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Barbara Bedford

BARBARA BEDFORD was born in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, and educated in Chicago, where she graduated from the Lake View High School. She felt the urge to appear on the screen at this time and immediately set out for Hollywood, where she impressed Lambert Hillyer, William S. Hart's director, by her unusual beauty and charm, and despite the fact that she had no stage or screen experience he cast her for a leading role in Hart's "The Cradle of Courage" and the girl's reputation was made overnight. She has a most engaging personality, and is known to be a sincere worker, spending much time in the study of her roles, ere she attempts to depict them on the screen. Miss Bedford is the wife of Alan Roscoe, the actor. She has a daughter born in 1924. She has dark brown hair, deep brown eyes, is 5 feet 4 inches in height, and weighs 130 lbs.