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Frances Miller

{{short description|American actress}}

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| name = Frances Miller

| image = The_Mating_(1918)_-_1.jpg

| caption = Miller (left) with Gladys Leslie in
The Mating (1918)

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| occupation = Actress

| years_active = 1911–1930

| spouse = Larry Grant (m. 1918)

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Frances Miller (sometimes credited as Frances Grant or Frances Miller Grant) was an American actress who worked extensively during Hollywood's silent era.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lgoyBgAAQBAJ&q=%22frances+miller+grant%22+actress&pg=PA35|title=Saints, Clergy and Other Religious Figures on Film and Television, 1895-2003|last=Paietta|first=Ann C.|date=2015-01-24|publisher=McFarland|isbn=9781476610160|language=en}}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rlLbRAPOgP0C&q=%22frances+miller+grant%22+actress&pg=PA428|title=The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States|last1=Munden|first1=Kenneth White|last2=Institute|first2=American Film|date=1997|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=9780520209695|language=en}} Like many black actresses of her time, she was often cast in "mammy" roles.{{Cite web|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/411049910/?terms=%22frances+miller+grant%22|title=Dancer of Paris Is Colorful But Lacks Caveman|last=|first=|date=30 Mar 1926|website=The Daily News|language=en|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2019-09-03}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/43383494/?terms=%22frances+grant%22+actress|title=Censorship of Pictures Is Attacked as Dangerous|last=|first=|date=3 Jan 1920|website=The El Paso Herald|language=en|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2019-09-03}}

Biography

Miller may have been born in Kansas City, Missouri, and she later resided in Manhattan and Atlanta. She began appearing in films around 1911, although she may not have been credited for her earliest appearances.{{Cite web|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/40104175/?terms=%22frances+grant%22+mammy|title=Out-of-Town Society|last=|first=|date=13 Oct 1928|website=The Pittsburgh Courier|language=en|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2019-09-03}} She seems to have retired by the early 1930s.{{Cite web|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/62924116/?terms=%22frances+grant%22+mammy|title=In Walked Mary|last=|first=|date=24 Apr 1920|website=The Kansas City Sun|language=en|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2019-09-03}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/39623812/?terms=%22frances+grant%22+mammy|title=Wesley Jenkins with Big Movie Production|last=|first=|date=28 Oct 1922|website=The New York Age|language=en|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2019-09-03}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/410135827/?terms=%22frances+grant%22+mammy|title=Film and Stage Stars at Bier of Miss Mansfield|last=|first=|date=5 Dec 1923|website=The New York Daily News|language=en|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2019-09-03}} She married Larry Grant in 1918, and had a son (who also appeared in films) named George Washington.{{Cite web|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/289722457/?terms=%22frances+grant%22+larry+actress|title=Playhouse Offerings|last=|first=|date=18 May 1919|website=The Salt Lake Tribune|language=en|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2019-09-03}}

Selected filmography

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Category:American film actresses

Category:20th-century American actresses

Category:Actresses from Kansas City, Missouri

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Category:20th-century African-American actresses