
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.
Starring Bess

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

The Red Skelton Show

Leave It to Beaver

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

Bedside

Untamed

The Robe

I Love You Again

Gone with the Wind

Ninotchka

Nightfall

Gilda

Chicago Syndicate

Speed

Ladies' Man

Battle Cry

Undercurrent

Monkey Business

Show Boat

Where the Boys Are

The Human Jungle

Funny Face

I Married a Witch

Magic Town

Vertigo

Calamity Jane

Phffft

That Uncertain Feeling

The Abbott and Costello Show

The Flame

Strangers May Kiss

North by Northwest

Hellzapoppin'

Arise, My Love

In Old Chicago

Singin' in the Rain

Stand Up and Cheer!

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

Sleep, My Love

I'll Get By

Désirée

In Caliente

Dance, Girl, Dance

Mr. Skeffington

The Half-Naked Truth

Lullaby of Broadway

Good Neighbor Sam

A Double Life

I Walk Alone

Mighty Joe Young

I Am the Law

I Was a Shoplifter

Neptune's Daughter

I'll Cry Tomorrow

Eternally Yours

Bundle of Joy

Girls in Chains

I Married a Woman

The Story of Three Loves

Witness for the Prosecution

Ten Cents a Dance

The Amazing Mrs. Holliday

The Country Girl

Incendiary Blonde

Beyond the Forest

The Band Wagon

Thunder Birds

Fifth Avenue Girl

Flesh and Fantasy

For Love or Money

Goin' to Town

Ivy

Judgment at Nuremberg

We Faw Down

The Chase

Three Loves Has Nancy

The Day the Earth Stood Still

Her Kind of Man

Crime Doctor

Double Indemnity

The Big Sleep

Nora Prentiss

The Manchurian Candidate

Serenade

The Clown

Michael Shayne: Private Detective

Dial M for Murder

Pin Up Girl

Around the World in 80 Days

Walk Softly, Stranger

The Fly

Living It Up

Torch Song

My Friend Irma

Sunny

Laura

A Night to Remember

Show People

Star of Midnight

G.I. Blues

It Happened One Night

Ship Ahoy

Holy Matrimony

Strike Me Pink

The Tarnished Angels

Babes in Toyland

Mildred Pierce

Hollywood Canteen

In a Lonely Place

A Stolen Life

A Star Is Born

Mutts to You

White Christmas

Together Again

These Wilder Years

An American in Paris

Born to Be Bad

You Can't Take It with You

Written on the Wind

The Big Clock

The Woman in the Window

The Notorious Landlady

Ziegfeld Girl

Honky Tonk

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Sweet Smell of Success

Anything Goes

Call Me Madam

Imitation of Life

The French Line

The Dark Mirror

If You Could Only Cook

The Greatest Show on Earth

The Narrow Margin

Guys and Dolls

Society Lawyer

Dreamboat

Above and Beyond

Pocketful of Miracles

The Caine Mutiny

Angel Face

Payment on Demand

The Harvey Girls

Hell's Island

Anything Goes

On the Riviera

Illegal

The Bigamist

Whiplash

Casanova's Big Night

The Awful Truth

The Bad and the Beautiful

Sadie McKee

Topper

My Man Godfrey

Now, Voyager

The Woman in Green

The Prize

Mr. Deeds Goes to Town

Meet John Doe

A Place in the Sun

Blue Hawaii

The Roaring Twenties

Boom Town

A Night at the Opera

Deadline - U.S.A.

People Will Talk

Arch of Triumph

Move Over, Darling

Operation Pacific

Coney Island

A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate

A Day at the Races

Texas Carnival

The Mummy's Ghost

Scared Stiff

All the Fine Young Cannibals

Please Don't Eat the Daisies

Dinner at Eight

Phantom Lady

Romance on the High Seas

Beloved Infidel

Don't Bother to Knock

Old Acquaintance

Les Misérables

The Toast of New Orleans

Blonde Venus

Go Naked in the World

Larceny, Inc.

