Frances Reid(1914-2010)
- Actress
Born in Wichita Falls, Texas, and was raised in Berkeley, California,
she attended/graduated at The Pasadena Community Playhouse where her
major was acting, and she pursued her career immediately. The Emmy
Award nominee who has played Alice Horton for the entire 37 years that
Days of Our Lives has been on the air, is daytime's television's most
beloved mother, grandmother and great-grandmother. As one of the two
remaining original cast members, she is indisputably one of the most
revered veterans in soap opera history. She has won the Soap Opera
Digest Award for Outstanding Actress/Mature Role in 1978, 1979, 1984
and 1985, and was nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress in
a Drama Series in 1986-87, and for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a
Drama Series in 1978-79. It should come as a surprise that many
longtime fans that watched Days who knew her as Alice that Frances had
an accomplished acting career prior to her debut on November 8, 1965.
Her Broadway appearances include Hamlet with Maurice Evans, Cyrano de
Bergerac with Jose Ferrer, Twelfth Night and a Theater Hill production
of The Rivals with Mary Boland. Her first radio job was at NBC as Ann
Rutledge in Prologue To Glory, which was followed by her role of Mrs.
Moonlight in Mrs. Moonlight and Charlotte Corday in Charlotte Corday.
Little did she know at that time how the name Corday was to play an
important role in her life. Her television credits include "The
Eleventh Hour," "Little Mister," "Wagon Train," and the
movie-of-the-week, "Mercy Or Murder?"
