Bessie Love Quotes

Bessie Love 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 earned her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress. Wikipedia  

✵ 10. September 1898 – 26. April 1986
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Famous Bessie Love Quotes

“I had a rudimentary knowledge of dancing and had learned a bit of tap at dancing school, but it was mostly a case of picking it up as one went along.”

Bessie Love

On dancing in film, from [Leslie, Wilkinson, What Are They Doing Now? Part 14, Photoplay Film Monthly]

“So many people have said it that it must be true.”

Bessie Love

On not having been made aware of her Academy Award nomination, from [The Actress and the Four-Letter Cliche, The Guardian, London, April 28, 1972, 13, White, Michael]

“The best thing in the world that can happen to anyone is to lose everything. I know. It's happened to me on several occasions.”

Bessie Love

On loss and failure, from [September 7, 1959, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 64, On Broadway, Dorothy, Kilgallen]

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