1. Francelia Billington was an early American silent-screen actress, and an accomplished camera operator.
11 Facts About Francelia Billington
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On February 1,1895, Billington was born in Dallas, Texas, the daughter of James Billington and his wife, Adelaide Bueter.
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Francelia Billington made The Half Breed with Jack Pickford in 1913.
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Francelia Billington left Majestic in 1915, and following her association with the Palo Alto Film Corporation, where she worked with Nell Shipman, one of the more remarkable figures in film history on the uncompleted film Wanda of the Red Street, she joined Universal.
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Francelia Billington played the wife, and Sam De Grasse played the husband.
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Francelia Billington acted the role of Sybil Sayre in the first film made for the Ray Rockett Film Corporation, in 1920.
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Francelia Billington was cast with Betty Blythe in The Truant Husband.
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In October 1920 Francelia Billington married Lester Cuneo at the Riverside Inn in Riverside, California.
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Francelia Billington's health was visibly declining at the beginning of 1934.
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Francelia Billington died from tuberculosis, there were no obituaries in the trade papers, and her death went unnoticed by the film industry and the public.
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Francelia Billington is interred at Calvary Cemetery in East Los Angeles, California.