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