Editing Bessie Love (section)

== Legacy ==
===Honors===
[[File:Bessie Love.JPG|thumb|right|Love's star on [[Hollywood Walk of Fame]] at 6777 Hollywood Blvd.]]
For her contributions to the motion picture industry, Love was honored with a star on the [[Hollywood Walk of Fame]] in 1960 at 6777 Hollywood Boulevard.<ref name="walkoffame">[http://www.walkoffame.com/bessie-love Hollywood Walk of Fame]. Retrieved January 19, 2017</ref>

===Cinema===
In [[Damien Chazelle]]'s 2022 film ''[[Babylon (2022 film)|Babylon]]'', fellow Academy Award nominee [[Margot Robbie]] wears overalls with nothing underneath, which pays homage to a famous photo of Love.<ref>{{cite news|title='Babylon': A Guide to the Characters and Their Real-Life Counterparts|last=Kenigsberg|first=Ben|newspaper=New York Times|date=December 28, 2022|page=C6|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/23/movies/babylon-cast-real-life-counterparts.html}}</ref>

===Portraiture===
Portraits of Love are preserved in public and private collections, including those of the [[Smithsonian Institution|Smithsonian]] [[National Portrait Gallery (United States)|National Portrait Gallery]] in [[Washington, D.C.]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://npg.si.edu/object/npg_NPG.93.424|title=Marie Dressler and Bessie Love|website=National Portrait Gallery}}</ref> and the [[National Portrait Gallery, London|National Portrait Gallery]] in [[London]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw50129|title=Bessie Love (née Horton)|website=National Portrait Gallery}}</ref>

Cartoonist [[Alex Gard]] created a caricature of Love for [[Sardi's]], the famed restaurant in Manhattan's [[Theater District, Manhattan|Theater District]].<ref name="archivesnypl" /><ref>{{cite book|chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/sardisstoryoff00sard/page/172|title=Sardi's: The Story of a Famous Restaurant|chapter=Caught Off Guard|page=[https://archive.org/details/sardisstoryoff00sard/page/172 172]|url=https://archive.org/details/sardisstoryoff00sard|url-access=registration|date=1953|lccn=53-5500|oclc=1036888925|first1=Vincent Sr. |last1=Sardi|first2=Richard|last2=Gehman|location=New York|publisher=Henry Holt and Company}}</ref> It is now part of the [[New York Public Library for the Performing Arts#Billy Rose Theatre Division|Billy Rose Theatre Division]] of the [[New York Public Library for the Performing Arts]].<ref name="archivesnypl">{{cite web|url=http://archives.nypl.org/the/21510|website=The New York Public Library|title=Inventory of Sardi's Caricatures}}</ref> A [[Alberto Vargas|Vargas]] illustration of Love as a young woman appeared in ''[[Playboy]]''<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://archive.org/details/playboy-history/Playboy%201978/12%20-%20December%201978/page/176/mode/1up?view=theater|magazine=Playboy|date=December 1978|page=176|title=Viva Vargas!}}</ref> – published in December 1978 when Love was 80 years old.

Despite her demure public image, Love was photographed in the nude by [[James Abbe]]<ref>{{cite news|newspaper=The Guardian|url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2016/oct/18/fops-and-flappers-wild-fashions-1920s-in-pictures|title=Fops and Flappers: Wild Fashions of the 1920s – in Pictures|date=18 Oct 2016}}</ref> and [[Clarence Sinclair Bull]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/bessie-love-vintage-sexy-busty-risque-1832862833|title=Bessie Love vintage sexy busty risque 20s C.S. Bull pre-code topless nude photo!|website=WorthPoint}}</ref> and in sheer fabric by Edwin Bower Hesser,<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://archive.org/details/Shadowland0503Images/page/n45|magazine=Shadowland|title=Bessie Love|date=November 1921|page=46}}</ref> who had also photographed [[Jean Harlow]] in a similar fashion.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/bombshelllifedea0000sten_m8l3/page/32/mode/2up?q=hesser&view=theater|page=32|title=Bombshell: The Life and Death of Jean Harlow|last=Stenn|first=David|date=1993|publisher=Doubleday |isbn=0385421575}}</ref> These images have been shown in exhibitions of these artists' work.

===Interviews and archives===
Love periodically was interviewed by film historians, and was featured in the television documentary series ''[[The Hollywood Greats]]'' (1978)<ref name="greats">{{cite magazine|magazine=[[Radio Times|The Radio Times]]|publisher=BBC|title=''The Hollywood Greats'' (10 August 1978)|issue=2856|page=45|url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/88064672b6bb4030b922de8db3c99d59|date=August 3, 1978}}</ref> and ''[[Hollywood (British TV series)|Hollywood: A Celebration of the American Silent Film]]'' (1980),<ref name="Brownlow">Archived at [https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/dT2u804FwEY Ghostarchive]{{cbignore}} and the [https://web.archive.org/web/20121225164501/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dT2u804FwEY&gl=US&hl=en Wayback Machine]{{cbignore}}: {{cite episode|last1=Brownlow|first1=Kevin|author-link1=Kevin Brownlow|last2=Gill|first2=David|author-link2=David Gill (film historian)|series=Hollywood: A Celebration of the American Silent Film|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dT2u804FwEY |access-date=1 September 2014 |title=The Man with the Megaphone|series-link=Hollywood (1980 TV series)|publisher=Thames Video Production|date=1980|number=10}}{{cbignore}}</ref> both about early filmmaking in Hollywood. She also loaned materials from her personal collection to museums.{{efn|Love contributed to the exhibition ''300 années de cinématographie, 60 ans de cinéma'' at the [[Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris]] in 1955.<ref>{{cite journal|page=242|title=Film Museums I Have Known and (Sometimes) Loved|first=David|last=Robinson|author-link=David Robinson (film critic)|journal=Film History|volume=18|issue=3|date=2006|issn=0892-2160|doi=10.2979/FIL.2006.18.3.237|s2cid=191596293}}</ref>}} In 1962, she began contributing articles about her experiences to ''[[The Christian Science Monitor]]''.<ref>Twenty-one articles were published over eighteen years:
* First article: {{cite magazine|title=An Aryan in Sulphur Canyon|last=Love|first=Bessie|magazine=[[The Christian Science Monitor]]|date=May 9, 1962|page=8}}
* Final article: {{cite magazine|title=The second time around|last=Love|first=Bessie|magazine=The Christian Science Monitor|date=October 20, 1980|page=21}}</ref> In 1977, she published an autobiography entitled ''From Hollywood with Love''.{{sfn|Love|1977}}