Happy Birthday 🎂 Florence Lawrence

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Happy Birthday to Film history’s first movie star Florence Lawrence aka as “The Biograph Girl”



She had a very sad end she was disfigured in a fire and she took her own life by eating ant paste which is a slow painful death from mercury poisoning. Roddy McDowell marked her grave. She is buried at Hollywood Forever Cemetery.



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