
Bess Flowers
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Bess Flowers (November 23, 1898 – July 28, 1984) was an American actress. By some counts considered the most prolific actress in the history of Hollywood, she was known as "The Queen of the Hollywood Extras," appearing in over 700 movies in her 41 year career. Born in Sherman, Texas, Flowers's film debut came in 1923, when she appeared in Hollywood. She made three films that year, and then began working extensively. Many of her appearances are uncredited, as she generally played non-speaking roles. By the 1930s, Flowers was in constant demand. Her appearances ranged from Alfred Hitchcock and John Ford thrillers to comedic roles alongside of Charley Chase, the Three Stooges, Leon Errol, Edgar Kennedy, and Laurel and Hardy. She appeared in the following five films which won the Academy Award for Best Picture: It Happened One Night, You Can't Take it with You, All About Eve, The Greatest Show on Earth, and Around the World in Eighty Days. In each of these movies, Flowers was uncredited. Including these five movies, she had appeared in twenty-three Best Picture nominees in total, making her the record holder for most appearances in films nominated for the award. Her last movie was Good Neighbor Sam in 1964. Flowers's acting career was not confined to feature films. She was also seen in many episodic American TV series, such as I Love Lucy, notably in episodes, "Lucy Is Enceinte" (1952), "Ethel's Birthday" (1955), and "Lucy's Night in Town" (1957), where she is usually seen as a theatre patron. Outside her acting career, in 1945, Bess Flowers helped to found the Screen Extras Guild (active: 1946-1992, then merged with SAG), where she served as one of its first vice-presidents and recording secretaries.
- Known ForActing
- Born23 November 1898 (age 127)
- Place of BirthSherman, Texas, USA
Bess Flowers

- Known ForActing
- Born23 November 1898 (age 127)
- Place of BirthSherman, Texas, USA

Laurel & Hardy: Year Two
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Bedtime Story
1964

