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Actress, Florence Turner, was born on Jan 6, 1885 in New York City, NY. Turner died at the age of 61 on Aug 28, 1946 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles .

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A Tribute to , the Vitagraph Girl (1)

By Silentfilmfanatic on Jul 26, 2013 From Noir and Chick Flicks

A Tribute to , the Vitagraph Girl Born in New York on January 6, 1887, spent a number of years on stage and in vaudeville before joining the Brooklyn-based Vitagraph Company in 1907. At that time, she was hired not only as an actress, but also as a ... Read full article


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She was a major star at Vitagraph in the late 'teens and '20s, but by the 1930s her career had sunk to the point where she was doing occasional day work as an extra. In 1937 MGM studio chief Louis B. Mayer, hearing of her plight, offered her a contract at MGM as a stock extra, guaranteeing her a steady income. She stayed at MGM for four years, then in 1941 entered the Motion Picture Country Home, where she died in 1946.

In June 1910 the New York Dramatic Mirror wrote a story on Florence titled "A Motion Picture Star," perhaps the first time the phrase came into the public consciousness.

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