1. Frances Reid was born on December 9,1914, in Wichita Falls, Texas, and raised in Beverly Hills, California.
12 Facts About Frances Reid
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Frances Reid's acting career started in 1938 with a bit part in the movie Man-Proof.
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Frances Reid later played Roxane opposite Jose Ferrer's Cyrano in the 1946 Broadway production of Cyrano de Bergerac at the Alvin Theatre, repeating the role three years later, again opposite Ferrer, in a 1949 one-hour The Philco Television Playhouse adaptation.
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From 1954 to 1955, Frances Reid played the title role in the CBS television version of the radio serial Portia Faces Life.
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Frances Reid next portrayed the grasping Grace Baker, the mother-in-law of Penny Hughes, on As the World Turns from 1959 to 1962, and Rose Pollack, the kind-hearted mother of Nancy Pollock Karr, on The Edge of Night in 1964.
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Frances Reid portrayed matriarch Alice Horton on NBC's Days of our Lives since the show's premiere on November 8,1965.
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Frances Reid made two guest appearances on Perry Mason starring Raymond Burr.
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In 1966, Frances Reid appeared opposite Rock Hudson in the John Frankenheimer drama Seconds.
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Frances Reid played frontier Doctor Katy Piper on the Wagon Train episode "The Katy Piper Story", which aired on April 10,1965.
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Frances Reid was married to actor Philip Bourneuf from June 27,1940, until their divorce in 1973.
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Frances Reid died in Beverly Hills, California, in an assisted living facility, aged 95, on February 3,2010.
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Frances Reid won the Soap Opera Digest Award for Outstanding Actress in a Mature Role in 1978,1979,1984, and 1985, and was inducted into the Television Academy's archives in 2003.