Bessie Love
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Bessie Love 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, flapper
Flapper
Flapper in the 1920s was a term applied to a "new breed" of young Western women who wore short skirts, bobbed their hair, listened to jazz, and flaunted their disdain for what was then considered acceptable behavior...

s, and wholesome leading ladies. Her role in The Broadway Melody
The Broadway Melody
The Broadway Melody is a 1929 American musical film and the first sound film to win an Academy Award for Best Picture. It was one of the first musicals to feature a Technicolor sequence, which sparked the trend of color being used in a flurry of musicals that would hit the screens in 1929-1930...

 (1929) earned her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress
Academy Award for Best Actress
Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role is one of the Academy Awards of merit presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actress who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry...

. In addition to her acting career, she wrote the screenplay for the 1919 film A Yankee Princess.

Early life

Love was born Juanita Horton in Midland
Midland, Texas
Midland is a city in and the county seat of Midland County, Texas, United States, on the Southern Plains of the state's western area. A small portion of the city extends into Martin County. As of 2010, the population of Midland was 111,147. It is the principal city of the Midland, Texas...

, Texas
Texas
Texas is the second largest U.S. state by both area and population, and the largest state by area in the contiguous United States.The name, based on the Caddo word "Tejas" meaning "friends" or "allies", was applied by the Spanish to the Caddo themselves and to the region of their settlement in...

. She attended school in Midland until she was in the eighth grade, when her chiropractor father moved his family to Hollywood. Bessie graduated from Los Angeles High School
Los Angeles High School
Los Angeles High School is the oldest public high school in the Southern California Region and in the Los Angeles Unified School District. Its colors are blue and white and the teams are called the Romans....

 and then received from her parents (as a graduation present) of a trip around the United States. After six months of traveling, she finally returned home to Los Angeles.

The Silent Era

To help with the family's financial situation, Love's mother sent her to Biograph Studios
American Mutoscope and Biograph Company
The American Mutoscope and Biograph Company, was a motion picture company founded in 1895 and active until 1928. It was the first company in the United States devoted entirely to film production and exhibition, and for two decades was one of the most prolific, releasing over three thousand short...

, where she met pioneering film director D.W. Griffith. Griffith, who introduced Bessie Love to films, also gave the actress her screen moniker. He gave her small roles in his films The Birth of a Nation
The Birth of a Nation
The Birth of a Nation is a 1915 American silent film directed by D. W. Griffith and based on the novel and play The Clansman, both by Thomas Dixon, Jr. Griffith also co-wrote the screenplay , and co-produced the film . It was released on February 8, 1915...

 (1915) and in Intolerance
Intolerance (film)
Intolerance is a 1916 American silent film directed by D. W. Griffith and is considered one of the great masterpieces of the Silent Era. The three-and-a-half hour epic intercuts four parallel storylines each separated by several centuries: A contemporary melodrama of crime and redemption; a...

 (1916). She also appeared opposite William S. Hart
William S. Hart
William Surrey Hart was an American silent film actor, screenwriter, director and producer. He is remembered for having "imbued all of his characters with honor and integrity."-Biography:...

 in The Aryan
The Aryan
The Aryan is an American silent era western motion picture starring William S. Hart, Gertrude Claire, Charles K. French, Louise Glaum, and Bessie Love....

 and with Douglas Fairbanks
Douglas Fairbanks
Douglas Fairbanks, Sr. was an American actor, screenwriter, director and producer. He was best known for his swashbuckling roles in silent films such as The Thief of Bagdad, Robin Hood, and The Mark of Zorro....

 in The Good Bad Man, Reggie Mixes In, and The Mystery of the Leaping Fish
The Mystery of the Leaping Fish
The Mystery of the Leaping Fish is a short film starring Douglas Fairbanks and Bessie Love. In this unusually broad comedy for Fairbanks, the acrobatic leading man plays "Coke Ennyday," a cocaine-shooting detective parody of Sherlock Holmes given to injecting himself with cocaine from a bandolier...

 (all 1916).

In 1922 Love was selected one of the WAMPAS Baby Stars
WAMPAS Baby Stars
The WAMPAS Baby Stars was a promotional campaign sponsored by the Western Association of Motion Picture Advertisers in the United States which honored thirteen young women each year whom they believed to be on the threshold of movie stardom. They were selected from 1922 to 1934, and annual...

