List of the best Bessie Love movies: The Matinee Idol(1928), Chasing Rainbows(1930), The Broadway Melody(1929), Conspiracy(1930), Rubber Tires(1927), Soul-Fire(1925), Intolerance(1916), They Learned About Women(1930), Sons of the Sea(1941), The Good Bad Man(1916), Isadora(1968), The Story of Esther Costello(1957) ... ...
Comedy, Drama
USA
1928
66 Minutes
Bessie Love Johnny Walker Ernest Hilliard Lionel Belmore David Mir Sidney D'Albrook
broadway star aspiring actress father producer manager charming amusing emotional small town broadway theater new york city backstage unlikely romance deception secret identity humiliation fame acting love discovery
A Broadway matinee idol famous for his black-face portrayals anonymously joins an amateur acting troupe and falls in love with the leading lady.
Musical, Comedy
USA
1930
100 Minutes
Bessie Love Charles King Jack Benny George K. Arthur Polly Moran Gwen Lee Nita Martan Eddie Phillips Marie Dressler Youcca Troubetzkoy
singer partner manager vaudevillian performer wife endearing engaging amusing stage backstage vaudeville show dressing room relationships performance heartbreak show business marriage friendship love
The road-show troupe of a top Broadway show go cross-country while taking the audience along on the on-stage scenes as well as what happens and is happening back stage of the production. ... See full summary »
Musical
USA
1929
110 Minutes
Hank Mahoney
Bessie Love Anita Page Charles King Jed Prouty Kenneth Thomson Edward Dillon Mary Doran J. Emmett Beck Marshall Ruth Drew Demorest
dancer sister theatrical producer lover lighthearted melodramatic rousing new york city broadway theater vaudeville show business love triangle sister relationship love temptation rise 1920s
A pair of sisters from the vaudeville circuit try to make it big time on Broadway, but matters of the heart complicate the attempt.
Mystery & Thriller
1930
69 Minutes
Margaret Holt
Bessie Love Ned Sparks Hugh Trevor Rita La Roy Ivan Lebedeff Gertrude Howard Otto Matieson Walter Long Donald MacKenzie
A woman (Bessie Love) is united with her reporter boyfriend (Hugh Trevor) after proving herself innocent of murder.
Comedy
USA
1927
70 Minutes
Mary Ellen Stack
The Stack family of New York City has fallen on difficult financial times. Pa Stack squandered the family's money by buying a home in Newhall, California, hoping that there would be oil on the land.
Drama
USA
1925
88 Minutes
Richard Barthelmess Bessie Love Percy Ames Charles Esdale Effie Shannon Lee Baker Gus Weinberg Carlotta Monterey Ann Brody Helen Ware Rita Rossi
student parent sailor englishwoman russian princess composer mushy endearing paris south sea dance hall port said, egypt relationships travel songwriting poverty love journey love discovery
Eric Fane is a composer unwilling to compromise his dream for a steady job back home in the United States.
Drama
USA
1916
178 Minutes
The Bride of Cana (Judean Story)
Lillian Gish Robert Harron Bessie Love Mae Marsh Howard Gaye Margery Wilson Eugene Pallette Lillian Langdon Fred Turner Sam De Grasse Olga Grey
prince queen jesus mary magdalene worker wife fascinating profound california france judea babylon betrayal pacifism religion murder fall quest wretched excess 1910s
The story of a poor young woman, separated by prejudice from her husband and baby, is interwoven with tales of intolerance from throughout history.
Musical
USA
1930
81 Minutes
Mary Collins
Jack Conway Joseph T. Schenck Gus Van Bessie Love Mary Doran J.C. Nugent Benny Rubin Tom Dugan Eddie Gribbon Francis X. Bushman Jr.
baseball player vaudevillian best friend gold digger baseball manager fiancée madcap hilarious playful baseball field stage clubhouse marrying for money loyalty baseball vaudeville friendship the big game temptation love
When Jack and Jerry are not playing professional baseball with the Blue Sox, they are packing them in on the Vaudeville circuit. Jack is engaged to Mary, but a gold digger named Daisy has ... See full summary »
Drama, History
1941
108 Minutes
Begonia Baggot
The MacIver brothers (Michael Redgrave, Griffith Jones) build the first ship to cross the Atlantic by steam power alone.
Western
USA
1916
50 Minutes
Amy
Douglas Fairbanks Sam De Grasse Pomeroy Cannon Joseph Singleton Bessie Love Mary Alden George Andre Beranger Fred Burns
An outlaw calling himself Passin' Through halts his "evil" ways long enough to help out some children in difficulty.
Biography
UK|France
1968
153 Minutes
Mrs. Duncan
Vanessa Redgrave James Fox Jason Robards Ivan Tchenko John Fraser Bessie Love Cynthia Harris Vladimir Leskovar Tony Vogel
dancer heir lover poet son daughter emotional spirited sultry london england stage france nice, france modern dance performance fame romance rebellion isadora duncan
A biography of the 1920s dancer Isadora Duncan, who forever changed people's ideas of ballet. Her nude, semi-nude, and pro-Soviet dance projects as well as her attitude and lifestyle shocked the public of her time.
Drama
UK
1957
103 Minutes
Matron in Art Gallery
Joan Crawford Rossano Brazzi Heather Sears Lee Patterson Fay Compton Bessie Love Ron Randell
orphan socialite priest disabled person husband intense emotional powerful melodramatic ireland boston accident disability charity scams rape rescue sacrifice discovery 1950s
Eighteen-year-old Esther has been deaf and blind since the accident which killed her mother. Wealthy Margaret Landi, a native of Esther's village in Ireland, is talked into helping to ... See full summary »
Gay & Lesbian, Drama
UK
1971
110 Minutes
Operator
Glenda Jackson Peter Finch Murray Head Peggy Ashcroft Tony Britton Maurice Denham Bessie Love Jon Finch
artist businesswoman doctor husband wife friend moving passionate apartment england family home love triangle relationships bisexuality divorce love transformation 1970s
The emotional intricacies of a polyamorous relationship between young artist Bob and his two lovers: a lonely male doctor and a frustrated female office worker.
Drama
USA|UK|Canada
1981
195 Minutes
Mrs. Partlow
Warren Beatty Diane Keaton Jack Nicholson Maureen Stapleton Edward Herrmann Jerzy Kosinski Paul Sorvino Nicolas Coster Ian Wolfe Bessie Love MacIntyre Dixon
communist journalist activist playwright politician fascinating intricate moving russia chicago greenwich village portland, ore. communism world war i love revolution discovery fall 1910s
A radical American journalist becomes involved with the Communist revolution in Russia, and hopes to bring its spirit and idealism to the United States.
Drama
UK
1961
104 Minutes
Vivien Leigh Warren Beatty Lotte Lenya Coral Browne Jill St. John Jeremy Spenser Stella Bonheur Josephine Brown Peter Dyneley Carl Jaffe Harold Kasket
actress husband gigolo countess friend sultry bleak rome apartment stroke failing career aging travel grief affair temptation fall 1960s
An aging actress travels to Rome with her husband; after he suddenly dies during the flight, she begins a passionate affair with a young gigolo.
Crime, Drama
UK
1966
100 Minutes
Senta Berger Stephen Boyd Yul Brynner Bob Cunningham Gilda Dahlberg Angie Dickinson Georges Geret Hugh Griffith Jack Hawkins Rita Hayworth Trevor Howard
Three thugs--Tom, Dick and Harry (a woman)--break into the penthouse apartment of an adulterous couple and proceed to terrorize them, but as it turns out, things aren't exactly what they seem to be.