The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

Meet Me in Las Vegas

The Damned Don't Cry

Sweet Rosie O'Grady

Wonder Man

Penny Serenade

The Prowler

The Whole Town's Talking

Special Investigator

Craig's Wife

Hail the Conquering Hero

Sweet Bird of Youth

The Helen Morgan Story

Blondie Goes Latin

No Man of Her Own

Once Upon a Honeymoon

The Shining Hour

Till the Clouds Roll By

If I Had a Million

Dodsworth

The Lodger

Teacher's Pet

Executive Suite

One Touch of Venus

The Noose Hangs High

Love Affair

Song of the Thin Man

The Devil and Miss Jones

The Accused

Bedtime Story

Springtime in the Rockies

The Palm Beach Story

Broadway Melody of 1940

Topper Takes a Trip

Chinatown Nights

It's Love I'm After

Road to Paradise

King of Burlesque

Kid Galahad

Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops

The Man Who Came to Dinner

Nothing Sacred

Palm Springs Weekend

Who's Minding the Store?

Tassels in the Air

Blondie Goes to College

The Great Caruso

Immortal Sergeant

Day-time Wife

Edge of Doom

My Dear Secretary

Every Girl Should Be Married

The Boys from Syracuse

Never Wave at a WAC

Mary Ryan, Detective

Dangerous Crossing

'Til We Meet Again

That Night in Rio

It Started with Eve

The Big Street

Kid Millions

Lady in a Jam

Silver Queen

Alias Nick Beal

A Blueprint for Murder

Angels Over Broadway

Because They're Young

The Long Wait

For Those Who Think Young

Home Town Story

The Male Animal

Lady with Red Hair

Rally 'Round the Flag, Boys!

Young Dr. Kildare

The Kid from Brooklyn

The Lady and the Monster

Here Comes the Groom

A Life of Her Own

Forever Female

Accused of Murder

Old Ironsides

I've Got Your Number

Champagne for Caesar

Adventure

Song Without End

Private Worlds

Take a Letter, Darling

This Could Be the Night

City of Chance

Blue Denim

The first traveling saleslady

Love Before Breakfast

Return to Peyton Place

The Great Waltz

The Facts of Life

The Honeymoon Machine

No Questions Asked

Hard to Handle

Here Come the Waves

The Buster Keaton Story

Three Smart Girls Grow Up

The Woman in Red

The Lady Objects

The Affairs of Cellini

40 Pounds of Trouble

The Prisoner of Shark Island

All in a Night's Work

Smart Blonde

The Last Train from Madrid

The Jolson Story

Sorority House

Johnny Apollo

Rich, Young and Pretty

Private Buckaroo

Three for the Show

Once to Every Woman

Wild Boys of the Road

Look for the Silver Lining

The Mad Ghoul

Bloodhounds of Broadway

Adventure in Manhattan

She's Working Her Way Through College

To Please a Lady

The Perils of Pauline

Dangerous Blondes

The Fabulous Dorseys

Seven Thieves

No Time for Comedy

It All Came True

Mardi Gras

Meet Me After the Show

The Public Pays

Zombies on Broadway

To the Ends of the Earth

Mr. Belvedere Rings the Bell

It's in the Bag!

Ever Since Eve

Thicker Than Water

The Defense Rests

The Phantom of Crestwood

Three Bad Sisters

The Cheat

After Office Hours

No Marriage Ties

Tall, Dark and Handsome

The Golden Arrow

Girl in 313

The Missing Corpse

Stolen Holiday

Monte Carlo

Rich Man, Poor Girl

The Heavenly Body

My Gal Sal

Delightfully Dangerous

You'll Find Out

The Mad Doctor of Market Street

Success at Any Price

Road Show

The Richest Girl in the World

Parole, Inc.

No Escape

The Big Timer

Anthony Adverse

Sing, Baby, Sing

The Personality Kid

The Walls Came Tumbling Down

Mexican Spitfire's Elephant

Give Me Your Heart

A Plumbing We Will Go

Transatlantic Merry-Go-Round

Irene

Bachelor Apartment

The Saturday Night Kid

The Looters

Trocadero

Merry Wives of Reno

One in a Million

Winter Meeting

An Ache in Every Stake
