People
Bessie Love
- Name: Bessie Love
- Birthday: 1898-09-09
- Also known as: Juanita Horton
- Place of birth: Midland, Texas, USA
- Popularity: 0.7397
Biography:
Bessie Love (born Juanita Horton, September 10, 1898 - April 26, 1986) became one of the most recognizable faces of early American cinema. After her family moved to Los Angeles, she was sent to Biograph Studios, where legendary director D.W. Griffith noticed her talent and cast her in several films, including Intolerance (1916).
During the silent era, she gained popularity for her lively, wholesome screen presence and worked with major stars such as Douglas Fairbanks. Her career soared in the 1920s, and she was named a WAMPAS Baby Star in 1922, marking her as one of Hollywood’s most promising young actresses.
Love made a successful transition to sound films—something many silent stars... Read More
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| Title | Release date |
|---|---|
| Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché as Self (archive footage) | 2018-12-07 |
| Gareth Hughes as Self (archive footage) | 2000-01-01 |
| Alice Guy-Blaché as Self | 1997-02-20 |
| The Hunger as Lillybelle | 1983-04-29 |
| Reds as Mrs. Partlow | 1981-12-25 |
| Ragtime as Old Lady - T.O.C. | 1981-11-20 |
| Lady Chatterley's Lover as Flora | 1981-06-29 |
| Edward & Mrs. Simpson as Lady Cunard | 1978-11-06 |
| Gulliver's Travels as (voice) | 1977-05-06 |
| The Ritz as Maurine | 1976-08-12 |
| Vampyres as American Lady | 1974-07-06 |
| Mousey as Mrs. Richardson | 1974-05-24 |
| Catlow as Mrs. Frost | 1971-10-01 |
| Sunday Bloody Sunday as Answering Service Lady | 1971-07-01 |
| On Her Majesty's Secret Service as Baccarat Player (uncredited) | 1969-12-18 |
| Isadora as Mrs. Duncan | 1968-09-14 |
| I'll Never Forget What's'isname as American tourist (uncredited) | 1967-12-18 |
| Battle Beneath the Earth as Matron | 1967-10-01 |
| Promise Her Anything as Pet Shop Customer | 1966-02-22 |
| The Wild Affair as Marjorie's Mother | 1965-12-05 |
| The Pistol as Martha Burroughs | 1965-06-16 |
| I Think They Call Him John as Narrator (voice) | 1964-06-01 |
| Children of the Damned as Mrs. Robbin | 1964-01-10 |
| The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone as Bunny | 1961-12-28 |
| Too Young to Love as Mrs. Busch | 1960-03-08 |
| Nowhere to Go as Harriet P. Jefferson | 1958-12-02 |
| Next to No Time as Becky Wiener | 1958-08-04 |
| The Story of Esther Costello as Art Gallery Customer | 1957-11-06 |
| Touch and Go as Mrs Baxter | 1955-10-02 |
| The Barefoot Contessa as Mrs. Eubanks | 1954-09-29 |
| The Weak and the Wicked as Prisoner | 1954-02-02 |
| The Magic Box as Bride's Mother in Wedding Group | 1952-01-01 |
| No Highway in the Sky as Plane Passenger (uncredited) | 1951-06-28 |
| Journey Together as Mrs. Mary McWilliams | 1945-10-01 |
| London Scrapbook as Herself | 1942-09-30 |
| Atlantic Ferry as Begonia Baggot | 1941-09-06 |
| Morals for Women as Helen Hutson | 1931-10-24 |
| Round About Hollywood as Self | 1931-05-22 |
| See America Thirst as Ellen | 1930-11-23 |
| Good News as Babe | 1930-08-22 |
| Conspiracy as Margaret Holt | 1930-08-10 |
| They Learned About Women as Mary | 1930-01-30 |
| Chasing Rainbows as Carlie Seymour | 1930-01-10 |
| The Hollywood Revue of 1929 as Self | 1929-11-23 |
| The Girl in the Show as Hattie Hartley | 1929-08-30 |
| The Idle Rich as Helen Thayer | 1929-06-15 |
| The Broadway Melody as Harriet 'Hank' Mahoney | 1929-02-08 |
| Anybody Here Seen Kelly? as Mitzi Lavelle | 1928-09-09 |
| Sally of the Scandals as Sally Rand | 1928-07-15 |
| The Swell Head | 1928-07-14 |
| The Matinee Idol as Ginger Bolivar | 1928-03-14 |
| Dress Parade as Janet Cleghorne | 1927-10-26 |
| A Harp in Hock as Nora Banks | 1927-10-10 |
