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Florence Barker (actor)
Florence Barker (November 22, 1891 – February 15, 1913) was an American stage and silent film actress from Los Angeles. She began in amateur theatre in her early teens, and her professional debut came in the Ferris Company's production of ''The Altar of Friendship'' in Los Angeles in 1907. By age 18, she was playing lead roles at the Grand Theatre in Los Angeles. At around this time she started acting in motion pictures and went on to appear in at least 63 films. For several years, Barker was the Biograph Company's leading woman. She also worked in Paris and London as the leading woman with the Pathé Freres film company. By 1912, she was performing for Powers Picture Plays. Barker died of pneumonia Pneumonia is an inflammatory condition of the lung primarily affecting the small air sacs known as alveoli. Symptoms typically include some combination of productive or dry cough, chest pain, fever, and difficulty breathing. The severity ... in Los Angeles at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Los Angeles, California
Los Angeles ( ; es, Los Ángeles, link=no , ), often referred to by its initials L.A., is the largest city in the state of California and the second most populous city in the United States after New York City, as well as one of the world's most populous megacities. Los Angeles is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Southern California. With a population of roughly 3.9 million residents within the city limits , Los Angeles is known for its Mediterranean climate, ethnic and cultural diversity, being the home of the Hollywood film industry, and its sprawling metropolitan area. The city of Los Angeles lies in a basin in Southern California adjacent to the Pacific Ocean in the west and extending through the Santa Monica Mountains and north into the San Fernando Valley, with the city bordering the San Gabriel Valley to it's east. It covers about , and is the county seat of Los Angeles County, which is the most populous county in the United States with an estim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
