Beverly Bayne

Beverly Bayne ( born November 11, 1894 in Minneapolis, Minnesota; † August 18, 1982 in Scottsdale, Arizona; native Pearl by name) was an American actress of the silent era. She and her husband Francis X. Bushman was a first romantic star couple in film history.

Life

Beverly Baynes family moved to Chicago when the daughter was six years old. At sixteen she imagined out of curiosity at Essanay, where you certified her a camera face and she hired immediately fixed. She began with a weekly wage of $ 35, which rose rapidly to 75 dollars. After a few years Bayne had become popular and earned $ 350 a week.

Her first films were The Rivals and The Loan Shark (both 1912). In her second film, she played a major role. Essanays biggest male star Francis X. Bushman interspersed that Bayne his constant co-star was. The first of its total of twenty-four common films for the company was Pennington 's Choice (1915 ). 1916 left Bayne and Bushman Essanay and worked until 1918 for Metro. Overall, Beverly Bayne and Francis X. Bushman seventy films together have made.

From the romantic on-screen couple, in 1917 played the title roles in a highly successful film version of Romeo and Juliet, a pair of lovers was in real life. They married secretly in 1918, three weeks after Bushmans divorce from his ex-wife. Once perceived as scandalous circumstances of their marriage had become known, the film offers for the pair were scarce; in the six years from 1919 to 1925 Beverly Bayne could turn only nine films.

Bayne and Bushman were divorced in 1924, Beverly Baynes 's last silent film was Passionate Youth (1925 ). She began working as a stage actress and appeared in the 1930s and 1940s on Broadway. 1948 Bayne was seen by a screen break of 23 years in a tiny supporting role in Jules Dassin's The Naked City ( The Naked City). It was her only appearance in a sound film and at the same time her last screen appearance known at all by more than 150 films. The former star was not mentioned by name in the credits of the film.

1950 Beverly Bayne came back completely from acting. A star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame remembers it.