Bessie Love (

1898

)

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Juanita Horton

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Birth Name:
Juanita Horton

Date of Birth:
September 10, 1898,

Height:
5' (1.52 m)

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Bessie Love Biography

Bessie Love was born in Texas. Her cowboy father moved the family to Hollywood, where he became a chiropractor. As the family needed money, Bessie's mother sent her to Biograph Studios, hoping she would become an actress. D.W. Griffith saw she was pretty and had some acting talent, and put her in several of his films, also giving her a small part in Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages (1916). Bessie became popular with audiences and worked with Douglas Fairbanks in Reggie Mixes In (1916) and William S. Hart in The Aryan (1916). She then moved to Vitagraph and starred in a number of comedy-dramas. In the 1920s she began to act in more mature roles, such as Those Who Dance (1924), and also began working on the stage. She performed the first screen "Charleston" dance in The King on Main Street (1925), and gave one of her best performances in Dress Parade (1927). When sound movies came into vogue, she made a number of them and received an Academy Award nomination for The Broadway Melody (1929). By 1931, however, her career was over. She moved to England in 1935 and entertained the troops during World War II. By the 1950s she started playing small roles in movies such as No Highway in the Sky (1951). She played in a handful of low-budget films from the 1950s through the 1970s. In the 1980s she appeared in the big-budget Ragtime (1981) which starred James Cagney, and later that year in Reds (1981) which starred Warren Beatty.

Bessie Love filmography

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1. Katy (1976)
TV Mrs. Finch

actress

2. Vampyres (1974)
American Lady

actress

3. Pollyanna (1973)
TV Mrs Snow

actress

4. Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971)
Telephone Operator

actress

5. On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969)
uncredited American Guest

actress

6. I'll Never Forget What's'isname (1967)
American tourist

actress

7. "Late Show London" (1966)

actress

8. Promise Her Anything (1965)
Pet Shop Customer

actress

9. I Think They Call Him John (1964)
voice Narrator

actress

10. The Wild Affair (1963)
Marjorie's Mother

actress

11. Next to No Time (1958)
Becky Wiener

actress

12. The Story of Esther Costello (1957)
Matron in Art Gallery

actress

13. Touch and Go (1955)
Mrs Baxter

actress

14. "ITV Television Playhouse" (1955)
Irma Davis (2 episodes, 1957-1960)