The Carpetbaggers
1964

Good Neighbor Sam
1964

For Those Who Think Young
1964

The Prize
1963

The Thrill of It All
1963

Move Over, Darling
1963

For Love or Money
1963

Palm Springs Weekend
1963

Who's Minding the Store?
1963

Don't Knock the Twist
1962

Sweet Bird of Youth
1962

Two Weeks in Another Town
1962

Incident in an Alley
1962

The Notorious Landlady
1962

Five Finger Exercise
1962

40 Pounds of Trouble
1962

The Manchurian Candidate
1962

Zotz!
1962

Pocketful of Miracles
1961

Judgment at Nuremberg
1961

Babes in Toyland
1961

Twist Around The Clock
1961

The Absent-Minded Professor
1961

Blue Hawaii
1961

All in a Night's Work
1961

Go Naked in the World
1961

Teenage Millionaire
1961

Parrish
1961

The Honeymoon Machine
1961

Return to Peyton Place
1961

Seven Thieves
1960

The Facts of Life
1960

Please Don't Eat the Daisies
1960

The Lost World
1960

G.I. Blues
1960

Wake Me When It's Over
1960

Home from the Hill
1960

Where the Boys Are
1960

All the Fine Young Cannibals
1960

Song Without End
1960

Because They're Young
1960

North by Northwest
1959

A Private's Affair
1959

The Wild and the Innocent
1959

It Started with a Kiss
1959

Juke Box Rhythm
1959

Beloved Infidel
1959

Blue Denim
1959

Imitation of Life
1959

Vertigo
1958

Houseboat
1958

Teacher's Pet
1958

Twilight for the Gods
1958

Merry Andrew
1958

A Night to Remember
1958

Rally 'Round the Flag, Boys!
1958

Mardi Gras
1958

I Married a Woman
1958

The Buccaneer
1958

The Fly
1958

Too Much, Too Soon
1958

I Married a Monster from Outer Space
1958

Funny Face
1957

Witness for the Prosecution
1957

She Devil
1957

This Could Be the Night
1957

The Helen Morgan Story
1957

My Man Godfrey
1957

Sweet Smell of Success
1957

The Tarnished Angels
1957

Designing Woman
1957

The Buster Keaton Story
1957

Ten Thousand Bedrooms
1957

Forever, Darling
1956

The She-Creature
1956

Accused of Murder
1956

Three Bad Sisters
1956

Meet Me in Las Vegas
1956

Bundle of Joy
1956

Nightfall
1956

Runaway Daughters
1956

Ride The High Iron
1956

Written on the Wind
1956

The Eddy Duchin Story
1956

Around the World in 80 Days
1956

These Wilder Years
1956

Anything Goes
1956

Giant
1956

The Opposite Sex
1956

Serenade
1956

The First Traveling Saleslady
1956
The Bitter Waters
1956

To Catch a Thief
1955

Strategic Air Command
1955

The Looters
1955

Guys and Dolls
1955

The View from Pompey's Head
1955

Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops
1955

Hell's Island
1955

Illegal
1955

Battle Cry
1955

Three for the Show
1955

I'll Cry Tomorrow
1955

The Girl Rush
1955

Chicago Syndicate
1955

Interrupted Melody
1955

Ain't Misbehavin'
1955

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
1955

Dial M for Murder
1954

Rear Window
1954

White Christmas
1954

Dangerous Mission
1954

Désirée
1954

Phffft
1954

A Star Is Born
1954

The Long Wait
1954

The Caine Mutiny
1954

The Human Jungle
1954

Living It Up
1954

The French Line
1954

Casanova's Big Night
1954

The Country Girl
1954

Executive Suite
1954

Scared Stiff
1953

The Robe
1953

The Caddy
1953

Call Me Madam
1953

No Escape
1953

Loose in London
1953

The Bigamist
1953

Tonight We Sing
1953

Tropic Zone
1953

The Story of Three Loves
1953

Forever Female
1953

Latin Lovers
1953

Let's Do It Again
1953

Dangerous Crossing
1953

Torch Song
1953

The Maze
1953

The Band Wagon
1953

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
1953

Angel Face
1953

Above and Beyond
1953

The Jazz Singer
1953