.
In 1923, she starred in Human Wreckage
Human Wreckage
Human Wreckage was an independent silent film production by Dorothy Davenport, widow of actor Wallace Reid, who died on 18 January 1923 from complications of morphine addiction.-Production background:...

 with Dorothy Davenport
Dorothy Davenport
Dorothy Davenport was an American actress, screenwriter, film director, and producer who appeared in silent film for Biograph Studios under the direction of D.W. Griffith.-Early career:...

 and produced by Thomas Ince
Thomas H. Ince
Thomas Harper Ince was an American silent film actor, director, screenwriter and producer of more than 100 films and pioneering studio mogul. Known as the "Father of the Western", he invented many mechanisms of professional movie production, introducing early Hollywood to the "assembly line"...

.

As her roles got larger, so did her popularity. She performed the Charleston
Charleston (dance)
The Charleston is a dance named for the harbor city of Charleston, South Carolina. The rhythm was popularized in mainstream dance music in the United States by a 1923 tune called "The Charleston" by composer/pianist James P. Johnson which originated in the Broadway show Runnin' Wild and became one...

 in the film The King on Main Street
The King on Main Street (1925 film)
__notoc__The King on Main Street is a silent film romantic comedy directed by Monta Bell, released by Paramount Pictures, and starring Adolphe Menjou and Bessie Love. Carlotta Monterey, later wife of Eugene O'Neill from 1929 to 1953, has a small role as Mrs...

 in 1925. Also that same year she starred in The Lost World
The Lost World (1925 film)
The Lost World is a 1925 silent film adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle's 1912 novel of the same name. The movie was produced by First National Pictures, a large Hollywood studio at the time, and stars Wallace Beery as Professor Challenger. This version was directed by Harry O...

, a science fiction adventure based on the novel of the same name by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Three years later she starred in The Matinee Idol
The Matinee Idol
The Matinee Idol is a 1928 silent romantic comedy film directed by Frank Capra, and starring Bessie Love and Johnnie Walker. A Broadway star falls in love with a woman who does not know his real identity....

, a romantic comedy directed by a young Frank Capra
Frank Capra
Frank Russell Capra was a Sicilian-born American film director. He emigrated to the U.S. when he was six, and eventually became a creative force behind major award-winning films during the 1930s and 1940s...

.

The Sound Era

Love was able to successfully transition to talkies, and in 1929 she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress
Academy Award for Best Actress
Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role is one of the Academy Awards of merit presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actress who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry...

 for The Broadway Melody
The Broadway Melody
The Broadway Melody is a 1929 American musical film and the first sound film to win an Academy Award for Best Picture. It was one of the first musicals to feature a Technicolor sequence, which sparked the trend of color being used in a flurry of musicals that would hit the screens in 1929-1930...

. She also appeared in several other early musicals including The Hollywood Revue of 1929
The Hollywood Revue of 1929
The Hollywood Revue of 1929 is a 1929 part Technicolor Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer American musical-comedy film. It was the studio's second feature-length musical, and one of the earliest ventures into the talkie format. Produced by Harry Rapf and directed by Chuck Riesner, the film brought together some...

 (1929), Chasing Rainbows
Chasing Rainbows
Chasing Rainbows is a 1930 American romantic musical film directed by Charles Reisner, starring Bessie Love and Charles King, and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.- Film preservation :...

 (1930), Good News (1930), and They Learned About Women
They Learned About Women
They Learned About Women is a 1930 American black and white sports drama musical film. Though this film is a "talkie", MGM also issued this movie in a silent version, with Alfred Block writing the titles. The film was remade in 1949 as Take Me Out to the Ball Game...

 (1930).

However, by 1932 her American film career was in decline. She moved to England in 1935 and did stage work and occasional films there. As war came in Europe she returned to the US for a while, worked for the Red Cross, and entertained the troops. After the war she moved back to Britain where she kept her main residence, and continued to play small film roles for film companies in both the US and Britain. She appeared in films like The Barefoot Contessa
The Barefoot Contessa
The Barefoot Contessa is a 1954 film about the life and loves of fictional Spanish sex symbol Maria Vargas. It was written and directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz and stars Humphrey Bogart, Ava Gardner and Edmond O'Brien....

