Florence Short

Florence Short (May 19, 1893 – July 10, 1946) was an American actress. She had numerous film roles as a supporting actress and was also cast in theatrical productions.^[1]

Florence Short
Born	(1893-05-19)May 19, 1893 Springfield, Massachusetts, U.S.
Died	July 10, 1946(1946-07-10) (aged 53) Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1914–1924

She was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, and moved with her family to New York City as a child, where she attended the Finch School for Girls.^[2] She made her professional stage debut in 1910 with the Avenue Stock Company of Wilmington, Delaware.^[3] She had early Broadway appearances in Thompson Buchanan's The Bridal Path and George V. Hobart's Experience, and early film roles in Damaged Goods (1914) and The Law That Failed (1917).^[2]

She died at her home in Hollywood^[4] and is buried in Los Angeles.^[5]

Filmography

• Damaged Goods (1914), as Nurse
• Destiny: Or, The Soul of a Woman (1915), as Passion
• The Law That Failed (1917)
• The Outsider (1917), as Mrs. Standish
• The Golden God (1917)
• A Man's World (1918), as Lione Brune
• Pay Day (1918)
• The Eagle's Eye (1918), as Madame Augusta
• Kildare of Storm (1918), as Mahaly^[6]
• Five Thousand an Hour (1918), as Polly Parsons
• The Great Victory (1919), as Elaine
• The Love Flower (1920), as Mrs. Bevan
• The Idol Dancer (1920), as Pansy
• Silver Wings (1921), as Widow Martin
• Lessons of Love (1921)
• Woman's Place (1922), as Amy Bleeker
• Cardigan (1922), as Molly Brandt from the Revolutionary War era
• Does It Pay? (1923), as Martha Weston
• The Enchanted Cottage (1924), as Ethel