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Florence Dawson Lee was an actress who appeared in films during the silent era, playing older women characters. She was born Florence Dawson in 1864 in Florence, South Carolina, the daughter of Job and Julia Dawson. Her father, a native of Ireland, operated a grocery and liquor business in Charleston. Her mother was a native of South Carolina. Her family participated in amateur drama in Charleston.
Florence settled in Savannah, Georgia, around 1885. She married John C Murrey in that city in 1888 and settled with him in Grand Island, Florida. She became a widow upon his death in 1893.
She remarried in 1900, in Savannah, to Frank Keeling Lee (1863-1927). The couple relocated to Norfolk, Virginia, where Frank operated a saloon and a grocery business.
Florence and Frank Lee left Norfolk sometime after 1916, and by 1918 were living in Los Angeles where they had both become film actors. This was their profession for many years. Her husband died in 1927 and she died in 1933.
She had a son, John Alexander Murrey, by her first husband. He became a well-known architect working in North Hollywood. She also had a daughter, Florence McCoy Lee, by her second husband.- Actress
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Florence Lee was born on 12 March 1888 in Jamaica, Vermont, USA. She was an actress and writer, known for A Mixed Affair (1912), A Natural Mistake (1914) and Illusion of Love (1929). She was married to Dell Henderson. She died on 1 September 1962 in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.- Florence Lee is known for Ozone: Purple Days (2023), Ozone: Unicorn (2022) and Ozone: Sparks (2023).
- Kevin Lee Florence is known for Kevin Lee Florence: Alone and Everything (2016).
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Florence Yuk Ki Lee is known for Elephant in Castle (2021).- Florence Lee is known for Link Vs (2018).
- Florence Lee was a film actress in the 1920s who played opposite Jack Dempsey in the Fight and Win series and also appeared in comedy shorts and westerns.
Born Florence Catherine Lee in Chicago in 1902, she was the daughter of immigrants from Norway: Oscar J. Lee, a manufacturer's agent, and the former Augusta Olsen. Her parents divorced and her mother married William L. Johnson, a hotel clerk, in Detroit in 1916 where a half-sister, Catherine Louise Johnson, was born in 1917.
Her mother divorced again and moved with her daughters to Los Angles. Florence found parts in films on the Universal lot and at Fox studios starting around 1920.
She married Teddy Hayes in 1922. Her husband was a close friend of Jack Dempsey while the boxing champion was making films in Hollywood, and Florence found roles in Dempsey's films. She was riding in Jack Dempsey's Rolls Royce in 1924 when the car crashed en route to a film location, but she was not seriously injured.
A reviewer of her 1923 film The Blood Test (in which she playing opposite Dick Hatten) described her as "a distinct type of blond beauty" and commented: "Typical in every sense of the word is she in this winsome characterization, though certainly not lacking in dramatic power... she reaches strong emotional heights." (Muncie Evening Press, 9 April 1923, Page 2)
She divorced Teddy Hayes in 1926, and later (1932) sued him for unpaid alimony after press reports that Hayes had married the actress Lina Basquette. She was modeling clothes in the 1930s and was working as a hostess in a retail clothing store in 1940. She married Albert Clifford Kelley, an engineer, in 1944. They divorced in 1970. She settled in Arcadia, California, in the 1940s and lived there until her death. - Florence Lee is known for Supermen: World War (2019).