Bess Flowers - Close-up.

She appeared in five Best Picture Academy Award winners: It Happened One Night (1934), You Can't Take It with You (1938), All About Eve (1950), The Greatest Show on Earth (1952) and Around the World in 80 Days (1956). In addition to those five films, she also appeared in 20 others which were nominated for Best Picture: One Hour with You (1932), Anthony Adverse (1936), Dodsworth (1936), Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936), The Awful Truth (1937), One Hundred Men and a Girl (1937), In Old Chicago (1938), Love Affair (1939), Ninotchka (1939), Heaven Can Wait (1943), Watch on the Rhine (1943), Double Indemnity (1944), Mildred Pierce (1945), The Razor's Edge (1946), Father of the Bride (1950), A Place in the Sun (1951), The Robe (1953), Giant (1956), Witness for the Prosecution (1957) and Judgment at Nuremberg (1961). Of the films listed book "1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die" (edited by Steven Jay Schneider) she appears in a remarkable 33 films, more than any other person. She was a "dress extra", meaning a bit player who bought her own clothes to wear in scenes. One exception was her first role, in which she played a model wearing only a silk cloth in A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate (1923). Gave birth to her only child at age 25, a daughter Patricia E. Tate on January 29, 1924. Child's father is her first husband, Cullen Tate. Her only child, a daughter Patricia E. Tate, died on August 1, 1972 at age 48. Was known as "The Queen of the Extras". Flowers is on record as saying Frank Capra, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, and Gregory La Cava are the directors she admires most. Bess Flowers doesn't remember the title of the first movie she appeared in, but it was at Metro in 1922. Was a favorite of director James Cruze, who used her in most of his films after "Hollywood" in 1923. She was also a favorite of Frank Capra's. Did TV commercials for Chevrolet. Believed to have been the most prolific actress in Hollywood having appeared in over 700 films including 25 Best Picture nominees, of which 5 were Best Picture winners in a career lasting 41 years. She was affectionately known as the 'Queen of the Hollywood Extras'. Managed to work in films for more than 40 years, remarkably with the same hairdo.