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Bessie Wharton
actress
- Birth name:
- Bessie Emerick
- Born:
- 1875, Rochester, Indiana, USA
- Died:
- 1939-12-13, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Professions:
- actress
Biography
Rochester, Indiana, greeted the world with Bessie Wharton in 1875, and by 1914 the cameras were already chasing her. Between perilous railways in *The Exploits of Elaine*, shadowy streets in *The City*, and advice-column mysteries in *Beatrice Fairfax*, she stitched her name into the frantic fabric of silent cinema. Off-screen she partnered in life—and in filmmaking—with Leopold Wharton. The final curtain fell on 13 December 1939 in Boston, Massachusetts, but the flicker of her early pictures keeps her forever in motion.
