Bessie Eyton
Acting
24
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0
TV Shows
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About
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.
Bessie Eyton
Acting
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.
The Usurper
Twisted Trails
In the Long Ago
The Crisis
The Spoilers
A Man of Honor
The Girl of Gold
The Heart of Texas Ryan
The City of Purple Dreams
Kit Carson's Wooing
The Way of a Man with a Maid
Etienne of the Glad Heart
The Mate of the Alden Bessie
The Still Alarm
Who Shall Take My Life?
In the Days of the Thundering Herd
Alone in the Jungle
Cheap Kisses
Chip of the Flying U
The Smuggler's Sister
Shotgun Jones
Children of Banishment
Blackbeard
Beware of Strangers