Frances Rich
- Geburt:
- 08.01.1910
- Tot:
- 14.10.2007
- Zusätzliche namen:
- Fran Rich
- Kategorien:
- Bildhauer, Schauspieler
- Nationalitäten:
- amerikaner
- Friedhof:
- Geben Sie den Friedhof
Frances Rich (January 8, 1910 – October 14, 2007) was an American actress and sculptor.
She was the daughter of silent screen actress Irene Frances Luther Rich and salesman Elvo Elcourt Deffenbaugh, and the adopted daughter of Irene's second husband, Charles Rich.
Career
ActingFrances Rich appeared in six films in the early 1930s: Unholy Love (1932), The Thirteenth Guest (1932), Officer Thirteen (1932), Diamond Trail (1933), Zoo in Budapest (1933), and Pilgrimage (1933). She also appeared on Broadway in Brief Moment at the Belasco Theatre from November 1931 through February 1932.
SculptingBorn in Spokane, Washington, Rich received a B.A. from Smith College in 1931. In 1933 she met sculptor, Malvina Hoffman, and studied with her in Paris for two years. Upon returning to America, she did intensive work at the Boston Museum School and established her own studio in New York City. Between 1937 and 1940 she was a resident student at Cranbrook Academy of Art. There she met sculptor Carl Milles, with whom she worked for the next eighteen years.
Her works include portrait busts at Smith College; the Army-Navy Nurse Monument in Arlington National Cemetery in Washington, D.C.; a bronze pelican in front of Pelican Building, University of California, Berkeley; marble bust of Alice Stone Blackwell for the Boston Public Library; and portrait busts of Lotte Lehmann, Margaret Sanger, Diego Rivera, Katharine Hepburn, among others.
Rich was a Lieutenant Director in the U.S. Navy Reserve from 1942 to 1946 and Director of Public Relations at Smith College from 1947 to 1950.
Death
Rich died in Payson, Arizona on October 14, 2007, aged 97.
Ursache: wikipedia.org
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Name | Beziehung | Beschreibung | ||
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1 | Irene Rich | Mutter | ||
2 | Mae West | Arbeitskollege | ||
3 | Charles Gérard | Arbeitskollege | ||
4 | Ginger Rogers | Arbeitskollege | ||
5 | Katharine Hepburn | Arbeitskollege | ||
6 | Диего Ривера | Arbeitskollege |
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