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Betty Borden
actress
- Born:
- 1871-09-14, Canada
- Died:
- 1943-05-13, USA
- Professions:
- actress
Biography
A frost-bright September morning in 1871 welcomed Betty Borden to the Canadian frontier; by her early forties she had swapped pine-scented silence for the crackle of klieg lights. Between 1915 and 1916 she slipped into three very different worlds—conning millionaires as the quick-witted star of *The New Adventures of J. Rufus Wallingford*, chasing shadows through the urban maze of *The City*, and dodging international spies in *The Romance of Elaine*. Her final curtain fell on 13 May 1943, this time on American soil, closing a life that had traveled from snow-dusted birth to flickering silver immortality.
