Bessie Eyton

Bessie Eyton

Born: July 5, 1890
Died: January 22, 1965
in Santa Barbara, California, USA
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 for Bessie Eyton...

The Girl of Gold
Title: The Girl of Gold
Character: Ada Tremaine
Released: February 16, 1925
Type: Movie
Lucius Merrimore is the wealthy owner of a mine called "the Gold Girl," and as a result his daughter, Helen, has an endless number of suitors. Needless to say, she gets tired of being courted only for her money, so she attends a party under an assumed name. There she meets Schuyler Livingstone, and they are immediately attracted to each other. What Helen doesn't know is that her father has paid Livingstone to marry her.
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Cheap Kisses
Title: Cheap Kisses
Character: Maybelle Wescott
Released: December 21, 1924
Type: Movie
Refusing to join his family in their new social life when Henry Dillingham suddenly becomes wealthy, Donald Dillingham causes even greater disapproval by marrying chorus girl Ardell Kendall. Learning that famous sculptor Gustaf Borgstrom wishes to use Ardell as model, the Dillinghams suddenly welcome Donald and Ardell to their estate. Donald surrenders to both the jazzy pleasures and the attentions of Maybelle Wescott, but Ardell remains aloof and in order to pay off Maybelle threatens Mr. Dillingham with exposure of his infatuation with a chorus girl.
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Who Shall Take My Life?
Title: Who Shall Take My Life?
Character: Mary Moran
Released: December 1, 1917
Type: Movie
A man is found guilty of murdering a woman by way of circumstantial evidence, and is executed. Afterwards, it is discovered that his supposed victim is not dead at all, but working as a prostitute in a Western city. Scenario was written for the screen by Maibelle Heikes Justice, who was an outspoken opponent of capital punishment.
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The Law North of 65
Title: The Law North of 65
Character: Jeanne
Released: October 6, 1917
Type: Movie
Pierre, away in the Northland, loves Jeanne. His love is returned and they are engaged to be married. Pierre leaves for a trapping expedition, and in the meantime the girl is enamored with the tales told by Niklo, an itinerant trapper, and becomes infatuated with him.
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The Heart of Texas Ryan
Title: The Heart of Texas Ryan
Character: Texas Ryan
Released: February 25, 1917
Type: Movie
To get in the good graces of his rancher boss’s daughter, cowboy Single Shot captures a cattle raider but then gets kidnapped by his gang of thieves.
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Beware of Strangers
Title: Beware of Strangers
Character: Madeleine, Mentor's Daughter
Released: February 10, 1917
Type: Movie
Beware of Strangers is a 1917 American silent drama film directed by Colin Campbell
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The Crisis
Title: The Crisis
Character: Virginia Carvel
Released: December 21, 1916
Type: Movie
Stephen Brice, a young lawyer in Civil War-era St. Louis, falls in love with Virginia Carvel, the daughter of his benefactor. But she is loyal to the South and Brice is committed to Lincoln's cause. In the course of the war, their convictions separate them, and Virginia becomes engaged to her cousin Clarence Colfax, a Confederate officer. Brice becomes an officer under General Sherman, and eventually finds himself faced with the captured Colfax, facing execution for spying. Brice must decide whether or not to intercede in his rival's behalf.
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Twisted Trails
Title: Twisted Trails
Character: Sunshine West
Released: December 11, 1916
Type: Movie
Ranch foreman Tom Snow is being hounded by sheriff Luke Fisher and his deputy, Brad Foster. The pair are really cattle rustlers, and they're trying to pin the blame on Snow. Snow escapes from them and leads them on a death-defying escape over a chasm.
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The Two Natures Within Him
Title: The Two Natures Within Him
Character: Mary Bishop
Released: May 20, 1915
Type: Movie
The Rev. William Morris is the director of a small church near a state penitentiary. He is convinced that a criminal is only a good man gone wrong. Dr. Bishop, a friend of the minister, has made a life-long study of this very subject. The doctor has a daughter whom the minister loves and to whom he is engaged.
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The Great Experiment
Title: The Great Experiment
Character: Ritta
Released: April 19, 1915
Type: Movie
John Morning, rich, without family, dreams of things that might have been. He discovers a poverty-stricken woman who is fatally injured, takes her to her home in the slum district, where she dies, and John Morning assumes charge of the woman's daughter of fourteen, Ritta. He determines to try his "great experiment," and Ritta is unaware of whom her benefactor is.
