Barbara Bedford
Acting
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Barbara Bedford (born Violet May Rose; July 19, 1903 – October 25, 1981) was an American actress who appeared in dozens of silent movies. Her career declined after the introduction of sound, but she continued to appear in small roles until 1945. After high school she set out for Hollywood. She had written many fan letters to actor William S. Hart, and he helped her get a small role in his 1920 movie The Cradle of Courage. While working as an extra that same year on The White Circle, she was noticed by fellow cast member John Gilbert, who recommended her to director Maurice Tourneur. Tourneur cast her alongside Gilbert in Deep Waters. Tourneur also cast her in The Last of the Mohicans, where she was the love interest for Alan Roscoe, whom she later married in real life. In 1925 she appeared opposite Hart in his final film, Tumbleweeds, a key western of the silent period. She starred in the 1926 silent film Old Loves and New and in Mockery with Lon Chaney the following year. When her career declined after the switch to sound, she signed with MGM in 1936 to play bit and extra parts. Her last known film appearance was in 1945.
Born: July 19, 1903
Place of Birth: Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, USA
Known For
Lost Angel
Alpha's been raised along scientific principles, and will make Mike Regan a great human interest story for his paper. But when his interview prompts Alpha to run away from the institute and ask him to show her some magic, Mike gets more responsibility than he bargained for. Especially since another story of his, one involving gangsters, has also come home to roost.
On Borrowed Time
Young Pud is orphaned and left in the care of his aged grandparents. The boy and his grandfather are inseparable. Gramps is concerned for Pud's future and wary of a scheming relative who seeks custody of the child. One day Mr. Brink, an agent of Death, arrives to take Gramps "to the land where the woodbine twineth." Through a bit of trickery, Gramps confines Mr. Brink, and thus Death, to the branches of a large apple tree, giving Gramps extra time to resolve issues about Pud's future.
Big City
Anna and Joe are newly married, playful and deeply in love. Joe is scraping by as cab driver in New York City during a period of corruption, mob control and violence between cab companies.
I Love You Again
Boring businessman Larry Wilson recovers from amnesia and discovers he's really a con man...and loves his soon-to-be-ex wife.
The Public Pays
In this MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short, a protection racket preying on milk distribution is broken through the persistence of law enforcement and the courage of a local businessman.
Tol'able David
Tol'able David is a 1930 sound film directed by John G. Blystone and produced and released by Columbia Pictures. It is a remake of a famous 1921 silent film Tol'able David starring Richard Barthelmess and Ernest Torrence. Young David Kinemon is a good-natured, easy-going lad in a mountain village. Circumstances force him to take his brother's place as mailman for the community, and this brings him into deadly contact with the vicious Hatburn brothers.
Women in Hiding
In this Crime Does Not Pay series short, a young woman wants to save her baby, but is afraid of telling her parents and has no money to pay the hospital costs involved. She falls prey to a baby-for-sale racket with quack doctors performing their services.
Pound Foolish
An expose of attempts by wealthy people to avoid payment of customs duties. Part of the MGM "Crime Does Not Pay" series.
The Notorious Lady
A man kills a man he finds alone with his wife. Although she is innocent of any wrong doing the wife claims to be guilty of having an affair to save her husband from a death sentence. Unfortunately, the husband also believes her guilt and so he runs off to Africa to forget and assumes a new identity.
Boom Town
Two buddies who rise from fly-by-night wildcatters to oil tycoons over a twenty year period both love the same woman. McMasters and Sand come to oil towns to get rich. Betsy comes West intending to marry Sand but marries McMasters instead. Getting rich and losing it all teaches McMasters and Sand the value of personal ties.
