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
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Greater Wealth
The Crisis
The Mate of the Alden Bessie
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Kid Pink and the Maharajah
Shotgun Jones
The City of Purple Dreams
Cheap Kisses
Who Shall Take My Life?
The Still Alarm
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When the West Was Young
In the Long Ago
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The Primitive Way
Beware of Strangers
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The Red Blood of Courage
Twisted Trails
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The Wilderness Mail
The Spoilers
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The White Mouse
In the Days of the Thundering Herd
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Lassoing a Lion
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The Two Natures Within Him
Blackbeard
The Girl of Gold
The Smuggler's Sister
The Heart of Texas Ryan
The Way of a Man with a Maid
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The Great Experiment
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His Fighting Blood
Chip of the Flying U
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In Defiance of the Law