Bessie Love
Date of birth: 1898-09-09
Place of birth: Midland, Texas, USA
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Juanita Horton
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
1916-09-04
The story of a poor young woman, separated by prejudice from her husband and baby, is interwoven wit
The Lost World
1925-02-02
The first film adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic novel about a land where prehistoric c
The Hunger
1983-04-29
Five-thousand-year-old vampire Miriam promises her lovers the gift of eternal life. When John, her c
The Hollywood Revue of 1929
1929-11-23
An all-star revue featuring MGM contract players.
Screen Snapshots, Series 3, No. 12
1922-11-05
Another entry in the popular one-reel series.
The Village Blacksmith
1922-11-01
(survived only 10 minutes) As young men, the squire (Marshall) and the village blacksmith (Walling)
The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone
1961-12-28
Critics and the public say Karen Stone is too old -- as she approaches 50 -- for her role in a play
The Ritz
1976-08-12
To escape from a mobster, businessman Gaetano Proclo orders a cab driver to take him to a place wher
The Pistol
1965-06-16
A young private with a pistol deals with the aftershock of the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Sunday Bloody Sunday
1971-07-01
Recently divorced career woman Alex Greville begins a romantic relationship with glamorous mod artis
The Broadway Melody
1929-02-08
The vaudeville act of Harriet and Queenie Mahoney comes to Broadway, where their friend Eddie Kerns
Reds
1981-12-25
An account of the revolutionary years of the legendary American journalist John Reed, who shared his
Nowhere to Go
1958-12-02
A professional thief is sprung from prison with the assistance of a new partner who wants to know wh
The Magic Box
1952-01-01
Now old, ill, poor, and largely forgotten, William Freise-Greene was once very different. As young a
The Matinee Idol
1928-03-14
The famous matinee idol and blackface comedian, Don Wilson, heads out of town to escape adulation. T
Catlow
1971-10-01
An outlaw tries to avoid interference as he journeys to Mexico to pull off a $2,000,000 gold robbery
Mousey
1974-05-24
A high school teacher separated from his son plots revenge on his ex-wife.
The Swell Head
1928-07-14
The Swell Head is a 1928 silent comedy short
Gulliver's Travels
1977-05-06
Based on the novel of the same name by Jonathan Swift and built around the Lilliput and Blefuscu epi
Conspiracy
1930-08-10
Margaret Holt and her brother Victor set out to smash a narcotics ring responsible for their father'
Chasing Rainbows
1930-01-10
The road-show troupe of a top Broadway show go cross-country while taking the audience along on the
Morals for Women
1931-10-24
A desperate woman turns to prostitution but is saved by true love.
I Think They Call Him John
1964-06-01
The life of an old man, John Cartner Ronson, living alone in a huge block of flats in London since h
Deserted at the Altar
1922-12-01
Anna Moore, a poor orphaned country girl, and her little brother, Tommy, live with hypocritical Squi
Good News
1930-08-22
A college football star falls for his mousy French tutor.
The Idle Rich
1929-06-15
Millionaire William van Luyn falls in love with his secretary Joan Thayer and marries her. Her famil
They Learned About Women
1930-01-30
Jack and Jerry are doing okay between profession baseball and Vaudeville. That is, until love and go
The Good Bad-Man
1916-04-21
An outlaw calling himself Passin' Through halts his "evil" ways long enough to help out some childre
Rubber Tires
1927-02-07
When the Stack family suffers some financial setbacks, daughter Mary Ellen suggests they buy a car a
See America Thirst
1930-11-23
Two men, one timid and one aggressive, make out as comical criminals.
Touch and Go
1955-10-02
When Jim Fletcher is told by his firm that his new furniture designs are not in keeping with the fir
Gareth Hughes
2000-01-01
Documentary about the Welsh silent movie actor.
The Eternal Three
1923-09-22
A doctor's adopted son turns out to be an ungrateful whelp. He beds the doctor's maid, then his secr
Dress Parade
1927-10-26
An amateur boxing champion stops at West Point to see a dress parade and falls for the commandant's
Alice Guy-Blaché
1997-02-20
A one-hour biographical documentary about Alice Guy-Blaché, one of the first women to direct films.
