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Birth Name: Bessie Harrison
Born: 5 July 1890 Died: 22 January 1965
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Born Bessie Harrison in Santa Barbara in 1890. Her father Edgar Thomas Harrison was a musician. 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. Her first major role as a leading actress was under the direction of Francis Boggs in 'The Sheriff of Tuolomne' starri
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1. A Strange Adventure (1917)
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2. The Heart of Texas Ryan (1917)
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3. The Crisis (1916)
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4. Cheap Kisses (1924)
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5. The Spoilers
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