Florence Turner
Acting
Biography
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Born: January 6, 1887
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
Known For
Walking Back
Jazz age youngster Smoke Thatcher "borrows" a neighbor's car to take Patsy, his sweetheart, to a dance after his father refuses to lend him his car. A car-fight with a rival results in the borrowed automobile's being so wrecked that Smoke cannot return it. The garage to which he and Patsy take the car for repair turns out to be actually a gang's hideaway and a place where stolen cars are brought and later fenced.
A Night at the Cinema in 1914
Cinema a century ago was a new, exciting and highly democratic form of entertainment. Picture houses nationwide offered a sociable, lively environment in which to relax and escape from the daily grind. With feature films still rare, the programme was an entertaining, ever-changing roster of short items with live musical accompaniment. 100 years on, this special compilation from the BFI National Archive recreates the glorious miscellany of comedies, dramas, travelogues and newsreels which would have constituted a typical night out in 1914. Our selection includes a comic short about a face-pulling competition, a sensational episode of The Perils of Pauline, scenes of Allied troops celebrating Christmas at the Front, and an early sighting of one of cinema’s greatest icons.
The Disintegrated Convict
A prisoner attempts a daring escape using trick transformations, dissolving and reassembling into new forms as he eludes capture. This early Vitagraph short showcases imaginative special effects in a comic take on prison break fantasy.
College
A bookish college student dismissive of athletics is compelled to try out sports to win the affection of the girl he loves.
Taxi!
Amidst a backdrop of growing violence and intimidation, independent cab drivers struggling against a consolidated juggernaut rally around hot-tempered Matt Nolan. Nolan is determined to keep competition alive on the streets, even if it means losing the woman he loves.
The Deerslayer
Wah-Ta-Wah, or Hist, the lady-love of Chingachgook, a Delaware chief, has been captured by the warlike Hurons. Chingachgook asks the aid of Deerslayer, a white man brought up among the Indians, in rescuing her, and. the two men arrange to meet at Lake Otsego, then called Glimmerglass. Deerslayer sets out for the meeting place, accompanied by Hurry Harry March, a trapper, who acts as his guide.
Never the Twain Shall Meet
Exemplifying Kipling's adage, a white man falls to pieces when he is in the South Seas.
Daisy Doodad's Dial
Daisy and her husband both go in for a face-pulling contest, but when the big day comes she is unable to attend the competition, and her husband wins instead. When the next opportunity comes around, she is determined to win -- but gets a little over-enthusiastic on the way to the contest and finds herself in trouble! She is most ungrateful for her rescue; fate, however, catches up with her that night…
Stenographer Troubles
A comic one-act film featuring the character Bunny, which takes place in an office.
The Road to Ruin
A controversial, low-budget drama about the life of a young teenage girl that goes on the "road to ruin." Sally is a 16-year-old New York City teen who, neglected by her parents, takes up smoking and drinking, engages in affairs with a series of older men, gets arrested by the police during a strip poker game, is sent home only to discover later that she's pregnant, and after getting an illegal abortion, the words "The Wages of Sin is Death" inexpliably appear over her bed in fire.
Filmography
as (archive footage)
as Bit Role (uncredited)
as Juror (uncredited)
as Trial Spectator (uncredited)
as Ma Warren
as Mrs. Lawrence
as Mrs. Bradley
as Mrs. Baggott
as Mrs. Schuyler
as Mrs. Canfield
as Miss Blair
as Mrs. Phillmore
as A Mother
as Mrs. Williams
as Mrs. Simpson
as Miss Julia
as Alice Gregg
as Mrs. Gilbert
as Doña Aguila
as Mrs. Welby
as Julia
as Mrs. Moran
as Alice
as Bit
as Mrs. Walters
as Janet
as Eva Bundy
as Nuanua
as Constance Barnes
as Lola Castillo
as Victoria Vickers
as Joan
as Daisy Doodad
as Mary Carter
as Hettty Hutter
as The Boss's Wife
as Dorothy Ellis
as Mame
as Florence Turner
as Sylvia
as Doris Myhtle
as Ethona / Juliet
as Jennie
as Mrs. Renfrew
as Lucie Manette
as The new stenographer
as Beth
as Francesca da Polenta
as Jenny
as The Girl
as Men Haters Club Member
as Topsy
as Viola
as Titania