Bessie Learn

Bessie Learn

Born: August 30, 1888
Died: February 5, 1987
in San Diego, California, USA

Movies for Bessie Learn...

The Lost Battalion
Title: The Lost Battalion
Character: The Girl Next Door
Released: July 2, 1919
Type: Movie
World War I, October 1918. The more than 500 men of the 77th Infantry Division of the United States Army, who have been recruited in New York City and trained in Yaphank, are sent to France, to help break down the German defenses located in the Argonne forest…
bee
The Call of the City
Title: The Call of the City
Character: Bessie Graham
Released: September 18, 1915
Type: Movie
A naive young lady comes to the big city but is unfortunately befriended by a couple who probably are up to no good. However, she is unaware of this and accepts their offer to help. Soon, and completely out of the blue, another crook accosts them--and the two men struggle until one of them is killed.
bee
Across the Great Divide
Title: Across the Great Divide
Character: Mary - the Operator's Sweetheart
Released: September 3, 1915
Type: Movie
Short western melodrama. A cash-strapped operator is working far from his beloved. A criminal and his accomplice trying to force him to cooperate with the cause of a train crash.
bee
Through Turbulent Waters
Title: Through Turbulent Waters
Character: Jane Dinsmore
Released: June 25, 1915
Type: Movie
The west is the stamping ground for Paul Temple and his thespian associates. He is talking with his sweetheart, Jane Dinsmore, as Alice Robinson, Jane's intimate friend, enters with a letter from an erstwhile associate, advising her to go to New York and accept a place in the chorus. A word from Temple, and Alice has made up her mind. She leaves for New York. Temple and Jane have been married some time and are living unhappily, apart from the old folks. The former's reputation as a heavy actor is wide, but drink has degraded him. Subsequently, Jane dies, due to Temple's abuse of her.
bee
McQuade of the Traffic Squad
Title: McQuade of the Traffic Squad
Character: Nora Leary
Released: June 12, 1915
Type: Movie
Policeman Patrick McQuade, of the traffic squad, has a sweetheart. Patrick has a rival in Policeman Flynn, who does not stop at anything to depreciate Patrick in Nora's eyes.
bee
The Lone Game
Title: The Lone Game
Character: Grace Proctor
Released: February 11, 1915
Type: Movie
A brother, a sister, and a friend all battle against the deadly disease of tuberculosis.
bee
The Active Life of Dolly of the Dailies #5: The Chinese Fan
Title: The Active Life of Dolly of the Dailies #5: The Chinese Fan
Character: Muriel Armstrong
Released: January 31, 1914
Type: Movie
An early Thomas Edison short. A young woman is kidnapped while attending a play in Chinatown. A reporter attends another play in Chinatown, is likewise kidnapped and rescues the young woman. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2011 in partnership with the National Film Preservation Foundation New Zealand Project.
bee
The Doctor's Duty
Title: The Doctor's Duty
Released: November 11, 1913
Type: Movie
A socially-minded drama about a doctor who keeps his fiancée waiting at their engagement party, because a sick child needs help.
bee
The Doctor's Duty
Title: The Doctor's Duty
Character: The Nurse
Released: November 11, 1913
Type: Movie
A socially-minded drama about a doctor who keeps his fiancée waiting at their engagement party, because a sick child needs help.
bee
A Short Life and a Merry One
Title: A Short Life and a Merry One
Released: October 6, 1913
Type: Movie
An imp makes a tramp change places with a scarecrow who is permitted to roam about changing other scarecrows into living beings and having merry times with them so long as he keeps the magic wand in his hand.
bee
Bread on the Waters
Title: Bread on the Waters
Character: Mary Wilson
Released: March 25, 1913
Type: Movie
A son, down and out on liquor, finds redemption.
bee
Over the Back Fence
Title: Over the Back Fence
Character: Nell - Matilda's Niece
Released: February 3, 1913
Type: Movie
Harry Beaumont and Bessie Learn are in love, but their respective uncle and aunt, back fence neighbors, feud bitterly with each other and insist the youngsters have nothing to do with each other. The young leads come up with a plan in this pleasant Edison comedy. (IMDb)
bee
John Manley's Awakening
Title: John Manley's Awakening
Character: Ethel - Manley's Protegé
Released: January 1, 1913
Type: Movie
John Manley one day learns to his great sorrow that Caroline Hastings, whom he was going to ask to be his wife, is already betrothed to another.
bee
His Mother's Hope
Title: His Mother's Hope
Character: The Cashier
Released: December 7, 1912
Type: Movie
bee
The Totville Eye
Title: The Totville Eye
Character: Flossie
Released: November 27, 1912
Type: Movie
A printer and his young assistant take over a local newspaper while the editor is away.
bee
When She Was About Sixteen
Title: When She Was About Sixteen
Character: Sue
Released: July 30, 1912
Type: Movie
A romantic comedy about two lovers; the parents of the girl forbid them from being together.
bee
Revenge Is Sweet
Title: Revenge Is Sweet
Character: One of the Office Girls
Released: July 16, 1912
Type: Movie
A short comedy in which the newest employee is teased by the office girls, but he retaliates by putting black polish in a powder-box. Ultimately the girls use the resulting black powder on the young employee himself.