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	Billie Dove - Silent Star of May, 1997
		Dubbed "the American Beauty" from the title of one of her films, Billie Dove at her peak in the late 1920s ranked with Colleen Moore and Clara Bow as among the most popular actresses in the cinema.
		Billie Dove today is a serene survivor, the last of the movie queens who reached their peak of popularity when sound was only a distant glimmer in a technician's eye.
		For four years, Billie played leads for all of the major studios in Hollywood, proving herself a hard-working, capable actress with an ideal "movie star" name that was immediately recognizable to the public.
	www.csse.monash.edu.au /~pringle/silent/ssotm/May97 (1635 words)

	Billie Dove - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Billie Dove (born May 14, 1900 (although most sources incorrectly ascribed the year 1903; died December 31, 1997) was an American actress.
		Dove had a huge legion of male fans and one of her most persistent was Howard Hughes.
		Following her last film, Blondie of the Follies (1932), Dove retired from the screen to be with her family, although at the time still popular.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Billie_Dove (371 words)

	Mark Juddery - Tributes - Billie Dove
		Billie Dove was one of the great beauties of the silent film era, turning heads in a business with no shortage of pretty faces.
		Dove was publicised as 'The American Beauty' (she even made a film of that name), and was chosen as the leading lady in some of the first Technicolor features - including the spectacular The Black Pirate (1926), possibly the highlight of her career.
		Dove's own marriage clause was presented to her by the millionaire playboy and film producer Howard Hughes.
	www.markjuddery.com /html/tributes/1997_billie_dove.html (784 words)

	© Billie Dove - Silent Movie Star - goldensilents.com
		Billie knew from childhood that she wanted to be an actress and she wasted no time in pursuing her goal.
		Billie's roles were mainly decorative in the early years, but female director Lois Weber gave Billie some choicer roles to play in some of her better scripted films for Universal, and director Alexander Korda provided the same for films with First National.
		Billie was also a talented singer, and the famous Billie Holiday switched her own first name to Billie from Eleanora in deference to her idol.
	www.goldensilents.com /stars/billiedove.html (335 words)

	jetsetmodern.com: Desert Oasis: A Rat Pack Era Classic Revived in Rancho Mirage Kenaston house, Billie Dove
		Billie Dove walked out on Hollywood at the height of her fame, spent three years as Howard Hughes' girlfriend, and was a Palm Springs legend for decades.
		Dove spent much of the 1920's as a star of silent movies (The Black Pirate, a 1926 two-strip Technicolor silent with Douglas Fairbanks, was one of her biggest hits; she photographed superbly in the primitive process).
		Billie made up her mind: if that was how she was going to be treated after eleven years as a star, she wanted no more part of Hollywood.
	www.jetsetmodern.com /issue5/kenaston.htm (1737 words)

	Billie Holiday (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Billie Holiday (1915-1959) was a jazz vocalist with perhaps the most emotional depth of any singer in jazz history.
		In 1932 Billie, who was 17 years old, tried out for a job as a nightclub dancer, and when she was rejected, she spontaneously auditioned for a singing job and was hired.
		By the mid-1940s Billie had been arrested many times for narcotics violations, and after one arrest in 1947, at her own request, was placed for a year and a day in a federal rehabilitation center at Alderson, West Virginia.
	my.execpc.com /86/51/svitale/Holiday.htm (979 words)

	Billie Holiday: The Official Site of Lady Day - Biography
		Billie Holiday was a true artist of her day and rose as a social phenomenon in the 1950s.
		As a young teenager, Holiday served the beginning part of her so-called "apprenticeship" by singing along with records by Bessie Smith or Louis Armstrong in after-hours jazz clubs.
		Although she never underwent any technical training and never even so much as learned how to read music, Holiday quickly became an active participant in what was then one of the most vibrant jazz scenes in the country.
	www.cmgww.com /music/holiday/about/biography.htm (319 words)

	Billie Holiday (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Billie’s parents, Sadie and Clarence Holiday, were both in their early teens when she was born and her father left when she was still a baby.
		Billie sang in numerous clubs and was a singer for the Count Basie Band and later the Artie Shaw Band.
		Billie Holiday is ranked by many as the finest vocalist and stylist that jazz produced in the 1930's.
	www.east-buc.k12.ia.us /98_99/Ess/tiffany.htm (583 words)

	Billie Holiday
		Billie Holiday will always be admired for her ability to communicate the underlying tragedy of life in a song.
		Billie moved with her mother to New York City in the late 1920s and began singing for tips at small Harlem clubs while doing domestic work by day.
		Billie’s first husband, Jimmy Monroe, was speculated to have introduced her to heroin and opium.
	www.tuneresource.com /html/billie_holiday.html (870 words)

	The Life of Billie Holiday (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Billie Holiday was, and remains four decades after her death, the most famous of all jazz singers and a true inspiration to all people, African-
		Billie had an amazing career, and lived a difficult life that was reflected in her songs.
		The final year of Billie's life was, despite all of her drug and alcohol problems, perhaps the best year of her entire career.
	d.whyville.net /smmk/whytimes/article?id=4889 (845 words)

