page_title: Bessie Love
section_title: Personal life
hierarchical_section_title: Bessie Love / Personal life
caption_attribution_description: English: Wedding portrait of Bessie Love and William Hawks, married on December 27, 1929
context_page_description: Bessie Love was an American-British actress who achieved prominence playing innocent, young girls and wholesome leading ladies in silent and early sound films. Her acting career spanned eight decades—from silent film to sound film, including theatre, radio, and television—and her performance in The Broadway Melody earned her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress.
context_section_description: Love married agent William Hawks at St. James' Episcopal Church in South Pasadena, California on December 27, 1929. Mary Astor (Hawks's sister-in-law), Carmel Myers, and Norma Shearer were among her bridesmaids, with Irving Thalberg and Hawks's brother Howard serving as ushers. Following their wedding, the couple lived at the Havenhurst Apartments in Hollywood, and their only child, Patricia, was born in 1932. Four years later, the couple divorced.
  Love moved to England with her daughter in 1935, a year before her divorce was final. Her life in England kept her out of the eye of her American fans, which resulted in the American press erroneously reporting her as dead multiple times. Love became a British subject in the late 1960s.
  Love was a Christian Scientist.
caption: Wedding portrait of Love and Hawks
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