Jessie Busley


Jessie Busley was an American actress and comedian who performed on stage, screen, and radio for over six decades.

Career

Jessie starred on stage in over 25 Charles Frohman productions in the first 15 years of her career. In June 1930, she appeared on film for the first time in The Devil's Parade A Musical Revue set in Hades, a 10-minute film short by Warner Bros. Pictures, alongside actress Joan Blondell.
Jessie went on to appear in such films as Brother Rat and Brother Rat and a Baby. In 1939, she appeared alongside Kay Francis, James Stephenson, and Humphrey Bogart in King of the Underworld. The next year she appeared in Humphrey Bogart's It All Came True.

Personal life

Several months after they were married, Ernest Joy tried to shoot a theatrical press agent in a jealous rage after he saw him leaving a theater with Jessie. Word of the shot was reported in the news of the time and the press agent left town. Later that same year, Jessie and Ernest separated after it was reported that she had him arrested for "annoying her". All charges were dropped when she did not testify against him.
On August 1, 1908, The New York Times reported that Busley had sent two men to beat her husband Ernest Joy, who she intended to divorce, with one of them hitting him over the head with an iron bar, leaving him hospitalized. The article said that the couple had frequent quarrels, and finished by noting that she had last appeared in The Bishop's Carriage, and "is well known as an actress but has had more success in the south and west then in this city".

Stage roles

Films

This filmography is believed to be complete.Brother Rat King of the Underworld as Aunt JosephineBrother Rat and a Baby It All Came True as Mrs. Nora Taylor