	THE ZIEGFELD GIRL: WHO WAS SHE?
		Her popularity was guaranteed when she appeared in the 1919 Follies as the "living embodiment" of Irving Berlin's song, "A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody." On the basis of her fame in the Follies, she went to Hollywood in 1922 and soon became a star in silent films.
		With the advent of "talkies," rumor had it that Billie's voice was unsuitable to the new medium, but in actuality her voice had a "silky quality" that disproved the rumors.
		Dove's character was changed considerably, making her "more of a heavy." Although she remained in the public eye, she decided to give up her career for marriage to Bob Kenaston.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/live_and_on_stage/91362 (533 words)

	BILLIE DOVE, THE AMERICAN BEAUTY AND CINEMATIC GODDESS
		Dubbed “The American Beauty,” from the title of one of her films, Billie Dove was one of the most popular film stars of the 1920s.
		By now, she was widely acclaimed as “the Dove,” the most beautiful woman in the world, with “legions of male admirers.” As might be expected, she caught the eye of Howard Hughes, who was just starting to produce films.
		Rumors circulated that she did not have the voice for the new medium, but in actuality, “her voice had a silken quality and recorded well.” From 1928 to 1932 she proved her versatility as an actress by playing a variety of roles.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/live_and_on_stage/95968 (486 words)

	kartooner.com » Riddle of Retirement
		She told Riddle that she had heard from various members of the community of his infatuation with Billie Dove, and much to his surprise she mentioned that Billie Dove was a resident of the Motion Picture & Television Fund hospital, less than a 5-mile walk from Riddle’s cottage.
		According to the hospital staff, Dove would ask for her hair and lipstick to be done by the nurses prior to Hal’s visit.
		Billie Dove would sit silently in her wheelchair as Hal would wheel her around the the home carefully listening to her many stories of Hollywood life.
	www.kartooner.com /archives/2005/04/07/riddle-of-retirement (1041 words)

	Billie Dove
		Miss Dove is a striking brunette, five feet three inches in height.
		It was while a member of Marcus Loew's party, which attended the opening of his new theatre in Boston several months ago, that Miss Dove first came to the mention of Mr.
		As a result, when they returned to New York, Miss Dove's pictures were obtained and flashed upon the screen in the private projection room in the Metro home office.
	silentgents.com /BDove.html (245 words)

	Today in History: April 7 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Although she had no formal musical training, she became one of the greatest jazz singers of all time, and her recordings are now regarded as masterpieces.
		The liner notes to Immortal Sessions of Billie Holiday describe her 1939 rendition of Lewis Allan's "Strange Fruit," a composition about lynching, is "…the most anguished and harrowing expression of protest against man's inhumanity to man that has ever been made in the form of vocal jazz."
		Billie Holiday is one of several singers photographed by critic and photographer Carl Van Vechten included in Creative Americans: Portraits by Van Vechten, 1932-1964.
	memory.loc.gov /ammem/today/apr07.html (604 words)

	curlio.com Special: Billie 'Lady Day' Holiday
		She wrote an autobiography before her death, however it is believed that much of the details were exaggerated and that the truth lies beneath.
		At the age of 12, she moved to New York to be with her mother and became a prostitute.
		Billie's music was light and rhythmic and slowly began to catch on to a larger audience.
	www.curlio.com /spc_showarticle.php?id=1021 (508 words)

	The Love Mart (1927) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Caption: "Louisana" [sic, the working title of the film] The baliff and Captain Remy inspect the jewelry they are getting with the slave.
		"Billie Dove -- more beautiful than ever -- as the slave sold on the auction block -- then given the freedom she did not want.
		The most colorful and romantic period of Old Louisiana --with its slave runners, buccaneers and Creole dandies, brought to the screen with all the inspiring genius of George Fitzmaurice.
	home.comcast.net /~silentfilm/lovemart.htm (109 words)

	Portrait of the actress Bilie Dove by Thomas Staedeli
		The actress Billie Dove was born as Lilian Bohny, daughter of a Swiss immigrant, in New York.
		Although Billie Dove took part in successful talkies like "Her Private Life" (29), "The Painted Angel" (29), "A Notorious Affair" (30) and "The Lady Who Dared" (31) beside these failures she decided after the movie "Blondie of the Follies" (32) to finish her impressive career and retired from the film business.
		It remained the memories to a splendid time of the 20's where she ranked together with Colleen Moore, Clara Bow, Mary Pickford, Gloria Swanson and Greta Garbo among the most popular actresses.
	www.cyranos.ch /spdove-e.htm (344 words)

	Billie Dove Biography, Filmography,
		Born May 12, 1900 - Before she passed away at the age of 96, former actress and dancer Billie Dove believed that she was one of the last surviving Ziegfeld girls.
		During her heyday in the late '20s, Dove was certainly considered Florenz Ziegfeld's most beautiful girl.
		At her apex as a star of stage and screen, Dove was hailed the "American Beauty." In 1927, the monike...
	www.starpulse.com /Actresses/Dove,_Billie (124 words)

