1. Florence Reed was an American stage and film actress.
14 Facts About Florence Reed
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Florence Reed is remembered for several outstanding stage productions, including The Shanghai Gesture, The Lullaby, The Yellow Ticket and The Wanderer.
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Florence Reed's best remembered movie role was as Miss Havisham in the 1934 production of Great Expectations.
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Florence Reed is a member of the American Theater Hall of Fame.
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Florence Reed's grandfather was John "Pop" Reed, a longtime stagehand of the old Walnut Street Theatre, who donated his skull to be performed in future theatrical versions of Hamlet.
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Florence Reed's father died in 1901 when Florence was 17 years old.
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Florence Reed made her first appearance on the stage at Proctor's Fifth Avenue Theatre in New York in 1904 where she gave a monologue by George M Cohan.
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Florence Reed stayed with the Fifth Avenue Theater for years honing her craft.
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Florence Reed appeared with John Barrymore in The Yellow Ticket which proved a popular play of the season.
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Florence Reed started making movies in the silent era around 1915.
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Florence Reed was a stage star by then and her first movie was The Dancing Girl for Adolph Zukor's Famous Players studio built around her talents.
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Florence Reed made two more films but preferred the theater.
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Florence Reed was married to actor Malcolm Williams from February 1908 until his death in 1937.
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Florence Reed was interred in the same burial plot with her good friend, actress Blanche Yurka, in the Actors Fund of America section of Kensico Cemetery, Valhalla, New York.