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Bessie Love

1898 - 1986

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Bessie Love (born Juanita Horton; September 10, 1898 – April 26, 1986) was an American-British actress who achieved prominence playing innocent, young girls and wholesome leading ladies in silent and early sound films. Her acting career spanned nearly seven decades—from silent film to sound film, including theatre, radio, and television—and her performance in The Broadway Melody (1929) earned her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia. Bessie Love is the 3,507th most popular actor (down from 3,288th in 2024), the 5,796th most popular biography from United States (down from 4,937th in 2019) and the 1,652nd most popular American Actor.

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, Bessie Love ranks 3,507 out of 13,578. Before her are Barry Fitzgerald, Vincent Gallo, Jennifer Esposito, Vanessa Hudgens, Viktor Sukhorukov, and Chris Vance. After her are Yvan Attal, August Diehl, Lupita Tovar, Marsha Mason, Sharmila Tagore, and Belinda Lee.

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Among people born in 1898, Bessie Love ranks 175. Before her are Alfred Schmidt, Armand Hammer, Rudolph Maté, Pyotr Leshchenko, Emmanuel Bove, and Akmal Ikramov. After her are Aksel Airo, Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay, Simon Vestdijk, Arend Heyting, Roald Larsen, and Masuji Ibuse. Among people deceased in 1986, Bessie Love ranks 155. Before her are Tahir Yahya, Panagiotis Kanellopoulos, Mika Antić, Keenan Wynn, Hermione Baddeley, and Peter Pears. After her are Alberto Zorrilla, Marcel Arland, Agustín Sauto Arana, Ludwig Biermann, Gaston Defferre, and Jagjivan Ram.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Bessie Love ranks 5,796 out of 20,380. Before her are Platt Adams (1885), William Daniels (1901), John Bryson (1943), Elizabeth Strout (1956), Benny Urquidez (1952), and Savannah (1970). After her are Mike Conley Sr. (1962), Wallace Clement Sabine (1868), Marsha Mason (1942), Richard C. Sarafian (1930), Vince Gallagher (1899), and Alan Ritchson (1982).

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Among actors born in United States, Bessie Love ranks 1,652. Before her are Betty Buckley (1947), Emmy Rossum (1986), Bruce Glover (1932), Vincent Gallo (1961), Jennifer Esposito (1973), and Vanessa Hudgens (1988). After her are Marsha Mason (1942), Alan Ritchson (1982), Betty Gilpin (1986), Linda Kozlowski (1958), Chris Elliott (1960), and Holt McCallany (1963).

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