Bessie Love

Bessie Love

Born 1898 in Midland Texas, Bessie appeared in 131 films from 1915 to 1983! She was also a WAMPAS Baby Star in 1922 (see Evelyn Brent for more information on WAMPAS Baby Stars). Her long career included roles in D.W. Griffiths Intolerance (1916) through to Warren Beatty's Reds (1981). I have no idea what picture featured her in the costume you see here, but obviously she was game for anything. She was married to Howard Hawks brother, William Hawks. Bessie died in 1986 in London.



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Madge Evans

Madge Evans

Born 1909 (d.1981), Madge appeared in 96 films from 1916 to 1956. She was featured in print ads as the "Fairy Soap girl" as an infant. Working for MGM for in the 1930s, she appeared in Dinner at Eight (1933) and David Copperfield (1935) and impersonated the sweet young woman in many movies. Her husband Sidney Kingsley, a playwright, is best known for his plays, later turned into popular films Dead End and Detective Story. She was also photographed by the famous Hollywood photographer Hurrell. In those images she is more sultry than seen here, this image being more the (very pretty) girl next door.


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Evelyn Brent

Evelyn Brent

Born 1899 (d.1975), Evelyn appeared in 123 films from 1915 to 1950 and an episode of Wagon Train in 1960. Born Mary Elizabeth Riggs in Tampa, Florida and known as Betty, she was a child of ten when her mother died, leaving her father to raise her alone. After moving to New York City, as a teenager her good looks brought modeling jobs that led to an opportunity to become involved in the still relatively new business of making motion pictures. Evelyn was a WAMPAS Baby Star for 1923. The WAMPAS Baby Stars was a promotional campaign sponsored by the Western Association of Motion Picture Advertisers in the United States, which honored thirteen young women each year who they believed to be on the threshold of movie stardom. They were selected from 1922 to 1934 and honored at a party called the "WAMPAS Frolic". Those selected were given extensive media coverage. Evelyn played sultry and tough roles throughout her career.




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Madge Bellamy

Madge Bellamy

Born in Texas in 1899 (d.1990), Madge appeared in 60 films from 1920 to 1945. She described herself as atheist, a vegetarian, and a leftist. Madge was specially chosen by Fox as the star of their first-ever talkie, Mother Knows Best (1928) and at the height of her fame she lived in 'The Cedars', a replica of a Spanish castle. Here are three very different looks at Madge.







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Rose Barsony

Rose Barsony

Born in Budapest, Rose, also credited as Rosy Barsony, Rozai Barsony, Rózsi Bársony and Bársony Rózsi, appeared in 14 films from 1932 to 1938 and one more in 1957. Rose was also a soubrette, a soprano role frequently found in comic operas or operettas; the soubrette usually possesses a flirtatious demeanor and street wise manner. In 1937 at Milan (Italy) the operetta "Zizì" with Barsony and her husband was forbidden by fascist authorities because the two artists were Jewish. She died in 1977.


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