Bessie Love — 12 Movie DVD Collection

Silent Classics & Early Talkies — Collector Edition

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Rediscover the remarkable career of Bessie Love, one of the most appealing and versatile actresses to emerge from Hollywood’s silent era. Beginning her screen career in the 1910s, Love moved effortlessly from Westerns and adventure pictures to romance, comedy, drama, and eventually talking pictures.

This special 12-Movie Bessie Love Collection brings together films spanning more than fifteen years of her career, including appearances alongside Douglas Fairbanks, Wallace Beery, Richard Barthelmess, William Boyd, and Adolphe Menjou. Highlights include the landmark fantasy adventure The Lost World, D. W. Griffith’s monumental Intolerance, the bizarre Douglas Fairbanks comedy The Mystery of the Leaping Fish, and two of Love’s early sound-era performances.

THE 12-MOVIE COLLECTION

1. A Sister of Six (1916)

One of Bessie Love’s earliest starring vehicles. After a young woman and her six younger siblings are left orphaned, the family must protect their inheritance from those determined to take it from them.

2. The Mystery of the Leaping Fish (1916)

Douglas Fairbanks • Bessie Love • Alma Rubens

One of the strangest comedies of the silent era. Douglas Fairbanks plays eccentric detective Coke Ennyday in this outrageous Sherlock Holmes parody involving smugglers, secret investigations, and some remarkably bizarre comedy.

3. The Good Bad Man (1916)

Douglas Fairbanks • Bessie Love

A lively early Western starring Douglas Fairbanks as a good-hearted outlaw whose adventures eventually lead him toward the truth about his own past.

4. Intolerance (1916)

Directed by D. W. Griffith

One of the great spectacles of early motion-picture history. Four stories from different periods of civilization are interwoven into an enormous cinematic examination of intolerance, persecution, love, and human suffering.

5. The Sea Lion (1921)

Hobart Bosworth • Bessie Love • Emory Johnson

A rugged maritime drama filled with danger, romance, and conflict on the sea. Bessie Love stars opposite veteran screen favorite Hobart Bosworth.

6. Dynamite Smith (1924)

Charles Ray • Bessie Love • Wallace Beery

A hard-edged silent drama featuring an impressive cast headed by Charles Ray, Bessie Love, and Wallace Beery.

7. Soul-Fire (1925)

Richard Barthelmess • Bessie Love

A romantic drama about a young composer who abandons the conventional life planned for him and travels abroad searching for artistic inspiration and personal fulfillment.

8. The Lost World (1925)

Bessie Love • Wallace Beery • Lewis Stone • Lloyd Hughes

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s legendary adventure comes to life as an expedition journeys to a remote plateau where prehistoric creatures still roam. Willis O’Brien’s pioneering stop-motion effects helped make The Lost World one of the most important fantasy films of the silent era. Bessie Love stars as Paula White.

9. The King on Main Street (1925)

Adolphe Menjou • Bessie Love

A visiting European monarch escapes the formalities surrounding him and discovers ordinary American life—and unexpected romance—during a visit to the United States.

10. Dress Parade (1927)

William Boyd • Bessie Love

Romance, military tradition, rivalry, and life at West Point combine in this silent drama directed by Donald Crisp and starring William Boyd and Bessie Love.

11. Conspiracy (1930)

Bessie Love • Ned Sparks

Bessie Love enters the early sound era in this pre-Code mystery melodrama. A brother and sister set out to expose the criminal organization responsible for their father’s death, placing themselves directly in the path of a dangerous drug ring.

12. Morals for Women (1931)

Bessie Love • Conway Tearle

A fascinating early-talkie and pre-Code drama starring Bessie Love as a young woman confronting romance, morality, and the realities of life in the modern city.

ABOUT BESSIE LOVE

Bessie Love enjoyed one of the more remarkable careers of early Hollywood. Beginning in silent pictures during the 1910s, she appeared in Westerns, comedies, romances, dramas, and major productions before successfully making the difficult transition to sound.

Her career eventually stretched far beyond the silent era, but these twelve films capture an especially fascinating period in which both Bessie Love and the motion-picture industry itself were rapidly evolving.

PREMIUM COLLECTOR DVD EDITION

This collection is prepared for classic-film enthusiasts and collectors who enjoy discovering important, unusual, and rarely encountered films from Hollywood’s early decades.

Collection Includes:

• 12 Bessie Love films

• Multiple-disc DVD collection

• Silent films with musical accompaniment where available

• Original English intertitles where applicable

• Early sound films included

• Interactive DVD menus

• Printed collector case artwork

• Collector insert

• All Region playback

• Black & White / tinted material where present in surviving sources

Please note: Because these films survive from vintage archival sources, picture and sound quality can vary from title to title. Film wear, scratches, contrast changes, missing footage, replacement intertitles, and other characteristics of surviving prints may occasionally be present.

PUBLIC DOMAIN STATEMENT

This collection is offered from public-domain film material. No ownership is claimed over the original motion pictures, characters, studio trademarks, or underlying copyrighted elements that may remain protected. The DVD compilation, menu structure, packaging, and original presentation materials are independently prepared for this collector edition.

SHIPPING

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CUSTOM CLASSIC FILM COLLECTIONS

Looking for another classic actor, actress, director, genre, or vintage television collection? Custom collection requests are welcome.

A wonderful addition for collectors of silent cinema, pre-Code Hollywood, early talking pictures, Douglas Fairbanks, Wallace Beery, and forgotten stars of the Golden Age.