Florence Short

{{Short description|American actress (1893–1946)}}

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| name = Florence Short

| image = Florence Short MPW 1917-09.jpg

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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1893|05|19|mf=yes}}

| birth_place = Springfield, Massachusetts, U.S.

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1946|07|10|1893|05|19|mf=yes}}

| death_place = Los Angeles, California, U.S.

| occupation = Actress

| years_active = 1914–1924

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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.{{Cite web|url=http://www.playbill.com/person/florence-short-vault-0000081984|title=Florence Short|website=Playbill}}

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.{{cite journal |title=Florence Short in Metro's "Nobody" |journal=The Moving Picture World |date=September 15, 1917 |page=1699 |url=https://archive.org/details/movpict33chal/page/n497/mode/2up}} She made her professional stage debut in 1910 with the Avenue Stock Company of Wilmington, Delaware.{{cite news |title=Florence Short, Stage and Silent Film Star, Dies |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=LAECN19460710.1.3&srpos=1&e=------194-en--20--1--txt-txIN-%22Florence+Short%22----1946---1 |work=Hollywood Citizen-News |date=July 10, 1946 |page=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).

She died at her home in Hollywood{{cite journal |title=Florence Short |journal=Variety |date=July 17, 1946 |page=52 |url=https://archive.org/details/variety163-1946-07/page/n155/mode/1up}} and is buried in Los Angeles.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8bOJCgAAQBAJ&q=%22florence+short%22+los+angeles&pg=PA230|title=Celebrities in Los Angeles Cemeteries: A Directory|first=Allan R.|last=Ellenberger|date=May 1, 2001|publisher=McFarland|isbn=9780786409839|via=Google Books}}