Bebe Daniels — Blue Book of the Screen (1923) 🇺🇸

Convents seem a long way from the stage, but the two have always gone hand in hand with Bebe Daniels.

When she was not on the stage, she was in a convent; when she was not in a convent, she was on the stage.

Miss Daniels was born in Dallas, Texas, January 14, 1901. Both her father and her mother were associated with the stage and just ten weeks after her birth, Bebe made her debut behind the footlights, as the baby in “Jane.” That was the beginning. After that the greater part of her babyhood was spent on the stage. Her parents moved to Richmond, Virginia, shortly after the engagement with the Jane production. They spent three years in the capital of the Dominion State and then advanced to New York. It was in Manhattan that she really made her stage start. She played there in Shakespearean repertoire when she was four years old. At the age of five, she continued her infantile histrionics by playing child parts with the old Belasco and Morosco stock company.

After a year, her parents moved to Los Angeles. She attended the public schools and a convent school in Santa Monica.

A few of Miss Daniels’ best known successes are: “Why Change Your Wife,” Nice People, “Pink Gods,” “The World’s Applause,” Singed Wings, The Affairs of Anatol and The Glimpses of the Moon.

Miss Daniels is all of four feet four inches, weighs almost 125 pounds, and has black hair and eyes.

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(Above) Bebe Daniels sips tea as she ponders over the script between scenes.

(Left) Miss Daniels arriving at the studio.

Collection: The Blue Book of the Screen (1923)