This is an original vintage c.1929 large format single weight publicity photo of First National Pictures movie star Billie Dove. This photo measures 11” x 14” and has Elmer Fryer’s embossed name stamp in the lower margin. The back of the photo has ink stamps indicating “BILLIE DOVE, First National Star” and “Please Credit ELMER FRYER First National Studios”.
This photo isn’t dated but came with another similar photo of Billie Dove by Elmer Fryer that was dated 1929 and looks to be from that same time period. The photo has modest handling wear and the tip of the upper right hand corner was creased and reattached on verso. There was a short tear on the lower right hand corner which has an old tape repair on the verso. Overall condition is very good for this vintage original. Please see my other listings for another similar photo of Billie Dove. Email any questions. Thanks for looking.
The following is some historical information on Billie Dove from Wikipedia:
Lillian Bohny (born Bertha Bohny, May 14, 1903[1] – December 31, 1997), known professionally as Billie Dove, was an American actress.[2][3]
Early life and career
Dove was born Bertha Bohny in 1903 to Charles and Bertha (née Kagl) Bohny, Swiss immigrants. As a teen, she worked as a model to help support her family and was hired as a teenager by Florenz Ziegfeld to appear in his Ziegfeld Follies Revue. She legally changed her name to Lillian Bohny in the early 1920s and moved to Hollywood, where she began appearing in silent films. She soon became one of the more popular actresses of the 1920s, appearing in Douglas Fairbanks' smash hit Technicolor film The Black Pirate (1926), as Rodeo West in The Painted Angel (1929), and The American Beauty (1927).
She married Irvin Willat, the director of her seventh film, in 1923. The two divorced in 1929. Dove had a legion of male fans, one of her more persistent was Howard Hughes. She had a three-year romance with Hughes and was engaged to marry him, but she ended the relationship.
Hughes cast her as a comedian in his film Cock of the Air (1932). She also appeared in his movie The Age for Love (1931).[4]
Other interests
Dove was also a pilot, poet, and painter.[5]
Early retirement
Following her last film Blondie of the Follies (1932), Dove retired from the screen to be with her family. She married wealthy oil executive Robert Alan Kenaston in 1933, a marriage that lasted for 37 years until his death in 1970. The couple had a son, Robert Alan Kenaston, Jr., who married actress Claire Kelly and died in 1995 from cancer, and an adopted daughter, Gail who briefly married media mogul Merv Adelson.[6] Billie Dove later had a brief third marriage to architect John Miller, which ended in divorce in the 1970s.
Last years/death
Aside from a cameo in Diamond Head (1963), Dove never returned to the movies. She spent her retirement years in Rancho Mirage before moving into the Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital in Woodland Hills, California where she died of pneumonia on New Year's Eve 1997, aged 94.[7]
She is interred in the Freedom Mausoleum at Forest Lawn Glendale.
Legacy
Dove has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame located at 6351 Hollywood Blvd. Jazz singer Billie Holiday took her professional pseudonym from Dove as an admirer of the actress.[8]
Filmography
Year Title Role Note
1921 Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford Dorothy Wells Lost film
At the Stage Door Mary Mathews Lost film
1922 Polly of the Follies Alysia Potter Lost film
Beyond the Rainbow Marion Taylor
Youth to Youth Eve Allison Lost film
One Week of Love Bathing Party Guest Uncredited
1923 All the Brothers Were Valiant Priscilla Holt Incomplete
Madness of Youth Nanette Benning Lost film
Soft Boiled The Girl
The Lone Star Ranger Helen Longstreth Lost film
The Thrill Chaser Olala Ussan Extant
1924 On Time Helen Hendon Lost film
Try and Get It Rhoda Perrin Lost film
Yankee Madness Dolores Lost film
Wanderer of the Wasteland Ruth Virey Lost film
The Roughneck Felicity Arden Lost film
The Folly of Vanity Alice
1925 The Air Mail Alice Rendon
The Light of Western Stars Madeleine Hammond Lost film
Wild Horse Mesa Sue Melberne
The Lucky Horseshoe Eleanor Hunt
The Fighting Heart Doris Anderson Lost film
The Ancient Highway Antoinette St. Ives Lost film
1926 The Black Pirate Princess Isobel
The Lone Wolf Returns Marcia Mayfair
The Marriage Clause Sylvia Jordan Incomplete
Kid Boots Eleanore Belmore
1927 An Affair of the Follies Tamara Lost film
Sensation Seekers Luena "Egypt" Hagen
The Tender Hour Marcia Kane
The Stolen Bride Sari
The American Beauty Millicent Howard Lost film
The Love Mart Antoinette Frobelle Lost film
1928 The Heart of a Follies Girl Teddy O'Day Lost film
Yellow Lily Judith Peredy
Night Watch Yvonne Corlaix
Adoration Elena
1929 Careers Hélène Gromaire
The Man and the Moment Joan Winslow
Her Private Life Lady Helen Haden
The Painted Angel Mammie Hudler Lost film; Vitaphone track survives
1930 The Other Tomorrow Edith Larrison Lost film
A Notorious Affair Patricia Hanley
Sweethearts and Wives Femme de Chambre
One Night at Susie's Mary Martin
1931 The Lady Who Dared Margaret Townsend
The Age for Love Jean Hurt Lost film
1932 Cock of the Air Lili de Rosseau
Blondie of the Follies Lottie
1962 Diamond Head Herself Cameo role
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