Glasgow s love for silent screen star Bessie SNUGGLING up to the Pavilion Theatre’s resident cat, Bessie Love looks at home in Glasgow. The American-born star of stage and screen, who appeared in the Oscar-winning 1929 film The Broadway Melody, one of the first sound movies, was in town in April 1948. In the show she appeared alongside singers, dancers and comedians. “Miss Love’s dramatic monologues,” said the reviewer from our sister newspaper The Herald, “though simple, are effective.” The previous year, she had toured with Laurence Olivier’s Born Yesterday (he was the director), which had enjoyed a Glasgow run prior to its opening in London’s west end.