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Bessie Love

Film Actress / Actress / Screenwriter / Stage Actress / Radio Actress / Television Actress / Penwoman | * 09/10/1898 († 87, 04/26/1986) | Midland, Texas (United States of America (USA))
Bessie Love (born Juanita Horton; September 10, 1898 – April 26, 1986) was an American-British actress who achieved prominence playing innocent, young girls and wholesome leading ladies in silent and early sound films. Her acting career spanned nearly seven decades—from silent film to sound film, including theatre, radio, and television—and her performance in The Broadway Melody (1929) earned her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress. ()
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Most frequent genres for this person: Drama | Comedies | Romance / Love

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Miriam promises her lovers the gift of eternal life, but John, her companion for centuries, suddenly discovers that he is getting old minute by minute, so he looks for Dr. Sarah Roberts, a researcher ...

The Hunger

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1983 | 3.4/5 | 1h 37min
Horror, Drama
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The road-show troupe of a top Broadway show go cross-country while taking the audience along on the on-stage scenes as well as what happens and is happening back stage of the production. The spectacul ...

Chasing Rainbows

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1930 | 2.0/5 | 1h 40min
Romance / Love, Comedy, Drama
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The vaudeville act of Harriet and Queenie Mahoney comes to Broadway, where their friend Eddie Kerns needs them for his number in one of Francis Zanfield's shows. When Eddie meets Queenie, he soon fall ...

The Broadway Melody

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1929 | 2.6/5 | 1h 40min
Drama, Romance / Love
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An attorney's wife is determined to fight the evils of addictive substances. ...

Human Wreckage

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1923 | 1h 20min
Crime, Thriller, Drama
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Awards & Nominations for Bessie Love

Star On Hollywood Walk of Fame Academy Award for Best Actress
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Movies with Bessie Love as Actress(121)

