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Bessie Love (1898–1986)

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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... See full bio »

Born:

Juanita Horton
in Midland, Texas, USA

Died:

(age 87) in London, England, UK
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1983 The Hunger
Lillybelle
 
1981 Reds
Mrs. Partlow
 
1981 Ragtime
Old T.O.C. Lady
 
1981 Lady Chatterley's Lover
Flora
 
1978 Edward & Mrs. Simpson (TV mini-series)
Lady Cunard
– Venus at the Prow (1978) … Lady Cunard
 
1977 Gulliver's Travels (voice)
 
1976 Katy (TV series)
Mrs. Finch
– Episode #1.6 (1976) … Mrs. Finch
– Episode #1.5 (1976) … Mrs. Finch
– Episode #1.4 (1976) … Mrs. Finch
 
1976 The Ritz
Maurine
 
1975 Shades of Greene (TV series)
St. Louis Woman
– Cheap in August (1975) … St. Louis Woman
 
1975 Vampyres
American Lady
 
1974 Mousey (TV movie)
Mrs. Richardson
 
1973 Pollyanna (TV series)
Mrs Snow
– Episode #1.2 (1973) … Mrs Snow
 
1971 Catlow
Mrs. Frost
 
1971 Public Eye (TV series)
Chrissy Husack
– The Beater and the Game (1971) … Chrissy Husack
 
1971 Sunday Bloody Sunday
Answering Service Lady
 
1970 W. Somerset Maugham (TV series)
American lady
– Jane (1970) … American lady
 
1970 Kate (TV series)
Lady Hartford-Cape
– A Good Spec (1970) … Lady Hartford-Cape
 
1969 On Her Majesty's Secret Service
American Guest (uncredited)
 
1969 My Partner the Ghost (TV series)
Mrs. Trotter
– When Did You Start to Stop Seeing Things? (1969) … Mrs. Trotter
 
1968 Isadora
Mrs. Duncan
 
1968 ITV Playhouse (TV series)
Mrs. Teitelbaum
– Bon Voyage (1968) … Mrs. Teitelbaum
 
1967 I'll Never Forget What's'isname
American tourist
 
1967 Battle Beneath the Earth
Matron
 
1966 Poppies Are Also Flowers (TV movie)
Minor Role (uncredited)
 
1965 Promise Her Anything
Pet Shop Customer
 
1965 The Wednesday Play (TV series)
Martha Burroughs
– The Pistol (1965) … Martha Burroughs
 
1964 I Think They Call Him John (short)
Narrator (voice)
 
1964 Children of the Damned
Mrs. Robbins, Mark's Grandmother
 
1963 The Wild Affair
Marjorie's Mother
 
1963 The Sentimental Agent (TV series)
Mamie
– Never Play Cards with Strangers (1963) … Mamie
 
1962 Zero One (TV series)
Mrs. Glorny
– Gunpoint to Shannon (1962) … Mrs. Glorny
 
1962 Man of the World (TV series)
Mrs. Van Kempson
– Portrait of a Girl (1962) … Mrs. Van Kempson
 
1962 The Andromeda Breakthrough (TV series)
Mrs. Neilson
– Gale Warning (1962) … Mrs. Neilson
 
1961 The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone
Bunny
 
1961 Harpers West One (TV series)
Customer
– Episode #1.4 (1961) … Customer
 
1961 Loss of Innocence
American tourist
 
1960 Emergency-Ward 10 (TV series)
Mrs. Broom
– Episode #1.395 (1960) … Mrs. Broom
 
1957-1960 ITV Television Playhouse (TV series)
Auntie / Irma Davis / Mary Louella Partridge
– A Young Lady of Property (1960) … Auntie
– Bridge of Sighs (1960) … Mary Louella Partridge
– The Staring Match (1957) … Irma Davis
 
1960 Too Young to Love
Mrs. Busch
 
1960 International Detective (TV series)
Mrs. Morgan
– The Brenner Case (1960) … Mrs. Morgan
 
1957-1959 ITV Play of the Week (TV series)
Bessie Bockser / Mrs. Strong
– South (1959) … Mrs. Strong
– The Wooden Dish (1957) … Bessie Bockser
 
1959 Saturday Playhouse (TV series)
Mrs. Stukeley-Mosher
– Golden Rain (1959) … Mrs. Stukeley-Mosher
 
1958 Nowhere to Go
Harriet P. Jefferson
 
1958 Next to No Time
Becky Wiener
 
1952-1958 BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (TV series)
Grace Jones / Mrs. Dudley-Brown
– View Friendship and Marriage (1958) … Mrs. Dudley-Brown
– Mystery Story (1952) … Grace Jones
 
1957 The Story of Esther Costello
Matron in Art Gallery
 
1955 London Playhouse (TV series)
Mrs. Goren
– The Glorification of Al Toolum (1955) … Mrs. Goren
 
1955 Touch and Go
Mrs Baxter
 
1954 Beau Brummell
Maid (uncredited)
 
1954 The Barefoot Contessa
Mrs. Eubanks
 
1954 Young and Willing
Prisoner
 
1951 The Magic Box
Bride's Mother in Wedding Group
 
1951 No Highway in the Sky
Plane Passenger (uncredited)
 
1948 The Front Page (TV movie)
Mrs. Grant
 
1947 You Can't Take It with You (TV movie)
 
1945 Journey Together
Mrs. Mary McWilliams
 
1941 Atlantic Ferry
Begonia Baggot
 
1936 I Live Again
Kathleen Vernon
 
1931 Morals for Women
Helen Huston
 
1930 See America Thirst
Ellen
 
1930 Good News
Diixie O'Day
 
1930 Conspiracy
Margaret Holt
 
1930 They Learned About Women
Mary Collins
 
1930 Chasing Rainbows
Carlie Semour
 
1929 The Girl in the Show
Hattie Hartley
 
1929 The Idle Rich
Helen Thayer
 
1929 The Broadway Melody
Hank Mahoney
 
1928 Anybody Here Seen Kelly?
Mitzi Lavelle
 
1928 Sally of the Scandals
Sally Rand
 
1928 The Matinee Idol
Ginger Bolivar
 
1927 Dress Parade
Janet Cleghorne
 
1927 Amateur Night (short)
Undetermined Role (uncredited) (unconfirmed)
 
1927 A Harp in Hock
Nora Banks
 
1927 Rubber Tires
Mary Ellen Stack
 
1927 The American
 
1926 Going Crooked
Marie
 
1926 Young April
Victoria
 
1926 Meet the Prince
 
1926 Lovey Mary
Lovey Mary
 
1926 The Song and Dance Man
Leola Lane
 
1925 The King on Main Street
Mary Young
 
1925 New Brooms
Geraldine Marsh
 
1925 A Son of His Father
Nora Shea
 
1925 Soul-Fire
Teita
 
1925 The Lost World
Miss Paula White (as Miss Bessie Love)
 
1924 Tongues of Flame
Lahleet
 
1924 Sundown
Ellen Crawley
 
1924 Dynamite Smith
Violet
 
1924 The Silent Watcher
Mary, his wife
 
1924 Those Who Dance
Veda Carney
 
1924 The Woman on the Jury
Grace Pierce
 
1924 Torment
Marie
 
1923 Gentle Julia
Julia
 
1923 Slave of Desire
Pauline Gaudin
 
1923/I St. Elmo
Edna Earle
 
1923 The Eternal Three
Hilda Gray
 
1923 Human Wreckage
Mary Finnegan
 
1923 Purple Dawn
Mui Far
 
1923 The Ghost Patrol
Effie Kugler
 
1923 Three Who Paid
John Caspar/Virginia Cartwright
 
1922 Deserted at the Altar
Anna Moore (the country girl)
 
1922 The Village Blacksmith
Rosemary Martin, the Daughter
 
1922 Bulldog Courage
Gloria Phillips
 
1922 Forget Me Not
Ann, The Girl
 
1922 The Vermilion Pencil
Hyacinth
 
1921 The Sea Lion
Blossom Nelson
 
1921 The Spirit of the Lake (short)
 
1921 The Swamp
Mary
 
1921 The Honor of Ramirez (short)
 
1921 Penny of Top Hill Trail
Penny
 
1920 Bonnie May
Bonnie May
 
1920 The Midlanders
Aurelie Lindstrom
 
1920 Pegeen
Pegeen O'Neill
 
1919 A Fighting Colleen
Alannah Malone
 
1919 Over the Garden Wall
Peggy Gordon
 
1919 Cupid Forecloses
Geraldine Farleigh
 
1919 The Little Boss
Peggy Winston (The Little Boss)
 
1919 A Yankee Princess
Patsy O'Reilly
 
1919 The Wishing Ring Man
Joy Havenith
 
1919 Carolyn of the Corners
Carolyn May Cameron
 
1919 The Enchanted Barn
Shirley Hollister
 
1918 The Dawn of Understanding
Sue Prescott
 
1918 A Little Sister of Everybody
Celeste Janvier
 
1918 How Could You, Caroline?
Caroline Rogers
 
1918 The Great Adventure
Rags
 
1917 Polly Ann
Polly Ann
 
1917 Wee Lady Betty
Wee Lady Betty
 
1917 The Sawdust Ring
Janet Magie
 
1917 Cheerful Givers
Judy
 
1917 A Daughter of the Poor
Rose Eastman
 
1917 Nina, the Flower Girl
Nina
 
1916 The Heiress at Coffee Dan's
Waffles
 
1916 A Sister of Six
Prudence
 
1916 Hell-to-Pay Austin
Briar Rose Dawson
 
1916 Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
The Bride of Cana (Judean Story)
 
