The Mystery of the Leaping Fish is a 1916 American short silent comedy film starring Douglas Fairbanks, Bessie Love, and Alma Rubens. Directed by John Emerson, the story was written by Tod Browning wi
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Inane (Bessie Love) while she is being kept prisoner in the laundry shop run by the opium smugglers (still from the film)
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Bessie Love was an American-British actress who achieved prominence playing innocent, young girls and wholesome leading ladies in silent and early sound films. Her acting career spanned nearly seven d
The Mystery of the Leaping Fish
…The Mystery of the Leaping Fish is a 1916 American short silent comedy film starring Douglas Fairbanks, Bessie Love, and Alma Rubens. Directed by John Emerson, the story was written by Tod Browning with intertitles by Anita Loos. A parody of Sherlock Holmes fiction…
Love in 1918
Horton as a child in Texas
Love as Hulda, the Swedish maid, in The Flying Torpedo (1916), her second onscreen appearance
With Victory Bateman in Human Wreckage (1923)