Bess Flowers
Acting
Born November 23, 1898 · Sherman, Texas, USA
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.
Films (740)
Laurel & Hardy: Year Two
2024
Good Neighbor Sam
1964
Bedtime Story
1964
For Those Who Think Young
1964
The Carpetbaggers
1964
The Prize
1963
Move Over, Darling
1963
Who's Minding the Store?
1963
Palm Springs Weekend
1963
For Love or Money
1963
The Thrill of It All
1963
40 Pounds of Trouble
1962
The Manchurian Candidate
1962
Zotz!
1962
Two Weeks in Another Town
1962
Incident in an Alley
1962
Five Finger Exercise
1962
Don't Knock the Twist
1962
The Notorious Landlady
1962
Sweet Bird of Youth
1962
Twist Around The Clock
1961
Pocketful of Miracles
1961
Judgment at Nuremberg
1961
Babes in Toyland
1961
Blue Hawaii
1961
The Honeymoon Machine
1961
Teenage Millionaire
1961
Return to Peyton Place
1961
Parrish
1961
All in a Night's Work
1961
Go Naked in the World
1961
The Absent-Minded Professor
1961
Where the Boys Are
1960
G.I. Blues
1960
The Facts of Life
1960
All the Fine Young Cannibals
1960
Song Without End
1960
The Lost World
1960
Wake Me When It's Over
1960
Because They're Young
1960
Please Don't Eat the Daisies
1960
Seven Thieves
1960
Home from the Hill
1960
Beloved Infidel
1959
It Started with a Kiss
1959
A Private's Affair
1959
North by Northwest
1959
Juke Box Rhythm
1959
Blue Denim
1959
The Wild and the Innocent
1959
Imitation of Life
1959
Rally 'Round the Flag, Boys!
1958
The Buccaneer
1958
Houseboat
1958
Mardi Gras
1958
I Married a Monster from Outer Space
1958
Twilight for the Gods
1958
The Fly
1958
A Night to Remember
1958
Vertigo
1958
Too Much, Too Soon
1958
Teacher's Pet
1958
Merry Andrew
1958
I Married a Woman
1958
Witness for the Prosecution
1957
The Tarnished Angels
1957
My Man Godfrey
1957
The Helen Morgan Story
1957
Sweet Smell of Success
1957
Designing Woman
1957
This Could Be the Night
1957
The Buster Keaton Story
1957
Ten Thousand Bedrooms
1957
She Devil
1957
Funny Face
1957
Accused of Murder
1956
Bundle of Joy
1956
Ride The High Iron
1956
The Opposite Sex
1956
Nightfall
1956
Giant
1956
Around the World in 80 Days
1956
Written on the Wind
1956
These Wilder Years
1956
The She-Creature
1956
The First Traveling Saleslady
1956
The Bitter Waters
1956
The Eddy Duchin Story
1956
Anything Goes
1956
Serenade
1956
Meet Me in Las Vegas
1956
Three Bad Sisters
1956
Forever, Darling
1956
Runaway Daughters
1956
I'll Cry Tomorrow
1955
Guys and Dolls
1955
The View from Pompey's Head
1955
Illegal
1955
The Girl Rush
1955
To Catch a Thief
1955
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
1955
Chicago Syndicate
1955
Ain't Misbehavin'
1955
Hell's Island
1955
Interrupted Melody
1955
The Looters
1955
Strategic Air Command
1955
Three for the Show
1955
Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops
1955
Battle Cry
1955
The Country Girl
1954
Désirée
1954
Phffft
1954
White Christmas
1954
The Human Jungle
1954
A Star Is Born
1954
Living It Up
1954
Rear Window
1954
The Caine Mutiny
1954
Dial M for Murder
1954
The Long Wait
1954
Executive Suite
1954
Casanova's Big Night
1954
Dangerous Mission
1954
The French Line
1954
The Bigamist
1953
Forever Female
1953
Three Sailors and a Girl
1953
Calamity Jane
1953
Torch Song
1953
The Robe
1953
Latin Lovers
1953
The Caddy
1953
The Band Wagon
1953
Cruisin' Down the River
1953
No Escape
1953
A Blueprint for Murder
1953
Dangerous Crossing
1953
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
1953
The Maze
1953
Let's Do It Again
1953
Murder Without Tears
1953
Loose in London
1953
Scared Stiff
1953
Small Town Girl
1953
The Story of Three Loves
1953
Call Me Madam
1953
The Jazz Singer
1953
Never Wave at a WAC
1953
Tonight We Sing
1953
The Clown
1953
Tropic Zone
1953
Angel Face
1953
Above and Beyond
1953
The Bad and the Beautiful
1952
Stop, You're Killing Me
1952
Bloodhounds of Broadway
1952
Sudden Fear
1952
Dreamboat
1952
Don't Bother to Knock
1952
She's Working Her Way Through College
1952
Sally and Saint Anne
1952
Three for Bedroom C
1952
Deadline - U.S.A.