actress

15. The Weak and the Wicked (1954)
Prisoner

actress

16. Beau Brummell (1954)
uncredited Maid

actress

17. No Highway (1951)
uncredited Plane passenger

actress

18. The Magic Box (1951)
Bride's mother in wedding group

actress

19. The Front Page (1948)
TV Mrs. Grant

actress

20. You Can't Take It with You (1947)
TV

actress

21. Journey Together (1946)
Mrs. Mary McWilliams

actress

22. Atlantic Ferry (1941)
Begonia Baggot

actress

23. I Live Again (1936)
Kathleen Vernon

actress

24. Morals for Women (1931)
Helen Huston

actress

25. Conspiracy (1930)
Margaret Holt

actress

26. See America Thirst (1930)
Ellen

actress

27. They Learned About Women (1930)
Mary Collins

actress

28. The Girl in the Show (1929)
Hattie Hartley

actress

29. The Idle Rich (1929)
Helen Thayer

actress

30. Anybody Here Seen Kelly? (1928)
Mitzi Lavelle

actress

31. Sally of the Scandals (1928)
Sally Rand

actress

32. The Matinee Idol (1928)
Ginger Bolivar

actress

33. The American (1927)

actress

34. Dress Parade (1927)
Janet Cleghorne

actress

35. Rubber Tires (1927)
Mary Ellen Stack

actress

36. A Harp in Hock (1927)
Nora Banks

actress

37. Amateur Night (1927)
uncredited (unconfirmed) Undetermined Role

actress

38. The Song and Dance Man (1926)
Leola Lane

actress

39. Lovey Mary (1926)
Lovey Mary

actress

40. Meet the Prince (1926)

actress

41. Young April (1926)
Victoria

actress

42. Going Crooked (1926)
Marie

actress

43. Soul-Fire (1925)
Teita

actress

44. New Brooms (1925)
Geraldine Marsh

actress

45. A Son of His Father (1925)
Nora Shea

actress

46. The King on Main Street (1925)
Mary Young

actress

47. The Lost World (1925)
as Miss Bessie Love Miss Paula White

actress

48. Torment (1924)
Marie

actress

49. Those Who Dance (1924)
Veda Carney

actress

50. Dynamite Smith (1924)
Violet

actress

51. Sundown (1924)
Ellen Crawley

actress

52. Tongues of Flame (1924)
Lahleet

actress

53. The Silent Watcher (1924)
Mary, his wife

actress

54. The Woman on the Jury (1924)
Grace Pierce

actress

55. Three Who Paid (1923)
John Caspar/Virginia Cartwright

actress

56. The Ghost Patrol (1923)
Effie Kugler

actress

57. The Eternal Three (1923)
Hilda Gray

actress

58. St. Elmo (1923)
Edna Earle

actress

59. Slave of Desire (1923)
Pauline Gaudin

actress

60. Gentle Julia (1923)
Julia

actress

61. Human Wreckage (1923)
Mary Finnegan

actress

62. Purple Dawn (1923)
Mui Far

actress

63. Forget Me Not (1922)
Ann, The Girl

actress

64. Bulldog Courage (1922)
Gloria Phillips

actress

65. Deserted at the Altar (1922)
Anna Moore (the country girl)

actress

66. The Village Blacksmith (1922)
Rosemary Martin, the Daughter

actress

67. The Vermilion Pencil (1922)
Hyacinth

actress

68. Penny of Top Hill Trail (1921)
Penny

actress

69. The Honor of Ramirez (1921)

actress

70. The Spirit of the Lake (1921)

actress

71. The Swamp (1921)
Mary

actress

72. The Sea Lion (1921)
Blossom Nelson

actress

73. Pegeen (1920)
Pegeen O'Neill

actress

74. The Midlanders (1920)
Aurelie Lindstrom

actress

75. Bonnie May (1920)
Bonnie May

actress

76. The Enchanted Barn (1919)
Shirley Hollister

actress

77. Carolyn of the Corners (1919)
Carolyn May Cameron

actress

78. The Wishing Ring Man (1919)
Joy Havenith

actress

79. The Little Boss (1919)
Peggy Winston (The Little Boss)

actress

80. Cupid Forecloses (1919)
Geraldine Farleigh

actress

81. Over the Garden Wall (1919)
Peggy Gordon

actress

82. A Fighting Colleen (1919)
Alannah Malone

actress

83. The Great Adventure (1918)
Rags

actress

84. How Could You, Caroline? (1918)
Caroline Rogers

actress

85. A Little Sister of Everybody (1918)
Celeste Janvier

actress

86. The Dawn of Understanding (1918)
Sue Prescott

actress

87. Nina, the Flower Girl (1917)
Nina

actress

88. A Daughter of the Poor (1917)
Rose Eastman

actress

89. Cheerful Givers (1917)
Judy

actress

90. The Sawdust Ring (1917)
Janet Magie

actress

91. Wee Lady Betty (1917)
Wee Lady Betty

actress

92. Polly Ann (1917)
Polly Ann

actress

93. Acquitted (1916)
Helen Carter

actress

94. The Flying Torpedo (1916)
Hulda

actress

95. The Aryan (1916)
Mary Jane Garth

actress

96. Stranded (1916)
The Girl

actress

97. A Sister of Six (1916)
Prudence

actress

98. The Heiress at Coffee Dan's (1916)
Waffles

actress

99. The Good Bad Man (1916)
Amy

actress

100. The Mystery of the Leaping Fish (1916)
The Little Fish Blower

actress

101. Hell-to-Pay Austin (1916)
Briar Rose Dawson

actress

102. Georgia Pearce (1915)

actress

103. A Yankee Princess (1919)
writer

writer

104. The Hunger (1983)

105. Lady Chatterley's Lover (1981)

106. Reds (1981)

107. Ragtime (1981)

108. Gulliver's Travels (1977)

109. The Ritz (1976)

110. Mousey (1974)

111. Catlow (1971)

112. Isadora (1968)

113. Battle Beneath the Earth (1967)

114. Poppies Are Also Flowers (1966)

115. Children of the Damned (1963)

116. The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (1961)

117. The Greengage Summer (1961)

118. Too Young to Love (1960)

119. Nowhere to Go (1958)

120. The Barefoot Contessa (1954)

121. "BBC Sunday Night Theatre" (1950)
2 episodes, 1952-1958

122. This Happy Breed (1944)
archive footage

123. The Broadway Melody (1929)

124. Souls for Sale (1923)
uncredited

125. Reggie Mixes In (1916)

126. Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages (1916)
Judean Story

127. "Hollywood" (1980)
Herself

self

128. London Scrapbook (1942)
Herself

self

129. Screen Snapshots No. 8 (1931)
Herself

self

130. The Voice of Hollywood No. 11 (1930)
uncredited Herself

self

131. Screen Snapshots Series 9, No. 18 (1930)
Herself

self

132. The Hollywood Revue of 1929 (1929)
Herself

self

133. Life in Hollywood No. 4 (1927)
Herself

self

134. Mary of the Movies (1923)
uncredited Herself

self

135. Night Life in Hollywood (1922)
Herself

self

136. Chasing Rainbows (1930)
(performer: "Everybody Tap")

soundtrack

137. Good News (1930)
("Gee, But I'd Like to Make You Happy" (1930))

soundtrack

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