Three Sailors and a Girl
1953

Calamity Jane
1953

Never Wave at a WAC
1953

Cruisin' Down the River
1953

The Clown
1953

Small Town Girl
1953

A Blueprint for Murder
1953

Murder Without Tears
1953

Rainbow 'Round My Shoulder
1952

Stop, You're Killing Me
1952

Sally and Saint Anne
1952

Singin' in the Rain
1952

She's Working Her Way Through College
1952

Bloodhounds of Broadway
1952

Dreamboat
1952

The Bad and the Beautiful
1952

Phone Call from a Stranger
1952

Three for Bedroom C
1952

Sudden Fear
1952

The Greatest Show on Earth
1952

Don't Bother to Knock
1952

Deadline - U.S.A.
1952

Something to Live For
1952

Young Man with Ideas
1952

The Narrow Margin
1952

The Day the Earth Stood Still
1951

The Mating Season
1951

Mr. Belvedere Rings the Bell
1951

Show Boat
1951

Royal Wedding
1951

No Questions Asked
1951

Painting The Clouds With Sunshine
1951

Ghost Chasers
1951

Dear Brat
1951

The Unknown Man
1951

The Law and the Lady
1951

Operation Pacific
1951

Sunny Side of the Street
1951

Lullaby of Broadway
1951

Home Town Story
1951

An American in Paris
1951

On the Riviera
1951

Here Comes the Groom
1951

The Prowler
1951

I Can Get It for You Wholesale
1951

Footlight Varieties
1951

The Great Caruso
1951

Meet Me After the Show
1951

Payment on Demand
1951

A Place in the Sun
1951
The Screen Director
1951

Rich, Young and Pretty
1951

People Will Talk
1951

His Kind of Woman
1951
So You Want to Be a Paper Hanger
1951

Texas Carnival
1951

Edge of Doom
1950

Born to Be Bad
1950

Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town
1950

I Was a Shoplifter
1950

The Great Jewel Robber
1950

Pretty Baby
1950

Let's Dance
1950

To Please a Lady
1950

The Damned Don't Cry
1950

I'll Get By
1950

Last of the Buccaneers
1950

Nancy Goes to Rio
1950

Louisa
1950

Shakedown
1950

All About Eve
1950

No Man of Her Own
1950

Peggy
1950

The Costume Designer
1950

My Blue Heaven
1950

Walk Softly, Stranger
1950

A Life of Her Own
1950

Hot Rod
1950

The Second Woman
1950

Father of the Bride
1950

Champagne for Caesar
1950

Experiment Alcatraz
1950

Mr. Music
1950

In a Lonely Place
1950

The Toast of New Orleans
1950

The File on Thelma Jordon
1949

Neptune's Daughter
1949

Mighty Joe Young
1949

Hideout
1949

Look for the Silver Lining
1949

Slightly French
1949

The Accused
1949

Mary Ryan, Detective
1949

Beyond the Forest
1949

Red, Hot and Blue
1949

You're My Everything
1949

Sky Liner
1949

My Friend Irma
1949

Alias Nick Beal
1949

John Loves Mary
1949

It's a Great Feeling
1949

Disaster
1948

The Velvet Touch
1948

One Touch of Venus
1948

Winter Meeting
1948

To the Ends of the Earth
1948

Trapped by Boston Blackie
1948

The Countess of Monte Cristo
1948

Smart Woman
1948

Wallflower
1948

You Were Meant for Me
1948

Mr. Reckless
1948

An Innocent Affair
1948

Family Honeymoon
1948

The Big Clock
1948

Up in Central Park
1948

Every Girl Should Be Married
1948

Whiplash
1948

Sleep, My Love
1948

Hazard
1948

Parole, Inc.
1948

My Dear Secretary
1948

Arch of Triumph
1948

The Bride Goes Wild
1948

Let's Live a Little
1948

The Noose Hangs High
1948

Romance on the High Seas
1948

Blondie in the Dough
1947

A Double Life
1947

Song of the Thin Man
1947

The Unsuspected
1947

Intrigue
1947

Danger Street
1947

Humoresque
1947

Magic Town
1947

Ivy
1947

I Walk Alone
1947

The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer
1947

That's My Man
1947

The Flame
1947

Nora Prentiss
1947

It Had to Be You
1947

The Farmer's Daughter
