映画やドラマでDrama, Westernを漁ってるなら、Bessie Eytonって名前はわりと何度も目に入るはず。ここではざっくり経歴と代表作、つまみ食いできるフィルモグラフィをまとめたよ。
公式のプロフィールが薄めでも大丈夫。下の「おすすめフィルモグラフィ」を見れば、どこから入るか決めやすい。
Bessie starred in at least 200 melodrama, action westerns and crime films. 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, so he offered her a minor role, she had no formal training on stage, as did many early film actors, she was talented and soon rose to be one of Selig's most popular stars.