1916/I Stranded
The Girl
 
1916 The Mystery of the Leaping Fish (short)
The Little Fish Blower
 
1916 Reggie Mixes In
Agnes
 
1916 The Good Bad Man
Amy
 
1916 The Aryan
Mary Jane Garth
 
1916 The Flying Torpedo
Hulda
 
1916 Acquitted
Helen Carter
 
1915 Georgia Pearce
 
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2008 Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1920s: The Dawn of the Hollywood Musical (video documentary) (performer: "The Boy Friend" - uncredited, "A Man of My Own" - uncredited)
 
1930 Good News (performer: "Gee, But I'd Like to Make You Happy" 1930)
 
1930 They Learned About Women (performer: "A Man of My Own")
 
1930 Chasing Rainbows (performer: "Everybody Tap" - uncredited)
 
1929 The Broadway Melody (performer: "The Broadway Melody" 1929 - uncredited, "Harmony Babies" 1929 - uncredited, "The Boy Friend" 1929 - uncredited / "Harmony Babies" 1929 - uncredited)
 
1929 The Hollywood Revue of 1929 (performer: "I Never Knew I Could Do a Thing Like That" 1929 - uncredited, "Marie, Polly and Bess" 1929 - uncredited, "The Fountain in the Park" 1884 - uncredited)
 
Show ShowMiscellaneous Crew (1 title)
1980 Hollywood (TV mini-series documentary) (advisor)
 
Show ShowWriter (1 title)
1919 A Yankee Princess (writer)
 
Show ShowSelf (17 titles)
1980 Looks Familiar (TV series)
Herself - Guest
– Episode dated 1 May 1980 (1980) … Herself - Guest
 
1980 Hollywood (TV mini-series documentary)
Herself - Interviewee / Herself
– End of an Era (1980) … Herself - Interviewee
– Trick of the Light (1980) … Herself
– The Man with the Megaphone (1980) … Herself - Interviewee
 
1978 Hollywood Greats (TV series documentary)
Herself
– Ronald Colman (1978) … Herself
 
1966 Late Show London (TV series)
Herself
– Episode #1.17 (1966) … Herself
 
1963 This Is Your Life (TV series documentary)
Herself
– Bessie Love (1963) … Herself
 
1942 London Scrapbook (short)
Herself
 
1931 Round About Hollywood (documentary short)
Herself
 
1931 Screen Snapshots No. 8
Herself
 
1930 The Voice of Hollywood No. 11 (short)
Herself (uncredited)
 
1930 Screen Snapshots Series 9, No. 18 (short)
Herself
 
1929 The Hollywood Revue of 1929
Herself
 
1927 Life in Hollywood No. 4 (documentary short)
Herself
 
1923 Mary of the Movies
Herself (uncredited)
 
1923 Souls for Sale
Herself - Celebrity Actress (uncredited)
 
1922 Night Life in Hollywood
Herself
 
1922 Screen Snapshots, Series 3, No. 5 (documentary short)
Herself
 
1922 Screen Snapshots, Series 3, No. 3 (documentary short)
Herself
 
Show ShowArchive Footage (4 titles)
2004 Broadway: The American Musical (TV series documentary)
 
1944 This Happy Breed
Herself (uncredited)
 
1939 Screen Snapshots Series 18, No. 12 (documentary short)
Herself
 
1936 Fashions in Love (short)
 

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Personal Details

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(1971) She acted in John Osborne's play, "West of Suez," at the Royal Court Theatre in London, England with Ralph Richardson, Nigel Hawthorne, Jill Bennett, Penelope Wilton, Sheila Ballantine, Geoffrey Palmer, Stephen Moore, Willoughby Gray, and Nicholas Selby in the cast.

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Alternate Names:

Miss Bessie Love

Height:

5' (1.52 m)
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Trivia:

D.W. Griffith, who introduced Bessie to films, also gave the actress her screen moniker. See more »

Star Sign:

Virgo