1947

The Fabulous Dorseys
1947

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
1947

The Perils of Pauline
1947

Undercover Maisie
1947

Cigarette Girl
1947

Fun on a Weekend
1947
So You Want to Be in Pictures
1947

The Fabulous Joe
1947

Heartbeat
1946

A Stolen Life
1946

Her Kind of Man
1946

The Notorious Lone Wolf
1946

Deception
1946

The Searching Wind
1946

The Chase
1946

Till the Clouds Roll By
1946

Blondie Knows Best
1946

Her Sister's Secret
1946

Mr. Ace
1946

Gilda
1946

Mr. Noisy
1946

Society Mugs
1946

The Walls Came Tumbling Down
1946

Notorious
1946

Dead Reckoning
1946

The Dark Mirror
1946

One More Tomorrow
1946

My Reputation
1946

The Big Sleep
1946

The Blue Dahlia
1946

Rendezvous with Annie
1946

Undercurrent
1946

The Razor's Edge
1946

Two Sisters from Boston
1946

Blondie's Lucky Day
1946

The Jolson Story
1946

The Kid from Brooklyn
1946

The Locket
1946

Lover Come Back
1946

The Harvey Girls
1946

You Came Along
1945

Conflict
1945

The Woman in Green
1945

Incendiary Blonde
1945

It's a Pleasure
1945

The Missing Corpse
1945

A Song for Miss Julie
1945

Adventure
1945

Twice Blessed
1945

Delightfully Dangerous
1945

Week-End at the Waldorf
1945

It's in the Bag!
1945

Mildred Pierce
1945

The Crime Doctor's Warning
1945

The Affairs of Susan
1945

Hold That Blonde!
1945

Zombies on Broadway
1945

Wonder Man
1945
Hit the Hay
1945

Over 21
1945

The Heavenly Body
1944

Mr. Skeffington
1944

Hail the Conquering Hero
1944

The Bridge of San Luis Rey
1944

Ladies of Washington
1944

Career Girl
1944

It Happened Tomorrow
1944

The Lodger
1944

Here Come the Waves
1944

The Lady and the Monster
1944

Trocadero
1944

Pin Up Girl
1944

Together Again
1944

Double Indemnity
1944

Laura
1944

Phantom Lady
1944

Roger Touhy, Gangster
1944

Music for Millions
1944

The Woman in the Window
1944

Broadway Rhythm
1944

Strange Affair
1944

The Mummy's Ghost
1944

Hollywood Canteen
1944

In Society
1944

Musical Movieland
1944

Hi, Beautiful
1944

Wintertime
1943

The Amazing Mrs. Holliday
1943

The Mad Ghoul
1943

Holy Matrimony
1943

Girls in Chains
1943

Three Hearts for Julia
1943

The Constant Nymph
1943

Best Foot Forward
1943

Sweet Rosie O'Grady
1943

Dixie Dugan
1943

Coney Island
1943

Immortal Sergeant
1943

Hi Diddle Diddle
1943

Tahiti Honey
1943

What a Woman
1943

Dixie
1943

Crime Doctor
1943

Idaho
1943

Flesh and Fantasy
1943

Heaven Can Wait
1943

Dangerous Blondes
1943

Crazy House
1943

No Place for a Lady
1943

Old Acquaintance
1943

Mister Big
1943

Whistling in Brooklyn
1943

Blondie Goes to College
1942

Once Upon a Honeymoon
1942

Pittsburgh
1942

Larceny, Inc.
1942

My Gal Sal
1942

A Gentleman at Heart
1942
Frisco Lil
1942

Now, Voyager
1942

Thunder Birds
1942

The Magnificent Dope
1942

Laugh Your Blues Away
1942

Lady in a Jam
1942

It Happened in Flatbush
1942

The Mad Doctor of Market Street
1942

The Lady or the Tiger?
1942

The Night Before the Divorce
1942

Brooklyn Orchid
1942

The Big Street
1942

Take a Letter, Darling
1942

Ten Gentlemen from West Point
1942

Springtime in the Rockies
1942

There's One Born Every Minute
1942

Over My Dead Body
1942

Mexican Spitfire's Elephant
1942

The Glass Key
1942

Private Buckaroo
1942

The Major and the Minor
1942

I Married a Witch
1942

Ship Ahoy
1942

The Palm Beach Story
1942

The Male Animal
1942

Silver Queen
1942

Meet the Stewarts
1942

A Yank at Eton
1942

Penny Serenade
1941

Blondie in Society
1941

It Started with Eve
1941

