Editing Bessie Love (section)

==== 1944–83: Working actress ====
Towards the end of the war, Love began acting again, this time primarily in the theater and on BBC radio as a member of their [[Radio Drama Company|Drama Repertory Company]];<ref>{{cite book|title=British Radio Drama, 1922–1956|last=Gielgud|first=Val|author-link=Val Gielgud |location=London|publisher=George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd|page=194|year=1957}}</ref> she also played small roles in British films, often as an American tourist.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HBoEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PT35|magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]|date=November 23, 1946|page=36|title=In Short|volume=58|issue=47}}</ref> Stage work included such productions as ''Love in Idleness'' (1944){{sfn|Love|1977|p=136}} and ''[[Born Yesterday (play)|Born Yesterday]]'' (1947).{{sfn|Love|1977|p=136}}<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.theatrememorabilia.co.uk/london-garrick-theatre-born-yesterday-laurence-olivier-719.html|title=London Garrick Theatre{{spaced ndash}}Born Yesterday{{spaced ndash}}Laurence Olivier|access-date=June 20, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140218231402/http://www.theatrememorabilia.co.uk/london-garrick-theatre-born-yesterday-laurence-olivier-719.html|archive-date=February 18, 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4xkEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PT3|magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]|date=November 30, 1946|page=4|title='Born Yesterday' Hit in Glasgow Opening Before London Deb|volume=58|issue=48}}</ref> She wrote and performed in ''The Homecoming'', a semiautobiographical play, which opened in Perth, Scotland in 1958.<ref>{{cite news|title=Silent Film Star a Playwright|date=April 21, 1958|newspaper=[[Tri-City Herald]]|location=[[Pasco, Washington]]|page=2}}</ref><ref name="glasgowherald">{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=THxAAAAAIBAJ&pg=2325,6363264|newspaper=[[The Herald (Glasgow)|The Glasgow Herald]]|date=April 22, 1958|title=Little Action in New Play|page=3}}</ref> Film work included ''[[The Barefoot Contessa]]'' (1954) with [[Humphrey Bogart]], and [[Ealing Studios]]' ''[[Nowhere to Go (1958 film)|Nowhere to Go]]'' (1958), and ''[[Next to No Time]]'', 1958. She had supporting roles in ''[[The Greengage Summer]]'' (1961) starring [[Kenneth More]], the [[James Bond]] thriller ''[[On Her Majesty's Secret Service (film)|On Her Majesty's Secret Service]]'' (1969), and [[John Schlesinger]]'s ''[[Sunday Bloody Sunday (film)|Sunday Bloody Sunday]]'' (1971). In addition to playing the mother of [[Vanessa Redgrave]]'s titular character in ''[[Isadora (film)|Isadora]]'' (1968), Love also served as dialect coach to the actress.{{sfn|Love|1977|p=140}}

On television, Love appeared in dozens of episodes of British [[television show]]s in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s. In October 1963, she became the subject of ''[[This Is Your Life (British TV series)|This Is Your Life]]'' when host [[Eamonn Andrews]] surprised her at the stage door of ''[[Never Too Late (play)|Never Too Late]]'' after its London opening.<ref name="ppg">{{cite news|newspaper=[[Pittsburgh Post-Gazette]]|date=October 30, 1963|last=Connolly|first=Mike|author-link=Mike Connolly (columnist)|title=In Hollywood|page=6|location=Pittsburgh}}</ref>{{Citation needed|date=September 2021}} Guests included ''[[London Scrapbook]]'' director [[Derrick De Marney]],<ref name="gettylife" /> her ''[[Forget Me Not (1922 film)|Forget Me Not]]'' (1922) co-star [[Gareth Hughes]],<ref>{{cite AV media|title=Gareth Hughes|language=cy|date=2000|oclc=1023435485}}</ref> actor [[Percy Marmont]],<ref name="gettylife" /> her friend and ''[[Those Who Dance (1924 film)|Those Who Dance]]'' (1924) co-star [[Blanche Sweet]],<ref name="gettylife" /> and her daughter Patricia.<ref name="gettylife">{{cite episode|title=Bessie Love|url=https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/video/eamonn-andrews-pres-prog-which-looks-at-the-life-of-news-footage/BBC_LLV5517S|via=Getty Images|series=This Is Your Life|series-link=This Is Your Life (British TV series)|date=October 24, 1963|first=Eamonn|last=Andrews|author-link=Eamonn Andrews|network=BBC}}</ref>

Love appeared in [[John Osborne]]'s play ''West of Suez'' (1971),<ref name="dispatch">{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=zN0bAAAAIBAJ&pg=4609,4766742|newspaper=[[The Dispatch (Lexington)|The Dispatch]]|volume=91|issue=99|location=Lexington, NC|date=August 28, 1972|page=21|first=Zander|last=Hollander |author-link=Zander Hollander |title=Bessie Love—74 Years Young and Still Acting}}</ref><ref name="heilpern">{{cite news| url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2006/apr/29/theatre.biography |work=The Guardian |title=A sense of failure |last=Heilpern |first=John |author-link=John Heilpern |date=April 28, 2006}}</ref> and as "Aunt Pittypat" in a large-scale musical version of ''Gone with the Wind'' (1972)<ref name="scarlett">{{cite news |title=Scarlett Sings, Atlanta Burns |last=Bryden |first=Ronald |work=The New York Times |date=May 21, 1972}}</ref> and as an "American Lady" in ''[[Vampyres (film)|Vampyres]]'' (1974). She also played [[Maud Cunard]] in the TV miniseries ''[[Edward & Mrs. Simpson]]'' in 1978. Her film work continued through the seventies with movies like ''[[The Ritz (film)|The Ritz]]'' (1976), ''[[Sunday Bloody Sunday (film)|Sunday Bloody Sunday]]'' (1971), and ''[[Gulliver's Travels (1977 film)|Gulliver's Travels]]'' (1981), and into the 1980s with roles in ''[[Ragtime (film)|Ragtime]]'' (1981), ''[[Reds (film)|Reds]]'' (1981), ''[[Lady Chatterley's Lover (1981 film)|Lady Chatterley's Lover]]'' (1981), and her final film ''[[The Hunger (1983 film)|The Hunger]]'' (1983).