CONVENTS seem a long way from the stage; 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 Shakespearian
repertoire when she was four years old. At the age of five, she continued
her infantile histrionics by playing child parts with the 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 "Glimpses of the Moon."
Miss Daniels is a mere four feet four inches, weighs almost 125 pounds,
and has black hair and eyes. |