Barbara Bedford
Acting
Born July 19, 1903, Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, USA
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.
Filmography
- 1945Girls of the Big House — Visitors Matron
- 1944Meet the People — Ritz Patron (uncredited)
- 1943Best Foot Forward — Chaperone at Dance
- 1943Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case — Secretary (uncredited)
- 1943Du Barry Was a Lady — Ambrose's Wife (uncredited)
- 1943Family Troubles
- 1943Lost Angel — Telephone Operator (uncredited)
- 1943Presenting Lily Mars — Assistant Boardinghouse Manager
- 1943Seeing Hands — Ben's Mother (uncredited)
- 1943Slightly Dangerous — Customer (uncredited)
- 1943Who's Superstitious? — Wife
- 1942Born to Sing — Woman at Accident Scene (uncredited)
- 1942Flag of Mercy — Nurse
- 1942Inflation — Woman in Close-Out Sale Montage (uncredited)
- 1942Nazi Agent — Woman (uncredited)
- 1942Reunion in France — Mme. Vigouroux (uncredited)
- 1942Ship Ahoy — Mrs. Loring
- 1942The Lady or the Tiger? — Lady Behind the Door
- 1942Tortilla Flat — Nun
- 19411-2-3-Go! — Nurse
- 1941Come Back, Miss Pipps — Angry Parent (uncredited)
- 1941Honky Tonk — Salvation Army Woman (uncredited)
- 1941Love Crazy — Renny's Secretary (uncredited)
- 1941Main Street on the March! — Nurse (uncredited)
- 1941Maisie Was a Lady — Nurse (Uncredited)
- 1941Sucker List — Secretary (uncredited)
- 1941Wedding Worries — Miss Douglas (uncredited)
- 1941Whistling in the Dark — Cult Members / Telephone Operator (uncredited)
- 1940A Way in the Wilderness — Sick Farmer's Wife (uncredited)
- 1940Alfalfa's Double — Alfalfa's Mother
- 1940All About Hash — Alfalfa's Mother
- 1940American Spoken Here — Corset Buyer (uncredited)
- 1940Boom Town — Nurse (uncredited)
- 1940Bubbling Troubles — Alfalfa's Mom (uncredited)
- 1940Dr. Kildare Goes Home — Carew's Secretary (uncredited)
- 1940Florian — Kingston's Secretary
- 1940Go West — Baby's Mother on Stagecoach (uncredited)
- 1940Gold Rush Maisie — Mrs. Hartley (Uncredited)
- 1940I Love You Again — Miss Stingecombe - Larry's Secretary (uncredited)
- 1940Little Nellie Kelly — Miss Wilson (uncredited)
- 1940Pound Foolish — Mayor's Secretary
- 1940Sky Murder — Grand's Maid
- 1940That Inferior Feeling — Bride (uncredited)
- 1940The Domineering Male — Party Hostess (uncredited)
- 1940The Earl of Chicago — Ramsey's Secretary Martha Jackson (uncredited)
- 1940Third Finger, Left Hand — Woman at Railroad Station
- 1940We Who Are Young — Hospital Phone Operator (uncredited)
- 1940Women in Hiding — Head Nurse Miss Townsend (uncredited)
- 1940You, the People — Rooming House Diner
- 1939Alfalfa's Aunt — Martha Switzer
- 1939Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever — Miss Howard (uncredited)
- 1939Angel of Mercy — Wife (uncredited)
- 1939Broadway Serenade — Gracie (uncredited)
- 1939Burn 'Em Up O'Connor — Woman in Movie House (uncredited)
- 1939Calling Dr. Kildare — Dr. Carew's Secretary (uncredited)
- 1939Dancing Co-Ed — Secretary (voice) (uncredited)
- 1939Four Girls in White — Nurse Behind Counter
- 1939Idiot's Delight — Nurse #1
- 1939Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President — Neighbor
- 1939On Borrowed Time — Mrs. James Northrup (uncredited)
- 1939Radio Hams — Mrs. Crane
- 1939Sergeant Madden — Nurse
- 1939Stronger Than Desire — Miss Watson - Flagg's Secretary (uncredited)
- 1939Tiny Troubles — Alfalfa's mother
- 1939Within the Law — Sarah - Gilder's Secretary
- 1938Boys Town — Nun (uncredited)
- 1938Fast Company — MacMillen's Secretary (uncredited)
- 1938How to Read — Dental Patient (uncredited)
- 1938Men in Fright — Sonny's Mother (uncredited)