	Free Term Papers on Billie Holiday
		Billie Holiday is one of if not the most famous of all jazz singers.
		Billies father who was also a musician left the family when Billie was young and went off to play with Fletcher Henderson and others.
		Billie moved to New York at age 12 were she became a prostitute and worked scrubbing floors.
	www.freefortermpapers.com /show_essay/8658.html (186 words)

	Gale - Free Resources - Black History - Biographies - Billie Holiday (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		She was sent to a reformatory at the age of ten and had become a prostitute by the time she was twelve.
		In Baltimore (or perhaps later) she assumed the first name of her favorite movie star, Billie Dove, and the last name of her father, and practiced to be a singer, taking Bessie Smith and Louis Armstrong as models.
		Billie Holiday began singing in New York clubs as a teenager, and by the time she was old enough to drink legally she had established a reputation as a stirring jazz singer.
	www.galegroup.com /free_resources/bhm/bio/holiday_b.htm (1044 words)

	Navarro's Silent Film Guide - Movie Reviews - The Black Pirate
		THE BLACK PIRATE (1926) Douglas Fairbanks, as the Black Pirate, exhorts his fellow buccaneers to hold the captured princess (Billie Dove) for ransom, rather than ravage her in the accustomed manner of sea brigands.
		When she is discovered on board, the lustful pirates hold a lottery to win her "favors;" but the Black Pirate intervenes and exacts their promise to keep her "spotless and unharmed" while they hold her for ransom.
		On the Kino Video DVD of The Black Pirate, there's a special feature narrated by film historian Rudy Behlmer, who tells us that when the Duke and the Princess seal their engagement with a passionate kiss, the lady in the scene is not Billie Dove, but actually Fairbanks' superstar wife Mary Pickford.
	www.billyates.com /navarro/reviews/theblackpirate.shtml (822 words)

	Billie Holiday
		Billie worked with many of the finest sidemen in jazz and her recordings with Lester Young represent the cream of jazz vocal/instrument interplay.
		Hammond, who came from a wealthy and socially prominent family and had powerful connections, declared Billie âthe best jazz singer I had ever heard.â He swiftly organized a recording session with the Benny Goodman Orchestra in November of 1933.
		She remained active with recordings and nightclub dates and also reunited with Lester Young for a television tribute to jazz in 1957 called The Sound of Jazz.
	www.allaboutjazz.com /php/article.php?id=18561 (894 words)

	Pacific Book Auction Galleries Sale 171
		Early in 1929 Howard Hughes met Billie Dove on the Starlight dance floor of the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles.
		from the title of one of her films, Billie Dove was at her peak in the late 20s ranked with Colleen Moore and Clara Bow as among the most popular actresses in the cinema.
		Dove's first marriage in 1923, to film director Irvin Willat, was coming to a close when they first met, as was Hughes' marriage, and he arranged for the two pending divorces to go smoothly by paying off the two parties.
	www.pbagalleries.com /catalogs/curcat171-2.html (5319 words)

	Billie Holiday Biography / Biography of Billie Holiday Main Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Born into out-of-wedlock poverty, she rose to a position of artistic pre-eminence in the world of jazz, but her personal life was one of constant turmoil and struggle.
		(The name "Billie" she later borrowed from one of her favorite movie actresses, Billie Dove.) At the time of Billie's birth, her mother, Sadie Fagan, was 13 years old, and her father, Clarence Holiday (later a jazz guitarist in Fletcher Henderson's band), was 15; they married e
		Each Biography is written by a biographical expert or professional educator and is a complete resource on the individual.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-billie-holiday (244 words)

	billie dove
		Card Text: Billie Dove was born in N.York, May 14 1903 and educated there.
		Billie Dove died Jan 1998 at the age of 96.
		As an artists model her looks warranted the nickname, the Dove, which she adopted as her professional name.
	ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/Franklyn_Roberts/ddove.htm (712 words)

	Say (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Billie Dove was one of the great glamour queens of the silent and early talkie era, but was largely forgotten by the time of her death at 96.
		This was because she had only appeared in one film in the past 65 years, and also because so few of her films remain in circulation.
		In her heyday, Billie Dove (born Lillian Bohny) bore the sobriquet “the American Beauty,” and was so popular that the postal service had to open a special office to handle her fan mail.
	www.goodbyemag.com /jan98/arts.html (1404 words)

	Harper Collins Children's
		Billie Holiday is one of the most famous jazz singers of all time.
		She was born Eleanora Fagan Gough in 1915 in Baltimore, Maryland, but changed her name to Billie after her favorite film star, Billie Dove, and Holiday, which was her father's last name.
		As a child and in the beginning stages of her career, she endured many hardships but made her first recording in 1933 at the age of eighteen.
	www.harperchildrens.com /catalog/author_xml.asp?authorid=14758 (125 words)

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