Bessie Eyton

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.

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Movies with Bessie Eyton

Beware of Strangers

Feb 10, 1917

Cheap Kisses

Dec 21, 1924

Chip of the Flying U

Aug 29, 1914

The Primitive Way

Jan 23, 1915

The Way of a Man with a Maid

Dec 29, 1918

When the West Was Young

Sep 7, 1914

5.3

The Crisis

Dec 21, 1916

In Defiance of the Law

Jun 28, 1914

The White Mouse

Aug 24, 1914

In the Days of the Thundering Herd

Nov 30, 1914

6.2

The Spoilers

Apr 10, 1914

4.0

The Heart of Texas Ryan

Feb 25, 1917