Jump to content
Main menu
Main menu
move to sidebar
hide
Navigation
Main page
Recent changes
Random page
Help about MediaWiki
Special pages
Niidae Wiki
Search
Search
Appearance
Create account
Log in
Personal tools
Create account
Log in
Pages for logged out editors
learn more
Contributions
Talk
Editing
Bessie Love
(section)
Page
Discussion
English
Read
Edit
View history
Tools
Tools
move to sidebar
hide
Actions
Read
Edit
View history
General
What links here
Related changes
Page information
Appearance
move to sidebar
hide
Warning:
You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you
log in
or
create an account
, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.
Anti-spam check. Do
not
fill this in!
==== 1929β30: Musical comedy star ==== [[File:Bessie Love RHL.jpg|thumb|Love, photographed by [[Ruth Harriet Louise]] to promote ''[[The Broadway Melody]]'' (1929)]] Love toured with a musical revue for sixteen weeks,<ref name="goodafternoon">Archived at [https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/md3ljrggTaY Ghostarchive]{{cbignore}} and the [https://web.archive.org/web/20201205011500/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=md3ljrggTaY&gl=US&hl=en Wayback Machine]{{cbignore}}: {{cite episode |title=Judith Chalmers talks to American-born actress Bessie Love|series=Good Afternoon|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=md3ljrggTaY|location=London |publisher=Thames TV|date=October 17, 1977}}{{cbignore}}</ref> which was so physically demanding that she broke a rib.<ref>{{cite news|title=Parties Here and Parties There|last=Kingsley|first=Grace|author-link=Grace Kingsley |newspaper=Los Angeles Times|location=Los Angeles, Calif|date=7 Apr 1929|page=J5}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|first=Leslie|last=Wilkinson|title=What Are They Doing Now? Part 14: Leslie Wilkinson Meets Bessie Love|magazine=Photoplay Film Monthly|date=March 1972}}</ref> The experience she gained on the [[vaudeville]] stage singing and dancing in three performances a day prepared her for the introduction of [[sound film]]s.<ref name="star">{{cite news|title=Star Remains with Vitaphone|last=Kingsley|first=Grace |work=Los Angeles Times|date=September 12, 1928|page=A10}}</ref> She appeared in the successful sound [[musical film|musical]] [[short film]] ''[[The Swell Head]]'' in early 1928, and was signed to [[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer|MGM]] later that year.<ref name="star" /> In 1929, she appeared in her first feature-length sound film, the musical ''[[The Broadway Melody]]''. Her performance earned her a nomination for the [[Academy Award for Best Actress]], and the success of the film resulted in a five-year contract with MGM and an increase in her weekly salary from {{currency|500}} to $3,000 ({{Inflation|US|3000|1929|r=-3|fmt=eq}})β$1,000 more than her male co-star [[Charles King (musical actor)|Charles King]].<ref>{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/shatteredsilents00walk/|title=The Shattered Silents: How the Talkies Came to Stay|first=Alexander|last=Walker|page=[https://archive.org/details/shatteredsilents00walk/page/139 139]|publisher=William Morrow and Company, Inc.|location=London|year=1979|isbn=0-688-03544-2|chapter='The English accent doesn't mean a thing out here'}}</ref> She appeared in several other early musicals, including 1929's ''[[The Hollywood Revue|The Hollywood Revue of 1929]]'' and 1930's ''[[Chasing Rainbows (1930 film)|Chasing Rainbows]]'', ''[[Good News (1930 film)|Good News]]'', and ''[[They Learned About Women]]''. Her success in these musicals earned her the title "the screen's first musical comedy star."<ref name="dunham">{{cite journal|journal=[[Films in Review]]|date=February 1959|first=Harold|last=Dunham|pages=86β99|volume=10|issue=2|title=Bessie Love: Her Career Began with ''Intolerance'' and Is by No Means Over}}</ref>
Summary:
Please note that all contributions to Niidae Wiki may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here.
You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see
Encyclopedia:Copyrights
for details).
Do not submit copyrighted work without permission!
Cancel
Editing help
(opens in new window)
Search
Search
Editing
Bessie Love
(section)
Add topic