Famous Film Folk

Two hundred forty-one stars of the silent screen, photographed and profiled in 1925 — Barrymores and Beerys, comedy kings and serial queens, each with the studio portrait that made their face famous.

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Billie Dove

BILLIE DOVE was born in New York City, on May 14th., 1903, and received her education in private schools in that city. When but 14 she won fame as an artist's model and at 16 was prominently cast in the Ziegfeld Follies. When 19 she was headed for screen stardom and arrived in Hollywood to play a featured role in Constance Talmadge's picture "Polly of the Follies." She is an accomplished young woman with highly artistic tastes and can be seen cantering about on a magnificent horse whenever she swimmer and dancer. She has appeared as a featured player in a series of Metro pictures and bids fair one of these days to be starred in her own right. She is a dainty little miss weighing but 120 lbs., while she is 5 feet 3 inches in height and has brown hair and brown eyes.

Billie Dove — from Famous Film Folk (1925)
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