Bessie Eyton
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- July 5, 1890, Santa Barbara, California, USA
- Died
- January 22, 1965
- Movies
- 39
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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| 1914 | The Smuggler's Sister | Writer |
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