1. Billie Dove had a younger brother, Charles Reinhardt Bohny.
12 Facts About Billie Dove
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Billie Dove legally changed her name to Lillian Bohny in the early 1920s and moved to Hollywood, where she began appearing in silent films.
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Billie Dove soon became one of the more popular actresses of the 1920s, appearing in Douglas Fairbanks' smash hit Technicolor film The Black Pirate, as Rodeo West in The Painted Angel, and The American Beauty.
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Billie Dove married Irvin Willat, the director of her seventh film, in 1923.
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Billie Dove had a legion of male fans, one of her more persistent was Howard Hughes.
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Billie Dove had a three-year romance with Hughes and was engaged to marry him, but she ended the relationship.
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Billie Dove appeared in his movie The Age for Love.
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Billie Dove married wealthy oil executive Robert Alan Kenaston in 1935, a marriage that lasted for 35 years until his death in 1970.
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Billie Dove later had a brief third marriage, in 1973, to architect John Miller, which ended in divorce.
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Billie Dove is interred in the Freedom Mausoleum at Forest Lawn Glendale.
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Billie Dove has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame located at 6351 Hollywood Blvd.
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Jazz singer Billie Holiday took her professional pseudonym from Dove as an admirer of the actress.