Bessie Eyton
Acting Born: 1890-07-05 Santa Barbara, California, USA
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.
Movies
The Spoilers
Twisted Trails
Greater Wealth
Cheap Kisses
The Crisis
The Still Alarm
Kit Carson's Wooing
In Defiance of the Law
The Girl of Gold
The Way of a Man with a Maid
Chip of the Flying U
In the Days of the Thundering Herd
In the Long Ago
His Fighting Blood
The City of Purple Dreams
The Mate of the Alden Bessie
Beware of Strangers
The Fork in the Road
Kid Pink and the Maharajah
The Red Blood of Courage