The Devil and Miss Jones
1941

That Uncertain Feeling
1941

Sunny
1941

Remember the Day
1941

Tall, Dark and Handsome
1941

Murder Among Friends
1941

An Ache in Every Stake
1941

Adventure in Washington
1941

That Night in Rio
1941

Three Girls About Town
1941

The People Vs. Dr. Kildare
1941

Married Bachelor
1941

Ziegfeld Girl
1941

Blood and Sand
1941

Lady Be Good
1941

Road Show
1941

Honky Tonk
1941

Golden Hoofs
1941

The Lady Eve
1941

Pacific Blackout
1941

Meet John Doe
1941

I Wake Up Screaming
1941

Tom, Dick and Harry
1941

For Beauty's Sake
1941

Hellzapoppin'
1941

Puddin' Head
1941

The Man Who Came to Dinner
1941

Blondie Goes Latin
1941

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
1941

You'll Find Out
1940

Boom Town
1940

Lady with Red Hair
1940

A Plumbing We Will Go
1940

Five Little Peppers in Trouble
1940

Arise, My Love
1940

'Til We Meet Again
1940

Michael Shayne: Private Detective
1940

I Love You Again
1940

Broadway Melody of 1940
1940

The Heckler
1940

I Want a Divorce
1940

Johnny Apollo
1940

Pound Foolish
1940

Cross-Country Romance
1940

Tin Pan Alley
1940

No Time for Comedy
1940

Dance, Girl, Dance
1940

It All Came True
1940

They Drive by Night
1940

Angels Over Broadway
1940

No, No, Nanette
1940

The Boys from Syracuse
1940

Girl in 313
1940

City of Chance
1940

If I Had My Way
1940

Honolulu
1939

Society Lawyer
1939

Sergeant Madden
1939

Zenobia
1939

Midnight
1939

Sorority House
1939

The Roaring Twenties
1939

Wife, Husband and Friend
1939

Love Affair
1939

Three Smart Girls Grow Up
1939

They Made Her a Spy
1939

Rose of Washington Square
1939

Fifth Avenue Girl
1939

Man About Town
1939

The Spellbinder
1939

Charlie McCarthy, Detective
1939

Day-time Wife
1939

First Love
1939

Ninotchka
1939

Eternally Yours
1939

South of the Border
1939

Should a Girl Marry?
1939

Gone with the Wind
1939

Hotel for Women
1939

Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President
1939

Rhumba Rhythm at the Hollywood La Conga
1939

Three Loves Has Nancy
1938

Termites of 1938
1938

In Old Chicago
1938

Women in Prison
1938

Tassels in the Air
1938

Mutts to You
1938

Rich Man, Poor Girl
1938

A Doggone Mixup
1938

Topper Takes a Trip
1938

The Mad Miss Manton
1938

Young Dr. Kildare
1938

Fugitives for a Night
1938

The Lady Objects
1938

Holiday
1938

I Am the Law
1938

Smashing the Spy Ring
1938

City Streets
1938

The Great Waltz
1938

You Can't Take It with You
1938

That Certain Age
1938

Time Out for Trouble
1938

The Mind Needer
1938

The Lone Wolf in Paris
1938

The Shining Hour
1938
Men in Fright
1938

Step Lively, Jeeves!
1937

First Lady
1937

Kid Galahad
1937

The Shadow
1937

Nobody's Baby
1937

Marry the Girl
1937

Double or Nothing
1937

Meet the Missus
1937

The Life of the Party
1937

Stolen Holiday
1937

Ever Since Eve
1937

I'll Take Romance
1937

It's Love I'm After
1937

On the Avenue
1937

Paid to Dance
1937

You Can't Buy Luck
1937

Women of Glamour
1937

Smart Blonde
1937

The Awful Truth
1937

One Mile from Heaven
1937

Nothing Sacred
1937

Topper
1937

When You're in Love
1937

China Passage
1937

A Day at the Races
1937

Life Begins with Love
1937

One in a Million
1937

One Hundred Men and a Girl
1937

The Last of Mrs. Cheyney
1937

Make Way for Tomorrow
1937

The Last Train from Madrid
1937

Theodora Goes Wild
1936

Dodsworth
1936

The Gorgeous Hussy
1936

Private Number
1936

King of Burlesque
1936

Craig's Wife
1936

How to Behave
1936

Piccadilly Jim
1936