as Self (archive footage)2018 Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché
as herself1997 Alice Guy-Blaché
as Lillybelle1983 The Hunger
as Old Lady - T.O.C.1981 Ragtime
as Mrs. Partlow1981 Reds
as Flora1981 Lady Chatterley's Lover
as Lady Cunard1978 Edward & Mrs. Simpson
as Maurine1976 The Ritz
as American Lady1974 Vampyres
as Mrs. Richardson1974 Mousey
as Answering Service Lady1971 Sunday Bloody Sunday
as Mrs. Duncan1968 Isadora
as Matron1967 Battle Beneath the Earth
as Pet Shop Customer1966 Promise Her Anything
as Marjorie's Mother1965 The Wild Affair
as Mrs. Robbin1964 Children of the Damned
as Narrator (voice)1964 I Think They Call Him John
as Bunny1961 The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone
as Mrs. Busch1960 Too Young to Love
as Becky Wiener1958 Next to No Time
as Harriet P. Jefferson1958 Nowhere to Go
as Art Gallery Customer1957 The Story of Esther Costello
as Mrs Baxter1955 Touch and Go
as Prisoner1954 The Weak and the Wicked
as Mrs. Eubanks1954 The Barefoot Contessa
as Bride's Mother in Wedding Group1952 The Magic Box
as Plane Passenger (uncredited)1951 No Highway
as Mrs. Mary McWilliams1945 Journey Together
as herself1942 London Scrapbook
as Begonia Baggot1941 Atlantic Ferry
as herself1931 Round About Hollywood
as Helen Hutson1931 Morals for Women
as Babe1930 Good News
as Margaret Holt1930 Conspiracy
as Ellen1930 See America Thirst
as Mary1930 They Learned About Women
as Carlie Seymour1930 Chasing Rainbows
as Hank Mahoney1929 The Broadway Melody
as Hattie Hartley1929 The Girl in the Show
as herself1929 The Hollywood Revue of 1929
as Helen Thayer1929 The Idle Rich
as Mitzi Lavelle1928 Anybody Here Seen Kelly?
1928 The Swell Head
as Sally Rand1928 Sally of the Scandals
as Ginger Bolivar1928 The Matinee Idol
as Mary Ellen Stack1927 Rubber Tires
as Nora Banks1927 A Harp in Hock
as Janet Cleghorne1927 Dress Parade
as Jane Wilton1927 The American
as Lovey Mary1926 Lovey Mary
as Marie1926 Going Crooked
as Leola Lane1926 The Song and Dance Man
as Victoria1926 Young April
as Nora Shea1925 A Son of His Father
1925 New Brooms
as Teita1925 Soul-Fire
as Paula White1925 The Lost World
as Mary Young1925 The King On Main Street
as Lahleet1924 Tongues of Flame
as Marie1924 Torment
as Grace Pierce1924 The Woman on the Jury
as Ellen Crawley1924 Sundown
as Mary, his wife1924 The Silent Watcher
as Violet1924 Dynamite Smith
as Veda Anargas1924 Those Who Dance
as Herself - Celebrity Actress (uncredited)1923 Souls for Sale
as Julia1923 Gentle Julia
as Herself (uncredited)1923 Mary of the Movies
as Pauline Gaudin1923 Slave of Desire
as Edna Earle1923 St. Elmo
as Effie Kugler1923 The Ghost Patrol
as John Caspar / Virginia Cartwright1923 Three Who Paid
as Hilda Gray1923 The Eternal Three
as Mary Finnegan1923 Human Wreckage
as Mui Far1923 The Purple Dawn
as Bernice1923 The Strange Adventures of Prince Courageous
as Anna Moore (The Country Girl)1922 Deserted at the Altar
as Gloria Phillips1922 Bulldog Courage
as herself1922 Night Life in Hollywood
as Ann, The Girl1922 Forget Me Not
as Rosemary Martin1922 The Village Blacksmith
as Hyacinth1922 The Vermilion Pencil
as herself1922 Screen Snapshots, Series 3, No. 12
1922 The Wampas Baby Stars of 1922
1921 The Spirit of the Lake
as Mary1921 The Swamp
as Blossom Nelson1921 The Sea Lion
as Penny1921 Penny of Top Hill Trail
as The Geologist's Wife1921 The Honor of Rameriz
1920 The Midlanders
as Bonnie May1920 Bonnie May
as Pegeen O'Neill1920 Pegeen
as Alannah Malone1919 A Fighting Colleen
as Joy Havenith1919 The Wishing Ring Man
1919 Carolyn of the Corners
as Patsy O'Reilly1919 A Yankee Princess
as Shirley Hollister1919 The Enchanted Barn
as Peggy Gordon1919 Over the Garden Wall
as Peggy Winston (The Little Boss)1919 The Little Boss
as Geraldine Farleigh1919 Cupid Forecloses
as Sue Prescott1918 The Dawn of Understanding
as Caroline Rogers1918 How Could You, Caroline?
as Celeste Janvier1918 A Little Sister of Everybody
as Rags1918 The Great Adventure
as Janet Magie1917 The Sawdust Ring
as Rose Eastman1917 A Daughter of the Poor
as Polly Ann1917 Polly Ann
as Nina1917 Nina, the Flower Girl
as Judy1917 Cheerful Givers
as Wee Lady Betty1917 Wee Lady Betty
as The Bride of Cana (Judean Story)1916 Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
as Prudence1916 A Sister of Six
as Agnes1916 Reggie Mixes In
as Briar Rose Dawson1916 Hell-to-Pay Austin
as Helen Carter1916 Acquitted
as Hulda1916 The Flying Torpedo
as Mary Jane Garth1916 The Aryan
as Waffles1916 The Heiress at Coffee Dan's
as The Girl1916 Stranded
1916 The Mystery of the Leaping Fish
as Amy1916 The Good Bad Man

TV Shows/Series with Bessie Love as Actress(2)

1980 Hollywood
1963 The Sentimental Agent

Full Name: Bessie Juanita Horton
Born: Saturday, 09/10 1898 (September) in Midland, Texas (United States of America (USA))
Died: Saturday, 04/26 1986 (April) in London (aged: 87)
Zodiac sign: Virgo (Chinese zodiac sign: Dog)
Languages: English (EN, native language)
Educated at: Los Angeles High School
Spouses (current/former): William Hawks
Children: Patricia Hawks
Father: John Cross Horton
Mother: Emma Jane Savage
Other names for Bessie Love (nicknames, foreign languages etc.):
"Juanita Horton"
Bessie Love frequently works together with these people:
D.W. Griffith (7x, Crew)
Warren Beatty (6x, Actor)
Cedric Gibbons (6x, Crew)
Douglas Fairbanks (6x, Actor)
Hobart Bosworth (6x, Actor)
Sessue Hayakawa (5x, Actor)
Erich von Stroheim (5x, Actor)
Christy Cabanne (5x, Crew)
Mary Alden (5x, Actress)
Edward Dillon (5x, Actor)
Otto Lederer (4x, Actor)
Kevin Brownlow (3x, Crew)
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