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Known For
Acting
Birthday
July 19, 1903
Died
October 25, 1981
Place of Birth
Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, USA
Also Known As
- Violet May Rose
- Violet Rose
- Барбара Бедфорд
Barbara Bedford
0.3 Popularity
Biography
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.
Known For
6.0
Visitors Matron
Girls of the Big House
1945
5.0
Ritz Patron (uncredited)
Meet the People
1944
7.5
Telephone Operator (uncredited)
Lost Angel
1943
6.0
Chaperone at Dance
Best Foot Forward
1943
6.1
Ambrose's Wife (uncredited)
Du Barry Was a Lady
1943
6.0
Ben's Mother (uncredited)
Seeing Hands
1943
5.5
Secretary (uncredited)
Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case
1943
6.3
Assistant Boardinghouse Manager
Presenting Lily Mars
1943
5.5
Family Troubles
1943
6.0
Customer (uncredited)
Slightly Dangerous
1943
Credits
Girls of the Big House
as Visitors Matron
1945
6.0
Meet the People
as Ritz Patron (uncredited)
1944
5.0
Lost Angel
as Telephone Operator (uncredited)
1943
7.5
Best Foot Forward
as Chaperone at Dance
1943
6.0
Du Barry Was a Lady
as Ambrose's Wife (uncredited)
1943
6.1
Seeing Hands
as Ben's Mother (uncredited)
1943
6.0
Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case
as Secretary (uncredited)
1943
5.5
Presenting Lily Mars
as Assistant Boardinghouse Manager
1943
6.3
Family Troubles
1943
5.5
Slightly Dangerous
as Customer (uncredited)
1943
6.0
Who's Superstitious?
as Wife
1943
5.0
Reunion in France
as Mme. Vigouroux (uncredited)
1942
6.4
Tortilla Flat
as Nun
1942
5.4
Ship Ahoy
as Mrs. Loring
1942
5.9
The Lady or the Tiger?
as Lady Behind the Door
1942
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Nazi Agent
as Woman (uncredited)
1942
6.6
Born to Sing
as Woman at Accident Scene (uncredited)
1942
5.0
Flag of Mercy
as Nurse
1942
0.0
Inflation
as Woman in Close-Out Sale Montage (uncredited)
1942
5.0
Wedding Worries
as Miss Douglas (uncredited)
1941
6.0
Main Street on the March!
as Nurse (uncredited)
1941
5.6
Come Back, Miss Pipps
as Angry Parent (uncredited)
1941
6.0
Honky Tonk
as Salvation Army Woman
1941
6.4
Whistling in the Dark
as Cult Members / Telephone Operator (uncredited)
1941
5.8
Sucker List
as Secretary (uncredited)
1941
6.3
Love Crazy
as Renny's Secretary (uncredited)
1941
7.1
1-2-3-Go!
as Nurse
1941
6.7
Maisie Was a Lady
as Nurse (Uncredited)
1941
6.8
Go West
as Baby's Mother on Stagecoach (uncredited)
1940
6.5
You, the People
as Rooming House Diner
1940
5.8
American Spoken Here
as Corset Buyer (uncredited)
1940
0.0
Little Nellie Kelly
as Miss Wilson (uncredited)
1940
6.0
Third Finger, Left Hand
as Woman at Railroad Station
1940
6.8
Sky Murder
as Grand's Maid
1940
6.3
Dr. Kildare Goes Home
as Carew's Secretary (uncredited)
1940
6.8
Boom Town
as Nurse (uncredited)
1940
6.9
I Love You Again
as Miss Stingecombe - Larry's Secretary (uncredited)
1940
7.2
Gold Rush Maisie
as Mrs. Hartley (Uncredited)
1940
6.5
We Who Are Young
as Hospital Phone Operator (uncredited)
1940
5.8
A Way in the Wilderness
as Sick Farmer's Wife (uncredited)
1940
0.0
Women in Hiding
as Head Nurse Miss Townsend (uncredited)
1940
7.0
Florian
as Kingston's Secretary
1940
1.0
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Bubbling Troubles
as Alfalfa's Mom (uncredited)
1940
6.5
All About Hash
as Alfalfa's Mother
1940
5.0
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The Domineering Male
as Party Hostess (uncredited)
1940
6.0
Pound Foolish
as Mayor's Secretary
1940
7.0
Alfalfa's Double
as Alfalfa's Mother
1940
6.0
That Inferior Feeling
as Bride (uncredited)
1940
5.4
The Earl of Chicago
as Ramsey's Secretary Martha Jackson (uncredited)
1940
5.6
Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President
as Neighbor
1939
2.0
Dancing Co-Ed
as Secretary (voice) (uncredited)
1939
6.2
Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever
as Miss Howard (uncredited)
1939
5.7
On Borrowed Time
as Mrs. James Northrup (uncredited)
1939
7.5
Stronger Than Desire
as Miss Watson - Flagg's Secretary (uncredited)
1939
5.8
Angel of Mercy
as Wife (uncredited)
1939
6.0
Radio Hams
