Bessie Love: Silent Film Heartbreaker

This sweet little heartbreaker scandalously wearing bib overalls and not much else is Bessie Love. This photo was taken over 100 years ago, in 1917… Except for the sepia tone, it looks like it could have been taken last week, but I can assure you it is not A.I. as I have been seeing this photo since the 1970s. Bessie was a silent film actress who specialized in sweet and innocent young and wholesome ingenue roles, even though zowwiee you should see some of her modeling photos that I dare not post because they would still not be Facebook friendly today. Eight years after this photo was taken she starred in THE LOST WORLD (1925) which with its stop-motion model animated dinosaurs was a precursor to KING KONG (1933) and even the modern JURASSIC PARK movie franchise… read more >

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