Billie Dove Autographs
Lillian Bohny (born Bertha Eugenie Bohny; May 14, 1903 – December 31, 1997), known professionally as Billie Dove, was an American actress.
Dove was born Bertha Eugenie Bohny in New York City in 1903 to Charles and Bertha (née Kagl) Bohny, both immigrants from Switzerland. She had a younger brother, Charles Reinhardt Bohny (1906–1963). As a teen, she worked as a model to help support her family and was hired as a teenager by Florenz Ziegfeld to appear in his Ziegfeld Follies Revue. She legally changed her name to Lillian Bohny in the early 1920s and moved to Hollywood, where she began appearing in silent films. She soon became one of the more popular actresses of the 1920s, appearing in Douglas Fairbanks' smash hit Technicolor film The Black Pirate (1926), as Rodeo West in The Painted Angel (1929), and The American Beauty (1927).
She married Irvin Willat, the director of her seventh film, in 1923. The two divorced in 1929. Dove had a legion of male fans, one of her more persistent was Howard Hughes. She had a three-year romance with Hughes and was engaged to marry him, but she ended the relationship.
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The most expensive item with a signature of Billie Dove (BILLIE DOVE YOUTH TO YOUTH 1922 SIGNED METRO AGREEMENT + PAIR TENDER HOUR PHOTOS) was sold in July 2024 for $386.77 while the cheapest item (Billie Dove Actress Black Pirate Signed 3 x 5 Index Card and Photo Framed) found a new owner for $0.01 in February 2023. The month with the most items sold (2) was January 2021 with an average selling price of $55.75 for an autographed item of Billie Dove. Sold items reached their highest average selling price in May 2025 with $100.00 and the month that saw the lowest prices with $3.49 was May 2026. In average, an autographed item from Billie Dove is worth $10.00.
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