Bessie Learn
Actor · 1888 – 1987 · San Diego, California, USA
Movies18
MovieDramaThe west is the stamping ground for Paul Temple and his thespian associates. He is talking with his sweetheart, Jane Dinsmore, as Alice Robinson, Jane's intimate friend, enters with a letter from an erstwhile associate, advising her to go to New York and accept a place in the chorus. A word from Temple, and Alice has made up her mind. She leaves for New York. Temple and Jane have been married some time and are living unhappily, apart from the old folks. The former's reputation as a heavy actor is wide, but drink has degraded him. Subsequently, Jane dies, due to Temple's abuse of her.
- Movie5.5
A romantic comedy about two lovers; the parents of the girl forbid them from being together.
When She Was About Sixteen
1912 · 2 votes
Movie6.0DramaWarWorld War I, October 1918. The more than 500 men of the 77th Infantry Division of the United States Army, who have been recruited in New York City and trained in Yaphank, are sent to France, to help break down the German defenses located in the Argonne forest…
The Lost Battalion
1919 · 4 votes
Movie9.0ComedyAn imp makes a tramp change places with a scarecrow who is permitted to roam about changing other scarecrows into living beings and having merry times with them so long as he keeps the magic wand in his hand.
A Short Life and a Merry One
1913 · 1 votes
- Movie9.0ComedyDrama
A son, down and out on liquor, finds redemption.
Bread on the Waters
1913 · 1 votes
MoviePoliceman Patrick McQuade, of the traffic squad, has a sweetheart. Patrick has a rival in Policeman Flynn, who does not stop at anything to depreciate Patrick in Nora's eyes.
Movie6.0ComedyA printer and his young assistant take over a local newspaper while the editor is away.
The Totville Eye
1912 · 1 votes
Movie5.7ComedyA short comedy in which the newest employee is teased by the office girls, but he retaliates by putting black polish in a powder-box. Ultimately the girls use the resulting black powder on the young employee himself.
Revenge Is Sweet
1912 · 3 votes
Movie5.8DramaA brother, a sister, and a friend all battle against the deadly disease of tuberculosis.
The Lone Game
1915 · 4 votes
- Movie6.0Drama
A socially-minded drama about a doctor who keeps his fiancée waiting at their engagement party, because a sick child needs help.
The Doctor's Duty
1913 · 2 votes
MovieDrama
MovieThe story of the romance behind the iconic blue willow china design.
- Movie6.7ComedyRomance
Harry Beaumont and Bessie Learn are in love, but their respective uncle and aunt, back fence neighbors, feud bitterly with each other and insist the youngsters have nothing to do with each other. The young leads come up with a plan in this pleasant Edison comedy.
Over the Back Fence
1913 · 3 votes
- Movie10.0Drama
John Manley one day learns to his great sorrow that Caroline Hastings, whom he was going to ask to be his wife, is already betrothed to another.
John Manley's Awakening
1913 · 1 votes
- Movie7.5
Short western melodrama. A cash-strapped operator is working far from his beloved. A criminal and his accomplice trying to force him to cooperate with the cause of a train crash.
Across the Great Divide
1915 · 2 votes
MovieFor years, William West has been living in a little house owned by the railroad. He has never paid rent. One day, railroad employee. George Lessey is ordered to go collect back rent. When he arrives, he discovers two things: West has no intention of paying any money, and he has a pretty niece staying with him, Bessie Learn.
- Movie5.0Comedy
An early Thomas Edison short. A young woman is kidnapped while attending a play in Chinatown. A reporter attends another play in Chinatown, is likewise kidnapped and rescues the young woman. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2011 in partnership with the National Film Preservation Foundation New Zealand Project.
Movie5.0A naive young lady comes to the big city but is unfortunately befriended by a couple who probably are up to no good. However, she is unaware of this and accepts their offer to help. Soon, and completely out of the blue, another crook accosts them--and the two men struggle until one of them is killed.
The Call of the City
1915 · 2 votes