659) Bessie Eyton

Bessie Eyton (1890 – 1965). American actress of the silent era. She appeared in some 200 films between 1911 and 1925. From 1910 to 1918, the period when the majority of her films were made, she was under contract to Selig Polyscope Company.

- "Red-haired beauty Bessie Eyton, a newcomer to the Selig organization, played Carrots in Rankin's 49." https://books.google.it/books…

- "Bessie Eyton, the auburn-haired beauty of the motion-picture world..." http://www.welcometosilentmovies.com/…/sweethearts/chap5.htm

- "In the 1910 she was visiting the Selig Film studios with a party of friends, when a director saw and liked her red hair because he said it would photograph a beautiful black..." https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0264286/bio?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm