Silent movies, Billie Dove: they go together like a horse and carriage, as the song goes. And it’s easy to see why. But first, she started out as a Ziegfeld Girl:
…at age 15, despite not being able to dance.
Then Hollywood came a-calling, and she was signed to a movie contract. Apparently, someone complained to the studio head that she couldn’t act, either. Whereupon the studio head said: “Who cares? Just look at her!”
You can kinda see his point, I think.