Bessie Love Biography

Fast Facts

• During World War II, she worked for the Red Cross
• The United States Western Association of Motion Picture Advertisers selected her as one of the WAMPAS Baby Stars in 1922
• As a high school graduation gift, her parents financed a six-month trip around the United States for her
• Made her stage debut in 1928 in Santa Barbara, Calif․, in "Burlesque․"
• Actor Tom Mix recommended that she get involved with the film industry, so her mother sent her to Biograph Studios where she met director D․W․ Griffith and started her career
• Often played ingénues, flappers and wholesome leading ladies
• Her film career began in the silent film era, but stretched into the early talkies
• In 1958, she wrote a play called "The Homecoming․"
• Though she was born in America, she moved to Britain and became a British citizen 15 years before her death
• Published an autobiography called "From Hollywood with Love" in 1977