1952
The Narrow Margin
1952
Young Man with Ideas
1952
Singin' in the Rain
1952
Something to Live For
1952
Rainbow 'Round My Shoulder
1952
The Greatest Show on Earth
1952
Phone Call from a Stranger
1952
The Unknown Man
1951
Painting the Clouds with Sunshine
1951
Texas Carnival
1951
An American in Paris
1951
Here Comes the Groom
1951
The Day the Earth Stood Still
1951
Sunny Side of the Street
1951
People Will Talk
1951
Meet Me After the Show
1951
His Kind of Woman
1951
Mr. Belvedere Rings the Bell
1951
The Law and the Lady
1951
Show Boat
1951
Rich, Young and Pretty
1951
No Questions Asked
1951
A Place in the Sun
1951
So You Want to Be a Paper Hanger
1951
Dear Brat
1951
The Prowler
1951
Home Town Story
1951
Ghost Chasers
1951
On the Riviera
1951
The Great Caruso
1951
I Can Get It for You Wholesale
1951
Lullaby of Broadway
1951
Footlight Varieties
1951
The Screen Director
1951
Royal Wedding
1951
Payment on Demand
1951
Operation Pacific
1951
The Mating Season
1951
Mr. Music
1950
Let's Dance
1950
Experiment Alcatraz
1950
All About Eve
1950
Last of the Buccaneers
1950
Hot Rod
1950
Walk Softly, Stranger
1950
To Please a Lady
1950
I'll Get By
1950
Born to Be Bad
1950
Pretty Baby
1950
My Blue Heaven
1950
Shakedown
1950
A Life of Her Own
1950
The Toast of New Orleans
1950
Edge of Doom
1950
The Great Jewel Robber
1950
The Costume Designer
1950
The Second Woman
1950
Peggy
1950
Louisa
1950
Father of the Bride
1950
In a Lonely Place
1950
I Was a Shoplifter
1950
The Damned Don't Cry
1950
Champagne for Caesar
1950
Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town
1950
Nancy Goes to Rio
1950
No Man of Her Own
1950
The File on Thelma Jordon
1949
Mary Ryan, Detective
1949
Beyond the Forest
1949
My Friend Irma
1949
Red, Hot and Blue
1949
It's a Great Feeling
1949
Look for the Silver Lining
1949
Sky Liner
1949
You're My Everything
1949
Mighty Joe Young
1949
Neptune's Daughter
1949
Hideout
1949
Alias Nick Beal
1949
John Loves Mary
1949
Slightly French
1949
The Accused
1949
Every Girl Should Be Married
1948
Whiplash
1948
Let's Live a Little
1948
Family Honeymoon
1948
Disaster
1948
Parole, Inc.