Stage Struck
1936

Neighborhood House
1936

Polo Joe
1936

Silks and Saddles
1936

Anything Goes
1936

Speed
1936

Special Investigator
1936

Give Me Your Heart
1936

Wanted: Jane Turner
1936

Postal Inspector
1936

Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
1936

Adventure in Manhattan
1936

Wife vs. Secretary
1936

Sing, Baby, Sing
1936

The Golden Arrow
1936

Love Before Breakfast
1936

Anthony Adverse
1936

My Man Godfrey
1936

The Big Game
1936

The Public Pays
1936

Strike Me Pink
1936

Forgotten Faces
1936

Yours for the Asking
1936

The Prisoner of Shark Island
1936

Curly Top
1935
Honeymoon Bridge
1935

Les Misérables
1935

Black Sheep
1935

In Caliente
1935

The Woman in Red
1935

Hooray for Love
1935

Twin Triplets
1935

Shanghai
1935

Old Man Rhythm
1935

Two Sinners
1935

Thicker Than Water
1935

One in a Million
1935

I Found Stella Parish
1935

Star of Midnight
1935

After Office Hours
1935

Whispering Smith Speaks
1935

Thunder in the Night
1935

Love Me Forever
1935

Ginger
1935

Alias Mary Dow
1935

Shipmates Forever
1935

The Whole Town's Talking
1935

Go Into Your Dance
1935

A Feather in Her Hat
1935

She Couldn't Take It
1935

Private Worlds
1935

If You Could Only Cook
1935

The Calling of Dan Matthews
1935

A Night at the Opera
1935

Goin' to Town
1935
Okay Toots!
1935

Sprucin' Up
1935

Redheads on Parade
1935

She Married Her Boss
1935

Let's Live Tonight
1935

The Richest Girl in the World
1934

Bedside
1934

The Personality Kid
1934

Journal of a Crime
1934

Success at Any Price
1934

I've Got Your Number
1934

The Affairs of Cellini
1934

The Curtain Falls
1934

Change of Heart
1934

The Defense Rests
1934

City Park
1934

Merry Wives of Reno
1934

It Happened One Night
1934

Kid Millions
1934

Girl in Danger
1934

The St. Louis Kid
1934

Hollywood Party
1934

Transatlantic Merry-Go-Round
1934

I Believed in You
1934

Once to Every Woman
1934

The Thin Man
1934

Stand Up and Cheer!
1934

Sadie McKee
1934

I'll Fix It
1934

Finishing School
1934

Bondage
1933

Hard to Handle
1933

Meet the Baron
1933

Grand Slam
1933

Made on Broadway
1933

No Marriage Ties
1933

Dinner at Eight
1933

Wild Boys of the Road
1933

Notorious But Nice
1933

Blood Money
1933

Ever in My Heart
1933

Pilgrimage
1933

Day of Reckoning
1933

My Lips Betray
1933

The Phantom of Crestwood
1932

The Expert
1932

The Half-Naked Truth
1932

Sin's Pay Day
1932

You Said a Mouthful
1932

Grand Hotel
1932

Man Wanted
1932

The Big Timer
1932

Attorney for the Defense
1932

If I Had a Million
1932

Shopworn
1932

New Morals for Old
1932

Blonde Venus
1932

One Hour with You
1932

Susan Lenox (Her Fall and Rise)
1931

Finn and Hattie
1931

The Cheat
1931

Dirigible
1931

Daybreak
1931

Ten Cents a Dance
1931

Iron Man
1931

Her Majesty, Love
1931

Ladies' Man
1931

Strangers May Kiss
1931

Bachelor Apartment
1931

A Free Soul
1931

Monkey Business
1931

Possessed
1931

Road to Paradise
1930

Spring Is Here
1930

Going Wild
1930

Divorce Among Friends
1930

Son of the Gods
1930

Lightnin'
1930

Monte Carlo
1930

The Ghost Talks
1929

The Saturday Night Kid
1929

Untamed
1929

The Single Standard
1929

Chinatown Nights
1929

Linda
1929

Their Own Desire
1929

Show People
1928

We Faw Down
1928
The Ladies' Man
1928

Blondes by Choice
1927

Laddie
1926

Hands Across the Border
1926

Mannequin
1926

Irene
1926

Old Ironsides
1926

The Greater Glory
1926

A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate
1923

Hollywood
1923

The Silent Partner
1923
