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| name = Frances Starr | image = Frances Starr 1.jpg | imagesize = 250px | caption = Theatre Magazine, 1907 | birth_name = Frances Grant Starr | birth_date = June 6, 1886 | birth_place = Oneonta, New York, U.S. | death_date = {{death date and age|1973|6|11|1886|6|6}} | death_place = New York City, New York, U.S. | resting_place = Albany Rural Cemetery[1] | occupation = Actress | years_active = 1901–1955 | spouse = Haskell Coffin Robert G. Donaldson Emil C. Wetten[2]}} Frances Starr (June 6, 1886 – June 11, 1973) was an American stage, film and television actress. BiographyHer parents were Charles Edward Starr and Emma (née Grant). She had two half sisters. Her father died when she was a child. Starr started in plays in 1901 in an Albany stock company, in which Lionel Barrymore and Alison Skipworth were members. She signed with David Belasco in 1906 and appeared in a small role with David Warfield in The Music Master.[2] In November 1906 she appeared along with another young actress, Jane Cowl, in The Rose of the Rancho. She achieved her breakout stage role in 1909 in Belasco's production of The Easiest Way. Starr continued to have a string of successes such as The Case of Becky (1912) and Shore Leave (1922). Several of the plays she starred in were turned into early silent films often by Famous Players-Lasky. {{Citation needed|date=November 2011}} She delivered a standout role as the wronged mother in the early talkie about newspaper corruption Five Star Final (1931), her second of only three sound films.[3] Lastly she appeared in This Reckless Age (1932) with Buddy Rogers and Richard Bennett. In the 1950s Starr appeared on the Kraft, Omnibus, and Philco programs of early network television. {{Citation needed|date=November 2011}} Frances Starr died on June 11, 1973, aged 87. Film and television
References1. ^Van Tuyl lot, sec. 122, lot 11, Albany Rural Cemetery, Albany, NY., Wilson, Scott. Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons, 3d ed.: 2 (Kindle Location 44790). McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers. Kindle Edition. 2. ^1 Great Stars of the American Stage by Daniel Blum, Profile #58 c.1954 3. ^Frances Starr; AllMovie.com bio by Hans J. Wollstein External links{{Commons category|Frances Starr}}
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