Filmography
as Self
as Visitors Matron
as Ritz Patron (uncredited)
as Telephone Operator (uncredited)
as Chaperone at Dance
as Ambrose's Wife (uncredited)
as Ben's Mother (uncredited)
as Secretary (uncredited)
as Assistant Boardinghouse Manager
as Customer (uncredited)
as Wife
as Mme. Vigouroux (uncredited)
as Nun
as Mrs. Loring
as Lady Behind the Door
as Woman (uncredited)
as Woman at Accident Scene (uncredited)
as Nurse
as Woman in Close-Out Sale Montage (uncredited)
as Miss Douglas (uncredited)
as Nurse (uncredited)
as Angry Parent (uncredited)
as Salvation Army Woman (uncredited)
as Cult Members / Telephone Operator (uncredited)
as Secretary (uncredited)
as Renny's Secretary (uncredited)
as Nurse
as Nurse (Uncredited)
as Baby's Mother on Stagecoach (uncredited)
as Rooming House Diner
as Corset Buyer (uncredited)
as Miss Wilson (uncredited)
as Woman at Railroad Station
as Grand's Maid
as Carew's Secretary (uncredited)
as Nurse (uncredited)
as Miss Stingecombe - Larry's Secretary (uncredited)
as Mrs. Hartley (Uncredited)
as Hospital Phone Operator (uncredited)
as Head Nurse Miss Townsend (uncredited)
as Sick Farmer's Wife (uncredited)
as Kingston's Secretary
as Party Hostess (uncredited)
as Alfalfa's Mother
as Mayor's Secretary
as Alfalfa's Mother
as Bride (uncredited)
as Ramsey's Secretary Martha Jackson (uncredited)
as Neighbor
as Secretary (voice) (uncredited)
as Miss Howard (uncredited)
as Mrs. James Northrup (uncredited)
as Miss Watson - Flagg's Secretary (uncredited)
as Wife (uncredited)
as Mrs. Crane
as Dr. Carew's Secretary (uncredited)
as Gracie (uncredited)
as Nurse
as Sarah - Gilder's Secretary
as Alfalfa's mother
as Nurse Behind Counter
as Nurse #1
as Woman in Movie House (uncredited)
as Martha Switzer
as Sonny's Mother (uncredited)
as Nurse (uncredited)
as MacArthur's Secretary (uncredited)
as Nun (uncredited)
as Dental Patient (uncredited)
as Kate
as Brandon's Secretary
as MacMillen's Secretary (uncredited)
as Nurse Sherwood
as Nun Reading Book (uncredited)
as Miss Grant (uncredited)
as Sadie (uncredited)
as Hospital Nurse (uncredited)
as Woman Who Screams (uncredited)
as Nurse (uncredited)
as Peasant Woman (uncredited)
as Doctor's Secretary (uncredited)
as Hector's Secretary (uncredited)
as Markovitz's Secretary (uncredited)
as Mrs. Ada Turner
as Secretary
as Brenda
as Carol Anderson
as Addie
as Mrs. Margaret Byrd
as Kathleen Ryan
as Nurse
as Martha Kristan
as Nurse
as Mable Gordon
as Mrs. Goodwin (uncredited)
as Miss Peters
as Elvira Carney
as Miss Booth
as Edith Roberts
as Script Girl
as Mollie Carter
as Doris LaRue
as Anne Dixon
as Lupe
as Rose Kinemon
as Margaret Manners
as Luane
as Joy Gastrell
as Self
as Nancy
as Lucia D'Arquista
as Ruth King
as Caricia
as Yvonne Fontaine
as Mary Davis
as Countess Tatiana Alexandrova
as Julia Joyce
as Mary Marlowe / Mary Brownlee
as Sunshine O'Day
as Marny
as Molly Lassiter
as Jenny McFarlan
as Barbara Farley
as Imogene Chandler
as Margie Taylor
as Beatrice Charles
as Emily Swift
as Shirley Dangerfield
as Edith Craig
as Helen Chester
as Self - Celebrity Actress in Commissary
as Nan Harvess
as Janice Terhune
as Margaret Langdon
as Maria Almeda
as Helen
as Marcette Vallois
as Lorraine Leighton
as Nadine Fortier
as Martha Osborne
as Norris Gradley
as Thora
as Hope Standish
as Cora Munro
as Nora