- 1938Miracle Money — Miss Grant (uncredited)
- 1938Rich Man, Poor Girl — Kate
- 1938That Mothers Might Live — Nun Reading Book (uncredited)
- 1938The Chaser — Brandon's Secretary
- 1938The First Hundred Years — Sadie (uncredited)
- 1938Too Hot to Handle — MacArthur's Secretary (uncredited)
- 1938Woman Against Woman — Nurse Sherwood
- 1938Young Dr. Kildare — Nurse (uncredited)
- 1937Big City — Woman Who Screams (uncredited)
- 1937It May Happen to You — Nurse (uncredited)
- 1937Navy Blue and Gold — Hospital Nurse (uncredited)
- 1937Song of Revolt — Peasant Woman (uncredited)
- 1937The Grand Bounce — Doctor's Secretary (uncredited)
- 1936Born to Dance — Hector's Secretary (uncredited)
- 1936Brilliant Marriage — Brenda
- 1936Easy Money — Mrs. Ada Turner
- 1936Ring Around the Moon — Carol Anderson
- 1936The Mine with the Iron Door — Secretary
- 1936The Public Pays — Markovitz's Secretary (uncredited)
- 1936Three on a Limb — Addie
- 19353 Kids and a Queen — Nurse
- 1935Circumstantial Evidence — Mrs. Goodwin (uncredited)
- 1935Condemned to Live — Martha Kristan
- 1935Forced Landing — Mrs. Margaret Byrd
- 1935Midnight Phantom — Kathleen Ryan
- 1935On Probation — Mable Gordon
- 1935The Keeper of the Bees — Nurse
- 1935The Spanish Cape Mystery — Mrs. Munn
- 1934A Girl of the Limberlost — Elvira Carney
- 1934Sons of Steel — Miss Peters
- 1934Tomorrow's Youth — Miss Booth
- 1933Found Alive — Edith Roberts
- 1932The Death Kiss — Script Girl
- 1931Brothers — Doris LaRue
- 1931Desert Vengeance — Anne Dixon
- 1931The Lady from Nowhere — Mollie Carter
- 1930Sunny — Margaret Manners
- 1930The Lash — Lupe
- 1930The Love Trader — Luane
- 1930Tol'able David — Rose Kinemon
- 1929Smoke Bellew — Joy Gastrell
- 1928Bitter Sweets — Bett Kingston
- 1928Marry the Girl — Elinor
- 1928The Broken Mask — Caricia
- 1928The Cavalier — Lucia D'Arquista
- 1928The Haunted House — Nancy
- 1928The Port of Missing Girls — Ruth King
- 1927A Man's Past — Yvonne Fontaine
- 1927Backstage — Julia Joyce
- 1927Life of an Actress — Nora Dowen
- 1927Mockery — Countess Tatiana Alexandrova
- 1927The Girl from Gay Paree — Mary Davis
- 1927The Notorious Lady — Mary Marlowe / Mary Brownlee
- 1926Devil’s Dice
- 1926Old Loves and New — Marny
- 1926Sunshine of Paradise Alley — Sunshine O'Day
- 1926The Sporting Lover
- 1925Champion of Lost Causes — Beatrice Charles
- 1925Percy — Imogene Chandler
- 1925The Mad Whirl — Margie Taylor
- 1925The Talker — Barbara Farley
- 1925Tumbleweeds — Molly Lassiter
- 1925What Fools Men — Jenny McFarlan
- 1924Pagan Passions — Shirley Dangerfield
- 1924The Whipping Boss — Grace Woodward
- 1924Women Who Give — Emily Swift
- 1923Romance Land — Nan Harvess
- 1923The Acquittal — Edith Craig
- 1923The Forbidden Lover — Maria Almada
- 1923The Spoilers — Helen Chester
- 1923The Tie That Binds — Mary Ellen Gray
- 1922Alias Julius Caesar — Helen
- 1922Another Man's Shoes — Mercia Solano
- 1922Arabia — Janice Terhune
- 1922Arabian Love — Nadine Fortier
- 1922Man Under Cover — Margaret Langdon
- 1922Out of the Silent North — Marcette Vallois
- 1922Step on It! — Lorraine Leighton
- 1922The Power of Love — Maria Almeda
- 1922The Unfoldment — Martha Osborne
- 1921Cinderella of the Hills — Norris Gradley
- 1921The Big Punch — Hope Standish
- 1921The Face of the World — Thora
- 1920Deep Waters — Betty West
- 1920The Cradle of Courage — Nora
- 1920The Last of the Mohicans — Cora Munro
- The Miracle of Salt Lake — Pioneer Woman (Uncredited)
Appearances as themselves (3)
- MGM Parade — Self
- 1928Fashion News — Self
- 1923Souls for Sale — Self - Celebrity Actress in Commissary