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Sat 31
Notorious — Bess Flowers
Romantic thriller about a government agent who's trying to get the goods on a gang of suspected Nazis in Brazil. To that end, he enlists the aid of a playgirl, who accepts a marriage proposal from the gang's ringleader to infiltrate the group.
Air Time & Details for Bess Flowers, Sat 31, 5:30 pm -
Sat 31
Love Affair — Bess Flowers
Best Picture nominee about two engaged sophisticates who fall in love on an ocean voyage, and agree to meet atop the Empire State Building six months later to prove that their love affair was more than a shipboard romance. If they still feel the same way about each other, they will bid adieu to their betrotheds and start their affair anew. Director Leo McCarey remade the film in 1957 as "An Affair to Remember."
Air Time & Details for Bess Flowers, Sat 31, 9:00 pm -
Wed 4
I Love Lucy: Lucy's Night in Town — Bess Flowers
Too bad about Lucy's evening at the theatre: her tickets were for the matinee. Ricky sort of saves the day, but he's able to buy only two box seats, so they decide that the women will see the first act and the men the second. It doesn't work out that way, of course, and soon more eyes are focused on the Ricardo-Mertz box than on the stage.
Air Time & Details for Bess Flowers, Wed 4, 12:00 pm -
Fri 6
The Three Stooges: A-Plumbing We Will Go — Bess Flowers
The boys reconnect pipes at a fancy home in "A-Plumbing We Will Go".
Air Time & Details for Bess Flowers, Fri 6, 12:00 am
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Biography
About Bess Flowers
The faces of most movie extras are unmemorable blurs in the public's memory. Not so the elegant, statuesque Bess Flowers, who was crowned by appreciative film buffs as "Queen of the Hollywood Dress Extras." After studying drama (against her father's wishes) at the Carnegie Inst of Technology, Flowers intended to head to New York, but at the last moment opted for Hollywood. She made her first film in 1922, subsequently appearing prominently in such productions as Hollywood (1922) and Chaplin's Woman of Paris (1923).
Too tall for most leading men, Flowers found her true niche as a supporting actress. By the time talkies came around, Flowers was mostly playing bits in features, though her roles were more sizeable in two-reel comedies; she was a special favorite of popular short-subject star Charley Chase. Major directors like Frank Lloyd always found work for Flowers because of her elegant bearing and her luminescent gift for making the people around her look good.
While generally an extra, Flowers enjoyed substantial roles in such films as Frank Capra's It Happened One Night (1934), Gregory La Cava's Private Worlds and Leo McCarey's The Awful Truth (1937). In 1947's Song of the Thin Man, the usually unheralded Flowers was afforded screen billing. Her fans particularly cherish Flowers' bit as a well-wisher in All About Eve (1950), in which she breaks her customary screen silence to utter "I'm so happy for you, Eve." Flowers was married twice, first to Cecil B.
DeMille's legendary "right hand man" Cullen Tate, then to Columbia studio manager William S. Holman. After her retirement, Bess Flowers made one last on-camera appearance in 1974 when she was interviewed by NBC's Tom Snyder.