Bessie Eyton
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.
Filmography
The Spoilers
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The Red Blood of Courage
Twisted Trails
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Greater Wealth
In the Long Ago
The Girl of Gold
Etienne of the Glad Heart
Shotgun Jones
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The Two Natures Within Him
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The Wilderness Mail
In the Days of the Thundering Herd
Cheap Kisses
Who Shall Take My Life?
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His Fighting Blood
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Kid Pink and the Maharajah
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The White Mouse
The Way of a Man with a Maid
The Crisis
Chip of the Flying U
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The Great Experiment
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The Fork in the Road
Alone in the Jungle
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Lassoing a Lion
The Heart of Texas Ryan
Beware of Strangers
Kit Carson's Wooing
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The Law North of 65
The City of Purple Dreams
Blackbeard
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In Defiance of the Law