 (1954) with Humphrey Bogart
Humphrey Bogart
Humphrey DeForest Bogart was an American actor. He is widely regarded as a cultural icon.The American Film Institute ranked Bogart as the greatest male star in the history of American cinema....

, and as an American tourist in The Greengage Summer
The Greengage Summer
The Greengage Summer is a 1961 British drama film directed by Lewis Gilbert and starring Kenneth More and Susannah York . It was based on the novel, Greengage Summer, by Rumer Godden...

 (1961) starring Kenneth More
Kenneth More
Kenneth Gilbert More CBE was a highly successful English film actor during the post-World War II era and starred in many feature films, often in the role of an archetypal carefree and happy-go-lucky middle-class gentleman.-Early life:Kenneth More was born in Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire, the...

. She also played a small role as an American tourist in the James Bond
James Bond
James Bond, code name 007, is a fictional character created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve novels and two short story collections. There have been a six other authors who wrote authorised Bond novels or novelizations after Fleming's death in 1964: Kingsley Amis,...

 thriller On Her Majesty's Secret Service
On Her Majesty's Secret Service (film)
On Her Majesty's Secret Service is the sixth spy film in the James Bond series, based on the 1963 novel of the same name by Ian Fleming. Following the decision of Sean Connery to retire from the role after You Only Live Twice, Eon Productions selected an unknown actor and model, George Lazenby...

 (1969). She played a small but pivotal role as a switchboard operator in 1971's Sunday Bloody Sunday
Sunday Bloody Sunday (film)
Sunday Bloody Sunday is a 1971 British drama film directed by John Schlesinger and starring Murray Head, Glenda Jackson and Peter Finch. It tells the story of a free-spirited young bisexual artist and his simultaneous relationships with a female recruitment consultant and a male Jewish doctor...

.

Her career came to a quick halt soon after that however, and she moved permanently to the United Kingdom
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

, becoming a British citizen. She made a comeback in the 1980s with roles in Ragtime
Ragtime (film)
Ragtime is a 1981 American film based on the historical novel Ragtime by E. L. Doctorow. The action takes place in and around New York City, New Rochelle, and Atlantic City in the first decade of the 1900s, and includes fictionalized references to actual people and events of the time. The film was...

 (1981), Warren Beatty
Warren Beatty
Warren Beatty born March 30, 1937) is an American actor, producer, screenwriter and director. He has received a total of fourteen Academy Award nominations, winning one for Best Director in 1982. He has also won four Golden Globe Awards including the Cecil B. DeMille Award.-Early life and...

's Reds (1981), Lady Chatterley's Lover
Lady Chatterley's Lover (film)
Lady Chatterley's Lover is a 1981 film directed by Just Jaeckin, and starring Sylvia Kristel and Nicholas Clay.-Cast:*Sylvia Kristel as Lady Constance Chatterley*Shane Briant as Sir Clifford Chatterley*Nicholas Clay as Oliver Mellors...

 (1981) and (her final film) The Hunger (1983) starring Catherine Deneuve
Catherine Deneuve
Catherine Deneuve is a French actress. She gained recognition for her portrayal of aloof and mysterious beauties in films such as Repulsion and Belle de jour . Deneuve was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress in 1993 for her performance in Indochine; she also won César Awards for that...

, David Bowie
David Bowie
David Bowie is an English musician, actor, record producer and arranger. A major figure for over four decades in the world of popular music, Bowie is widely regarded as an innovator, particularly for his work in the 1970s...

, and Susan Sarandon
Susan Sarandon
Susan Sarandon is an American actress. She has worked in films and television since 1969, and won an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in the 1995 film Dead Man Walking. She had also been nominated for the award for four films before that and has received other recognition for her...

. During her lifetime, Love featured in 131 films and TV episodes.

