Florence Moore
Template:Use American English Template:Use mdy dates Script error: No such module "infobox".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".Script error: No such module "Check for clobbered parameters".Template:Wikidata image
Florence E. Moore (November 13, 1886 – March 23, 1935) was an American vaudeville and Broadway performer, and an actress in silent films.
Biography
Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Moore began singing in the choir of Saint Clement's Church, Philadelphia at the age of thirteen. She began touring with the stock company of her brother, Frank. Florence got her first opportunity in Moscow, Idaho, when a male member of the cast failed to appear. Thereafter she was a regular with the company, playing the role of a Chinese without pay.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
Her first Broadway appearance came in 1912, as Clorinda Scribblem in Hanky Panky. During the next twenty years she participated in numerous productions. As a comedian she performed in musical comedies, revues on Broadway, and headlined as a vaudeville actress while touring America. While working in The Champagne Girls, Florence met and married William J. Montgomery and they became part of a popular vaudeville team.[1] She divorced Montgomery and married John O. Kerner. Later she was separated from Kerner. Records show that she was also married to Jules I. Schwob.[2]
To theatregoers in New York, New York Florence is perhaps best known for being the first female emcee at the Palace Theatre.[3] as well as her performance in Parlor, Bedroom and Bath. The production debuted in New York and played for two years on the road. Her final appearance on the New York stage came in 1932, in a revival of Cradle Snatchers. She starred in the role of Mary Boland which had been created seven years earlier.
As a motion picture actress Moore had a brief career. Films in which she appeared are The Old Melody (1913) opposite King Baggot, The Weakness of Strength (1916), and The Secret of Eve (1917) opposite Olga Petrova. She belonged to the Actors' Equity Association and the Twelfth Night Club.
Florence Moore died in the Fitzgerald Mercy Hospital in Darby, Pennsylvania in 1935, aged forty eight. Death followed an operation for cancer.[4]
Filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1913 | The Old Melody | Dora | Short |
| 1916 | The Weakness of Strength | Little Bessie | |
| 1917 | The Secret of Eve | Rosa | |
| 1924 | Broadway After Dark | Herself, Cameo Appearance |
References
<templatestyles src="Reflist/styles.css" />
- ↑ Briscoe, Johnson (1908). The Actor's Birthday Book, p. 260, 3ed.
- ↑ The New York Times, Jules I. Schwob of New York Weds Musical Comedy Actress, February 1, 1916, pg. 9.
- ↑ Frank Cullen, Florence Hackman, Donald McNeilly (2006). Vaudeville, Old and New: An Encyclopedia of Variety Performers in America, p. 782. Routledge. Template:ISBN.
- ↑ The New York Times, Florence Moore, Comedienne, Dies, March 25, 1935, Page 15.
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
External links
- Template:First word Template:PAGENAMEBASE at the Internet Broadway DatabaseTemplate:EditAtWikidataTemplate:WikidataCheck
- Template:Trim/ Florence Moore at IMDbTemplate:EditAtWikidataScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
- Pages with script errors
- Pages with broken file links
- IBDB name template using Wikidata
- 1886 births
- 1935 deaths
- 19th-century American singers
- 19th-century American women singers
- American stage actresses
- American film actresses
- American silent film actresses
- American vaudeville performers
- Actresses from Philadelphia
- Deaths from cancer in Pennsylvania
- 20th-century American actresses
- 19th-century American actresses