Bebe Daniels

Bebe Daniels, born Phyllis Daniels ( Dallas (Texas) , January 14th 1901 - London , March 16 1971 ) was an American actress .



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*1 Career  ==[Career  edit ] == Daniels began her film career already in 1906 and had her first starring role in a movie when she was seven years old. When she was fourteen years old, she was in front of Harold Lloyd in a series Lonesome Luke to see movies. The two also had a relationship.
 * 2 Filmography
 * 2.1 Silent films
 * 2.2   Noise Films

Daniels is the second actress in the history of the movie Dorothy Gale played in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz ( 1910 ). At that time she had the stage name Virginia Daniels. Then she was in 1915 adopted by the Hal Roach studio and had roles in slapstick comedies.

In 1919 Daniels wanted to make serious films and was awarded a contract by director Cecil B. DeMille . He gave her roles in the films Male and Female , Why Change Your Wife? and The Affairs of Anatol .

Daniels was in 1920 a contract with Paramount Pictures . She played among others in front of Rudolph Valentino in Monsieur Beaucaire ( 1924 ). She was fired by Paramount in 1928 with the introduction of the sound film . The studio wanted because only actors from the theater for sound films.

Daniels proved that the studio was foolish to dismiss her; her first sound film, Rio Rita ( 1929 ), was a huge success. She even sang in the film. Also Dixiana ( 1930 ) andReaching for the Moon ( 1930 ) were popular films. They married in 1930, with actor Ben Lyon .

But the public was not interested in musicals, so Daniels was fired by her studio. She then got a contract with Warner Brothers . In this studio, she starred in many famous films, including The Maltese Falcon ( 1931 ), Silver Dollar ( 1932 ) and 42nd Street ( 1933 ).

In 1935 she retired in Hollywood and then moved to London . Here she was especially heard in radio shows and had her own sitcom in the 50s and 60s; Life With The Lyons .

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">Daniels died of a stroke in 1971 . ==<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[Filmography  edit <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ===Silent films <span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[  edit <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">A list of silent films in which Daniels appeared, excluding the short films . ===<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);"><span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;">[Sound  Films <span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;">edit <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">]  ===