Bessie Love

Quotes

• “So many people have said it that it must be true.”
• “I had a rudimentary knowledge of dancing and had learned a bit of tap at dancing school, but it was mostly a case of picking it up as one went along.”
• “He taught us how to be stars. It was a case of knowing how to behave properly in a way that the public expected. Mr. Griffith really taught me everything.”
• “The pressure on everybody to produce the first all-sound motion picture was tremendous. All the big studios were engaged in this race. We worked 12 to 18 hours a day with only Sunday mornings off to catch up on sleep. For The Broadway Melody we had these huge stage settings. The bigger the set the more trouble it meant for us "sound wise". It would become a maelstrom of activity where every squeak was enlarged to a bellow.”
• “I began at the top, and worked my way down to the bottom.”
• “The bottom seems to drop out of the career of an actor … every five years.”

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Key facts

Born

Juanita Horton , ( 1898-09-10 ) September 10, 1898, Midland, Texas , U.S.

Died

April 26, 1986 (1986-04-26) (aged 87) , London, England

Resting place

Breakspear Crematorium, London, England

Citizenship

American British

Occupations

Actress writer

Years active

1915–1983

Height

5 ft 0 in (152 cm)

Spouse

William Hawks ​ ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1929 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1936 ) ​

Relatives

Howard Hawks (brother-in-law) Kenneth Hawks (brother-in-law) Mary Astor (sister-in-law) Athole Shearer (sister-in-law)

Awards

WAMPAS Baby Star Hollywood Walk of Fame

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Wikidata facts

Image

Bessie Love The Blue Book of the Screen.jpg

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