Flora Morris
actress
- Birth name:
- Florence Rebecca Victoria Morris
- Born:
- 1887-04-22, Buxton, Derbyshire, England, UK
- Died:
- 1953, Windsor, Berkshire, England, UK
- Professions:
- actress
Biography
A curtain first rose for Flora Morris somewhere in England shortly after 1890, and by the twilight of the Edwardian decade she was already trading lines in pantomime dames and drawing-room dramas. In 1910 she stepped before Cecil Hepworth’s cameras, her dark hair framing a gaze that would grace more than sixty one-reelers and features. Lewin Fitzhamon steered her through the gold-fever melodrama of *Lust for Gold* that same year, but posterity remembers her best as Rose Maylie, the gentle protectress in Thomas Bentley’s 1912 *Oliver Twist* opposite Ivy Millais’s waif. Two years later she wore Effie Deans’s hardship like a second skin in Frank Wilson’s screen version of *The Heart of Midlothian*, flanked by Violet Hopson and Alma Taylor. When 1914 closed its books, Morris slipped the Hepworth moorings, drifting first to Michaelson, then to Venus, and finally to Ideal, where Fred Paul cast her in 1916’s morality tale *Whoso Is Without Sin* alongside Hilda Moore and Milton Rosmer. After that release the projectors kept turning, but the name Flora Morris disappeared from their light.
