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Florence Vidor
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Actor Born: July 23, 1895 in Houston, TX Death: November 3, 1977 in Pacific Palisades, CA Biography:For the first 20 years of her life, Houston-born "Florence Vidor" was Florence Cobb. In 1915 she married freelance photographer "King Vidor", a fellow Texan with aspirations for a movie career. The Vidors traveled to Hollywood in their second-hand Model T (which also served as their "home"), financing their trip by filming travelogue footage on behalf of the Ford Motor company. Both secured jobs at the Vitagraph studio, Florence as a bit player and "King" as a scriptwriter and extra. The first of Florence's film roles to attract attention was the tragic seamstress in Fox's 1917 production of "A Tale of Two Cities". She was next cast as leading lady opposite "Sessue Hayakawa" in "Hashimura Togo" (1917). Within a year she was starring for Cecil B. DeMille, but didn't like the director all that much and went to work for her husband, who opened his own studio in 1919. By the time the Vidors were divorced... Full Biography
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