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== Early life == [[File:Bessie Love as a child.jpg|thumb|Horton as a child in Texas]] Love was born Juanita Horton in [[Midland, Texas]],<ref name="photoplay" /> to John Cross Horton and Emma Jane Horton (''{{nee}}'' Savage).{{sfn|Kidd|1986|p=69}} Her father was a cowboy and bartender,<ref name="radiotimes">{{cite magazine|magazine=[[Radio Times]]|date=December 11, 1969|pages=52β55|first=Daniel|last=Yergin|others=Photographed by [[Tony Ray-Jones|Tony Ray Jones]]|title=1915, a schoolgirl named Juanita Horton was about to meet D. W. Griffith in Babylon, Hollywood. He made her one of the great stars of the silent movies}}</ref> while her mother worked in and managed restaurants.<ref name="nostranger">{{cite magazine|title=Love's No Stranger|magazine=[[The Sunday Times Magazine]]|date=September 18, 1977|location=London|first=George|last=Perry}}</ref> She attended school in Midland until she was in the eighth grade,<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.mrt.com/news/article/Midland-s-first-star-burned-7571543.php|title=Midland's first star burned bright in Hollywood sky|date=January 17, 2007|newspaper=[[Midland Reporter-Telegram]]|first=Georgia|last=Temple}}</ref> when her family moved to Arizona, New Mexico, and then to California, where they settled in Hollywood.<ref name="latimes" /><ref name="filmdope33" /> When in Hollywood, her father became a [[chiropractor]],<ref name="radiotimes" /> and her mother worked at the [[Jantzen|Jantzen's Knitwear and Bathing Suits]] factory.<ref>{{cite news|title=My First Film Job|first=Bessie|last=Love|date=July 10, 1962|newspaper=[[The Christian Science Monitor]]|page=8}}</ref>
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