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The Fork in the Road
Title: The Fork in the Road
Character: Elsa - the Innkeeper's Daughte
Released: March 15, 1915
Type: Movie
In the prophecy of a palm reading hag that he will find his fate through his bravery, Rudolph, the inn-keeper's assistant, obtains encouragement for his fond fancy that he was born to a noble career. Elsa. the pretty daughter of the inn-keeper, refuses to elope with Rudolph, and he seeks his fortune in the great world.
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The Red Blood of Courage
Title: The Red Blood of Courage
Character: Lydia Duane
Released: February 22, 1915
Type: Movie
Professor Duane, an ethnologist, and his assistant, Roscoe Harding, plan a journey into the wilds of Hindustan. Harding is in love with Lydia, the daughter of Professor Duane, and they are engaged to be married. Lieutenant Tavish, a British army officer, is attracted to Lydia and plans to take her away from Harding by fair means or foul.
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The Primitive Way
Title: The Primitive Way
Character: Mildred Manning
Released: January 23, 1915
Type: Movie
Mildred Manning is the spoiled daughter of wealthy parents. She has a host of admirers, but does not permit them to become serious. Jimmie Blake, who frequents the household more than anybody else, is a rattle-brained young chap who fancies that he is in love with Mildred and insists that he wants her to marry him. Mildred jokes him and refuses to take him seriously.
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His Fighting Blood
Title: His Fighting Blood
Character: Hope McTrigger
Released: January 18, 1915
Type: Movie
In the mountains and hills of Kentucky, a feud has raged for many years between the McTriggers and the Sampsons. In vain did the authorities intervene, threaten arrests and endeavor to patch up the mimic war; all these efforts were of no avail.
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Lassoing a Lion
Title: Lassoing a Lion
Released: January 2, 1915
Type: Movie
Simon Valjon is inordinately jealous of his pretty, young wife, Mary, who, however, never gives him cause to doubt her fidelity and affection. The young couple have their home on a South African ranch in a neighborhood infested by wild beasts, particularly lions. Kimball, an artist, seeks their hospitality.
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In the Days of the Thundering Herd
Title: In the Days of the Thundering Herd
Character: Sally Madison
Released: November 30, 1914
Type: Movie
Tom and Sally are the only survivors when their wagon train is attacked by Swift Wing's braves. Starlight aids in their escape and they join a group of hunters. But there is more trouble when the tribe attacks again.
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When the West Was Young
Title: When the West Was Young
Character: Nellie Halton
Released: September 7, 1914
Type: Movie
Ned Halton and his young bride, Nellie, depart from the east in a prairie schooner to seek a home in the western wilds.
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Chip of the Flying U
Title: Chip of the Flying U
Character: Dr. Cecil Grantham
Released: August 29, 1914
Type: Movie
A copy of this Tom Mix western is preserved incomplete in the Library of Congress collection.
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The White Mouse
Title: The White Mouse
Character: Jean Silver
Released: August 24, 1914
Type: Movie
Billy Silver, a young trapper, lives with his wife and little baby up in the region of the snows. Billy is energetic and finds trapping profitable. One morning while he is out examining his traps, the cabin catches fire. In the distance he hears the cries of his wife for help, and hastening to the scene as rapidly as he can
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Etienne of the Glad Heart
Title: Etienne of the Glad Heart
Character: Marie Le Groux
Released: August 3, 1914
Type: Movie
Etienne Cloquet, a young woodsman, is in love with Marie, the pretty daughter of Paul Le Groux, a salmon fisher. Etienne has such a sunny disposition that he has become generally known as "Etienne of the Glad Heart."
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The Wilderness Mail
Title: The Wilderness Mail
Character: Joan, a Young French-Canadian
Released: July 13, 1914
Type: Movie
Jan, the hunter, is in love with Marie, a French-Canadian girl. The same charmer has captivated Otto, the driver of the Wilderness Mail, a vengeful and selfish individual. Mane has a half-sister, Joan, a decided contrast to her, a sweet lovable girl not ordinarily bold or aggressive, but when aroused firm to a finish.
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In Defiance of the Law
Title: In Defiance of the Law
Character: Isobel Deane
Released: June 28, 1914
Type: Movie
Billy McVeigh, a member of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police, runs amuck another person of this service undeserving of its uniform, named Nome. The latter becomes his sworn enemy and is alert for a chance to "get even."