as Mrs. Crane
1939
6.0
Calling Dr. Kildare
as Dr. Carew's Secretary (uncredited)
1939
6.1
Broadway Serenade
as Gracie (uncredited)
1939
6.2
Sergeant Madden
as Nurse
1939
6.0
Within the Law
as Sarah - Gilder's Secretary
1939
6.0
Tiny Troubles
as Alfalfa's mother
1939
6.0
Idiot's Delight
as Nurse #1
1939
6.1
Four Girls in White
as Nurse Behind Counter
1939
6.3
Burn 'Em Up O'Connor
as Woman in Movie House (uncredited)
1939
5.0
🎬
Alfalfa's Aunt
as Martha Switzer
1939
6.0
🎬
Men in Fright
as Sonny's Mother (uncredited)
1938
5.5
Young Dr. Kildare
as Nurse (uncredited)
1938
6.5
Boys Town
as Nun (uncredited)
1938
6.7
How to Read
as Dental Patient (uncredited)
1938
5.2
Rich Man, Poor Girl
as Kate
1938
5.9
The Chaser
as Brandon's Secretary
1938
6.0
Fast Company
as MacMillen's Secretary (uncredited)
1938
5.4
Woman Against Woman
as Nurse Sherwood
1938
6.5
That Mothers Might Live
as Nun Reading Book (uncredited)
1938
6.1
Miracle Money
as Miss Grant (uncredited)
1938
5.6
The First Hundred Years
as Sadie (uncredited)
1938
6.0
Navy Blue and Gold
as Hospital Nurse (uncredited)
1937
5.9
Big City
as Woman Who Screams (uncredited)
1937
7.4
It May Happen to You
as Nurse (uncredited)
1937
5.3
Song of Revolt
as Peasant Woman (uncredited)
1937
6.0
The Grand Bounce
as Doctor's Secretary (uncredited)
1937
6.5
Born to Dance
as Hector's Secretary (uncredited)
1936
6.1
The Public Pays
as Markovitz's Secretary (uncredited)
1936
7.1
Easy Money
as Mrs. Ada Turner
1936
4.4
The Mine with the Iron Door
as Secretary
1936
0.0
Brilliant Marriage
as Brenda
1936
4.5
Ring Around the Moon
as Carol Anderson
1936
3.0
Three on a Limb
as Addie
1936
5.7
Forced Landing
as Mrs. Margaret Byrd
1935
0.0
Midnight Phantom
as Kathleen Ryan
1935
4.8
3 Kids and a Queen
as Nurse
1935
6.0
Condemned to Live
as Martha Kristan
1935
5.1
The Keeper of the Bees
as Nurse
1935
6.0
On Probation
as Mable Gordon
1935
0.0
Circumstantial Evidence
as Mrs. Goodwin (uncredited)
1935
6.0
Sons of Steel
as Miss Peters
1934
5.0
Tomorrow's Youth
as Miss Booth
1934
0.0
A Girl of the Limberlost
as Elvira Carney
1934
1.0
Found Alive
as Edith Roberts
1933
0.0
The Death Kiss
as Script Girl
1932
5.1
The Lady from Nowhere
as Mollie Carter
1931
0.0
Brothers
as Doris LaRue
1931
0.0
Desert Vengeance
as Anne Dixon
1931
0.0
The Lash
as Lupe
1930
5.3
Tol'able David
as Rose Kinemon
1930
7.0
Sunny
as Margaret Manners
1930
6.5
The Love Trader
as Luane
1930
0.0
Smoke Bellew
as Joy Gastrell
1929
6.0
Fashion News
as Self
1928
5.0
The Haunted House
as Nancy
1928
0.0
The Cavalier
as Lucia D'Arquista
1928
0.0
The Port of Missing Girls
as Ruth King
1928
0.0
The Broken Mask
as Caricia
1928
0.0
A Man's Past
as Yvonne Fontaine
1927
6.0
The Girl from Gay Paree
as Mary Davis
1927
0.0
Mockery
as Countess Tatiana Alexandrova
1927
6.7
Backstage
as Julia Joyce
1927
0.0
The Notorious Lady
as Mary Marlowe / Mary Brownlee
1927
7.0
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Life of an Actress
as Nora Dowen
1927
0.0
Sunshine of Paradise Alley
as Sunshine O'Day
1926
6.0
The Sporting Lover
1926
0.0
Old Loves and New
as Marny
1926
3.0
Tumbleweeds
as Molly Lassiter
1925
5.9
What Fools Men
as Jenny McFarlan
1925
1.0
The Talker
as Barbara Farley
1925
1.0
Percy
as Imogene Chandler
1925
0.0
The Mad Whirl
as Margie Taylor
1925
6.2
Women Who Give
as Emily Swift
1924
0.0
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The Whipping Boss
as Grace Woodward
1924
0.0
The Acquittal
as Edith Craig
1923
0.0
The Spoilers
as Helen Chester
1923
0.0
🎬
The Forbidden Lover
as Maria Almada
1923
0.0
Souls for Sale
as Self - Celebrity Actress in Commissary
1923
6.2
🎬
The Tie That Binds
as Mary Ellen Gray
1923
0.0
Romance Land
as Nan Harvess
1923
0.0
🎬
Another Man's Shoes
as Mercia Solano
1922
0.0
Arabia
as Janice Terhune
1922
0.0
The Power of Love
as Maria Almeda
1922
0.0
Step on It!
as Lorraine Leighton
1922
0.0
The Unfoldment
as Martha Osborne
1922
0.0
Cinderella of the Hills
as Norris Gradley
1921
0.0
The Face of the World
as Thora
1921
0.0
The Big Punch
as Hope Standish
1921
5.0
The Last of the Mohicans
as Cora Munro
1920
6.2
The Cradle of Courage
as Nora
1920
6.3