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A Notorious Affair
1930
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Lillian Bohny (born Bertha Eugenie Bohny; May 14, 1903 – December 31, 1997), known professionally as Billie Dove, was an American actress.
Billie Dove. Actress: The Black Pirate. In her silent heyday, this ravishing and highly photogenic star, known for her voluptuous femininity on the silent screen, rivaled that of Mary Pickford, Marion Davies and Clara Bow in popularity.
Jan 14, 1998 · Billie Dove was one of the greatest stars of the silent days of Hollywood. At the end of the 1920s she was voted, with Clara Bow, as America's most popular actress, and at the box office...
Dec 3, 2020 · The talented and legendary Billie Dove worked through a bout of laryngitis in 1995 to discuss her time in the Ziegfeld follies, as well as her career as a silent actress into early pre-Code...
One of the loveliest actresses of the silent screen, Billie Dove never became a superstar like Greta Garbo or Clara Bow, but her 12-year career, consisting of 36 silent films and 12 talkies, gained her many devoted fans and a place in history as a reliable, charming leading lady.
Jan 6, 1998 · Billie Dove, one of the most beautiful stars of silent films, died on Dec. 31 in the hospital of the Motion Picture and Television Fund in Los Angeles. She was 97 and lived in the...
Dec 31, 1997 · Billie Dove (born Bertha Bohny) was an American star actress of 1920s Silent cinema and of the first few years of the 'talkies' era. She retired from show business in 1932.
Dove, Billie (1900–1997) American actress who was a star of silents and early talkies Born Lillian Bohny (also seen as Bohney) in New York City on May 14, 1900; died on December 31, 1997, at the Motion Picture and Television Fund retirement community in Los Angeles; married Irving Willat (a director), in 1923 (divorced 1929); married Robert ...
Billie Dove was an American actress. She was born as Bertha Bohny in New York City to Charles and Bertha Bohny who were Swiss immigrants. As a teen, she worked as a model to help support her family and was hired at the age of 15 by Florenz Ziegfeld to appear in his Ziegfeld Follies Revue.
Before she passed away in 1997, former actress and dancer Billie Dove believed that she was one of the last surviving Ziegfeld girls. During her heyday in the late '20s, Dove was certainly considered Florenz Ziegfeld's most beautiful girl.
