Bessie starred in at least 200 melodrama, action westerns and crime films. In the 1910 she was visiting the Selig Film studios with a party of friends, when a director saw and liked her red hair because he said it would photograph a beautiful black, so he offered her a minor role, she had no formal training on stage, as did many early film actors, she was talented and soon rose to be one of Selig's most popular stars.
Known For
| Birth Location | Santa Barbara, California, USA |
|---|---|
| Born | 1890-07-05 |
| Died | 1965-01-22 |
Movies
The Girl of Gold
as Ada Tremaine
1925
Cheap Kisses
as Maybelle Wescott
1924
Who Shall Take My Life?
as Mary Moran
1917
The Law North of 65
as Jeanne
1917
The Heart of Texas Ryan
as Texas Ryan
1917
Beware of Strangers
as Madeleine, Mentor's Daughter
1917
The Crisis
as Virginia Carvel
1916
Twisted Trails
as Sunshine West
1916
The Two Natures Within Him
as Mary Bishop
1915
The Great Experiment
as Ritta
1915
The Fork in the Road
as Elsa - the Innkeeper's Daughte
1915
The Red Blood of Courage
as Lydia Duane
1915
The Primitive Way
as Mildred Manning
1915
His Fighting Blood
as Hope McTrigger
1915
1915
In the Days of the Thundering Herd
as Sally Madison
1914
When the West Was Young
as Nellie Halton
1914
Chip of the Flying U
as Dr. Cecil Grantham
1914
The White Mouse
as Jean Silver
1914
Etienne of the Glad Heart
as Marie Le Groux
1914
The Wilderness Mail
as Joan, a Young French-Canadian
1914
In Defiance of the Law
as Isobel Deane
1914
Shotgun Jones
as Sally Lattier - the Daughter
1914
The Spoilers
as Helen Chester
1914
The Smuggler's Sister
as Bessie
1914
Alone in the Jungle
as Helen Brown
1913
In the Long Ago
as Starlight
1913
Greater Wealth
as Mrs. Ed Young
1913
The Mate of the Alden Bessie
as The Captain's Daughter
1912
Blackbeard
as Conchita
1911
Kit Carson's Wooing
as Lat-to-nick
1911
Movies
The Smuggler's Sister
Writer
1914