1948
My Dear Secretary
1948
The Countess of Monte Cristo
1948
An Innocent Affair
1948
One Touch of Venus
1948
The Velvet Touch
1948
Up in Central Park
1948
Romance on the High Seas
1948
Wallflower
1948
Hazard
1948
Trapped by Boston Blackie
1948
Smart Woman
1948
Winter Meeting
1948
The Noose Hangs High
1948
Mr. Reckless
1948
The Big Clock
1948
The Bride Goes Wild
1948
Sleep, My Love
1948
Arch of Triumph
1948
To the Ends of the Earth
1948
You Were Meant for Me
1948
I Walk Alone
1947
A Double Life
1947
It Had to Be You
1947
Intrigue
1947
The Flame
1947
Blondie in the Dough
1947
The Unsuspected
1947
Magic Town
1947
The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer
1947
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
1947
Song of the Thin Man
1947
The Fabulous Joe
1947
The Perils of Pauline
1947
Ivy
1947
Danger Street
1947
So You Want to Be in Pictures
1947
That's My Man
1947
Fun on a Weekend
1947
The Farmer's Daughter
1947
Undercover Maisie
1947
The Fabulous Dorseys
1947
Nora Prentiss
1947
Cigarette Girl
1947
Humoresque
1947
Dead Reckoning
1946
The Locket
1946
Till the Clouds Roll By
1946
The Razor's Edge
1946
The Chase
1946
Undercurrent
1946
Deception
1946
Blondie Knows Best
1946
The Dark Mirror
1946
The Jolson Story
1946
Her Sister's Secret
1946
Society Mugs
1946
The Big Sleep
1946
Notorious
1946
The Searching Wind
1946
Mr. Ace
1946
Rendezvous with Annie
1946
Lover Come Back
1946
The Walls Came Tumbling Down
1946
Two Sisters from Boston
1946
One More Tomorrow
1946
Her Kind of Man
1946
Heartbeat
1946
A Stolen Life
1946
Gilda
1946
The Blue Dahlia
1946
Blondie's Lucky Day
1946
Mr. Noisy
1946
The Kid from Brooklyn
1946
The Notorious Lone Wolf
1946
My Reputation
1946
The Harvey Girls
1946
Adventure
1945
Hit the Hay
1945
Hold That Blonde!
1945
Mildred Pierce
1945
Week-End at the Waldorf
1945
The Crime Doctor's Warning
1945
Over 21
1945
Incendiary Blonde
1945
The Affairs of Susan
1945
You Came Along
1945
Conflict
1945
The Woman in Green
1945
Wonder Man
1945
The Missing Corpse
1945
Twice Blessed
1945
Zombies on Broadway
1945
It's in the Bag!
1945
Delightfully Dangerous
1945
It's a Pleasure
1945
A Song for Miss Julie
1945
Together Again
1944
Here Come the Waves
1944
Music for Millions
1944
Hi, Beautiful
1944
Hollywood Canteen
1944
The Woman in the Window
1944
Laura
1944
Strange Affair
1944
Musical Movieland
1944
In Society
1944
Hail the Conquering Hero
1944
Double Indemnity
1944
The Mummy's Ghost
1944
Roger Touhy, Gangster
1944
Mr. Skeffington
1944
Ladies of Washington
1944
Pin Up Girl
1944
Trocadero
1944
The Lady and the Monster
1944
It Happened Tomorrow
1944
The Heavenly Body
1944
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
1944
Phantom Lady
1944
The Lodger
1944
Broadway Rhythm
1944
Career Girl
1944
What a Woman
1943
Whistling in Brooklyn
1943
Old Acquaintance
1943
The Mad Ghoul
1943
Flesh and Fantasy
1943
Best Foot Forward
1943
Crazy House
1943
Sweet Rosie O'Grady
1943
Dangerous Blondes
1943
Wintertime
1943
Holy Matrimony
1943
Heaven Can Wait
1943
Hi Diddle Diddle
1943
The Constant Nymph
1943
Dixie
1943
Crime Doctor
1943
Coney Island
1943
Mister Big
1943
Three Hearts for Julia
1943
Girls in Chains
1943
Immortal Sergeant
1943
Tahiti Honey
1943
Dixie Dugan
1943
Idaho
1943
The Amazing Mrs. Holliday
1943
No Place for a Lady
1943
Pittsburgh
1942
Once Upon a Honeymoon
1942
Silver Queen
1942
Laugh Your Blues Away
1942
Springtime in the Rockies
1942
I Married a Witch
1942
Thunder Birds
1942
Now, Voyager
1942
Mexican Spitfire's Elephant
1942
The Major and the Minor
1942
The Glass Key
1942
A Yank at Eton
1942
The Palm Beach Story
1942
The Big Street
1942
The Magnificent Dope
1942
Ten Gentlemen from West Point
1942
There's One Born Every Minute
1942
Lady in a Jam
1942
Private Buckaroo
1942
It Happened in Flatbush
1942
Meet the Stewarts
1942
Take a Letter, Darling
1942
My Gal Sal
1942
Larceny, Inc.
1942
Ship Ahoy
1942
The Lady or the Tiger?