Personal life

In 1977 she published an autobiography, From Hollywood with Love. She was at this time living comfortably in a flat overlooking London’s Clapham Common
Clapham Common
Clapham Common is an 89 hectare triangular area of grassland situated in south London, England. It was historically common land for the parishes of Battersea and Clapham, but was converted to parkland under the terms of the Metropolitan Commons Act 1878.43 hectares of the common are within the...

 and had recently appeared in a television account of the abdication of King Edward VIII.

She recorded that during World War II in Britain when she found acting work hard to come by she had been the "continuity girl" on the film drama San Demetrio London
San Demetrio London
San Demetrio London is a Second World War film about the Merchant Navy. It deals with the crew of a tanker and their struggle to deliver their cargo to England during the Battle of the Atlantic...

, an account of a ship badly damaged in the Atlantic but whose crew managed to bring her to port. She also says she had regular diet in the post-war era of stage roles as an American Tourist and similar roles, and was "Aunt Pittypat" in a large-scale musical version of Gone With the Wind.

Love was married once, from 1929 to 1935, to film producer William Hawks (the brother of film director Howard Hawks
Howard Hawks
Howard Winchester Hawks was an American film director, producer and screenwriter of the classic Hollywood era...

), and she had a daughter from that marriage. Love died in London
London
London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...

, England from natural causes on April 26, 1986.

She has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
Hollywood Walk of Fame
The Hollywood Walk of Fame consists of more than 2,400 five-pointed terrazzo and brass stars embedded in the sidewalks along fifteen blocks of Hollywood Boulevard and three blocks of Vine Street in Hollywood, California...

 at 6777 Hollywood Boulevard, Los Angeles, California.

Filmography

Silent
  • Georgia Pearce (1915) (the title of this film is the name of the role Constance Talmadge
    Constance Talmadge
    Constance Talmadge was a silent movie star born in Brooklyn, New York, USA, and was the sister of fellow actresses Norma Talmadge and Natalie Talmadge.-Early life:...

     played in the Hugenot story of D.W. Griffith's Intolerance
    Intolerance
    -Medical/biological:*Intolerance, a synonym of sensitivity **Drug intolerance**Food intolerance**Lactose intolerance**Hereditary fructose intolerance**Sucrose intolerance**Lysinuric protein intolerance**Citric acid intolerance...

    . Love also appeared in the film. No single film Georgia Pearce was made.)
  • Acquitted (1916 Triangle) (Lost)
  • The Flying Torpedo (1916 Triangle) (Lost)
  • The Aryan
    The Aryan
    The Aryan is an American silent era western motion picture starring William S. Hart, Gertrude Claire, Charles K. French, Louise Glaum, and Bessie Love....

     (1916 Triangle) (Extant)
  • The Good Bad Man
    The Good Bad Man
    The Good Bad Man is a 1916 silent Western film starring Douglas Fairbanks and Bessie Love. It was directed by Allan Dwan and released through the Triangle Film Corporation. The film was edited, shortened and rereleased in 1923...

     (1916 Triangle) (Lost)
  • Reggie Mixes In
    Reggie Mixes In
    Reggie Mixes In is a 1916 comedy-drama produced by Fine Arts and distributed by Triangle Film Corporation. It starred Douglas Fairbanks and was directed by Christy Cabanne...

     (1916 Triangle) (Extant)
  • The Mystery of the Leaping Fish
    The Mystery of the Leaping Fish
    The Mystery of the Leaping Fish is a short film starring Douglas Fairbanks and Bessie Love. In this unusually broad comedy for Fairbanks, the acrobatic leading man plays "Coke Ennyday," a cocaine-shooting detective parody of Sherlock Holmes given to injecting himself with cocaine from a bandolier...

     (1916 Triangle) (Extant)
  • Stranded (1916 Triangle)
  • Intolerance
    Intolerance (film)
    Intolerance is a 1916 American silent film directed by D. W. Griffith and is considered one of the great masterpieces of the Silent Era. The three-and-a-half hour epic intercuts four parallel storylines each separated by several centuries: A contemporary melodrama of crime and redemption; a...

