Florence Auer (March 3, 1880 â€" May 14, 1962) was an American theater
and motion picture actress whose career spanned more than five
decades.Born in Albany, New York, Auer began her career on East Coast
stages at the turn of the 20th century. Her earliest known Broadway
theatre performance was in a September 1907 production of The Ranger,
produced by Charles Frohman at Wallack's Theatre. 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), Auer would appear alongside
such notable future directors as Griffith, Thomas H. Ince, Robert G.
Vignola, Harry Solter and Mack Sennett in their early careers as
actors. These early associations would help ensure Auer's longevity in
films when the former actors became notable directors and often cast
Auer in their later films.During her early years as a motion picture
actress, Auer would appear opposite such publicly popular actors of
the early 20th century as: Florence Lawrence, Florence Turner, Maurice
Costello, Owen Moore, Robert "Bobby" Harron and Julia Swayne Gordon.
and motion picture actress whose career spanned more than five
decades.Born in Albany, New York, Auer began her career on East Coast
stages at the turn of the 20th century. Her earliest known Broadway
theatre performance was in a September 1907 production of The Ranger,
produced by Charles Frohman at Wallack's Theatre. 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), Auer would appear alongside
such notable future directors as Griffith, Thomas H. Ince, Robert G.
Vignola, Harry Solter and Mack Sennett in their early careers as
actors. These early associations would help ensure Auer's longevity in
films when the former actors became notable directors and often cast
Auer in their later films.During her early years as a motion picture
actress, Auer would appear opposite such publicly popular actors of
the early 20th century as: Florence Lawrence, Florence Turner, Maurice
Costello, Owen Moore, Robert "Bobby" Harron and Julia Swayne Gordon.
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