Bess Flowers(1898-1984)

She appeared in five Best Picture Academy Award winners: New York - Miami (1934), Vous ne l'emporterez pas avec vous (1938), Ève (1950), Sous le plus grand chapiteau du monde (1952) and Le tour du monde en 80 jours (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), L'extravagant M. Deeds (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), Regarder sur le Rhin (1943), Assurance sur la mort (1944), Le roman de Mildred Pierce (1945), Le fil du rasoir (1946), Le père de la mariée (1950), Une place au soleil (1951), La tunique (1953), Géant (1956), Witness for the Prosecution (1957) and Jugement à Nuremberg (1961).

[Asked about her career philosophy] I made a good living. I'm lazy, from the South, so I never took anything that was hard. I was always good to Bess.