     (1916 Triangle) (Extant)
  • Hell-to-Pay Austin (1916 Triangle) (Lost)
  • A Sister of Six (1916 Triangle) (Lost)
  • The Heiress at Coffee Dan's (1916 Triangle) (Lost)
  • Nina, the Flower Girl (1917 Triangle) (Lost)
  • A Daughter of the Poor (1917 Triangle) (Lost)
  • Cheerful Givers (1917 Triangle) (Lost)
  • The Sawdust Ring (1917 Triangle) (Extant)
  • Wee Lady Betty (1917 Triangle)
  • Polly Ann (1917 Triangle)
  • The Great Adventure (1918 Pathe)
  • How Could You, Caroline? (1918 Pathe)
  • A Little Sister of Everybody (1918 Pathe)
  • The Dawn of Understanding (1918 Vitagraph)
  • The Enchanted Barn (1919 Vitagraph)
  • Carolyn of the Corners (1919 Pathe)
  • The Wishing Ring Man (1919 Vitagraph)
  • A Yankee Princess (1919 Vitagraph)
  • The Little Boss (1919 Vitagraph)
  • Cupid Forecloses (1919 Vitagraph)
  • Over the Garden Wall (1919 Vitagraph)
  • A Fighting Colleen (1919 Vitagraph)
  • The Midlanders (1920 Federated Film Exchanges)
  • Pegeen (1920 Vitagraph)
  • Bonnie May (1920 Federated Film Exchanges)
  • Penny of Top Hill Trail (1921 Federated Film Exchanges)
  • The Honor of Ramirez (short) (1921)
  • The Spirit of the Lake (short) (1921)
  • The Swamp (1921 Robertson-Cole)
  • The Sea Lion
    The Sea Lion
    The Sea Lion is a 1921 American silent film adventure directed by Rowland V. Lee. The same staff on this film produced Rowland Lee's previous directed film Blind Hearts, released just before The Sea Lion...

     (1921 Associated Producers) (Extant)
  • The Vermilion Pencil (1922 Robertson-Cole)
  • Forget Me Not (1922 Metro Pictures)
  • Bulldog Courage (1922 Clinton)
  • The Village Blacksmith
    The Village Blacksmith (film)
    The Village Blacksmith is a 1922 drama film directed by John Ford. One of the eight reels survives at the UCLA Film and Television Archive, and therefore the film is considered to be lost. It was adapted from the poem of the same name by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.-Cast:* Will Walling - John...

     (1922 Fox)(incomplete; 1 reel survives)
  • Deserted at the Altar (1922 Phil Goldstone)
  • Three Who Paid (1923 Fox)
  • The Ghost Patrol (1923 Universal)
  • Purple Dawn (1923 Aywon/State's Rights)
  • Human Wreckage
    Human Wreckage
    Human Wreckage was an independent silent film production by Dorothy Davenport, widow of actor Wallace Reid, who died on 18 January 1923 from complications of morphine addiction.-Production background:...

     (1923 FBO) (Lost)
  • The Eternal Three (1923 Goldwyn)(Lost)
  • St. Elmo
    St. Elmo (film)
    St. Elmo is a 1923 silent drama film directed by Jerome Storm. Distributed by Fox Film Corporation, the film is based on the 1867 novel of the same name written by Augusta Jane Evans. Today St. Elmo is a lost film.-Plot:When St...

     (1923 Fox) (Lost; per silentera.com)
  • Slave of Desire (1923 Goldwyn)(Lost)
  • Gentle Julia (1923 Fox)
  • Torment
    Torment (1924 film)
    Torment is a 1924 silent film crime-drama produced and directed by Maurice Tourneur and distributed by Associated First National, later First National Pictures. This film stars Bessie Love, Owen Moore and Jean Hersholt. The film is based on a story by William Pelley with script by Fred Myton and...

     (1924 Tourneur/Asso.First National) (Lost)
  • The Woman on the Jury (1924 Asso. First National)
  • Those Who Dance (1924 Ince/Asso. First National)
  • The Silent Watcher (1924 First National) (Lost)
  • Dynamite Smith
    Dynamite Smith
    Dynamite Smith is a 1924 silent film directed by Ralph Ince and written by C. Gardner Sullivan. The film tells the story of a young reporter who is pursued by a murderer . The reporter flees to Alaska with the killer's wife...

