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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 Van
Born	Beatrice Abbott (1890-08-08)August 8, 1890 Omaha, Nebraska, U.S.
Died	July 4, 1983(1983-07-04) (aged 92) Long Beach, California, U.S.
Occupation	Actor, screenwriter
Spouse(s)	Cornelius Vander-Pluym (divorced 1915) James Gruen (m.1927, divorced) Charles Collman
Children	1

Biography

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.

Filmography

Actress

Writer

References

External links

• Beatrice Van at IMDb

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