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Florence Davenport Rice (February 14, 1907 – February 23, 1974) was an American film actress.<ref name=NYT>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Early yearsEdit

Florence Davenport Rice was born in Cleveland, Ohio, the only child of the noted sportswriter Grantland Rice and Fannie Katherine Hollis.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> She attended Dwight School for Girls at Englewood, New Jersey,<ref name="slpd">Template:Cite news Template:Open access</ref> and Smith College.<ref name="nyt" />

CareerEdit

Rice became an actress during the late 1920s and, after several Broadway roles, eventually made her way to Hollywood, where she acted in almost 50 films between 1934 and 1943.

Rice was cast as the reliable girlfriend in several films for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. MGM gradually provided her with more substantial roles, occasionally in prestige productions. Rice never became a major figure in movies, but she performed in a number of screen pairings with Robert Young.<ref name=NYT/>

Her most widely seen performances were in Double Wedding (1937), in which she was billed third in the cast credits behind William Powell and Myrna Loy, Sweethearts (1938) with Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy, and The Marx Brothers film At The Circus (1939).

During the 1940s, the quality of her roles steadily decreased, and in 1947, she retired.

Personal lifeEdit

Rice's first marriage, to David Page, was annulled.<ref name=nytmarry/> She married broker Sydney A. Smith in New York City on June 12, 1930;<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> they were divorced on May 18, 1931.<ref name=nytmarry>Template:Cite news</ref> On March 30, 1939, she married fellow actor Robert Wilcox.<ref>Associated Press (March 31, 1939). "Grantland Rice's Daughter Honeymoons With Film Star". The Buffalo News. p. 1. Retrieved August 22, 2023.</ref> They separated less than 2 months later and divorced on July 30, 1940.<ref>Associated Press (July 31, 1940). "Florence Rice Wins Divorce—Mate Cruel". New York Daily News. p. 32. Retrieved August 22, 2023.</ref> From August 29, 1946 until her death, Rice was married to Fred Thomas Butler.<ref>"California, County Marriages, 1850-1953," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K8KC-QLS : 9 March 2021), Fred Thomas Butler and Florence Davenport Rice, 29 Aug 1946; citing Los Angeles, California, United States, county courthouses, California; FHL microfilm 2,115,628.</ref> In 1958, they moved to Hawaii.<ref name="nyt" />

DeathEdit

On February 23, 1974, at age 67, Rice died from lung cancer at Straub Clinic in Honolulu.<ref name="AP@APPobit">Template:Cite news</ref> She was survived by her husband.<ref name="nyt">Template:Cite news</ref> At her request, there was no funeral, and her remains were cremated, with her ashes scattered over the waters near Waikiki Beach.<ref name="AP@APPobit"/>

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