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Bessie Eyton
Acting
Born: July 5, 1890
Santa Barbara, California, USA
Biography
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
Etienne of the Glad Heart
as Marie Le Groux
The Mate of the Alden Bessie
as The Captain's Daughter
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Greater Wealth
as Mrs. Ed Young
The Spoilers
as Helen Chester
The Way of a Man with a Maid
as Gladys
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When the West Was Young
as Nellie Halton
Kit Carson's Wooing
as Lat-to-nick
Alone in the Jungle
as Helen Brown
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The White Mouse
as Jean Silver
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His Fighting Blood
as Hope McTrigger