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    Florence Lawrence (born Florence Annie Bridgwood; January 2, 1886 – December 28, 1938) was a Canadian-American stage performer and film actress. She is...
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    Marjorie Florence Lawrence CBE (17 February 1907 – 13 January 1979) was an Australian dramatic soprano, particularly noted as an interpreter of Richard...
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    The Basilica di San Lorenzo (Basilica of St. Lawrence) is one of the largest churches of Florence, Italy, situated at the centre of the main market district...
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    is attempting to discover which of the suitors Bianca likes best. Florence Lawrence plays Kate in the first screen adaptation of the play in 1908, directed...
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    owner/actress Florence Lawrence. Pickford left Biograph Studios to join the Independent Moving Pictures (IMP) to replace their star, Florence Lawrence. Carl Laemmle...
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    starred Paul Panzer as Romeo and Florence Lawrence as Juliet. It is now considered lost. Paul Panzer - Romeo Florence Lawrence - Juliet John G. Adolfi - Tybalt...
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  • Girl was a phrase associated with two early-20th-century actresses, Florence Lawrence and Mary Pickford, who made black-and-white silent films with the...
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  • Canadian vaudeville performer and inventor. She is the mother to Florence Lawrence, regarded as the “first movie star” and inventor of the turn signal...
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    Florence is usually a feminine given name. It is derived from the French version of (Saint) Florentia, a Roman martyr under Diocletian. The Latin florens...
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  • actresses such as Florence Lawrence and Mary Pickford were already widely recognized, although the public remained unaware of their names. Lawrence was referred...
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  • (1915–1995) Dame Angela Lansbury (1925–2022) Piper Laurie (1932–2023) Florence Lawrence (1886–1938) Janet Leigh (1927–2004) Joan Leslie (1925–2015) Viveca...
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    contributing to the creation of the star system. In 1910, he promoted Florence Lawrence, formerly known as "The Biograph Girl", and actor King Baggot, in...
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  • Company was a motion picture company formed in 1912 by movie star Florence Lawrence and her husband, Harry Solter. The company established Victor Studios...
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  • Louisa Florence Durrell (née Dixie; 16 January 1886 – 24 January 1964), was a British woman born in India during the British Raj. She was the mother of...
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    Penitentiary Florence Administrative Maximum Facility (abbreviated as USP Florence ADMAX; commonly known as ADX Florence or the Florence Supermax) is...
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    company's actors, until 1913, were credited on screen. Along with Florence Lawrence, Marion Leonard, and other female performers there, she was often...
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    Fielding, Ed Genung, Harry Myers, Florence Hackett, Alan Hale, Arthur V. Johnson, Lottie Briscoe, Florence Lawrence, Ethel Clayton, Gladys Brockwell,...
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  • Manhattan Project Eugene Lawrence (born 1986), American basketball player Fenda Lawrence, 18th-century slave trader Florence Lawrence (1886–1938), inventor...
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    actor in 1908 with Biograph Studios. That same year he met actress Florence Lawrence while making the film Romeo and Juliet for Vitagraph Studios and married...
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    chief executive officer." Florence Lawrence, Women Film Pioneers Project. Accessed September 23, 2015. "Florence Lawrence intended her last Victor photoplay...
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  • Griffith directed a series of comedy shorts starring The Biograph Girl, Florence Lawrence, featuring the people next door, The Joneses. An alternative theory...
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  • film), an Indian romantic road movie The Gypsy, a 1911 film with Florence Lawrence Gypsy (1929 play), by Maxwell Anderson The Gypsy (short story), by...
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    Stuart Blackton and Charles Kent and starring Maurice Costello and Florence Lawrence in the title roles, based on William Shakespeare's play of the same...
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    and Mary Pickford at Biograph Studios, and Florence Lawrence (Biograph, moving to IMP in 1910), Florence Turner was no longer quite as special. By 1913...
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    later were lighted—were introduced in about 1900. Silent film star Florence Lawrence is credited with introducing an innovative version of the signalling...
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    day, the ones who came to embody it best were the Biograph girls, Florence Lawrence and to a more ingénue side of it, Mary Pickford. They personified...
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  • Latman (1936–2019), baseball player (aged 82) Florence Lawrence (1890–1938), actress (aged 48) Lillian Lawrence (1868–1926), actress (aged 58) Henry Lehrman...
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    the Vitagraph Family which included Billy Anderson, Florence Lawrence, Florence Turner, Florence Auer, Richard Barthelmess, John Bunny, Francis X. Bushman...
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    Arbuckle, Fanny Brice, Eddie Cantor, George Jessel, Alice Joyce, Florence Lawrence, and Norma Talmadge. The first illustrated song was "The Little Lost...
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    original "Biograph Girls" (along with actresses Marion Leonard and Florence Lawrence), Auer would appear alongside such notable future directors as Griffith...
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