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. 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. She was a leading woman at Universal for a time in the 1910s, and later worked as a scenarist for FBO. Beatrice married writer-actor James Gruen in 1927, and later, an Australian national, Charles Collman.Filmography
Actress
* ''The Saint and the Singer'' (1914) * ''One of the Finest'' (1914) * ''Such a Villain'' (1914) * ''The Hills of Silence'' (1914) * ''The Awakening'' (1914/I) * ''Lost by a Hair'' (1914) * ''The Barnstormers'' (1914) * ''This Is the Life'' (1914/III) * ''Helping Mother'' (1914) * '' Her Bounty'' (1914) as Bessie Clay * '' Her Life's Story'' (1914) as The Wife * ''The Senator's Lady'' (1914) * ''The Vagabond'' (1914) * ''Traffic in Babies'' (1914) * '' Lights and Shadows'' (1914) * ''The Heart of a Magdalene'' (1914) * ''The Magic Mirror'' (1915) * ''Changed Lives'' (1915) * '' The Black Box'' (1915) as Ashleigh's daughter * ''The Nightmare of a Movie Fan'' (1915) * ''The Soul of the Vase'' (1915) as Wife * '' A Woman Scorned'' (1915) * ''Detective Blinn'' (1915) * ''The Great Ruby Mystery'' (1915) * ''The Mighty Hold'' (1915) * ''The Girl from His Town'' (1915) as Duchess of Breakwater * ''Love and Labor'' (1915) * ''What's in a Name?'' (1915) * ''Uncle Heck, by Heck!'' (1915) * ''A Bully Affair'' (1915/I) * ''When His Dough Was Cake'' (1915) * ''A Friend in Need'' (1915) * ''Mixed Males'' (1915) * ''The End of the Road'' (1915) * ''Almost a Widow'' (1915) * '' The Wraith of Haddon Towers'' (1916) * ''The Hills of Glory'' (1916) * ''The First Quarrel'' (1916) * ''Inherited Passions'' (1916) * ''The Pearl of Paradise'' (1916) as Denise, his fiancée * '' Told at Twilight'' (1917) as The Mother * '' Hands Up!'' (1917) as Elinor Craig * '' Who Was the Other Man?'' (1917) as Wanda Bartell * ''Flirting with Death'' (1917) * ''A Devil with the Wimmin'' (1917) * '' My Unmarried Wife'' (1918) * '' Painted Lips'' (1918) as Mrs. Silver * ''There Goes the Bride'' (1918) * '' Good Night, Paul'' (1918) as Rose Hartley * ''The Tiger Lily'' (1919) as Dorothy Van Rensselaer * '' The Dangerous Talent'' (1920) as Mildred SheddWriter
* '' A Small Town Girl'' (1915) (scenario) * ''Miss Jackie of the Army'' (1917) (story) * ''Molly Go Get 'Em'' (1918) (scenario) * ''Jilted Janet'' (1918) (story) * ''Ann's Finish'' (1918) (story) * '' Penny of Top Hill Trail'' (1921) * '' Eden and Return'' (1921) * ''Boy Crazy'' (1922) (story) * '' The Understudy'' (1922) * ''Their First Vacation'' (1922) (scenario) * ''References
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* American silent film actresses Actresses from Nebraska 1890 births 1983 deaths American women screenwriters 20th-century American actresses Screenwriters from Nebraska Silent film screenwriters 20th-century American women writers 20th-century American screenwriters {{US-film-actor-1890s-stub