Pegeen
1920-01-01
Pegeen O'Neill must fend for herself when her father Dan becomes mentally unbalanced after his wife
Souls for Sale
1923-04-22
A young woman hits Hollywood, determined to become a star.
Bonnie May
1920-06-10
Young actress Bonnie May finds work in a private play given at Mrs. Baron’s mansion, where she endea
The Sea Lion
1921-12-04
When his long-suffering wife leaves him, the hard-driving captain of a whaling ship turns bitter and
The Song and Dance Man
1926-02-08
Song and Dance Man was based on the play of the same name by George M. Cohan. Tom Moore plays vaudev
The Girl in the Show
1929-08-30
In this drama, a traveling troupe of actors find themselves in danger of becoming unemployed when th
The Flying Torpedo
1916-03-12
In the future (1921), an alliance of several foreign countries plot to attack the US. American offic
Battle Beneath the Earth
1967-10-01
Government officials discover a horrible plot: the Chinese are tunneling their way to the United Sta
The King On Main Street
1925-10-24
A European Ruler falls in love with an American.
Next to No Time
1958-08-04
Unassuming planning engineer David Webb finds himself on the Queen Elizabeth to New York with instru
Too Young to Love
1960-03-08
A court case ensues when a 47-year old man is caught with a 15-year old girl, and he claims he never
The Mystery of the Leaping Fish
1916-06-11
Coke Ennyday, the scientific detective, divides his time into periods of "Sleep", "Eat", "Dope" and
Lady Chatterley's Lover
1981-06-29
After a crippling injury leaves her husband impotent, Lady Chatterly is torn between her love for he
Atlantic Ferry
1941-09-06
The MacIver brothers (Michael Redgrave, Griffith Jones) build the first ship to cross the Atlantic b
Ragtime
1981-11-20
A young black pianist becomes embroiled in the lives of an upper-class white family set among the ra
Isadora
1968-09-14
A biography of the dancer Isadora Duncan, the 1920s dancer who forever changed people's ideas of bal
Soul-Fire
1925-05-30
Eric Fane (Richard Barthelmess) is a composer unwilling to compromise his dream for a steady job bac
Reggie Mixes In
1916-06-10
Reggie, a wealthy young man about town, is eager for excitement, so he takes to visiting the rougher
Cheerful Givers
1917-04-21
A 1917 film directed by Paul Powell.
A Daughter of the Poor
1917-03-17
A young girl, Rose Eastmen lives with her lazy Uncle, who works as a janitor in a publishing house.
No Highway in the Sky
1951-06-28
James Stewart plays aeronautical engineer Theodore Honey, the quintessential absent-minded professor
The Weak and the Wicked
1954-02-02
Jean Raymond an upper class woman with a gambling addiction, is given a twelve-month prison sentence
The Aryan
1916-04-09
Steve Denton, rich from years of prospecting, is fleeced by the citizens of Yellow Ridge. In his rag
Young April
1926-10-11
Young orphan Victoria Sax becomes a grand duchess and is summoned to a remote kingdom.
The Barefoot Contessa
1954-09-29
Has-been director Harry Dawes gets a new lease on his career when the independently wealthy tycoon K
Round About Hollywood
1931-05-22
This short travelogue depicts snippets of locations in Hollywood, California, most of them as seen f
Human Wreckage
1923-06-17
An attorney's wife is determined to fight the evils of addictive substances.
The American
1927-01-01
Seref, who returns to his country after many years in America, as a dollar billionaire with a cowboy
The Wild Affair
1965-12-05
Young office assistant Majorie will marry soon, however, she's plagued by doubts if her fiance is th
Going Crooked
1926-12-12
A young women is part a jewel theft ring, but opts out of a robbery because guns will be used. A man
Vampyres
1974-07-06
A duo of bisexual female vampires prey on passing motorists, whom they seduce and murder in the Engl
The Story of Esther Costello
1957-11-06
Eighteen-year-old Esther has been deaf and blind since the accident that killed her mother. Wealthy
The Midlanders
1920-12-01
Aurelie, an orphan, escapes from a New Orleans convent and is adopted by Mississippi riverboat capta
Carolyn of the Corners
1919-03-09
The story of an orphan girl and her dog.
