filipino and Scotch ancestry. She was famous as the first recipient of an on-screen kiss in a Filipino movie. When she was sixteen years old she met Douglas McArthur and became his mistress. He arranged for her follow him to Washington DC.

After the War he filed a libel action against a journalist on the Washington Post, Drew Pearson. When Pearson revealed that he had obtained the love letters exchanged by McArthur and his young mistress, McArthur dropped the action and paid him $15,000 for the letters

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See also: Isabel Rosario Cooper, Biography, Douglas McArthur, Drew Pearson, Mistress, Philippines, Washington DC, Washington Post