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Shotgun Jones
Title: Shotgun Jones
Character: Sally Lattier - the Daughter
Released: April 27, 1914
Type: Movie
Thomas Lattier is a well-to-do westerner in the cattle business. One fine day he sells a herd of cattle, receiving for it cash payment in bills of large denomination. He proceeds to town alone to deposit it in his bank. Two bad men, Bretall and Hayes, have learned of the deal and trail him with a view to securing the money.
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The Spoilers
Title: The Spoilers
Character: Helen Chester
Released: April 10, 1914
Type: Movie
The Spoilers is a 1914 film directed by Colin Campbell. It is set in Nome, Alaska during the 1898 Gold Rush, with William Farnum as Roy Glennister, Kathlyn Williams as Cherry Malotte, and Tom Santschi as Alex McNamara. The film culminates in a spectacular saloon fistfight between Glennister and McNamara. It was adapted to screen by Lanier Bartlett from the Rex Beach novel of the same name.
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Kid Pink and the Maharajah
Title: Kid Pink and the Maharajah
Released: March 12, 1914
Type: Movie
A serio-comic tale shows wherein the East and the West strangely mingle despite Kipling's declaration that: "Never the twain shall meet."
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The Smuggler's Sister
Title: The Smuggler's Sister
Character: Bessie
Released: March 3, 1914
Type: Movie
A smuggler is protected by his sister, who is loved by a revenue officer.
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Alone in the Jungle
Title: Alone in the Jungle
Character: Helen Brown
Released: June 14, 1913
Type: Movie
The Brown family, which consists of Hon. John Brown, his wife, two sons, Harold and Billy, and a young sister named Helen, has settled on an isolated plantation in the Jungles. Jack Arden, son of another English planter, who comes over frequently to hunt with the boys has fallen in love with Helen. But Papa Brown discourages the lovers, saying that Helen is too young to be married. Jack agrees to wait. Some time afterward the Browns receive a letter from Jack stating that he is coming for another week-end of shooting- with the Brown boys. On his way to the Brown's home, Jack knocks down Concho, an overseer, for being cruel to one of the slaves. His action is approved of by the Browns. In honor of Jack the family starts on a lion hunt, and, after a long trip, they return by the river route. They espy a lioness drinking at the river's edge. She is killed by Jack and taken aboard. That night Jack again asks Mr. Brown for Helen's hand and is again told to wait.
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In the Long Ago
Title: In the Long Ago
Character: Starlight
Released: May 15, 1913
Type: Movie
A picture which illustrates an Indian myth, a poetic love story of the long ago, in which a despised musician is refused the privilege of marrying the belle of the tribe. He proves himself not only strong enough to kill his rival, the tribe's stalwart warrior, in a struggle for the girl, but is able to make a magic flute which can and does restore the girl, now lying dead. In the closing scenes, the picture shows a short glimpse of modern life which suggests that the old myth is being played, in part, again.
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Greater Wealth
Title: Greater Wealth
Character: Mrs. Ed Young
Released: January 1, 1913
Type: Movie
John Sharon, a steel magnate is immensely successful from the worldly point of view, while Ed Young, his humble employee, views himself as a failure because his income shrinks as his family responsibilities increase. Sharon's only son is a drunken disappointment, his wife becomes alienated from him, and his daughter falls critically ill.
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The Mate of the Alden Bessie
Title: The Mate of the Alden Bessie
Character: The Captain's Daughter
Released: January 4, 1912
Type: Movie
The captain of the "Alden Bessie" was a drunken tyrant who manhandled his men upon the slightest provocation, despite the pleadings of his daughter and the first mate who loved her in his rough way, but for whom she could feel only friendship. One night the crew killed him, and marooned the mate and the captain's daughter by sending them adrift in a small boat. Days passed upon the vast expanse of ocean, and their food was all gone and death near, when land was sighted and their boat was cast up on a coral reef, and they with difficulty made the shore. Fear of death was soon supplanted in the heart of the captain's daughter by fear of a man loving her all too well. The mate, seeing this and realizing the strength of his passion, decided to live on the side of the island, but as the months passed away his loneliness overcame him and he made his way to where she sat reading. He looked over her shoulder, and saw that she read the marriage service.
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Kit Carson's Wooing
Title: Kit Carson's Wooing
Character: Lat-to-nick
Released: September 11, 1911
Type: Movie
Kit Carson, scout, hunter, trapper and soldier-of-fortune, has won the enmity of Azakah, the cruel chief of a prowling band of renegade Indians.