Bessie Love
Birthday: 1898-09-09
Place of Birth: Midland, Texas, USA
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Bessie Love (September 10, 1898 – April 26, 1986) was an American motion picture actress who achieved prominence mainly in the silent films and early talkies. With a small frame and delicate features, she played innocent young girls, flappers, and wholesome leading ladies. In addition to her acting career, she wrote the screenplay for the 1919 movie A Yankee Princess. Description above from the Wikipedia article Bessie Love licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
The story of a poor young woman, separated by prejudice from her husband and baby, is interwoven wit...
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The Lost World
The first film adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic novel about a land where prehistoric c...
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The Hunger
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The Village Blacksmith
(survived only 10 minutes) As young men, the squire (Marshall) and the village blacksmith (Walling)...
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The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone
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The Ritz
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The Pistol
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Sunday Bloody Sunday
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The Broadway Melody
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Reds
An account of the revolutionary years of the legendary American journalist John Reed, who shared his...
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Nowhere to Go
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The Magic Box
Now old, ill, poor, and largely forgotten, William Freise-Greene was once very different. As young a...
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The Matinee Idol
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Catlow
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Gulliver's Travels
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Conspiracy
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Chasing Rainbows
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I Think They Call Him John
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Deserted at the Altar
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The Idle Rich
Millionaire William van Luyn falls in love with his secretary Joan Thayer and marries her. Her famil...
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They Learned About Women
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The Good Bad-Man
An outlaw calling himself Passin' Through halts his "evil" ways long enough to help out some childre...
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Rubber Tires
When the Stack family suffers some financial setbacks, daughter Mary Ellen suggests they buy a car a...
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See America Thirst
Two men, one timid and one aggressive, make out as comical criminals....
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Touch and Go
When Jim Fletcher is told by his firm that his new furniture designs are not in keeping with the fir...
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The Eternal Three
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Dress Parade
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Alice Guy-Blaché
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Pegeen
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Bonnie May
Young actress Bonnie May finds work in a private play given at Mrs. Baron’s mansion, where she endea...
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The Sea Lion
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The Song and Dance Man
Song and Dance Man was based on the play of the same name by George M. Cohan. Tom Moore plays vaudev...
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The Girl in the Show
In this drama, a traveling troupe of actors find themselves in danger of becoming unemployed when th...
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The Flying Torpedo
In the future (1921), an alliance of several foreign countries plot to attack the US. American offic...
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Battle Beneath the Earth
Government officials discover a horrible plot: the Chinese are tunneling their way to the United Sta...
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Next to No Time
Unassuming planning engineer David Webb finds himself on the Queen Elizabeth to New York with instru...
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Too Young to Love
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The Mystery of the Leaping Fish
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Lady Chatterley's Lover
After a crippling injury leaves her husband impotent, Lady Chatterly is torn between her love for he...
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Atlantic Ferry
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Ragtime
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Isadora
A biography of the dancer Isadora Duncan, the 1920s dancer who forever changed people's ideas of bal...
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Soul-Fire
Eric Fane (Richard Barthelmess) is a composer unwilling to compromise his dream for a steady job bac...
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Reggie Mixes In
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A Daughter of the Poor
A young girl, Rose Eastmen lives with her lazy Uncle, who works as a janitor in a publishing house. ...
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No Highway in the Sky
James Stewart plays aeronautical engineer Theodore Honey, the quintessential absent-minded professor...
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The Weak and the Wicked
Jean Raymond an upper class woman with a gambling addiction, is given a twelve-month prison sentence...
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The Aryan
Steve Denton, rich from years of prospecting, is fleeced by the citizens of Yellow Ridge. In his rag...
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Young April
Young orphan Victoria Sax becomes a grand duchess and is summoned to a remote kingdom....
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The Barefoot Contessa
A washed-up filmmaker gets a second chance at stardom when he discovers stunning peasant Maria Varga...
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Round About Hollywood
This short travelogue depicts snippets of locations in Hollywood, California, most of them as seen f...
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Human Wreckage
An attorney's wife is determined to fight the evils of addictive substances....
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The American
Seref, who returns to his country after many years in America, as a dollar billionaire with a cowboy...
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The Wild Affair
Young office assistant Majorie will marry soon, however, she's plagued by doubts if her fiance is th...
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Going Crooked
A young women is part a jewel theft ring, but opts out of a robbery because guns will be used. A man...
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Vampyres
A duo of bisexual female vampires prey on passing motorists, whom they seduce and murder in the Engl...
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The Story of Esther Costello
Eighteen-year-old Esther has been deaf and blind since the accident that killed her mother. Wealthy ...
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The Midlanders
Aurelie, an orphan, escapes from a New Orleans convent and is adopted by Mississippi riverboat capta...
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New Brooms
Thomas Bates Sr. (Robert McWade) takes his broom manufacturing business very seriously, and his idle...
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Penny of Top Hill Trail
Penny arrives in the West by aeroplane. She is considered a suspicious character and thrown into jai...
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Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché
The epic life story of Alice Guy-Blaché (1873–1968), a French screenwriter, director and producer, t...
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The Swamp
Mary and her son Buster live in a single room in the slums of the city, having been deserted by thei...
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The Great Adventure
Ragna "Rags" Jansen has found local success and acclaim in her small town as an actress, but dreams ...
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Edward & Mrs. Simpson
While still the Prince of Wales, the future Edward VIII meets the married American socialite, Wallis...
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Journey Together
Two Englishmen train with the Royal Air Force, ending with a bombing raid on Berlin....
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A Sister of Six
A young woman and her five little brothers and sisters are left orphans by the murder of their fathe...
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A Son of His Father
'Big Boy' Morgan and his friend, invalid Charlie Grey, must overcome the efforts of the villainous H...
