Editing Bessie Love (section)

== Personal life ==
[[File:Wedding portrait of Bessie Love and William Hawks.jpg|thumb|Wedding portrait of Love and Hawks]]
Love married then-stockbroker [[William Hawks]]<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/howardhawksgreyf0000mcca/page/106/|isbn = 9780802115980|title = Howard Hawks : The grey fox of Hollywood|year = 1997|last1 = McCarthy|first1 = Todd| publisher=Grove Press }}</ref> at St. James' Episcopal Church in [[South Pasadena, California]] on December 27, 1929.{{sfn|Kidd|1986|p=67}}{{sfn|Love|1977|p=125}} [[Blanche Sweet]] was her matron of honor;<ref name="varwed"/> [[Bebe Daniels]], [[Carmel Myers]], [[Norma Shearer]], and Hawks's sister-in-law [[Mary Astor]] were among her bridesmaids; and [[Irving Thalberg]] and Hawks's brother [[Howard Hawks|Howard]] served as ushers. [[Adrian (costume designer)|Adrian]] had designed a wedding dress for Love,<ref>{{cite journal |title=How The Little Ingenue Can Be Smart, Too |journal=Screenland |date=June 1929 |volume=XIX |issue=2 |pages=54–55 |url=https://archive.org/details/screenland19unse/page/n157/mode/2up?view=theater |access-date=March 4, 2022}}</ref> but she instead wore a silk charmeuse gown by [[Howard Greer]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/86952761_bessie-love-wedding-gown-and-photograph|title=Bessie Love Wedding Gown and Photograph|date=17 July 2020|website=Julien's Auctions in CA}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://archive.org/details/modernscreen56unse/page/n859/|magazine=Modern Screen|date=October 1933|author-link=Howard Greer|first=Howard|last=Greer|title=I've Dressed Them All...!|pages=40–42}}</ref> The ceremony was attended by such celebrities as [[Cecil Beaton]], [[Ronald Colman]], [[Cecil B. DeMille]], [[Hedda Hopper]], [[Laura La Plante]], [[Harold Lloyd]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://archive.org/details/newmoviemagazine01weir/page/n277/mode/1up|title=The New Movie Magazine (Dec 1929-May 1930)|date=December 1929|publisher=Tower Magazines}}</ref> [[Anita Loos]], [[Ramon Novarro]], and [[William Powell]],<ref name="beaton">{{cite book|title=Diaries: 1922–1939, The Wandering Years|last=Beaton|first=Cecil|authorlink=Cecil Beaton|publisher=Little, Brown and Company|location=Boston|lccn=62-8059|date=1961|chapter=America 1929–1931}}</ref> and it was mobbed by a crowd of 25,000.<ref name="varwed">{{cite magazine|url=https://archive.org/details/variety97-1930-01/page/n5/|title=L.A.'s Big Show: Marriage of Bessie Love|magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|page=6|date=January 1, 1930|volume=97|issue=12}}</ref> The wedding and reception were documented by the press and by Beaton in his ''Diaries'', where he wrote that Love "looked like a terrified bird" but "radiated love".<ref name="beaton" />

Following their wedding, the couple lived at the Havenhurst Apartments in Hollywood,<ref>{{cite census | url=https://archive.org/details/californiacensus00reel134rs/page/n392| title=Hawks, William B| year=1930| location=Assembly Dist 55, Los Angeles, California| roll=134| page=11A| line=6| enumdist=19-64| access-date=December 29, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite census | url=https://archive.org/details/californiacensus00reel134rs/page/n392| title=Hawks, Bessie L| year=1930| location=Assembly Dist 55, Los Angeles, California| roll=134| page=11A| line=7| enumdist=19-64| access-date=December 29, 2019}}</ref> and their only child, Patricia, was born in 1932.{{efn|The exact birthday of Patricia Hawks is February 19, 1932. She studied dance at the [[Rambert Dance Company|Ballet Rambert]],{{sfn|Kidd|1986|p=67}} had bit parts in films in 1952,<ref>{{cite news|date=September 6, 1951|page=18|newspaper=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette|title=Hollywood|author-link=Sheilah Graham|first=Sheilah|last=Graham}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6b5b3cf6|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171116003415/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6b5b3cf6|url-status=dead|archive-date=November 16, 2017|title=''She's Working Her Way through College'' (1952)|website=BFI}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://archive.org/details/KatyKeene61952/page/n21|title=Stuff About Stars|page=21|issue=6|magazine=Katy Keene|date=June 1952}}</ref> and appeared in a [[West End theatre|West End]] production of ''[[Candide (operetta)#European premieres|Candide]]'' later that decade.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Patricia-Hawks/|title=Patricia Hawks|website=Broadway World}}</ref> She married actor Julian Pepper,{{sfn|Kidd|1986|p=67}} with whom she had two children, Edmund and Hannah.{{sfn|Kidd|1986|p=67}}}}{{sfn|Kidd|1986|p=67}} Four years later, the couple divorced.{{sfn|Kidd|1986|p=67}}

Love moved to England with her daughter in 1935,{{sfn|Love|1977|p=131}} a year before her divorce was final. Her life in England kept her out of the eye of her American fans, which resulted in the American press erroneously reporting her as dead multiple times.<ref>{{cite episode|title=Bessie Love|url=https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/video/tony-bilbow-intvs-actress-star-of-silent-films-bessie-news-footage/BBC_LPR5480F|via=Getty Images|series=Late Night Line-Up|series-link=Late Night Line-Up|date=June 29, 1968|first=Tony|last=Bilbow|author-link=Tony Bilbow|network=BBC}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Strangler Kills Former Actress|newspaper=New York Times|date=July 10, 1947|page=44|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1947/07/10/archives/strangler-kills-former-actress-woman-49-is-choked-to-death-with-a.html}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|date=May 28, 1967|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|title=Los Angeles High Will Mark 95th Birthday|first=Charles E. Jr. |last=Davis|page=A5}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=An Error Corrected|last=Love|first=Bessie|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|date=July 24, 1967|page=A4|quote=Would you be kind enough to print that I am not dead? I have many friends out home and they might be hurt to think I had not let them know.}}</ref> Love became a British subject in the late 1960s.<ref name="dispatch" /> Love was a Christian Scientist.<ref name="nostranger" /><ref name="dispatch" />

=== Later years and death ===
After several years of declining health,<ref name="latimes" /><ref name="nytobit" /> Love died at the [[Mount Vernon Hospital]]<ref name="nytobit">{{cite news|title=Bessie Love, 87, an Actress from Silent-Film to TV Eras|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=28 April 1986|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1986/04/28/obituaries/bessie-love-87-an-actress-from-silent-film-to-tv-eras.html}}</ref><ref name="globit">{{cite news|title=Career of U.S.-Born Actress Went from Silent Films to TV|newspaper=[[The Globe and Mail]]|location=Toronto, Canada|date=29 April 1986|page=D19}}</ref> in [[Northwood, London|Northwood]], London, from natural causes on April 26, 1986.<ref name="latimes" /><ref name="nytobit" /><ref name="globit" />