New Brooms
1925-10-12
Thomas Bates Sr. (Robert McWade) takes his broom manufacturing business very seriously, and his idle
Penny of Top Hill Trail
1921-06-01
Penny arrives in the West by aeroplane. She is considered a suspicious character and thrown into jai
Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché
2018-12-07
The epic life story of Alice Guy-Blaché (1873–1968), a French screenwriter, director and producer, t
The Swamp
1921-10-30
Mary and her son Buster live in a single room in the slums of the city, having been deserted by thei
The Great Adventure
1918-03-10
Ragna "Rags" Jansen has found local success and acclaim in her small town as an actress, but dreams
London Scrapbook
1942-09-30
Propaganda short showing how London is coping with World War II.
Edward & Mrs. Simpson
1978-11-06
While still the Prince of Wales, the future Edward VIII meets the married American socialite, Wallis
Journey Together
1945-10-01
Two Englishmen train with the Royal Air Force, ending with a bombing raid on Berlin.
A Sister of Six
1916-10-29
A young woman and her five little brothers and sisters are left orphans by the murder of their fathe
A Son of His Father
1925-09-28
'Big Boy' Morgan and his friend, invalid Charlie Grey, must overcome the efforts of the villainous H
The Wishing Ring Man
1919-03-10
Forced to wear quaint short dresses and pigtails so that she will inspire her grandfather's sentimen
The Wampas Baby Stars of 1922
1922-03-15
The WAMPAS Baby Stars was a promotional campaign sponsored by the United States Western Association
Polly Ann
1917-09-09
Young Polly-Ann works in a small town inn as a maidservant. A troupe of actors comes to town and the
The Sawdust Ring
1917-07-15
Janet sets out to find her circus ringleader father, who her mother abandoned believing him to be un
Wee Lady Betty
1917-08-17
Wee Lady Betty rules the O'Reilly castle with a stern hand and a big heart until she learns that Rog
Nina, the Flower Girl
1917-01-21
Nina, a blind girl, lives with her grandmother, who has taught her to make artificial flowers, which
How Could You, Caroline?
1918-05-05
Caroline Rogers, a spirited young girl with a taste for highly romantic novels, comes home from boar
The Enchanted Barn
1919-01-27
The Hollisters, a bright, spirited, wholesome family, are compelled to move into the country. After
The Dawn of Understanding
1918-12-02
The Dawn of Understanding is a lost 1918 American silent Western comedy film produced by The Vitagra
A Little Sister of Everybody
1918-06-30
Young Celeste Janvier ( Bessie Love ) lives in an East Side tenement with her immigrant grandfather,
A Yankee Princess
1919-04-21
A Yankee Princess is a 1919 American silent comedy-drama film produced and distributed by the Vitagr
The Spirit of the Lake
1921-10-30
The Spirit of the Lake is a 1921 American silent short Western drama film produced by Cyrus J. Willi
The Vermilion Pencil
1922-03-19
The Vermilion Pencil is a 1922 American silent drama film directed by Norman Dawn, and produced and
The Little Boss
1919-06-02
The Little Boss is a 1919 American silent romantic comedy film directed by David Smith and produced
Night Life in Hollywood
1922-11-15
A picture depicting the engrossing adventures of a small town youth in Hollywood and showing the int
Cupid Forecloses
1919-07-12
Geraldine Farleigh, a timid village schoolteacher, supports her family and must pay off her late fat
Over the Garden Wall
1919-09-21
Peggy ( Bessie Love ) and her sister Frances ( Myrtle Reeves ) live with their father, but because o
A Fighting Colleen
1919-11-22
Young and spunky Alannah, an Irish immigrant living in a tenement, sells newspapers to support her f
The Honor of Rameriz
1921-10-16
The Honor of Rameriz is a 1921 American silent short Western film produced by Cyrus J. Williams and
