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.
Acted in 25
1920s
- 1925
The Girl of Gold
Ada Tremaine
- 1924
Cheap Kisses
Maybelle Wescott
1910s
- 1919
The Usurper
Margaret Quentin
A Man of Honor
Christabel Beaumont
Children of Banishment
Mrs. Eloise Mackenzie
- 1918
The Way of a Man with a Maid
Gladys
The Still Alarm
Eleanor Fordham
The City of Purple Dreams
Kathlyn Otis
- 1917
Who Shall Take My Life?
Mary Moran
The Heart of Texas Ryan
Texas Ryan
Beware of Strangers
Madeleine, Mentor's Daughter
- 1916
The Crisis
Virginia Carvel
Twisted Trails
Sunshine West
- 1914
In the Days of the Thundering Herd
Sally Madison
Chip of the Flying U
Dr. Cecil Grantham
Etienne of the Glad Heart
Marie Le Groux
The Spoilers
Helen Chester
The Smuggler's Sister
Bessie
- 1913
Alone in the Jungle
Helen Brown
In the Long Ago
Starlight
- 1912
The Mate of the Alden Bessie
The Captain's Daughter
- 1911
Blackbeard
Conchita
Kit Carson's Wooing
Lat-to-nick
No release date
Lend Me Your Name
Sophronia
Wrote 1
1910s
- 1914
The Smuggler's Sister
Writer