Acting
Bessie Eyton
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.
Titles
Shotgun Jones
1914
The Crisis
1916
Cheap Kisses
1924
Blackbeard
1911
The Spoilers
1914
Lend Me Your Name
Etienne of the Glad Heart
1914
The Still Alarm
1918
The City of Purple Dreams
1918
In the Long Ago
1913
In the Days of the Thundering Herd
1914
The Usurper
1919
Beware of Strangers
1917
Children of Banishment
1919
A Man of Honor
1919
Who Shall Take My Life?
1917
The Girl of Gold
1925
Chip of the Flying U
1914
Kit Carson's Wooing
1911
The Mate of the Alden Bessie
1912
The Smuggler's Sister
1914
Twisted Trails
1916
The Heart of Texas Ryan
1917
Alone in the Jungle
1913
The Way of a Man with a Maid
1918