1942
Frisco Lil
1942
The Male Animal
1942
The Night Before the Divorce
1942
Brooklyn Orchid
1942
A Gentleman at Heart
1942
Blondie Goes to College
1942
Over My Dead Body
1942
The Mad Doctor of Market Street
1942
Pacific Blackout
1941
Remember the Day
1941
Hellzapoppin'
1941
The Man Who Came to Dinner
1941
I Wake Up Screaming
1941
Three Girls About Town
1941
Married Bachelor
1941
Honky Tonk
1941
It Started with Eve
1941
Lady Be Good
1941
An Ache in Every Stake
1941
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
1941
Blondie in Society
1941
Puddin' Head
1941
Tom, Dick and Harry
1941
For Beauty's Sake
1941
Sunny
1941
Blood and Sand
1941
Adventure in Washington
1941
The People Vs. Dr. Kildare
1941
Ziegfeld Girl
1941
Penny Serenade
1941
That Uncertain Feeling
1941
The Devil and Miss Jones
1941
That Night in Rio
1941
Meet John Doe
1941
Murder Among Friends
1941
Blondie Goes Latin
1941
The Lady Eve
1941
Road Show
1941
Golden Hoofs
1941
Tall, Dark and Handsome
1941
Michael Shayne: Private Detective
1940
No, No, Nanette
1940
Lady with Red Hair
1940
Tin Pan Alley
1940
You'll Find Out
1940
Arise, My Love
1940
Angels Over Broadway
1940
I Want a Divorce
1940
No Time for Comedy
1940
Five Little Peppers in Trouble
1940
Boom Town
1940
Dance, Girl, Dance
1940
I Love You Again
1940
The Boys from Syracuse
1940
They Drive by Night
1940
Cross-Country Romance
1940
Girl in 313
1940
If I Had My Way
1940
'Til We Meet Again
1940
A Plumbing We Will Go
1940
Johnny Apollo
1940
It All Came True
1940
The Heckler
1940
Broadway Melody of 1940
1940
Pound Foolish
1940
City of Chance
1940
Charlie McCarthy, Detective
1939
South of the Border
1939
Gone with the Wind
1939
Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President
1939
Day-time Wife
1939
Ninotchka
1939
First Love
1939
The Roaring Twenties
1939
Eternally Yours
1939
Fifth Avenue Girl
1939
Rhumba Rhythm at the Hollywood La Conga
1939
Hotel for Women
1939
The Spellbinder
1939
Man About Town
1939
Should a Girl Marry?
1939
Sorority House
1939
Rose of Washington Square
1939
Zenobia
1939
They Made Her a Spy
1939
Love Affair
1939
Sergeant Madden
1939
Midnight
1939
Three Smart Girls Grow Up
1939
Society Lawyer
1939
Wife, Husband and Friend
1939
Honolulu
1939
Topper Takes a Trip
1938
Smashing the Spy Ring
1938
A Doggone Mixup
1938
The Shining Hour
1938
The Great Waltz
1938
The Mad Miss Manton
1938
Men in Fright
1938
Mutts to You
1938
Young Dr. Kildare
1938
The Lady Objects
1938
That Certain Age
1938
Fugitives for a Night
1938
Three Loves Has Nancy
1938
You Can't Take It with You
1938
I Am the Law
1938
Rich Man, Poor Girl
1938
City Streets
1938
Holiday
1938
The Lone Wolf in Paris
1938
The Mind Needer
1938
In Old Chicago
1938
Tassels in the Air
1938
Time Out for Trouble
1938
Women in Prison
1938
Termites of 1938
1938
The Shadow
1937
Paid to Dance
1937
First Lady
1937
Nothing Sacred
1937
I'll Take Romance
1937
The Awful Truth
1937
It's Love I'm After
1937
Life Begins with Love
1937
Double or Nothing
1937
One Hundred Men and a Girl
1937
The Life of the Party
1937
One Mile from Heaven
1937
Topper
1937
Ever Since Eve
1937
Marry the Girl
1937
Step Lively, Jeeves!
