
Acting · 74 years old
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.

The Spoilers
Helen Chester

Blackbeard
Conchita

Alone in the Jungle
Helen Brown

The Crisis
Virginia Carvel

Twisted Trails
Sunshine West

The Mate of the Alden Bessie
The Captain's Daughter

The Heart of Texas Ryan
Texas Ryan

Who Shall Take My Life?
Mary Moran

Kit Carson's Wooing
Lat-to-nick

Chip of the Flying U
Dr. Cecil Grantham

Etienne of the Glad Heart
Marie Le Groux

The Smuggler's Sister
Bessie

Cheap Kisses
Maybelle Wescott

Shotgun Jones
Sally Lattier - the Daughter

The Girl of Gold
Ada Tremaine

In the Long Ago
Starlight

In the Days of the Thundering Herd
Sally Madison

Beware of Strangers
Madeleine, Mentor's Daughter

The Way of a Man with a Maid
Gladys

The Usurper
Margaret Quentin