Born Juanita Horton in Midland, Texas. Her cowboy father moved the family to Hollywood where he became a chiropractor. She entered films in 1915 while still a pupil at a Los Angeles high school as a Piedmont girl in D. W. Griffith's THE BIRTH OF A NATION. The following year she began showing great promise as a leading lady, notably opposite William S. Hart in THE ARYAN (1916) and Douglas Fairbanks in REGGIE MIXES IN (1916), and was featured as the Bride of Cana in the Judean episode of Griffith's INTOLERANCE (1916). She was sweet, demure, spirited, and very pretty, but she found top stardom continuously elusive. Her career consisted of occasional peaks and frequent declines. Every time she seemed to have "arrived" in a film worthy of her versatile talent, she was miscast in a succession of routine vehicles, only to bounce back several years later with a new triumph. Producers could never make up their minds how to type her. Early in her career she was a sweet-16 heroine; in the early 20s she played serious leading ladies in melodramas. In the late 20s she was seen mostly in light films (she introduced the Charleston to the screen in THE KING OF MAIN STREET, 1925). Of Miss Love's many "comebacks" the most sensational was in 1929 with the switch to sound, when she proved herself to be a highly gifted song-and-dance star in the early talkie musical BROADWAY MELODY (1929), for which performance she was nominated for an Oscar®. She was once again very popular but soon after retired from the screen. In 1931 she appeared at the New York Palace and in 1935 settled in London. She performed in many British plays and films, as well as on radio and TV. She also wrote several plays, including Homecoming (1958). Some of her later screen appearances were in ISADORA (1968)/THE LOVES OF ISADORA, in which she played Vanessa Redgrave's mother, REDS and RAGTIME (both 1981) and THE HUNGER (1983). In 1972-73 she scored a success in London as Aunt Pittypat in a stage version of Gone With the Wind. From 1929 until 1935, she was married to production executive William B. Hawks, brother of Howard Hawks.    Nominated for Actress 1928-29: BROADWAY MELODY 1 nomination