     (1924 Ince/Pathe) (Lost)
  • Sundown
    Sundown (1924 film)
    Sundown is a 1924 silent film Western drama produced and distributed by First National Pictures and starring Bessie Love. Frances Marion, Marion Fairfax and Kenneth B. Clarke wrote the screenplay based on an original screen story by Earl Hudson. This film was the only production cinematographer...

     (1924) (Lost First National)
  • Tongues of Flame (1924 Paramount) (Lost)
  • The Lost World
    The Lost World (1925 film)
    The Lost World is a 1925 silent film adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle's 1912 novel of the same name. The movie was produced by First National Pictures, a large Hollywood studio at the time, and stars Wallace Beery as Professor Challenger. This version was directed by Harry O...

     (1925 First National) (Extant)
  • Soul-Fire
    Soul-Fire
    Soul-Fire is a 1925 silent drama starring Richard Barthelmess and Bessie Love. The film is directed by John S. Robertson and is based on a 1924 Broadway play called Great Music by Martin Brown. The film was funded by Barthelmess through his Inspiration Pictures and released by the First National...

     (1925 First National) (Extant)
  • A Son of His Father
    A Son of His Father
    A Son of His Father is a 1925 silent film Western directed by Victor Fleming. Uncertain whether this is a lost or extant film -Cast:*Bessie Love - Nora Shea*Warner Baxter - Big Boy Morgan*Raymond Hatton - Charlie Grey*Walter McGrail - Holdbrook...

     (1925 Paramount)
  • New Brooms (1925 Paramount) (Lost)
  • The King on Main Street
    The King on Main Street (1925 film)
    __notoc__The King on Main Street is a silent film romantic comedy directed by Monta Bell, released by Paramount Pictures, and starring Adolphe Menjou and Bessie Love. Carlotta Monterey, later wife of Eugene O'Neill from 1929 to 1953, has a small role as Mrs...

     (1925 Paramount) (Extant)
  • The Song and Dance Man (1926 Paramount) (Lost)
  • Lovey Mary
    Lovey Mary
    Lovey Mary is a 1926 film directed by King Baggot, based on the 1903 novel with the same name by Alice Hegan Rice. This story was the sequel to Rice's Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch and Lovey Mary is one of the characters from that earlier novel. The film is considered lost...

     (1926 MGM) (Lost)
  • Meet the Prince (1926 PDC)
  • Young April
    Young April
    Young April is a 1926 silent film romantic comedy starring Bessie Love. It was financed by Cecil B. DeMille and directed by Donald Crisp. Young April is an extant film and has been on home video and/or DVD.-Cast:*Joseph Schildkraut - Prince Caryl...

     (1926 PDC) (Extant)
  • Going Crooked (1926 Fox) (Extant; Museum of Modern Art)
  • The American (1927 Natural Vision Pictures) (film was supposedly never released)
  • Rubber Tires
    Rubber Tires
    Rubber Tires is a 1927 silent film comedy adventure directed by Alan Hale, Sr. and produced by Cecil B. DeMille through his DeMille Pictures Corporation. The film was distributed by PDC. Its stars are Bessie Love, May Robson and Harrison Ford...

     (1927 PDC) (Extant)
  • A Harp in Hock (1927 Pathe) (Lost; per Arne Andersin's:Lost Film Files)
  • Amateur Night (short; uncredited) (1927 Warner Brothers/Vitaphone)
  • Dress Parade
    Dress Parade (1927 film)
    Dress Parade is a 1927 silent romance drama produced by William Sistrom and Cecil B. DeMille and distributed by Pathe. The film was directed by Donald Crisp. It stars William Boyd and Bessie Love in the leads. The story is essentially the same as West Point produced at MGM in 1928...

     (1927 Pathe) (Extant)
  • The Matinee Idol
    The Matinee Idol
    The Matinee Idol is a 1928 silent romantic comedy film directed by Frank Capra, and starring Bessie Love and Johnnie Walker. A Broadway star falls in love with a woman who does not know his real identity....

     (1928 Columbia) (Extant)
  • Sally of the Scandals (1928 FBO)
  • Anybody Here Seen Kelly?
    Anybody Here Seen Kelly?
    Anybody Here Seen Kelly? was an American silent film released in 1928. It was the first non-Western film directed by William Wyler and is believed to be lost. The title originates from the 1908 British Music Hall standard Has Anybody Here Seen Kelly? by C.W. Murphy and Will Letters...