| Rubber Tires as Mary Ellen Stack | 1927-02-07 |
| The American as Jane Wilton | 1927-01-01 |
| Going Crooked as Marie | 1926-12-12 |
| Young April as Victoria | 1926-10-11 |
| Lovey Mary as Lovey Mary | 1926-06-20 |
| The Song and Dance Man as Leola Lane | 1926-02-08 |
| The King On Main Street as Mary Young | 1925-10-24 |
| New Brooms | 1925-10-12 |
| A Son of His Father as Nora Shea | 1925-09-28 |
| Soul-Fire as Teita | 1925-05-30 |
| The Lost World as Paula White | 1925-02-02 |
| Tongues of Flame as Lahleet | 1924-12-15 |
| Sundown as Ellen Crawley | 1924-11-30 |
| Dynamite Smith as Violet | 1924-10-12 |
| The Silent Watcher as Mary, his wife | 1924-10-05 |
| Those Who Dance as Veda Anargas | 1924-04-27 |
| The Woman on the Jury as Grace Pierce | 1924-04-20 |
| Torment as Marie | 1924-02-25 |
| Gentle Julia as Julia | 1923-12-24 |
| Slave of Desire as Pauline Gaudin | 1923-10-04 |
| St. Elmo as Edna Earle | 1923-09-30 |
| The Eternal Three as Hilda Gray | 1923-09-22 |
| Human Wreckage as Mary Finnegan | 1923-06-17 |
| Mary of the Movies as Herself (uncredited) | 1923-05-27 |
| The Purple Dawn as Mui Far | 1923-05-10 |
| Souls for Sale as Self - Celebrity Actress (uncredited) | 1923-04-22 |
| The Strange Adventures of Prince Courageous as Bernice | 1923-04-07 |
| The Ghost Patrol as Effie Kugler | 1923-01-21 |
| Three Who Paid as John Caspar / Virginia Cartwright | 1923-01-07 |
| Deserted at the Altar as Anna Moore (The Country Girl) | 1922-12-01 |
| Night Life in Hollywood as Self | 1922-11-15 |
| Screen Snapshots, Series 3, No. 12 as Self | 1922-11-05 |
| The Village Blacksmith as Rosemary Martin | 1922-11-01 |
| Bulldog Courage as Gloria Phillips | 1922-08-01 |
| Forget Me Not as Ann, The Girl | 1922-07-23 |
| The Vermilion Pencil as Hyacinth | 1922-03-19 |
| The Wampas Baby Stars of 1922 as Self | 1922-03-15 |
| The Sea Lion as Blossom Nelson | 1921-12-04 |
| The Spirit of the Lake | 1921-10-30 |
| The Swamp as Mary | 1921-10-30 |
| The Honor of Rameriz as The Geologist's Wife | 1921-10-16 |
| Penny of Top Hill Trail as Penny | 1921-06-01 |
| The Midlanders as Aurelie Lindstrom | 1920-12-01 |
| Bonnie May as Bonnie May | 1920-06-10 |
| Pegeen as Pegeen O'Neill | 1920-01-01 |
| A Fighting Colleen as Alannah Malone | 1919-11-22 |
| Over the Garden Wall as Peggy Gordon | 1919-09-21 |
| Cupid Forecloses as Geraldine Farleigh | 1919-07-12 |
| The Little Boss as Peggy Winston (The Little Boss) | 1919-06-02 |
| A Yankee Princess as Patsy O'Reilly | 1919-04-21 |
| The Wishing Ring Man as Joy Havenith | 1919-03-10 |
| Carolyn of the Corners | 1919-03-09 |
| The Enchanted Barn as Shirley Hollister | 1919-01-27 |
| The Dawn of Understanding as Sue Prescott | 1918-12-02 |
| A Little Sister of Everybody as Celeste Janvier | 1918-06-30 |
| How Could You, Caroline? as Caroline Rogers | 1918-05-05 |
| The Great Adventure as Rags | 1918-03-10 |
| Polly Ann as Polly Ann | 1917-09-09 |
| Wee Lady Betty as Wee Lady Betty | 1917-08-17 |
| The Sawdust Ring as Janet Magie | 1917-07-15 |
| Cheerful Givers as Judy | 1917-04-21 |
| A Daughter of the Poor as Rose Eastman | 1917-03-17 |
| Nina, the Flower Girl as Nina | 1917-01-21 |
| The Heiress at Coffee Dan's as Waffles | 1916-12-23 |
| A Sister of Six as Prudence | 1916-10-29 |
| Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages as The Bride of Cana (Judean Story) | 1916-09-04 |
| Hell-to-Pay Austin as Briar Rose Dawson | 1916-08-20 |
| Stranded as The Girl | 1916-07-23 |
| The Mystery of the Leaping Fish as The Little Fish Blower | 1916-06-11 |
| Reggie Mixes In as Agnes | 1916-06-10 |
| The Good Bad-Man as Amy | 1916-04-21 |
| The Aryan as Mary Jane Garth | 1916-04-09 |
| The Flying Torpedo as Hulda | 1916-03-12 |
| Acquitted as Helen Carter | 1916-02-06 |
