Billie Dove – photos and quotes

Billie Dove

“I used to read the reviews of the pictures in which I had played, hoping some kind critic would perhaps discover me. But all they ever said was ‘Billie Dove was satisfactory in’ … or ‘Billie Dove was seen in the role’ … Exasperating, wouldn’t you think?”Billie Dove in 1928.

Source: Los Angeles Times

Photo: 1920s

 

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The Tender Hour 1927

The Tender Hour (1927). With Ben Lyon and Montagu Love.

 

Art Prints

 

With Gilbert Roland.

American Beauty Billie Dove

American Beauty (1927)  Notice the typo?

 

Billie Dove exotic

“I do so want to be something besides a clotheshorse! I do so want to be something more than a charming, bisque figure having its picture taken.”Billie Dove

Source: Helen Louise Walker (1928)
Photo: 1927

 

 

The Stolen Bride Billie Dove

The Stolen Bride (1927), possibly a lost film.

 

 

 

Billie Dove 1927

“The desire for economic independence on the part of women is commendable. It is a step toward equalizing the responsibility of the home and has a natural tendency toward broadening the feminine point of viewpoint. Women, however, must learn to differentiate between independence and domination. If she looks upon man as a companion more than a provider, her attitude toward him will be more pleasing.”Billie Dove (probably her publicist) in 1927.

Photo: Elmer Fryer (1927)

 

Billie Dove

“When you’re up there on that film, you are that person completely all the time. You think the way that person thinks, you do what that person does and you’re not acting. You’re actually living it.”Billie Dove

 

Billie Dove in "The Night Watch" (1929). Bizarre Los Angeles

The Night Watch (1929)

 

The Night Watch (1929).  With Paul Lukas.

 

Billie Dove Acting

“In the old days everything had to be expressed in pantomime. We used our faces and bodies a great deal to do this and often had to exaggerate a great deal in order to make our thoughts register. Today, those thoughts can be expressed with a few words. Consequently, we can’t act. We have to be natural.”Billie Dove

Source: Dan Thomas (1929)

Photo: The Night Watch (1929)

 

Billie Dove

“For example, I used to do a great deal of crying in all of my silent films. It was the only way of expressing sorrow. That was unnatural. I don’t do it in real life and neither does anyone else. And I don’t do it in pictures anymore, either. That same feeling can be expressed merely by the inflection of my voice.”Billie Dove

Source: Dan Thomas (1929)

Photography Prints

 

Art Prints

 

Billie Dove

In 1929, a director once allegedly asked, “Well, Miss Dove, how did you like making a talking picture?”

She flippantly replied, “Very much, indeed. A woman likes to talk, you know.”

 

Billie Dove

“I’m in no hurry. I’m just beginning to really relax and enjoy life. I feel I have youth, I have love, and I’m in no need of money.”Billie Dove in 1930.

 

The Other Tomorrow (1930)

 

The Lady Who Dared 1927

The Lady Who Dared (1931). With Sidney Blackmer.

 

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Charles Starrett and Billie Dove share a passionate moment in the lost 1931 film The Age for Love.

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