Billie Dove Net Worth is
$9 Million

Mini Biography

In her silent heyday, this ravishing and highly photogenic star, known on her behalf voluptuous femininity within the silent display, rivaled that of Mary Pickford, Marion Davies and Clara Bow in popularity. She retired after just a few years in to the speaking picture era, nevertheless, and isn’t as well-remembered in the current film circles as these. Billie Dove was created Lillian Bohny on, may 14, 1903 (many resources list 1900), to Swiss parents Charles and Bertha Bohny who emigrated to NEW YORK before she was created. Educated in personal colleges in Manhattan, she had been designated as a significant beauty by her early teenagers. By 15 and 16 she was assisting to support the family members by operating as both a photographer’s and artist’s model. It is stated the renowned poster painter/illustrator Wayne Montgomery Flagg sketched her during this time period. Although she could neither sing nor dance everything well, this amazing beauty was consequently employed by Broadway impresario Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. to surface in his popular Follies. She was ultimately given single entrances in his extravaganzas (one was for the track “A FAIRLY Girl IS SIMILAR TO a Melody”), and in addition appeared as beautiful windows dressing in some of his Follies’ sideshows–the “Midnight Frolics” and “Nine O’Clock Revues”–all between 1918-20. She also offered as a dance substitute in Ziegfeld’s Broadway display “Sally,” which headlined Marilyn Miller, in 1921. A burgeoning affair between Dove and Ziegfeld prompted Ziegfeld’s wife Billie Burke to set up work for the young starlet in Hollywood movies. She produced her feature debut in George M. Cohan’s Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford (1921), predicated on the 1910 Broadway play; the video cameras instantly fell deeply in love with the stunning newcomer. She was instantly placed into a starring part in mere her second picture, the backstage passionate drama In the Stage Door (1921), the storyplot of the chorus woman and her sister (also a chorine) who compete for the affections of the wealthy patron. Following that Billie continued to appear reverse a few of Hollywood’s most well-known leading men–from shiny, dramatic stars such as for example John Gilbert and Warner Baxter to sturdy cowboy idols Tom Blend and Hoot Gibson–and in a number of different styles. Billie also graced several photos helmed by Irvin Willat, whom she wedded in 1923. These included All of the Brothers Had been Valiant (1923) co-starring Lon Chaney; the Zane Gray western Wanderer from the Wasteland (1924); THE ENVIRONMENT Email (1925) with Baxter and Douglas Fairbanks; as well as the Old Highway (1925). Best stardom came even though she was embroiled in the hands from the dashing Fairbanks as the starry-eyed princess who’s rescued from the Dark Pirate (1926) in the vintage silent experience. Billie was the 1st actress to get a color display check via this pirate yarn. Lovingly dubbed “The American Beauty” after showing up in the film from the same name, The American Beauty (1927)–in which she performed a social-climbing head wear check girl–her performing talent was regarded as moderate. Her better photos were those reverse stronger male stars by more powerful directors. Pioneer feminine movie director Lois Weber suit you perfectly and presented the very best in Billie in two of her films–The Relationship Clause (1926) with Francis X. Bushman and Feeling Seekers (1927). Divorced from Willat in 1929, Billie was continue to at the top of her popularity using the advent of sound. The multi-millionaire eccentric and (in those days) budding maker Howard Hughes became an obsessed admirer, which led to an all-consuming three-year affair. Hughes, who attempted to dominate and control her profession, actually proposed towards the star plus they had been briefly involved. She abruptly finished the relationship, nevertheless, when she was struggling to deal with his quirkiness and lengthy, unexplained absences. For Hughes she made an appearance on display in the dramatic THIS for Like (1931) and comedic Dick from the Air (1932). In Blondie from the Follies (1932), the Marion Davies starrer, Dove was dismayed when her third-billed part was “trimmed” and “reshaped” in the urging of Davies’ highly important paramour William Randolph Hearst (who happened to possess Cosmopolitan Productions, which produced the picture). This is to become her last film; she retired from your screen soon thereafter. By 1933 she experienced remarried and centered on having a family group. Wedded to Robert Kenaston, a rancher, essential oil executive and property investor, that they had one child (Robert Alan) and an used child (Gail). The few divorced in 1970 after 37 many years of relationship (he died 3 years later). Another relationship to architect John Miller also finished in divorce. Apart from an unbilled little bit portion of a nurse in the film Diamond Mind (1962) with Charlton Heston, Dove by no means returned towards the display. She was ultimately moved from her Rancho Mirage (California) house to live out the others of her existence at the FILM & Television Nation House and Medical center in Woodland Hillsides. The nonagenarian passed away of pneumonia in 1997.

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Quick Facts

Full Name	Billie Dove
Died	December 31, 1997, Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, United States
Height	1.68 m
Profession	Actor, Aircraft pilot, Poet, Painter
Nationality	American
Spouse	Robert Kenaston, Irvin Willat
Children	Robert Alan Kenaston, Gail Kenaston
Parents	Bertha Kagl Bohny, Charles Bohny
Movies	The Black Pirate, Cock of the Air, Blondie of the Follies, Sensation Seekers, The Love Mart, The Age for Love, One Night at Susie's, The Stolen Bride, A Notorious Affair, Wanderer of the Wasteland, The Air Mail, Wild Horse Mesa, The Lucky Horseshoe, The Man and the Moment, The Fighting Heart, The Lady Who Dared, Sweethearts and Wives, The Other Tomorrow, Beyond the Rainbow, Adoration, American Beauty, Careers, Kid Boots, The Marriage Clause, Yellow Lily, Night Watch, The Painted Angel, All the Brothers Were Valiant, The Ancient Highway, Her Private Life, An Affair of the Follies, The Folly of Vanity, On Time