Everything about Billie Dove totally explained
Billie Dove (born
May 14 1903 - died
December 31 1997) was an American
actress.
Early Life and Career
She was born
Bertha Bohny in
New York City to
Swiss immigrants. As a teen, she worked as a
model to help support her family and was hired at the age of 15 by
Florenz Ziegfeld to appear in his
Ziegfield Follies Revue. She migrated to
Hollywood in the early 1920s and began appearing in films. She soon became one of the most popular actresses of the 1920s. She legally changed her name to
Lillian Bohny in
1923. She was one of the most popular actresses of her time, and reportedly the most beautiful. She was dubbed
The American Beauty which was also the title of one of her films.
She married the director of her seventh film, Irvin Willat, in 1923. The two divorced in 1929. Dove had a huge legion of male fans, one of her most persistent being
Howard Hughes. She shared a three-year romance with Hughes and was engaged to marry him, but she ended the relationship without ever giving cause. Hughes cast her as a comedian in his film
Cock of the Air (1932). She also appeared in his movie
The Age for Love (1931).
Early Retirement
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. She next married oil executive Robert Kenaston in 1933, a marriage that lasted for 37 years. They had two children - one son and one
adopted daughter. She later had a brief third marriage to architect John Miller.
Aside from a brief
cameo in
Diamond Head (1962), Dove never returned to the movies. She spent her retirement years in
Rancho Mirage before moving into the
Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital in
Woodland Hills, California where she died of
pneumonia in 1997, aged 94.
She has a star on the
Hollywood Walk of Fame located at 6351 Hollywood Blvd.
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