Beatrice Van | |
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| Born | Beatrice Abbott August 8, 1890 |
| Died | July 4, 1983 (aged 92) Long Beach, California, U.S. |
| Occupation(s) | Actor, screenwriter |
| Spouse(s) | Cornelius Vander-Pluym (divorced 1915) James Gruen (m.1927, divorced) Charles Collman |
| Children | 1 |
Beatrice Van (born Beatrice Abbott; August 8, 1890 – July 4, 1983) was an American silent film actress. She was also a screenwriter for both silent and sound films.
Beatrice was born to Joseph and Beatrice Abbott in Omaha, Nebraska; she had an older sister, Genevieve. She grew up in Nebraska and Oklahoma, where she was educated in a convent.[1] Beatrice's first marriage was to Cornelius Vander-Pluym; they had one child together, Kreigh Vander-Pluym, in 1912. The pair eventually divorced in 1915.[2]
She was a leading woman at Universal for a time in the 1910s, and later worked as a scenarist for FBO.[3] Beatrice married writer-actor James Gruen in 1927,[4] and later, an Australian national, Charles Collman.