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The Wishing Ring Man
Forced to wear quaint short dresses and pigtails so that she will inspire her grandfather's sentimen...
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The Wampas Baby Stars of 1922
The WAMPAS Baby Stars was a promotional campaign sponsored by the United States Western Association ...
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Nina, the Flower Girl
Nina, a blind girl, lives with her grandmother, who has taught her to make artificial flowers, which...
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Wee Lady Betty
Wee Lady Betty rules the O'Reilly castle with a stern hand and a big heart until she learns that Rog...
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Polly Ann
Young Polly-Ann works in a small town inn as a maidservant. A troupe of actors comes to town and the...
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The Sawdust Ring
Janet sets out to find her circus ringleader father, who her mother abandoned believing him to be un...
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How Could You, Caroline?
Caroline Rogers, a spirited young girl with a taste for highly romantic novels, comes home from boar...
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The Enchanted Barn
The Hollisters, a bright, spirited, wholesome family, are compelled to move into the country. After ...
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A Little Sister of Everybody
Young Celeste Janvier ( Bessie Love ) lives in an East Side tenement with her immigrant grandfather,...
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The Dawn of Understanding
The Dawn of Understanding is a lost 1918 American silent Western comedy film produced by The Vitagra...
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The Honor of Rameriz
The Honor of Rameriz is a 1921 American silent short Western film produced by Cyrus J. Williams and ...
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Bulldog Courage
College athlete Jimmy Brent is sent to Wyoming by his wealthy uncle John Morton, who has promised hi...
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A Yankee Princess
A Yankee Princess is a 1919 American silent comedy-drama film produced and distributed by the Vitagr...
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Cupid Forecloses
Geraldine Farleigh, a timid village schoolteacher, supports her family and must pay off her late fat...
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Over the Garden Wall
Peggy ( Bessie Love ) and her sister Frances ( Myrtle Reeves ) live with their father, but because o...
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The Vermilion Pencil
The Vermilion Pencil is a 1922 American silent drama film directed by Norman Dawn, and produced and ...
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The Spirit of the Lake
The Spirit of the Lake is a 1921 American silent short Western drama film produced by Cyrus J. Willi...
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Forget Me Not
Young mother Mary Gordoon is too poor to take care of her infant daughter, Ann, and leaves the child...
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A Fighting Colleen
Young and spunky Alannah, an Irish immigrant living in a tenement, sells newspapers to support her f...
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The Little Boss
The Little Boss is a 1919 American silent romantic comedy film directed by David Smith and produced ...
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Children of the Damned
Six children are found spread through out the world that not only have enormous intelligence, but id...
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Night Life in Hollywood
A picture depicting the engrossing adventures of a small town youth in Hollywood and showing the int...
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Three Who Paid
Three Who Paid is a 1923 American silent Western melodrama film directed by Colin Campbell, and star...
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St. Elmo
St. Elmo is a man who killed his romantic rival in a brawl. Traveling the world as a confirmed misog...
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The Purple Dawn
The Purple Dawn is a 1923 American silent romantic drama film that was produced, written, and direct...
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Mary of the Movies
Mary's kid brother needs an operation and, in order to pay for it, Mary goes to a Hollywood studio a...
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The Strange Adventures of Prince Courageous
Originally planned as 12 two-reelers, only three were made: The Little Knight, The Love Charm, The C...
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Hell-to-Pay Austin
After her father's death, little Briar Rose is taken in by the men at a lumber camp. The girl shows ...
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Acquitted
Hard-working insurance company bookkeeper John Carter, comes home Easter eve to his suburban cottage...
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Stranded
H. Ulysses Watts is a traveling Shakespearean actor whose career is on the decline, as his audiences...
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The Ghost Patrol
With his understanding manner policeman Donald Dorgan wins respect on his tough beat in "Little Hell...
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Anybody Here Seen Kelly?
A French girl falls in love with an American soldier, and after the War she follows him to New York,...
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The Heiress at Coffee Dan's
"Waffles," the waitress at "Coffee Dan's" hash-house, is selected by Bert Gallagher and Clara Johnst...
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The Woman on the Jury
The story of a woman on trial for her life for shooting the man who had promised to love her but had...
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Sally of the Scandals
Sally of the Scandals is a 1928 American silent crime drama film produced and released by Film Booki...
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Dynamite Smith
Gladstone Smith, a fearful young reporter, gets on the wrong side of a murderous criminal and flees ...
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Torment
Torment is a 1924 American silent film crime drama produced and directed by Maurice Tourneur and dis...
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Slave of Desire
Poet Raphael de Valentin is down on his luck until a friend introduces him into society. He meets th...
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Gentle Julia
Gentle Julia is a 1923 American silent romantic drama film based on the popular novel Gentle Julia b...
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The Silent Watcher
A lawyer (Bosworth) running for Congress decides to end his relationship with a showgirl (Bennett), ...
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Those Who Dance
A federal agent assigned to stop a bootlegging gang joins forces with the gang leader's wife and the...
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Lovey Mary
Lovely Mary, an orphan girl, reluctantly takes charge of her sister's child when her sister Kate is ...
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Sundown
Cattlemen attempt to keep their lands and herds from being overrun by nesters....
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Tongues of Flame
The Native American Siwash people have been displaced from their land and live on a reservation. The...
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A Harp in Hock
A Harp in Hock, also known as The Samaritan, is a lost 1927 American silent melodrama film directed ...
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Promise Her Anything
A widowed mother decides to go after the child psychologist she works for because she thinks he'll b...
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On Her Majesty's Secret Service
James Bond tracks his archnemesis, Ernst Blofeld, to a mountaintop retreat in the Swiss alps where h...
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I'll Never Forget What's'isname
Advertising golden boy Andrew Quint is fed up with his fabulously successful life. In very dramatic ...
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