Bessie Eyton
Acting · Born 1890-07-05 · age 74 at death · Santa Barbara, California, USA
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.
Titles
The Heart of Texas Ryan
The Spoilers
The Crisis
Blackbeard
The Law North of 65
Twisted Trails
When the West Was Young
Cheap Kisses
Lassoing a Lion
His Fighting Blood
The Red Blood of Courage
The Fork in the Road
The Great Experiment
The Two Natures Within Him
The Girl of Gold
The Mate of the Alden Bessie
Alone in the Jungle
The Way of a Man with a Maid
The Usurper
A Man of Honor
Children of Banishment
Who Shall Take My Life?
Kit Carson's Wooing
Chip of the Flying U
Etienne of the Glad Heart
The Smuggler's Sister
Shotgun Jones
In the Long Ago
In the Days of the Thundering Herd
Beware of Strangers
The Still Alarm
The City of Purple Dreams
Lend Me Your Name