Florence Nash
actress
- Birth name:
- Florence Ryan
- Born:
- 1888-10-02, Troy, New York, USA
- Died:
- 1950-04-02, Hollywood, California, USA
- Professions:
- actress
Biography
The year Florence Nash entered the world—2 October 1888—Troy, New York hummed with factory whistles and horse-drawn traffic, but the infant already had a ticket out: a voice that could stop rooms and a comic timing no one could teach. By 1914 she was brightening silent screens in Springtime, and two decades later she was trading razor-sharp barbs in the all-female battlefield of The Women (1939) and clowning her way through the breezy Depression-era romp It’s a Great Life (1935). On 2 April 1950 Hollywood’s lights dimmed for her one last time; she died in the town that had become her stage, aged 61.