     (1928 Universal) (Lost; per Lost Film Files)


Sound
  • The Broadway Melody
    The Broadway Melody
    The Broadway Melody is a 1929 American musical film and the first sound film to win an Academy Award for Best Picture. It was one of the first musicals to feature a Technicolor sequence, which sparked the trend of color being used in a flurry of musicals that would hit the screens in 1929-1930...

     (1929 MGM) (Extant)
  • The Idle Rich (1929 MGM) (Extant)
  • The Girl in the Show (1929 MGM) (Extant)
  • Chasing Rainbows
    Chasing Rainbows
    Chasing Rainbows is a 1930 American romantic musical film directed by Charles Reisner, starring Bessie Love and Charles King, and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.- Film preservation :...

     (1930 MGM) (Extant)
  • They Learned About Women
    They Learned About Women
    They Learned About Women is a 1930 American black and white sports drama musical film. Though this film is a "talkie", MGM also issued this movie in a silent version, with Alfred Block writing the titles. The film was remade in 1949 as Take Me Out to the Ball Game...

     (1930 MGM) (Extant)
  • Conspiracy (1930 RKO) (Extant)
  • Good News
    Good News (films)
    Good News is the title of two American MGM musical films based on the 1927 stage production of the same name.The first, released in 1930, was directed by Nick Grinde. The cast included Bessie Love, Cliff Edwards and Penny Singleton. The film was shot in black-and-white, although the finale was in...

     (1930 MGM) (Extant ; but missing Technicolor ending)
  • See America First (1930 Universal) (Extant; UCLA per IMDB)
  • Morals for Women
    Morals for Women
    Morals for Women is a 1931 Pre-Code talking film produced and released by Tiffany Pictures, often considered a low budget studio. The film stars Bessie Love and Conway Tearle and is preserved at the Library of Congress. It is also available on dvd...

     (1931 Tiffany) (Extant)
  • I Live Again (1936 National Provincial Film Distributors-UK)
  • Atlantic Ferry
    Atlantic Ferry
    Atlantic Ferry is a 1941 British film starring Michael Redgrave and Valerie Hobson. It was made at Teddington Studios...

     (1941)
  • Journey Together (1945)
  • No Highway in the Sky
    No Highway in the Sky
    No Highway in the Sky is a 1951 British disaster film directed by Henry Koster and starring James Stewart and Marlene Dietrich...

     (uncredited) (1951)
  • The Magic Box
    The Magic Box
    The Magic Box is a fictional magic shop in the TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, created by Joss Whedon. It is located in Sunnydale and was last owned and operated by Rupert Giles, and served as the primary headquarters of the Scooby Gang for seasons five and six.-Ownership history:The shop went...

     (1951)
  • Young and Willing (1954)
  • The Barefoot Contessa
    The Barefoot Contessa
    The Barefoot Contessa is a 1954 film about the life and loves of fictional Spanish sex symbol Maria Vargas. It was written and directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz and stars Humphrey Bogart, Ava Gardner and Edmond O'Brien....

     (1954)
  • Beau Brummell
    Beau Brummell (film)
    Beau Brummell is a historical film released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It was directed by Curtis Bernhardt and produced by Sam Zimbalist from a screenplay by Karl Tunberg, based on the play Beau Brummell by Clyde Fitch. The music score was by Richard Addinsell with Miklós Rózsa...

     (1954)
  • Touch and Go
    Touch and Go (1955 film)
    Touch and Go is a Technicolor British film comedy, directed by Michael Truman and released by Ealing Studios in 1955. The film was indifferently received on release and is not generally included in the canon of classic Ealing Comedies...

     (1955)
  • The Story of Esther Costello
    The Story of Esther Costello
    The Story of Esther Costello is a 1957 British drama film starring Joan Crawford, Rossano Brazzi, and Heather Sears . The film is an exposé of large-scale fundraising. The Story of Esther Costello was produced by David Miller and Jack Clayton with Miller directing...

