Florence Auer

Life and career Born in Albany, New York, Auer was among Frohman's stock theatre company of fourteen actors who would be brought into Vitagraph Studios as their first stable of prominent film actors around 1907. She began appearing in films shortly thereafter; her first film appearance was in the 1908 Wallace McCutcheon Sr. directed comedy short The Sculptor's Nightmare opposite director D.W. Griffith. One of the original "Biograph Girls" (along with actresses Marion Leonard and Florence Lawrence),

Partial filmography

The Fight for Freedom (1908, short) - Juanita The Kentuckian (1908, short) The Tavern Keeper's Daughter (1908, short) - Mother The Fatal Hour (1908, short) His Auto's Maiden Trip (1912, short) A Modern Cinderella (1917, writer) Fair Lady (1922) - Lucrezia The Heart of a Siren (1925) - Lisette The Beautiful City (1925) - Mamma Gillardi That Royle Girl (1925) - Baretta's Girl Seeing Things (1930) Beauty for Sale (1933) - Madame Sonia Customer (uncredited) I Married an Angel (1942) - Mrs. Roquefort (uncredited) Hangmen Also Die! (1943) - Czech Patriot (uncredited) Lady of Burlesque (1943) - Policewoman (uncredited) The North Star (1943) - Woman Farmer (uncredited) The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1944) - Palace Crow (uncredited) Abroad with Two Yanks (1944) - Dog's (Precious) Owner (uncredited) Youth on Trial (1945) - Maude McGregor (uncredited) Mama Loves Papa (1945) - Madame Dalba (uncredited) Adventure (1945) - Landlady Black Angel (1946) - Madame (uncredited) Gentleman Joe Palooka (1946) - Mrs. Archer (uncredited) Wife Wanted (1946) - Mrs. Rutheridge (uncredited) The Chase (1946) - Miss Connors (uncredited) It Happened on Fifth Avenue (1947) - Miss Parker (uncredited) Nightmare Alley (1947) - Jane (uncredited) The Bishop's Wife (1947) - Third Lady State of the Union (1948) - Grace Orval Draper Michael O'Halloran (1948) - Mrs. Jane Crawford Eight-Ball Andy (1948) - Mrs. Beasley The Loves of Carmen (1948) - Chestnut Seller (uncredited) Good Sam (1948) - Woman on Bus (uncredited) Knock on Any Door (1949) - Aunt Lena (uncredited) Bad Boy (1949) - Mrs. Meeham (uncredited) Big Jack (1949) - Homely Woman (uncredited) Hold That Baby! (1949) - Hope Andrews Madame Bovary (1949) - Mme. Petree (uncredited) That Forsyte Woman (1949) - Ann Forsyte Heyman Bride for Sale (1949) - Eloise Jonathan (uncredited) Blonde Dynamite (1950) - First Dowager It's a Small World (1950) - Grotesque Cafe Dowager (uncredited) Love Nest (1951) - Mrs. Braddock (uncredited) Boots Malone (1952) - Woman at Auction (uncredited) Love Is Better Than Ever (1952) - Madame Secretary (uncredited) The Star (1952) - Annie's Friend in Store (uncredited) Silver Lode (1954) - Mrs. Elmwood Lucy Gallant (1955) - Woman at Sale (uncredited) Top Gun (1955) - Mrs. Turner (uncredited)