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Billie Dove
American silent film actress; aviator

Billie Dove

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American silent film actress; aviator
Gender
Female
Place of birth
New York City, New York, USA
Place of death
Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, USA
Age
94 years
Awards
star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
 
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Biography

Lillian Bohny (born Bertha Eugenie Bohny; May 14, 1903 – December 31, 1997), known professionally as Billie Dove, was an American actress.

Early life and career

Dove was born Bertha Eugenie Bohny in New York City in 1903 to Charles and Bertha (née Kagl) Bohny, both immigrants from Switzerland. She had a younger brother, Charles Reinhardt Bohny (1906-1963). 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).

Dove was also a pilot, poet, and painter.

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 1935, a marriage that lasted for 35 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. Billie Dove later had a brief third marriage, in 1973, to architect John Miller, which ended in divorce.

Last years

Aside from a cameo in Diamond Head (1963), Dove never returned to the movies. She spent her retirement years in Rancho Mirage, then moved to 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.

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.

Filmography

YearTitleRoleNote
1921Get-Rich-Quick WallingfordDorothy WellsLost film
At the Stage DoorMary MathewsLost film
1922Polly of the FolliesAlysia PotterLost film
Trailer survives
Beyond the RainbowMarion TaylorA copy is held at the UCLA Film and Television Archive
Youth to YouthEve AllisonLost film
One Week of LoveBathing Party GuestLost film
Uncredited
1923All the Brothers Were ValiantPriscilla HoltLost film
Madness of YouthNanette BenningLost film
Soft BoiledThe GirlA copy is held at the George Eastman Museum
The Lone Star RangerHelen LongstrethLost film
The Thrill ChaserOlala UssanLost film
1924On TimeHelen HendonLost film
Try and Get ItRhoda PerrinA copy is held at the Library of Congress
Yankee MadnessDoloresLost film
Wanderer of the WastelandRuth VireyLost film
filmed in Technicolor
The RoughneckFelicity ArdenLost film
The Folly of VanityAliceA copy is held at the Czech Film Archive
1925The Air MailAlice RendonAn incomplete copy is held at the Library of Congress
The Light of Western StarsMadeleine HammondLost film
Wild Horse MesaSue Melberne
The Lucky HorseshoeEleanor HuntA copy is preserved at the Museum of Modern Art
The Fighting HeartDoris AndersonLost film
The Ancient HighwayAntoinette St. IvesLost film
1926The Black PiratePrincess IsobelFilmed in Technicolor
The Lone Wolf ReturnsMarcia MayfairA copy is held at the George Eastman Museum
The Marriage ClauseSylvia JordanAn incomplete copy is held at the Library of Congress
Kid BootsEleanore BelmoreA copy is held at the Library of Congress
1927An Affair of the FolliesTamaraLost film
Sensation SeekersLuena "Egypt" Hagen
The Tender HourMarcia Kane
The Stolen BrideSari
The American BeautyMillicent HowardLost film
The Love MartAntoinette FrobelleLost film
1928The Heart of a Follies GirlTeddy O'DayLost film
Yellow LilyJudith PeredyA copy is held at the BFI National Archive
Night WatchYvonne CorlaixA copy is held at the Cineteca Italiana
AdorationElenaA copy is held at the Czech Film Archive
1929CareersHélène Gromaire
The Man and the MomentJoan Winslow
Her Private LifeLady Helen Haden
The Painted AngelMammie HudlerLost film; Vitaphone track survives
1930The Other TomorrowEdith LarrisonLost film
A Notorious AffairPatricia Hanley
Sweethearts and WivesFemme de Chambre
One Night at Susie'sMary Martin
1931The Lady Who DaredMargaret Townsend
The Age for LoveJean HurtLost film
1932Cock of the AirLili de Rosseau
Blondie of the FolliesLottie
1962Diamond HeadHerselfCameo role
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