Three Who Paid
1923-01-07
Three Who Paid is a 1923 American silent Western melodrama film directed by Colin Campbell, and star
Bulldog Courage
1922-08-01
College athlete Jimmy Brent is sent to Wyoming by his wealthy uncle John Morton, who has promised hi
Children of the Damned
1964-01-10
Six children are found spread through out the world that not only have enormous intelligence, but id
Forget Me Not
1922-07-23
Young mother Mary Gordoon is too poor to take care of her infant daughter, Ann, and leaves the child
The Purple Dawn
1923-05-10
The Purple Dawn is a 1923 American silent romantic drama film that was produced, written, and direct
The Strange Adventures of Prince Courageous
1923-04-07
Originally planned as 12 two-reelers, only three were made: The Little Knight, The Love Charm, The C
Mary of the Movies
1923-05-27
Mary's kid brother needs an operation and, in order to pay for it, Mary goes to a Hollywood studio a
St. Elmo
1923-09-30
St. Elmo is a man who killed his romantic rival in a brawl. Traveling the world as a confirmed misog
Hell-to-Pay Austin
1916-08-20
After her father's death, little Briar Rose is taken in by the men at a lumber camp. The girl shows
Acquitted
1916-02-06
Hard-working insurance company bookkeeper John Carter, comes home Easter eve to his suburban cottage
Anybody Here Seen Kelly?
1928-09-09
A French girl falls in love with an American soldier, and after the War she follows him to New York,
The Ghost Patrol
1923-01-21
With his understanding manner policeman Donald Dorgan wins respect on his tough beat in "Little Hell
Stranded
1916-07-23
H. Ulysses Watts is a traveling Shakespearean actor whose career is on the decline, as his audiences
The Heiress at Coffee Dan's
1916-12-23
"Waffles," the waitress at "Coffee Dan's" hash-house, is selected by Bert Gallagher and Clara Johnst
Those Who Dance
1924-04-27
A federal agent assigned to stop a bootlegging gang joins forces with the gang leader's wife and the
Dynamite Smith
1924-10-12
Gladstone Smith, a fearful young reporter, gets on the wrong side of a murderous criminal and flees
Sally of the Scandals
1928-07-15
Sally of the Scandals is a 1928 American silent crime drama film produced and released by Film Booki
Slave of Desire
1923-10-04
Poet Raphael de Valentin is down on his luck until a friend introduces him into society. He meets th
Gentle Julia
1923-12-24
Gentle Julia is a 1923 American silent romantic drama film based on the popular novel Gentle Julia b
The Silent Watcher
1924-10-05
A lawyer (Bosworth) running for Congress decides to end his relationship with a showgirl (Bennett),
Torment
1924-02-25
Torment is a 1924 American silent film crime drama produced and directed by Maurice Tourneur and dis
The Woman on the Jury
1924-04-20
The story of a woman on trial for her life for shooting the man who had promised to love her but had
Sundown
1924-11-30
Cattlemen attempt to keep their lands and herds from being overrun by nesters.
Lovey Mary
1926-06-20
Lovely Mary, an orphan girl, reluctantly takes charge of her sister's child when her sister Kate is
Tongues of Flame
1924-12-15
The Native American Siwash people have been displaced from their land and live on a reservation. The
A Harp in Hock
1927-10-10
A Harp in Hock, also known as The Samaritan, is a lost 1927 American silent melodrama film directed
Promise Her Anything
1966-02-22
A widowed mother decides to go after the child psychologist she works for because she thinks he'll b
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
1969-12-18
James Bond tracks his archnemesis, Ernst Blofeld, to a mountaintop retreat in the Swiss alps where h
I'll Never Forget What's'isname
1967-12-18
Advertising golden boy Andrew Quint is fed up with his fabulously successful life. In very dramatic