Florence Gilbert

Florence Gilbert
Born	(1904-02-20)February 20, 1904 Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Died	February 27, 1991(1991-02-27) (aged 87) Sylmar, California, U.S.
Years active	1920–1927
Spouse(s)	Ashton Dearholt (1926-1934) (divorced) Edgar Rice Burroughs (1935-1941) (divorced) Albert S. Chase (1942-?)
Children	Lee Ashton Dearholt III Chase (b. 1929) Caryl Lee Dearholt Chase (b. 1931; d. 2001)

Florence Ella Gleistein (February 20, 1904 – February 27, 1991) was an American silent film actress of the 1920s. She supported actors William Fairbanks and Jack Hoxie.

Career

Gilbert was born and raised in Chicago her moved with her brother and mother to Los Angeles when she was 14 (c. 1918), where she got into film after Monty Banks spotted her. In Hollywood she worked for Al Christie and Fox Studios, making over 50 film appearances from 1920, including the first time Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy appeared together on film, in The Lucky Dog (1921).

Around 1926, when The Johnstown Flood was released she married entrepreneur Ashton Dearholt and bore him two children, Lee and Caryl Lee.

Personal life and marriages

She divorced Dearholt after he returned from filming The New Adventures of Tarzan in Guatemala with co-star Ula Holt in tow and insisted that Holt be able to live in the Dearholt home.

She subsequently married Tarzan creator Edgar Rice Burroughs.

Partial filmography

• Down Home (1920)
• The Lucky Dog (1921)
• The Greater Claim (1921)
• Breaking Into Society (1923)
• The Girl in the Limousine (1924)
• Cupid's Rustler (1924)
• A Man Four-Square (1926)
• The Johnstown Flood (1926)
• The Mad Racer (1926)
• The Return of Peter Grimm (1926)
• Love Makes 'Em Wild (1927)

External links

• Florence Gilbert at IMDb
• Florence Gilbert at AllMovie