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Bessie Love Juanita Horton

    Dancer and silent film star Bessie Love was born in Texas, but moved to Hollywood as a little girl. Bessie's mother sent her to Biograph Pictures with the hopes of her becoming an actress. D.W. Griffith saw that she had some acting ability as well as being good looking and hired her to do a few bit parts in his Films. Later she moved to Vitagraph Films and starred in a few comedies.

    In 1922, Bessie was honored as a Wampas Baby Star, (the first year of the award). Bessie was one of the few who would succeed from the silent Films to the talkies and even won an Academy Award for her part in Broadway Melodies of 1929. However, by 1931, her star had faded and moved to England. During W.W.II, she entertained our troops and did some touring with the USO shows as well. She has been recorded as doing the first "On Screen Charleston" in the 1925 film "King on Main Street".

Bessie Love Autograph

Birth Place

Birth Date

Spouse

Offspring

Midland, TX.

9/10/1898 - 4/26/1986

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Dance Types

Dance Partners

Music Titles

Charleston

Anita Page

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Charles King

     
     

John Gilbert

     
 

Night Clubs

Theaters

Stage

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1981 - Ragtime

 

Films

Television

Publications

$1915 - Birth of a Nation

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1/1918 - Motion Picture Mag

1916 - Aryan

     

5/1918 - Motion Picture Mag

1916 - Intolerence

     

1919 - Filmen Mag #19

1916 - Reggie Mixes

     

10/1927 - Vanity Fair Mag.

1920 - Those Who Dance

     

10/19/1929 - State News

1921 - The Sea Lion

     

5/16/1931 - Film Weekly

1924 - Broadway Melody

     

$ From Hollywood with Love

1924 - Sundown

           

1925 - King on Main Street*

           

$1925 - The Lost World

           

1927 - Dress Parade

           

1928 - Sally of the Scandals

           

$1929 - Broadway Melody

           

1929 - Hollywood Revue of 1929

           

1929 - The Idle Rich (Nagel)

           

$1951 - No Highway in the Sky

           

$1954 - Barefoot Contessa (Gardner)

           

$1961 - The Roman Spring of Mrs Stone

           

$1964 - Children of the Damned

           

$1966 - Promise Her Anything

           

$1968 - Isadora (Duncan)

           

$1971 - Catlow

           

$1973 - Polyanna

           

$1983 - The Hunger

           

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April 28, 2006

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