1937
The Last Train from Madrid
1937
A Day at the Races
1937
Meet the Missus
1937
Kid Galahad
1937
Make Way for Tomorrow
1937
You Can't Buy Luck
1937
Nobody's Baby
1937
China Passage
1937
Women of Glamour
1937
The Last of Mrs. Cheyney
1937
On the Avenue
1937
When You're in Love
1937
Stolen Holiday
1937
Smart Blonde
1937
One in a Million
1937
Silks and Saddles
1936
Wanted: Jane Turner
1936
Theodora Goes Wild
1936
Polo Joe
1936
The Public Pays
1936
The Big Game
1936
Adventure in Manhattan
1936
Craig's Wife
1936
Dodsworth
1936
Give Me Your Heart
1936
Stage Struck
1936
My Man Godfrey
1936
The Gorgeous Hussy
1936
Anthony Adverse
1936
Sing, Baby, Sing
1936
Postal Inspector
1936
Piccadilly Jim
1936
Yours for the Asking
1936
Private Number
1936
The Golden Arrow
1936
Forgotten Faces
1936
Speed
1936
Special Investigator
1936
How to Behave
1936
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
1936
Neighborhood House
1936
Love Before Breakfast
1936
Wife vs. Secretary
1936
The Prisoner of Shark Island
1936
Anything Goes
1936
Strike Me Pink
1936
King of Burlesque
1936
If You Could Only Cook
1935
The Calling of Dan Matthews
1935
I Found Stella Parish
1935
A Night at the Opera
1935
A Feather in Her Hat
1935
Twin Triplets
1935
Shipmates Forever
1935
She Couldn't Take It
1935
Honeymoon Bridge
1935
She Married Her Boss
1935
Thunder in the Night
1935
Two Sinners
1935
Redheads on Parade
1935
Old Man Rhythm
1935
Black Sheep
1935
Curly Top
1935
Shanghai
1935
Ginger
1935
Love Me Forever
1935
Hooray for Love
1935
Sprucin' Up
1935
In Caliente
1935
Whispering Smith Speaks
1935
Alias Mary Dow
1935
Goin' to Town
1935
Les Misérables
1935
Go Into Your Dance
1935
Star of Midnight
1935
Private Worlds
1935
One in a Million
1935
Thicker Than Water
1935
Let's Live Tonight
1935
After Office Hours
1935
The Whole Town's Talking
1935
The Woman in Red
1935
Okay Toots!
1935
Kid Millions
1934
The St. Louis Kid
1934
I'll Fix It
1934
Transatlantic Merry-Go-Round
1934
The Curtain Falls
1934
The Richest Girl in the World
1934
Girl in Danger
1934
The Affairs of Cellini
1934
The Defense Rests
1934
The Personality Kid
1934
The Thin Man
1934
Hollywood Party
1934
Change of Heart
1934
Sadie McKee
1934
Stand Up and Cheer!
1934
Finishing School
1934
City Park
1934
Merry Wives of Reno
1934
I Believed in You
1934
Once to Every Woman
1934
Success at Any Price
1934
Journal of a Crime
1934
I've Got Your Number
1934
It Happened One Night
1934
Bedside
1934
Dinner at Eight
1933
Blood Money
1933
My Lips Betray
1933
Ever in My Heart
1933
Day of Reckoning
1933
Meet the Baron
1933
Wild Boys of the Road
1933
No Marriage Ties
1933
Notorious But Nice
1933
Pilgrimage
1933
Made on Broadway
1933
Bondage
1933
Grand Slam
1933
Hard to Handle
1933
The Half-Naked Truth
1932
You Said a Mouthful
1932
If I Had a Million
1932
The Phantom of Crestwood
1932
Blonde Venus
1932
Grand Hotel
1932
New Morals for Old
1932
Attorney for the Defense
1932
Man Wanted
1932
Shopworn
1932
One Hour with You
1932
The Big Timer
1932
The Expert
1932
Sin's Pay Day
1932
Her Majesty, Love
1931
The Cheat
1931
Possessed
1931
Susan Lenox (Her Fall and Rise)
1931
Monkey Business
1931
A Free Soul
1931
Daybreak
1931
Iron Man
1931
Ladies' Man
1931
Bachelor Apartment
1931
Strangers May Kiss
1931
Finn and Hattie
1931
Dirigible
1931
Ten Cents a Dance
1931
Going Wild
1930
Divorce Among Friends
1930
Lightnin'
1930
Monte Carlo
1930
Road to Paradise
1930
Spring Is Here
1930
Son of the Gods
1930
Their Own Desire
1929
Untamed
1929
The Saturday Night Kid
1929
The Single Standard
1929
Linda
1929
Chinatown Nights
1929
The Ghost Talks
1929
We Faw Down
1928
The Ladies' Man
1928
Show People
1928
Blondes by Choice
1927
Old Ironsides
1926
Laddie
1926
Lone Hand Saunders
1926
Glenister of the Mounted
1926
The Greater Glory
1926
Hands Across the Border
1926
Irene
1926
Mannequin
1926
A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate
1923
The Silent Partner
1923
The Age of Desire
1923
Hollywood
1923