     (1957)
  • Next to No Time (1958)
  • Nowhere to Go
    Nowhere to Go (1958 film)
    Nowhere to Go is a 1958 British crime film directed by Seth Holt and starring George Nader, Maggie Smith, Bernard Lee, Harry H. Corbett and Lionel Jeffries. It was Maggie Smith's first film....

     (1958)
  • Too Young to Love
    Too Young to Love (film)
    Too Young to Love is a 1960 British drama film directed by Muriel Box and starring Pauline Hahn, Joan Miller and Austin Willis. It was based on the play Pickup Girl by Elsa Shelley.-Cast:* Pauline Hahn - Elizabeth Collins* Joan Miller - Mrs Collins...

     (1960)
  • Loss of Innocence (1961)
  • The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone
    The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone
    The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone is a 1961 British film made by Seven Arts-Warner Bros. It was directed by José Quintero and produced by Louis De Rochemont with Lothar Wolff as associate producer. The screenplay was written by Gavin Lambert and Jan Read and based on the novel by Tennessee Williams...

     (1961)
  • The Wild Affair
    The Wild Affair
    The Wild Affair is a 1963 British comedy film directed by John Krish and starring Nancy Kwan, Gladys Morgan and Betty Marsden.-Cast:* Nancy Kwan as Marjorie Lee* Gladys Morgan as Mrs...

     (1963)
  • Children of the Damned
    Children of the Damned
    Children of the Damned is a 1963 science fiction film, a thematic sequel to the 1960 version of Village of the Damned. It is about a group of children, with similar psi-powers to the original seeding, but without the obvious 'alien' differences in the earlier film.-Plot:Six children are identified...

     (1963)
  • Promise Her Anything
    Promise Her Anything
    Promise Her Anything is a 1965 British romantic comedy film directed by Arthur Hiller. The screenplay by William Peter Blatty is based on a story by Arne Sultan and Marvin Worth.-Plot:...

     (1965)
  • The Poppy Is Also a Flower
    The Poppy Is Also a Flower
    The Poppy Is Also a Flower is an ABC made-for-television spy and anti-drug film. The film was directed by Terence Young and stars Senta Berger, Stephen Boyd, Trevor Howard, Rita Hayworth, Angie Dickinson, Yul Brynner, and Marcello Mastroianni...

     (1966)
  • The Battle Beneath the Earth (1967)
  • I'll Never Forget What's'isname (1967)
  • Isadora
    Isadora
    Isadora is a 1968 biographical film which tells the story of celebrated American dancer Isadora Duncan. It stars Vanessa Redgrave, James Fox and Jason Robards....

     (1968)
  • Sunday Bloody Sunday
    Sunday Bloody Sunday (film)
    Sunday Bloody Sunday is a 1971 British drama film directed by John Schlesinger and starring Murray Head, Glenda Jackson and Peter Finch. It tells the story of a free-spirited young bisexual artist and his simultaneous relationships with a female recruitment consultant and a male Jewish doctor...

     (1971)
  • Catlow (1971)
  • Vampyres
    Vampyres (film)
    Vampyres is an erotic and bloody lesbian vampire film directed by Spanish film director José Ramón Larraz on location in England.-Plot:...

     (1974)
  • The Ritz
    The Ritz (film)
    The Ritz is a 1976 film directed by Richard Lester based on the play of the same name by Terrence McNally.Actress Rita Moreno who had won a Tony Award for her performance as Googie Gomez in the 1975 Broadway production, and many others of the original cast like Jack Weston, Jerry Stiller, and F...

     (1976)
  • Reds (1981)
  • Ragtime
    Ragtime (film)
    Ragtime is a 1981 American film based on the historical novel Ragtime by E. L. Doctorow. The action takes place in and around New York City, New Rochelle, and Atlantic City in the first decade of the 1900s, and includes fictionalized references to actual people and events of the time. The film was...

     (1981)
  • Lady Chatterley's Lover
    Lady Chatterley's Lover (film)
    Lady Chatterley's Lover is a 1981 film directed by Just Jaeckin, and starring Sylvia Kristel and Nicholas Clay.-Cast:*Sylvia Kristel as Lady Constance Chatterley*Shane Briant as Sir Clifford Chatterley*Nicholas Clay as Oliver Mellors...

      (1981)
  • The Hunger (1983)


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